On Thursday night, Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis slammed the Biden administration and predicted that the red wave would be so strong in next month’s midterm elections that Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) would win the gubernatorial race in deep-blue New York.
DeSantis made the comments during a Fox News town hall event hosted by Sean Hannity, saying that he believes Republicans would win multiple highly contested races across the country.
“We have a situation where voters are responding to a failed administration,” DeSantis said. “There’s just no way to sugarcoat it. Things have gotten worse since Joe Biden was president, the inflation’s at a 40-year high, he’s waged war on American energy, he’s bungled the southern border like we’ve never seen before.”
“So on issue after issue, they’re failing. The Democrats are still in lockstep with him, they will not break with their extreme policies, and our candidates are offering a better vision,” he continued. “So I think we need to work hard over these next little less than two weeks, everybody needs to be going out to vote. But if we do our part, and we get all like-minded people, and not just Republicans, we get independents and some Democrats. If we all do that, I think this will be one of the best midterm elections of our lifetime.”
“We need to work hard over these next less than two weeks. Everybody needs to be going out to vote…
If we do our part, I think this will be one of the best midterm elections of our lifetime.” —@RonDeSantisFL ????https://t.co/3kH5oJErO9 pic.twitter.com/OgudIHGYMz
— Team DeSantis ???? (@teamrondesantis) October 28, 2022
As the race gubernatorial race in New York between Gov. Kathy Hochul and Zeldin has tightened in recent weeks, the Democratic party is reportedly “frantic.”
“With just 12 days until Election Day, Democrats and their allies are mounting a frenzied push to keep Ms. Hochul in office, pouring millions of dollars into last-minute ads and staging a whirlwind of campaign rallies to energize their base amid concerns that their typically reliable bedrock of Black and Latino voters might not turn out,” The New York Times reported.
“Labor unions have gone into overdrive, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on television and radio ads to cajole those voters to turn up for Ms. Hochul,” the outlet added. “On the ground, Ms. Hochul is expected to campaign with Representative Hakeem Jeffries, a party power broker whose Brooklyn district provides crucial votes for the Democratic base, as well as in southeast Queens with Mayor Eric Adams over the weekend.”
The Hochul campaign has even called on former adversaries for help, with one organization going as for as holding an “emergency all-hands-on-deck meeting” of its leadership earlier this week to mobilize in favor of Hochul.
