Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (screen capture)LGBTQ Republicans are not having the wild anti-queer campaign ad from the Ron DeSantis camp that debuted last Friday attacking Donald Trump’s “support” for the LGBTQ community.
Even truth-challenged Rep. George Santos (R-NY), who’s currently facing a 13-count indictment that including wire fraud and money laundering, says he now feels “misled” by DeSantis.
George Santos of All People Is Complaining He Feels 'Used' and Misled By DeSantis After Campaign Shared Anti-LGBTQ Ad https://t.co/qL2OEA135O
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) July 4, 2023
From The Hill:
“It’s like he’s going mask off,” said Brad Polumbo, a Michigan-based libertarian journalist. “The cat’s out of the bag.”
“I’m somebody who has my fair share of policy disagreements with DeSantis, but I was considering voting for him in the primary before he entered the race officially,” he said. “Since then, he’s done thing after thing that really makes me increasingly write off that possibility.”
Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), who has endorsed Trump for president but vocally supported Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill on the campaign trail last year, said that in light of Friday’s video, he now feels that he was “used” and misled by DeSantis.
“I used to think he was a great governor,” Santos, the first non-incumbent gay Republican elected to Congress, said of DeSantis. “Now, I’m starting to think differently.”
I mean, when you’ve lost George Santos… Read more at The Hill.
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To wrap up “Pride Month,” let’s hear from the politician who did more than any other Republican to celebrate it…
— DeSantis War Room 🐊 (@DeSantisWarRoom) June 30, 2023
LGBTQ Republicans say they feel misled by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) after the GOP presidential hopeful’s “war room” shared a bizarre video which bashed Trump’s support for the LGBTQ community. https://t.co/I6STKaUsZv
— The Hill (@thehill) July 5, 2023
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) presidential campaign is facing pushback after his team shared a video attacking former President Trump over his past comments in support of the LGBTQ community. https://t.co/pjT6tokS2Z
— The Hill (@thehill) July 5, 2023