Trump's irrational attack on Florida

 Karol Markowicz:

Presidential primaries get very dirty, and that’s to be expected.

But here in April 2023, the GOP one has already descended into a disgusting spiral of lies and insanity — because of the increasingly disordered and amateurish Donald Trump campaign.

Trump has a clear lane in the primary.

He has a record of accomplishment as president; he led the country to prosperity that has since sharply declined; he exposes the politicization and corruption of our government agencies when he’s personally targeted by leftist activist district attorneys like Alvin Bragg and when he is the subject of a baseless search for documents at his home.

He remains absolutely beloved by a segment of the Republican base.

Boom, boom, boom.

Yet he, and the not-very-smart people around him, have decided that for him to win the primary he needs to not only destroy Florida’s extremely popular Gov. Ron DeSantis (who has not yet even announced a presidential run), but also to demolish all of DeSantis’ conservative policies and practices that have been so wildly successful in the sunshine state.

On Friday, the Trump campaign released a bizarre statement trashing Florida — the state that Trump, and nearly everyone in his immediate family including three of his grown children and their own families, have made their home during the DeSantis administration.

“The real DeSantis record is one of misery and despair,” said Trump spokesman Steven Cheung. DeSantis “has left a wake of destruction all across Florida and people are hurting because he has spent more time playing public relations games instead of actually doing the hard-work needed to improve the lives of the people he represents.”

Floridians seem to disagree with this assessment, having just handed our governor a nearly 20-point win in November.

To prove this “wake of destruction,” the campaign plucked random factoids, many of them from far-left sources.
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All of this is a lie.

And Trump knows it’s a lie. By Friday night, Florida was no longer an apocalyptic hellscape and those sycophants who had spent the day agreeing with Trump that Florida is simply the worst were cut off at the legs.

“I’m thrilled to be here with the proud, hard-working patriots of the great state of Florida. It’s a great state. Great place.” Trump said at the Republican Party of Lee County Lincoln Reagan Dinner in Fort Myers.
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Trump should be running on his record which was a good one especially compared to Biden.  These kinds of attacks on a successful governor of the state in which Trump lives make no sense.   They make Trump look craven and mean.

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