On the April morning after two Republicans won double-digit victories in Florida’s special congressional elections, Governor Ron DeSantis appeared on Fox News to weigh in. President Donald Trump had already praised the wins as “BIG,” but DeSantis had a different take: Randy Fine, one of the GOP winners, had underperformed because he is “more of a squish Republican” whom voters “didn’t really like.”
At a press conference that day, the pugnacious governor said that Fine “repels people.” The race in the ruby-red district on Florida’s Atlantic coast — DeSantis’s former congressional district — would have been much closer had Trump not gotten involved and held a tele–town hall “to bail [Fine] out in the end,” he claimed.
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