With Election Day less than a week away and the polls looking increasingly grim, Charlie Crist desperately denies reality in attempts to stay afloat.
The DeSantis War Room Twitter account highlighted this in a recent attack ad.
Out of desperation, Democrat politicians have been lying about Republicans. Obama & Biden, campaigning for @CharlieCrist, falsely claimed Republicans would "cut Social Security." They're only telling this lie because they cannot campaign on their own failed economic policies. pic.twitter.com/etPxCFRab8
— DeSantis War Room 🐊 #GOTV (@DeSantisWarRoom) November 5, 2022
Rapid response director for Governor Ron DeSantis, Christina Pushaw, echoed the notion.
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“When we can see the true harms of Democrat policies in real life, all they have to run on are lies to stoke fear.”
When we can see the true harms of Democrat policies in real life, all they have to run on are lies to stoke fear. Reject their attempts to manipulate you and your family. Vote today or on Election Day: https://t.co/FueWLujO4Y https://t.co/5eaH6Rwryb
— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) November 5, 2022
Many Floridians tweeted their agreement in reply.
same thing the dems have been saying for 40 years. so far in 40 years they have been right zero times
— Buckeye born and raised (@PaulLew83715430) November 5, 2022
Point of Crist's campaign was to stuff his bank account. He was a lousy Gov first time around as a R. Changing stripes won't change his lack of ability to govern.
— Mrs.Chiara Luce (@MrsChiaraLuce) November 5, 2022
Their whole campaign strategy is lies, they have nothing else to run on. Have you heard one idea from Charlie?
— Carmela Uihlein (@melavanhalen) November 5, 2022
As if on queue, the Crist campaign handwaved away the record-high inflation gripping the nation as little more than a right-wing buzzword.
“That is not part of the normal lexicon of the way people talk…what they’ve [Republicans] done is that they’ve taught people the word inflation. Most people who would have never used the word ever in their lives are using it now because they’ve been taught it…and they sort of wrap this word around what they really want to vote”
Campaigning for @CharlieCrist, Charlie's economic advisor @JoyAnnReid asserts that nobody knows what inflation is except journalists and economists.
You might THINK your grocery bill is higher now than it was in 2019… but Joy says it's just a right-wing conspiracy theory 🤡 pic.twitter.com/Ap2yBF9Otk
— DeSantis War Room 🐊 #GOTV (@DeSantisWarRoom) November 5, 2022
Floridians quickly responded that they do, in fact, know what inflation is, despite Joy Reid’s assumption that the average American is too ignorant and stupid to get it.
I also have a degree in economics but remember learning the basic definition of inflation back in high school, when we were studying the Carter era.
— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) November 5, 2022
Some Floridians made a joke out of the idea to show its absurdity.
This is basic economics. Inflation is simply a made up term that no one except the very educated can understand. Any who say otherwise are economics-deniers
— Dr. Blëdjin H. Lebryäl, PhD, GAEE (@bledjinhlebryal) November 5, 2022
A Dad says to his son: “when I was your age hamburgers cost a quarter. A bottle of Coke was a dime”
Son: “Why does it cost so much now?”
Dad: “Well son, we are simple folk and we don’t understand these concepts. There’s an ancient secret word for it but they’ll never tell us”
— Ironside (@johnygamble13) November 5, 2022
Cashier: "That'll be $227.35"
Me: "Ha, nice try! Here's $150. Not falling for that made up 'inflation' scam Republicans are pushing."
Thanks Joy! …but can you please call the cops and let them know about this scam? They're just laughing at me.
— Puppy Pusher (@Florida_Veteran) November 5, 2022
Another tweeted out the hard evidence of inflation they’d manage to collect.
I LITERALLY have the receipts. 👀 pic.twitter.com/tkPjT8bFqP
— UltraMAGA (@1988BaileyPk) November 5, 2022
Still, others condemned Reid’s, and by extension the Crist campaigns, of condescending and gaslighting voters.
I couldn’t agree more it’s disgusting
— BK (@local_407) November 5, 2022
Again Dems think that Republicans are uneducated and couldn’t possibly know what the word inflation means. And they wonder why they will be all alone and out of a job soon.
— TheXRPDon (@DonnieSEvans) November 5, 2022
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