Posted on 04/17/2023 3:14:46 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
The Trump campaign took a sledgehammer to Gov. Ron DeSantis’s, R-Fla., voting record on retirement benefits, roasting the Florida leader as colluding with “globalist handlers,” according to Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung.
“DeSantis is colluding with his globalist handlers to go full Never Trump in order to gaslight the people into thinking that Medicare and Social Security should be ripped away from hard-working Americans,” Cheung said in an official statement. “President Trump has made it clear that he will always stand on the side of Americans, and protect benefits seniors worked for and paid for their entire lives.”
The campaign also released a compilation of data that tracked the voting record of Gov. DeSantis when he served as a congressman. Per their information, they claimed that the then-congressman voted strongly against Medicare and Social Security benefit programs on multiple occasions:
The Trump campaign further argued that “Ron DeSantis has long embraced plans to cut Social Security and Medicare, as well as raising the eligibility age of both programs, yet the majority of Americans remain united in their opposition to these positions.”
The campaign cited recent polling from AP-NORC, which found that 79 percent of adults in the U.S. opposed cutting Social Security, while 70 percent opposed raising the age of Medicare benefits to age 70.
The Trump campaign’s roaring attack against DeSantis comes just days after they ripped the Florida governor for his “flip flop” on the standing “Resign to Run” law in the Sunshine State that has seemed to prevent him from officially running.
“Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is currently on a month-long, taxpayer-funded presidential campaign schedule paid for by Florida taxpayers, and new questions are emerging as to whether this will force DeSantis to resign from office,” the campaign stated last week.
We need to raise the age for SS and Medic
Are. The Democrats are smart because they don’t admit they want to do controversial things before they get in power. Republicans vote for dumb things like vouchers.
The idea that restricting benefits for people who largely paid for them and tried to do everything right will lead to any tiny bit of actual fiscal restraint is complete idiocy.
You must sit on your butt for a living. Some of us have to do actual manual labor.
Trump has always been as bad as the dems on entitlement reform. His snakeoil pitch has always been that he’s going to grow the economy fast enough to outrun our runaway overspending.
Maybe stop giving illegals welfare and for Americans who use welfare cut them off after 2 yrs. Then there is the disability fraud. There is plenty of money for SS if they do that.
Strange how there is never talk about cutting welfare and the free medical they get
I paid in SS. Its my money. Not an entitlement. I didn’t ask them to take my money
Yes! Please don't take a step back from this very Republican, conservative position. You are right and the public simply needs to be brought along to his position.
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They’ve already started the marketing - calling it an entitlement.
Watch the names they apply.
None of their giveaways and aid are referred to as “Entitlements.”
They have disdain for the American Middle class.
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SS, Medicare/Medicaid has surpassed defense as the largest expenditure and unlike defense it is not an enumerated power making it unconstitutional.
You can't save the country without sunsetting SS and you can't get elected with a plan to sunset SS.
So, Trump supports the socialist state and defends it from any reforms or privatization.
Got it.
Ron DeSanctimonious is a MEATBALL who wants to push granny off a cliff.
Currently more than 70% of the pop is not paying taxes. Then there are those work work for the gov.. if they pay more taxes than they are paid.. we’ll that we hold be crazy.
The founders were right… as soon as people could take instead of contribute, it’s over.
Either the GOP dies or the country dies. Or worse, we live like Venezuela.
Seems a bit odd.
Trump running to the left of DeSantis is going to be interesting.
Kick the can down the road as long as you can... The problem is..., that can is but a lump of crushed steel now and it just doesn't fly as well as it once did.
No we don’t.
DeSantis is unelectable because of this alone.
Try selling that position to independents or even much of the Republican base.
Its no sale.
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