🚨Governor DeSantis RIPS the @FloridaGOP to SHREDS for trying to RIG the election for Byron Donalds! Says they are BETRAYING voters by canceling the debate w their SHADY secret criteria! Says HE wouldn’t have won in 2018 if they rigged it this way! “Yeah, there should be a debate! They said they were going to do a debate. They didn't put out the criteria publicly. I don't think RPOF ever voted on any type of criteria. I've heard secondhand what the criteria was. I wouldn't have qualified when I ran in ‘18 for what they were trying to do! And so it's counterproductive when you try to engineer an outcome because you need a coalition of voters to do well. And this may be a tough cycle for Republicans if you look at some of the indicators, the way things are trending. And so having an open process and having people be able to have their say is always better than to try to engineer an outcome. So what the party should be doing is what's in the best interest of Republican voters. You shouldn't have another agenda. You shouldn't be answering to ANYONE ELSE (Susie Wiles) other than the voters there. Now, having said that, this whole notion that the party should control debates is ridiculous. You don't need the party to control it! They have NO AUTHORITY to control debates. We did a debate when I was running in 18. We did one on Fox News and had nothing to do with it. I mean, I think the party was involved in terms of like getting people to attend, but we did it. They put it on TV. And so you can do something like that, having nothing to do with the party. You know, the party has a very limited role. It should be a CANDIDATE-DRIVEN process and NOT for people to be making decisions who voters have never voted into those positions to begin with! So line up something with TV, line up something, radio, all these different forms. There's a whole host of ways that you can do, but to just set criteria, especially with polling when most people haven't started paying attention. Qualifying just ended today. So up until 11.59 this morning, you could have qualified to run in these races! So yeah, I think to do those types of criteria, I think ultimately is counterproductive. I think you alienate people for no reason. And look, we've had a great run in Florida, but part of it is, you know, we've really, I think respected the voters and worked really hard to build that trust and support that has seen us go from 300,000 more registered Democrats when I got elected in 18 to now 1.5 million more registered Republicans. I mean, I won this county in 2022, Palm Beach. First time in 40 years a Republican was able to do that. And Palm Beach used to have 170,000 gap between DNR. That gap is narrow dramatically to where you potentially could have Palm Beach have a plurality of Republican registrants. But I think that complicates it if people don't have confidence in the party label in the party brand.”

All that AIPAC money and @ByronDonalds can’t spell “achievability.”

Gov. @RonDeSantis is NOT playing games.

The angry chicken guy was the BEST.

Ron the Groyper.

“The only reason why you wouldn’t [find a way to host a debate between the Florida governor candidates] is if the party hierarchy is serving outside interests instead of the best interests of the voters.” Absolutely true. Thank you, @RonDeSantis!

🚨HOLY MOLY! Someone check on @BrendonLeslie, @PeterSchorschFL and Larry Loomer! James Fishback has them LOSING THEIR MINDS! 😂😂😂 They are all SO MAD Governor DeSantis isn’t backing Jay Collins (who would easily be defeated by Byron) and see this as an endorsement of Fishback!

Really proud of our supporters for showing up and giving @ByronDonalds hell for refusing to debate.

Ron DeSantis knows as good and well as the rest of us- The Republican Party of Florida hates the normies, despises the plebs and thinks the voters of Florida are IDIOTS. Good luck, RPOF. The illusion of “deep red safety” has gotten to your big, fat heads.

We are chicken man

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Careful @j_fishback, you're gonna upset the Krispy Kreme lobby.

I’m still not voting for him, but at least he and his supporters are entertaining.

🇺🇸🐊⚡️- Governor DeSantis again criticizes his own state party for barring James Fishback and other candidates from the GOP primary debates.

The Florida GOP is now openly rigging the gubernatorial primary against James Fishback. If the GOP is going to sabotage every America First candidate like Thomas Massie & now Fishback, then they deserve to be totally destroyed in 2026. Party of traitors & controlled opposition.

One month left to change your party affiliation to vote for @j_fishback