DeSantis Campaign Responds to White House Blaming Him for Escalating Rhetoric

The DeSantis campaign responded this week to the White House, which accused the Florida governor, in part, of escalating rhetoric by calling Dr. Anthony Fauci a “little elf,” even as President Biden himself is describing MAGA Republicans as “semi-fascists.”

“You have people like Fauci saying that his lockdowns didn’t cause any permanent damage to any young kids. I got news for you. It did, and we are going to reap those rewards across the whole country for years and years and years because they treated kids so poorly,” DeSantis said during a fiery speech in Florida’s Seminole County.

 “And I’m just sick of seeing him. I know he says he’s going to retire. Someone needs to grab that little elf and chuck him across the Potomac,” the governor said in light of Fauci’s claim that lockdowns did not “irreparably damage” anyone.