{"id":591008,"date":"2021-07-14T13:21:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T17:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=591008"},"modified":"2021-07-14T13:21:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T17:21:43","slug":"desantis-team-offers-dont-fauci-my-florida-t-shirt-triggers-leftists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-team-offers-dont-fauci-my-florida-t-shirt-triggers-leftists\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis Team Offers \u2018Don\u2019t Fauci My Florida\u2019 T-Shirt, Triggers Leftists"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdesantis-team-offers-dont-fauci-my-florida-t-shirt-triggers-leftists%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=591008&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DeSantis-scaled-e1605101970918.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Monday, Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis\u2019s campaign team rolled out a series of items they were merchandising, including a T-shirt that read, \u201cDon\u2019t Fauci My Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.572784810127\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW TODAY: Our team just dropped EXCLUSIVE merchandise on our brand-new <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WINRED?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WINRED<\/a> storefront.<\/p>\n<p>Trust us\u2026 You don\u2019t want to miss out on this. \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>Shop the store and support your favorite freedom-loving Governor NOW! \u2b07\ufe0f\ud83d\udea8 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KeepFloridaFree?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KeepFloridaFree<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/618f3mrB5e\">https:\/\/t.co\/618f3mrB5e<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Team DeSantis (@teamrondesantis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/teamrondesantis\/status\/1414676440533159937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That triggered wild-eyed ire from leftists eager to pillory DeSantis, who has been a staunch opponent of the harsh lockdowns that ravaged the financial coffers of other states and left them economically gasping for breath.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/a-state-lockdown-accounting-11618008397\">The Wall Street Journal <\/a>reported in&nbsp;April, \u201cWith rare exceptions, the states that shut down the longest suffered the most economic harm. \u2026Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis let nearly all businesses stay open after May. Florida\u2019s private GDP had shrunk only 1.1% by year-end, dragged down by weak international and domestic tourism. New York\u2019s food and accommodation industry shrank more than twice as much as Florida\u2019s and the most in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some sample comments on social media targeting the T-shirt and merchandise included: \u201cRon literally trying to make money off people dying\u2026 stay classy florida.\u201d \u201cMay the virus be with you!\u201d \u201cMonsters are running FL. It breaks my heart.\u201d \u201cIs this the scuzbucket store?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A woman who has served as a correspondent for National Public Radio, contributing editor at Vanity Fair,&nbsp;and an editor for The Hollywood Reporter, sniped, \u201cHow did I miss some of the dumbest and most deadly merchandise on offer?\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.9280575539568\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How did I miss some of the dumbest and most deadly merchandise on offer? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SlD3aY0FE0\">https:\/\/t.co\/SlD3aY0FE0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kim Masters (@kimmasters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kimmasters\/status\/1415329956477882372?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On Tuesday, the DeSantis team noted that one of the other items offered on Monday had become quite popular, showing a red koozie quoting DeSantis: \u201cHow the hell am I going to be able to drink a beer with a mask on?\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.1256281407035\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A fan-favorite has emerged. \ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>Get your exclusive Team DeSantis koozie before they\u2019re gone! \u2b07\ufe0f\ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KeepFloridaFree?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KeepFloridaFree<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aDOcLvtsYL\">https:\/\/t.co\/aDOcLvtsYL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Team DeSantis (@teamrondesantis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/teamrondesantis\/status\/1415038405994504193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 13, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That quote came when someone asked DeSantis about him watching the Super Bowl without a mask. DeSantis replied, \u201cSomeone said, \u2018Hey, you were at the Super Bowl without a mask\u2019 \u2026 but how the hell am I going to be able to drink a beer with a mask on? Come on. I had to watch the Bucs win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In August 2020, Kentucky GOP Senator Rand Paul, angered by Dr. Anthony Fauci having lavished praise on New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo for his response to the coronavirus pandemic while studiously ignoring DeSantis\u2019 successful response, fired off a tweet targeting Fauci. Paul tweeted, \u201cFL and NY have an identical number of per capita coronavirus infections but FL has 5X less per capita deaths. Will Dr. Fauci be praising @GovRonDeSantis\u2019 response to the pandemic? Will he point out that @NYGovCuomo\u2019s response allowed a fivefold greater per capita death rate?\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.7767584097859\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FL and NY have an identical number of per capita coronavirus infections but FL has 5X less per capita deaths. Will Dr. Fauci be praising <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovRonDeSantis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GovRonDeSantis<\/a>\u2019 response to the pandemic?  Will he point out that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYGovCuomo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NYGovCuomo<\/a>\u2019s response allowed a fivefold greater per capita death rate?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandPaul\/status\/1290260362739105793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 3, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As of August 3, 2020, according to&nbsp;The New York Times, New York had&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/us\/new-york-coronavirus-cases.html\">reported<\/a> 421,008&nbsp;cases of coronavirus with 32,401&nbsp;deaths; Florida had&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/us\/florida-coronavirus-cases.html\">reported<\/a> at least 487,100 cases with 7,083 deaths. That amounted to 7.7% of the cases reported in New York eventuating in death, while in Florida roughly 1.5% of the cases resulted in death.<\/p>\n<p>In May, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/thats-not-science-thats-politics-desantis-rips-cdc-on-school-policy\">speaking at a news conference<\/a> in Satellite Beach, Florida, DeSantis ripped into the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), blasting, \u201cIf you look at some of the stuff that they\u2019ve done on school openings, where they\u2019re basically doing the teacher\u2019s union\u2019s bidding, when they say these kids should be masked in summer camp outdoors. I\u2019m sorry, that\u2019s not science, that\u2019s politics.\u201d He also slammed the CDC for the calamitous effect its policies had caused for Florida\u2019s massive cruise industry, asserting, \u201cDo you want one unelected bureaucracy to be able to have the power to indefinitely shut down a major industry in this country?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis spoke of how keeping Florida open instead of instituting harsh lockdowns had paid dividends, asserting, \u201cYou have a surplus of jobs, and particularly in restaurant, lodging, hospitality, that people want to hire. I mean, you see these signs all over the place.&nbsp; Look, that\u2019s a good problem to have. But we also just want to make sure, look, if you\u2019re really unemployed, can\u2019t get a job, that\u2019s one thing, but making sure that you\u2019re doing your due&nbsp;diligence to look for work and making sure those incentives align better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I can tell you this, our state was predicted to get hit worse on Covid economically than any other state because of our service economy and our tourism base,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd what we were able to do by keeping Florida open, we saved hundreds of thousands of jobs in the restaurant, hotel, hospitality industry. We saved thousands of businesses.&nbsp; You know how I know that? Because every time I go out, someone will come up to me and say, \u2018Thank you for saving my job,\u2019 or \u2018Thank you for saving my business.\u2019 So we\u2019ve been able now with 4.7 percent unemployment, that\u2019s significantly less than the national average of 6% and way less than lockdown states like New York and California have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we\u2019re doing it right,\u201d he stated. \u201cWe obviously want to make sure those folks are able to succeed in terms of getting the people they need, but just think of where we could be. I mean, this is a good problem to have compared to seeing people \u2014 in some parts of the country, these businesses are dead. They\u2019re never coming back. This is the heavy hand of government crushing family businesses, ruining jobs and destroying millions of people\u2019s lives. We chose another path in Florida; it was the right path; it was the successful path, and yes, we want to make sure that these things are \u2014 there\u2019s actually restaurants that have to close one day a week because they don\u2019t have enough folks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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