Ron DeSantis And His Most Ignorant Campaign Moments

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis officially dropped out of the Republican Presidential primary over the weekend — ending a tumultuous campaign. Falling in line, DeSantis immediately endorsed Donald Trump to be president again despite the numerous insults hurled at him by the former Commander and Chief.

Now that he’s done running, we think it is absolutely worth doing a retrospective DeSantis’ campaign to be president as one of the wilder campaigns in recent history.

Do you Remember when Gov. Ron DeSantis tried to argue that slavery was a jobs training program? Because we do! “They’re probably going to show that some of the folks that eventually parlayed, you know, being a blacksmith into doing things later in life,” said DeSantis while defending his state’s new curriculum that encouraged speaking about the positive side of slavery.

Although he hadn’t officially announced his candidacy at this point, this particular pre-campaign moment is worth a mention. The Florida Governor tried to claim that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would have loved his book bans.

Shortly after a white supremacist shooting in Jacksonville, Florida, Ron DeSantis was confronted by a Black veteran — who said that the Governor’s policies enabled the shooting to take place. DeSantis immediately lost it on the veteran, yelling at him in a viral video of the incident.

Unlike most of the other candidates, Ron DeSantis was actively in charge of a state while on the trail. And a lot happened back in Florida during this campaign. DeSantis waged an all out war on reproductive rights, voting rights, LGBTQ rights, Black history, and education.

Now, this was just bizarre. Over the course of the campaign, DeSantis decided to get in an increasingly escalating fight with the Disney corporation — which ended-up losing the state an estimated 2,000 new jobs.