The View’s Alyssa Farah Griffin diagnosed Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R-FL) presidential campaign with a case of “terrible advisers.”
Farah Griffin, who said she wrote an op-ed for the then-representative years ago, said the governor had changed since his time in Congress. She offered advice to the candidate whom she called “the most overhyped politician in Republican politics” during the Friday show of The View, saying he should revert to his ways as “a sane, serious, conservative Congress member.”
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“This is a quote when he was first elected in May 2018: ‘I’m not going to be getting into these bathroom wars. I don’t think it’s a good use of our time. I want the LGBTQ community to be able to live their life. Whether you’re gay, whether you’re religious, you should all be welcome in Florida,'” Farah Griffin said on the show. “The buck stops 100% with DeSantis, but he’s decided to surround himself by these basically internet trolls of right-wing extremists who literally are so far outside the mainstream even of my party.”
The 2018 quote was juxtaposed with DeSantis’s ad launched on the last day of Pride Month. The ad attacked Republican presidential opponent Donald Trump for doing “more than any other Republican to celebrate” the month of June. Throughout the ad, there are clips of Trump promising to “do everything in my power” to protect the LGBT community.
“They have driven him a direction that he’s in such a bad place, I don’t think he could have a national future,” Farah Griffin said. “He has been so off-putting to so many people. I’m a Republican. I could not vote for him because where he is on LGBTQ issues.”
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The host did not lay the blame solely on the DeSantis team, but she said DeSantis himself was to blame as “he surrounded himself by terrible advisers.”
DeSantis is facing off against former President Donald Trump, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Texas Rep. Will Hurd, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, former Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND), Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, political commentator Larry Elder, businessman Perry Johnson, and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy in the race to win the GOP presidential nomination.
