With the 2022 midterm election just days away, President Joe Biden made a campaign stop in Florida on Tuesday for gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist. There, he unveiled his latest scare tactic: compare GOP candidates to former President Donald Trump.
Actually, it’s more than that – some Republicans are even worse than Trump! Hence Joe Biden called current Gov. Ron DeSantis “Trump incarnate.”
Biden was stumping for Crist at a Democrat fundraiser in Golden Beach where he said this, “Charlie is running against Donald Trump incarnate. This guy doesn’t fit any of the categories I talked about. The way he deals, the way he denies.”
Biden continued, saying, “The rest of the world is looking at us, Charlie. They’re looking at us. It is really important that a state the size of Florida … comes down on the right side of history.”
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In Democrats’ never-ending case of self-unawareness, Joe Biden also warned the crowd that if elected, Republicans would increase Americans' everyday cost of living. But if anyone in the crowd has been to the grocery store, they might have figured out that the 40-year high inflation is already happening.
But Joe Biden comparing Ron DeSantis, or any Republican, unfavorably to Trump might be a new and improved version of Democrats comparing Republicans to Hitler and Nazis, until they say something that might be seen as coming around to the Democrats' side.
For those who have an attention span longer than five minutes, you may recall George W. Bush was compared to Adolf Hitler on an almost daily basis throughout his presidency. But somehow, that all miraculously evaporated in March of 2017. During an interview with the-“Today” show Matt Lauer, the two spoke about possible Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Bush stated:
“I consider the media to be indispensable to democracy. We need the media to hold people like me to account. Power can be very addictive and it can be corrosive, and it’s important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power. We need all the answers.”
The turnaround was so fast, leftists heads seemed to be on a swivel.
Gavin Newsom declared, “I am typing these words: President George W. Bush is right. Freedom of the press is ‘indispensable to democracy.’” The editor of “ThinkProgress” Jedd Legum said, ”When did George W. Bush become a voice of reason?”
When liberals thought there was an outside chance he might make Donald Trump look bad. That’s when the former “Hitler” became a good guy, compared to the “New Hitler” Donald Trump.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney was vilified for his role with Bush in the Iraq war.
But when he cut a campaign ad for daughter Liz’s congressional campaign, where he called Donald Trump a “coward,” he was welcomed on the House floor at an event where Democrats marked the anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi glowingly stated, “We were very honored by his being here.”
Hilarious!
"Biden’s team views Florida as the perfect political backdrop to frame the midterm elections as a choice between 'extreme MAGA Republicans' & Democrats..." via CNN
FYI to Biden- FL is on pace to reelect DeSantis by double digits!
Best of luck!
— Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) November 1, 2022
Like Dick Cheney, for whom all that needed to be done was to voice contempt for Donald Trump, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, when he was GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, had implications of racism made against him for simply running against Barack Obama.
But upon his entry into the Senate and almost immediate criticism of Trump, NBC bemoaned the fact that, at the time, Romney was an island unto himself.
The implication is clear – whoever the current top Republican is, that person is the “New Hitler.”
Then, when the next guy comes along, they become the “New Hitler,” and the old “New Hitler” becomes, actually, just a swell guy and an example of a “good Republican.”
That’s what Joe Biden is signaling with this “Trump incarnate” jab at Ron DeSantis.
Sometime in the near future, we could see the left and media compare Donald Trump favorably to the latest villain, Ron DeSantis.
Joe Biden was recently in Florida to look at damage left by Hurricane Ian, and praised DeSantis for relief efforts. DeSantis is comfortably leading Crist by 12.3 points and is expected to win reelection.
After the disastrous Florida events yesterday I have to imagine @WHCOS is getting a lot of calls asking Biden to go sit on a beach in Delaware until next Wednesday. https://t.co/sUoDWMOCOF
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) November 2, 2022