Ron DeSantis has found himself in another pudding.
This was Muscatine County Republican Party of Iowa is calling out DeSantis for
being the unethical, fraudulent POS that he is.
But what made them turn on this GOP hopeful?
Let's get into it.
Now, the Muscatine GOP is taking up issue with how DeSantis pac Never Back Down has
been canvassing.
Now, from The Messenger, apparently, DeSantis has been busting supporters in
from out of state, handing them t-shirts and
having them attend rallies, speeches, and parades in an effort to convince on
the fence voters that he has a groundswell of support in the state.
So they wrote a very angry, cease, and desist letter to Ron DeSantis' campaign.
And Raw Story reported on it saying that he is the first presidential candidate
that is going out and buying and paying for representation.
He's not building a grassroots organization, and
it could very well be that he uses Never Back Down because
he can't garner state support from individual residents in Iowa.
Therein lies the problem.
He is misleading the public of Iowa by sending busloads of people to a parade and
they don't even live in the area.
And in fact, most of them don't even live in the state of Iowa.
But instead of denying the accusations, inexplicably the DeSantis
camp chose to instead blame Donald Trump from a statement.
Trump can't fill an event.
They can't match us in endorsements, they haven't even tried.
They can't and won't organize.
They're not capturing people at events the way we are.
They're not as sophisticated and frankly, they're not as well staffed as we are.
They failed at every operational level.
And I think the best part of the funniest part of the story, at the very least,
is that the Trump team barely responded, from The Messenger.
As for comment,
Trump campaign senior advisor Chris LaCivita gave a one word reply, nuts.
[LAUGH] And I think that does, Cenk, kind of encapsulate this story.
>> Yeah, look, it does.
There's a couple of symbolic things in this story.
So number one, if you bring in people from outside the state who are super energetic,
ready to roll up their sleeves and knock on doors for you.
And they're wearing t-shirts with your campaign slogan,
there's nothing wrong with that.
Bernie supporters came in from all across the country,
all across the world to help him in Iowa.
The difference here is they're paid and that's super embarrassing.
You can't get actual grassroots volunteers.
No one's excited about your campaign so
you pay people to pretend to be excited about your campaign.
That hurts.
That's terrible.
Okay, now, a huge silver lining here is that since Trump and
DeSantis and all these guys are kind of vicious to begin with,
they're also vicious to each other.
So they're exposing a lot of their own party's corrupt tactics, right?
And so I think the reason DeSantis is blaming Trump for this is probably
the local guys who are outing him here are probably Trump fans, are Trump supporters.
So that's why they're outing DeSantis.
But really, DeSantis is the only Republican paying supporters to wear his
t-shirts and pretend they're from Iowa.
I bet you that a lot of Republicans have done that in the past, okay?
And Trump's talking about how the Koch brothers buy off people with their
campaign donations.
Yeah, that's true, okay?
And see, Democrats never talk about this stuff,
even though they should be talking about a 24/7, but they're too busy being civil and
actually also servicing their donors.
But so now the Republicans got no rules left so they're shredding each other and
telling us all their dirty tricks.
Okay, that part I love.
>> Listen, I'm super excited that Trump is upset with the Koch brothers,
who are gonna spend $70 million for a candidate against him.
Any candidate gets him in a primary.
I'm super excited that DeSantis don't know how to argue.
And when someone blames him for something,
instead of answering that he thinks he could just blame another candidate.
I'm loving all of this.
Listen, I am a political nut and the response from his campaign was nutty.
So I cannot wait to see the response when Trump gets a hold
of this on Truth Social because I know what's truly gonna happen.
What's truly gonna happen is this is gonna be the entire story from now through
the end of the election.
Trump's gonna say nobody in Iowa is supporting DeSantis.
He's shipping people in.
He's busing people in like he's busting migrants.
And knowing Trump, he may say, these people were illegal.
These are illegals he's sending to Iowa cuz he don't want them in Florida.
Watch this story.
This is gonna be my soap opera of the year.
>> [LAUGH] All right, one last thing about this.
I love that response from the DeSantis team because it shows how clueless
they are.
They are like, we're a sophisticated operation.
We fill our events unlike Trump.
Well, first of all, you're filling them with paid guys, so
that's not really something to brag about.
And second of all, sophisticated and well, we've got operational competence.
Who cares dude, you sound like Jeb Bush.
You know how I know Trump is kicking your ass regardless of your operational skill?
He has a 27 point lead.
The proof is in there, buddy.
>> [LAUGH] >> Not to mention,
if you're bragging about your operation skills that you just used to pay people,
you're kinda saying you don't have operational skills.
Trump's not paying a soul.
Trump told a restaurant full of Trump supporters after he was indicted for
felony charges that he was gonna buy everybody food and
ran out on the bill and still raised money.
Trump is the master grifter.
Trump's not paying for anything, let alone people to show up somewhere.
So as a matter of fact, for Trump, if you don't show up, he'll just cancel
the event and blame it on the weather even though it's not the weather's fault.
DeSantis, on the other hand, has bumbled since he's announced that he's running for
presidency.
This has been the greatest stumble.
If people are telling the truth about how much money this man had at his spend and
he has done nothing except for the trip.
In Missouri, he forgot his name, in California.
The man, he does not know how to campaign.
And if people are telling the truth, it reminds us
how he became governor of Florida when he was running against DeSantis.
I'm sorry, not DeSantis, Andrew Gilliam.
He was not supposed to be Gilliam.
Gilliam, though, turned in the general election,
his field team over to the Democratic Party.
A field team that had just smoked all the Democratic candidates in the primary even
though Florida establishment wasn't giving him money or supporting him.
>> Actually, I do wanna do a small correction here.
As Mondale was talking, it did trigger for me one quick thing.
So Trump, he's right, runs out on all the bills.
But actually, there was one time that he did pay supporters,
the infamous escalator announcement.
When he first announced in 2015 that he was gonna run for president,
he had put an ad in the papers saying that he'd pay actors
$50 to pretend to be Trump supporters.
Now, later, he would have actual tons of Trump support.
But at that moment, when he first started, he pulled a DeSantis and
paid people to pretend to like him.
So trust me, they're equally embarrassing.