Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is running for president as a full-spectrum conservative champion.
But supporters could not believe what they were hearing.
And what Ron DeSantis told Trey Gowdy will define the 2024 election.
DeSantis took on the issue of abortion in his first interview as an official presidential candidate with Fox News host Trey Gowdy.
In Florida, DeSantis signed strong pro-life legislation defending life after doctors detect a heartbeat at six weeks of pregnancy.
DeSantis signed this heartbeat bill despite establishment donors and operatives falsely claiming standing for life would disqualify DeSantis in the eyes of swing voters.
Donald Trump stunned supporters by claiming the Florida heartbeat bill was “too harsh.”
Fortunately for conservatives DeSantis ignored that advice and signed legislation that will save tens of thousands of lives in Florida.
But once on the national stage DeSantis got gun-shy.
In the interview with Gowdy, DeSantis attempted to appease the pro-abortion RINO establishment by dancing around his support for ending abortion in America.
Instead, DeSantis adopted the disastrous posture Mitch McConnell and other RINOs counseled which was to dismiss abortion as a states’ rights issue.
DeSantis did not support national pro-life legislation and claimed the only role for the federal government in protecting life was to prevent Democrats from codifying abortion on demand into law.
“I think that there’s a role for both the federal and the states. I think, at the end of the day, fighting for life and protecting life really is a bottom-up movement. I think we’ve been able to have great successes at the local level. I am concerned about a Democratic administration with a trifecta trying to nationalize abortion all the way up until birth. That would be a violation of what states like Florida have done to protect life. It would be a violation of what states like Iowa have done to protect life. And I think that that would be an abuse of power for them to try to override every single pro-life protection in this country and allow abortion all the way up to the moment of birth, which 90% of Americans find to be truly horrific,” DeSantis stated.
Gowdy wanted to drill down DeSantis’s position so he asked DeSantis how he would handle states like California and Idaho having different abortion laws.
“Well, let’s pick California and Idaho, is that just the price we pay for federalism that life begins at conception in Idaho, but it begins much, much, much later in California, is that the price that we pay for federalism?” Gowdy wondered.
DeSantis shrugged his shoulders and claimed that if he were president there would be nothing to do about abortion on demand in California.
“I don’t think it’s the price you pay for federalism. I think that there’s just a practical reality that the country’s divided on the issue. And so, the question is, how are you going to be able to save more lives? And I think, obviously, Idaho’s going to be able to do a lot on their own. They would not be able to do as much if they ran it all through Washington, D.C. So, some of this is a matter of strategy, some of it is a matter of what could you do to be able to advance the ball forward. Clearly, in California, you are going to have very, very hostile views. They want to have abortion all the way up until birth,” DeSantis responded.
In the 2022 election, failed GOP Senate candidates like Dr. Mehmet Oz tried to deflect attacks that they were anti-woman by asserting that they believed abortion was a state issue and would not support any national pro-life protections.
Democrats still smeared Oz and others as extremists out to kill women and enough pro-lifers stayed home for the GOP to lose key races.
If Ron DeSantis wants to win the presidency trying to walk the establishment tightrope of taking pro-life positions while trying to soothe the nerves of pro-choice fanatics in blue states, DeSantis could suffer the fate of other losing GOP candidates.
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