One day after Donald Trump was arraigned on charges that he conspired to overturn the 2020 election, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said that the claims Trump and his allies pushed about a stolen election were false.
DeSantis, one of several candidates challenging Trump for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, has for months dodged questions about Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss. On Friday, however, the Florida governor offered the strongest rejection he has so far of the notion of a stolen election.
DeSantis did not call out Trump by name and hedged his answer somewhat by saying that the 2020 election was not “conducted the way I think that we want.” He also baselessly accused unnamed election officials of “ballot harvesting” and social media companies of “stifling information” in the 2020 election.“But that’s different than saying ‘Maduro stole votes’ or something like that,” DeSantis added. “Those theories, you know, proved to be unsubstantiated.
At a town hall in New Hampshire in June, DeSantis ducked a question on whether Trump “violated the peaceful transfer of power,” even as he showed a new willingness to criticize the former president on other fronts.Many Republican presidential candidates have tiptoed around the Jan. 6 attack. But DeSantis stands out for how carefully he’s avoided placing direct blame on the former president, even as he has gone after him on other matters. He has responded to questions about the Jan.
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