Team DeSantis has kicked off its campaign “reset” with a fight over slavery with Florida’s only Black Republican congressman.
Christina PushawThese comments were echoed by Florida Department of Education Commissioner and staunch DeSantis allythe standards would not be revised “at the behest of a woke @WhiteHouse, nor at the behest of a supposedly conservative congressman.”
Donalds later acknowledged the DeSantis campaign’s more-rabid-than-“rapid” response to his criticisms Wednesday night. “What's crazy to me is I expressed support for the vast majority of the new African American history standards and happened to oppose one sentence that seemed to dignify the skills gained by slaves as a result of their enslavement,” Donalds
. “Anyone who can’t accurately interpret what I said is disingenuous and is desperately attempting to score political points.”, which came before DeSantis entered the race. Sensing a political opportunity here, Trump advisora statement calling Donalds “a conservative hero” and decrying DeSantis’s “attempt to smear” the Republican congressman.
Picking a fight with Donalds isn’t the only publicity stunt that DeSantis campaign has pulled this week. In an
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