At least he admits the Venezuelans didn’t steal the election.
“Governor, yes or no question: Do you think the 2020 election was stolen?” asked the New York“All those theories that were put out did not prove to be true. But what I’ve also said is the way you conduct a good election that people have confidence in, you don’t change the rules in the middle of the game,” DeSantis. “It was not an election that was conducted the way I think that we want to, but that’s different than saying Maduro stole votes or something like that,” he said.
There are numerous theories as to why the 2020 election was supposedly illegitimate. None of those theories provide any credible evidence the election result changed as a result of fraudulent votes. But the theories range from claiming the voting machines were programmed to alter the tabulations — the most convoluted of these theories insists that somehow it has to do with the Venezuelans — to less-insane complaints about the courts allowing voting by mail to accommodate the pandemic.
By questioning even the craziest aspects of Trump’s scheme to seize an unelected second term in office, DeSantis is taking a big political risk. Fewer than a third of RepublicansBiden legitimately won the 2020 election, with the remainder either suspecting or firmly believing he stole it through fraud. DeSantis himself voiced suspicions over the vote results.
DeSantis also publicly floated a plan for state legislatures to override the election result and hand their electors to Trump. “Under Article II of the Constitution, presidential electors are done by legislatures and the schemes they create in the framework,” DeSantis said. “If there’s departure from that and they’re not following the law, if they’re ignoring law, then they can provide remedies as well, so I would exhaust every option to make sure we have a fair count.
In all likelihood, DeSantis is going to find some position that can reconcile those claims with his renunciation of the Hugo Chávez ghost-machine theory. Trump, of course, will apply merciless pressure to depict even this tiny deviation as proof DeSantis is a RINO. The endless race to the bottom that is the Republican nominating contest will go on, but at least DeSantis has taken a tiny step away from insanity.
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