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DeSantis Says He's Looking to Make 'Credible Case' to Remove Biden From Florida Ballot (themessenger.com)

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The Sunshine State governor made a similar comment recently when he warned that Maine's ruling disqualifying Trump 'opens up Pandora's box'

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has revealed that he's "looking" into ways to block President Joe Biden from the 2024 primary ballot in Florida.

"This is just going to be a tit for tat and it's just not gonna end well," the GOP presidential candidate warned Friday alongside Rep. Chip Roy, R-TX, according to a video posted by CNN. "You could make a case — I'm actually looking at this in Florida now [if we] could we make a credible case" to block Biden from the ballot "because of the invasion of 8 million."

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[-] iBaz@lemmy.world 76 points 10 months ago

Everything Republicans do is retaliation for things Trump has done to himself. There are 0 credible reasons to remove Biden from ANY state ballot, but they’ll try to find a way regardless.

Then they will be sued, and they will lose. Unlike the GOP, the Democrats have really good lawyers.

[-] PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 49 points 10 months ago

That's because GOP lawyers are too busy advocating for the death penalty for homosexuals in Africa

[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

What's more, if they are going to remove Biden for failing to prevent illegal immigration (despite actually having significantly higher arrest and deportation numbers under Biden than Trump), then they should reasonable have to remove Trump as well... given, you know, the whole insurrection thing. To not do so would imply that the supposed failure of a president to sufficiently address one very complicated issue (even though he's better than Trump on this issue by their own metrics) is worse than attempting to coerce officials into "finding" votes for him, conspiring to produce fraudulent electors, lying and defaming for months about supposed fraud that had no basis in fact, and, of course, inciting an insurrection on the capital building.

[-] iBaz@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

And they won’t give Biden the money to fix a border crisis because they know it will help his approval numbers leading up to the election.

[-] QHC@lemmy.one 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

More importantly, the Democrats also have better arguments and facts (at least in this case).

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