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President Biden deed the campaign way successful Florida, wherever helium touted the Republican-led authorities is "in play" for the 2024 election, eliciting disapproval and mockery online.
"Florida – I deliberation Florida is successful play, nationally," Biden said Tuesday during a run lawsuit successful Tampa astatine Hillsborough Community College.
The Biden run connected Tuesday cited termination laws successful the authorities arsenic grounds the president could triumph the authorities travel November. A prohibition connected termination aft six weeks of gestation is acceptable to instrumentality effect connected May 1. However, voters could rescind the prohibition if they o.k. an amendment connected the ballot successful November.
Various polls each amusement Trump starring Biden, according to FiveThirtyEight’s polling average, which details enactment successful Florida for the 2 candidates.
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President Biden and erstwhile President Trump (Getty Images)
The president’s remarks sparked criticisms and mockery online, including from Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ communications director, who taunted the run for what appeared to beryllium a tiny showing of supporters.
"Said Joe Biden to the Florida Democrats' awesome showing of 19 voters," communications manager Bryan Griffin tweeted successful response.
"The borderline is inactive open, Joe," DeSantis property caput Jeremey Redfern said.
Karoline Leavitt, the Trump campaign's nationalist property secretary, told Fox News Digital connected Wednesday: "Florida is Trump Country."
Trump won Florida successful 2016 erstwhile helium squared disconnected against erstwhile Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and besides won the authorities successful 2020 by a 3-point borderline erstwhile helium faced disconnected against Biden for the archetypal time.
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The politician besides delivered remarks up of Biden’s sojourn to the state, wherever helium slammed the president’s borderline policies, and criticized him for supporting an amendment connected the Florida ballot successful November that would supply a law close to abortion.
President Biden arrives to committee Air Force One astatine Joint Base Andrews successful Maryland, connected Aug. 15, 2023. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
"Floridians are not buying what Joe Biden is selling. And in November, we're gonna play an instrumental relation successful sending him backmost to Delaware wherever helium belongs," DeSantis said.
"This is simply a feline who has intentionally opened the borders of this state and caused large harm. His policies person caused families to endure with higher prices and higher involvement rates. And present he's coming down to effort to enactment a law amendment that volition mandate termination up until the infinitesimal of birth, that volition destruct parental consent for minors, and that's written successful a mode that's intentionally designed to deceive voters," DeSantis said.
Others connected societal media posts lambasted Biden aft the president said helium has a changeable astatine winning the authorities connected Nov. 5.
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The Biden run told reporters connected Monday that termination connected the ballot typically signals victories for Democrats, citing erstwhile President Barack Obama winning Florida successful 2012.
"Whenever termination bans and termination rights person been connected the ballot, they’ve won," run communications manager Michael Tyler said Monday, according to assorted reports. "The past clip determination was an termination referendum connected the ballot successful 2012, President Obama won the state. So, with our tremendous fiscal advantage, the Biden-Harris run tin spend to put successful galore paths to victory, and that includes Florida."
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Fox News Digital reached retired to the Biden run regarding the matter, but it did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment.
President Biden speaks during an lawsuit astatine the United Steelworkers office successful Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, connected April 17, 2024. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
Earlier this month, DeSantis told Fox News that Democrats apt don't person a accidental of winning successful the authorities aft demographics indicated Republicans outpace Democrats by 900,000 voters.
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"You're talking astir a million-plus elector registration shift," DeSantis told Fox News' Maria Bartiromo, saying that older numbers indicated Republicans were down their Democrat rivals by astir 300,000 registered voters successful 2018.
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs measure addressing squatters into law. (Gov. Ron DeSantis/FB)
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"Part of that, I think, is simply a effect locally wherever radical are much apt to power from Democrat to Republican successful Florida, nonparty to Republican, than vice versa. That's been an important constituent of it, but I bash deliberation that migration has skewed among radical who travel to Florida, not due to the fact that they privation to alteration the policies to bespeak successful Illinois oregon California oregon New York, but due to the fact that they admit however Florida has done it otherwise from wherever they're coming from."
Fox News Digital's Taylor Penley contributed to this report.
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