Luke Bryan is trying to quiet down the backlash he’s been receiving after inviting Ron DeSantis on stage during a Florida concert over the weekend.
19.10.2022 - 20:29 / thewrap.com
your problem. You set these people up to be part of this ‘voter fraud’ thing that you keep looking for. And you set these people up.
What are you doing? And why, why is this — you know, it didn’t used to be you had to be concerned about voting. It was very clear.”Of course, Joy Behar wasn’t surprised by this move. For the host, something like this is par for the course among most Republicans at this point.“This is what they’re up to now, the Republican party.
Because they can’t win, and they know they can’t win, because the demographics are changing and the future is not Republican,” Behar said. “So, they have to cheat.”Host Sara Haines agreed that the move by DeSantis felt like “entrapment,” and argued that his Office of Election Crimes and Security is in itself a “waste of law enforcement.” Meanwhile, Alyssa Farah Griffin agreed that it was a set-up, but not just of voters.“Ron DeSantis is trying to bait the media, liberal media I would say, into coming out and defending violent offenders and murderers who try to illegally vote. This is a set-up,” she said.
“This is what he does. He knows how to drive news attention, he wants us all to say, ‘Of course murderers should be able to vote!'”Farah Griffin added that there’s really one clear indicator that DeSantis isn’t actually concerned about voter fraud in the country — and it comes in the form of one of his friends.“Let’s be honest, if he cared about addressing voter fraud, there’s a certain Florida resident who’s guilty of trying to defraud 81 million people of their votes! Donald Trump,” Farah Griffin said. “We’re not doing anything about it.”
.Luke Bryan is trying to quiet down the backlash he’s been receiving after inviting Ron DeSantis on stage during a Florida concert over the weekend.
Luke Bryan responded to backlash after Florida governor Ron DeSantis made an appearance at his Friday, October 28, concert in Jacksonville.
believed to have allowed — their trans-identifying children to access gender-affirming medical treatments. In one Orwellian example, a transgender eighth grader was pulled from class by state child welfare agency officials and grilled for an hour about their identity, home life, and gender dysphoria — all without informing his parents.In Florida, Republicans are best known for having pushed the state’s “Parental Rights in Education” law, dubbed by opponents as the “Don’t Say Gay” law, which prohibits discussions of LGBTQ content in primary grades, and only permits discussion in secondary grades if the content is considered “age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate.” The law has been blamed for censorship of textbooks, as well as efforts to ban books that are not currently being used as part of in-class lesson plans but deal with LGBTQ content — either directly or tangentially — from school libraries.Some students claim that they’ve had their free speech rights censored or have been barred from certain school activities due to their pro-LGBTQ advocacy, with teachers and administrators citing the law’s provisions as justification.
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but to work with Biden, with Ana Navarro calling him DeSantis’ “daddy.”To kick off the Hot Topics discussion, moderator Whoopi Goldberg called up footage of statements from DeSantis and Biden this week, with the governor saying that he and his team “appreciate the team effort” from the White House, and that together, they are “cutting through the bureaucracy.” At that, Whoopi was thoroughly confused by the idea that a team-up between the two wouldn’t happen, even despite DeSantis’ past criticisms of the president.“I mean, what choice does he have?” Goldberg said. “He can’t stand there while [Biden] is standing there and say, ‘I hate what they did.