DeSantis Says Biden Should Follow His Lead

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) told Fox News that President Biden had failed to “end COVID,” whereas his state was experiencing “great success” in treating patients.

Philip Bump: “DeSantis is doing the best he can to hold his position as the Republican Party’s leading voice and top non-Trump contender for the 2024 nomination. That means framing his handling of the pandemic as good-if-not-optimal and running down Biden as ineffective and unsuccessful.”

“It means appearing in the safe space of Fox News prime time to opine about how it’s better to try to rescue some of the people hanging by their fingertips from the edge of a cliff than to put up a stanchion asking people not to approach the cliff’s edge. It means telling a national audience of Republicans that he’s doing well on the pandemic even if Floridians are less likely to believe it.”