Dean: Covid-19 Will End Mini-Trump's Florida Career Like It Ended Trump's Presidency

we've been covering record-breaking covert problems in florida and we're back with dr and governor howard dean thanks for being here thanks for having me ari is florida worse off specifically because of governor desantis's leadership and choices and what grade would you give him on covet i'd give him an f uh you know you'd like to call him a crackpot no he's not ron paul is a crackpot because he believes crazy things desantis doesn't even believe what he's talking about he is uh totally unfit to govern in any way and he's an embarrassment to every governor i mean every governor both republicans and democrats a guy like this should never be in public authority the good news here for the people of florida is that people are actually gonna are beginning to stand up to this in the last 24 hours there are a number of large school districts that have ignored desantis's crazy order sanders is doing this to position himself to run for president with the maga people but what he doesn't realize and he's a smart guy what he doesn't realize is that kovitz sank donald trump's presidency and it's going to sink desantis because the people of florida i don't think desantis could carry florida if he ran for president right now the the thing that's going to really kill him is the businesses in florida that are really getting hammered right now who in their right mind would would take a vacation or go visit anybody who lived in florida right now you really literally risk your life especially if you have children yeah you mentioned the the public views there in that state it's a state that often trends conservative um but here's how desantis is doing we checked on this among just likely voters there he's dropped to under 44 percent um biden uh doing better than him in a place where biden is associated more with covet safety measures than desantis um how does that reinforce i guess the point you're making well it doesn't surprise me at all but the most interesting thing is that he could take down marco rubio um because if desantis is a really unpopular republican governor um it's very conceivable ruby is not rubio's never been a strong candidate but you're right florida has trended moderately conservative over the last few elections he's going to have a strong challenger and he's not a good campaigner so it's highly the canary in the coal mine here is marco rubio when rubio starts objecting to desantis because rubio doesn't have a backbone you know anywhere if when he starts objecting to his desantis he you know he will he and his pollsters will have decided that desantis has become a liability that could you would never have said that four weeks ago but it's really clear from a political point of view this is a disaster it's not just bad medically it's not just bad ethically it's dumb politically yeah and as you know governor uh there is a difference between people who are largely in parliamentary roles like congress they play a role of course but individual members of congress say words and co-sign bills governors make big decisions you had to go in there and decide what to do about your budget about your health care about your police force right and so uh we've got this in the republican party but some of these folks don't have the the kind of real-time results that santa santas has so rand paul also seems to be positioning himself uh he just posted and we showed some of this a bunch of stuff that wasn't true i'm not gonna repeat it but youtube which is an independent part of google um said it violated their factual guidelines he's been just kicked off youtube we have that headline uh and yet unlike desantis you can't draw as much a direct line to his his constituents or his record i'm curious what you think happens within a republican party um where governors are going to bear the brunt of this and as we were just reporting as if you you you've alluded to excuse me if this goes on to 2022 at a certain point it's a human and economic cost saddling a state where people look up and go well whatever they want to think about what they read on facebook other states don't have the problem that this state has and it doesn't have the length of time it has nor does it have but florida's a big state nor is it going to have the no is another state gonna well texas is just as bad school boards are now refusing to obey uh greg abbott's i mean these are the two of the craziest incompetent governors in the country and they're in really big states there are a lot of people going to suffer because of this i you know i both in the both these states are essentially being forced by right-wing governors who really don't give a damn except about anybody but themselves that is very much in the trump model and the when the citizens start paying for it as they did in georgia uh with kemp's incompetent leadership suddenly things happened i think donald trump had more to do with electing reverend warnock and john hassoff than anybody else now both of those men ran great campaigns but georgia's a tough state for us and they both won uh because of donald trump and that's what that's so what what happens here when the sane people in the republican party realize how much damage is going on 19 people just in the republican party just voted for joe biden's infrastructure bill that should tell you right uh that time is just about up for this nonsense uh and this you know this is nonsense that causing people's lives is just not har as you pointed out senators can rant and rave all they want they have one vote governors when they rant and rave and do nutty things for their own political benefit they really harm constituents and the american people are not stupid and they are gradually under coming to understand that these men don't give a damn about america and they don't give a damn about anybody but themselves that is not a good idea in a democracy [Music] you

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Length: 6min 6sec (366 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 11 2021