Association With Extremist David Horowitz Catches Up With Ron DeSantis

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Just about everything that Horowitz—whose group the would-be senator says “tells the American people the truth”—has said in recent years is unbalanced or worse.

Improbably, Florida’s heated gubernatorial debate Wednesday night ended up pivoting around far-right firebrand David Horowitz.

The moderator—after mentioning Republican Ron DeSantis’s famous advice on the first day of the general election to Florida voters, that “the last thing we need to do is monkey this up by embracing the socialist agenda” of Democrat Andrew Gillum, who is black—the question pivoted unexpectedly to DeSantis’ four separate speeches at Horowitz’s annual Restoration Weekend.

Moderator Todd McDermott quoted Horowitz saying “this country’s only serious race war is against whites,” at which point DeSantis interrupted to say “you can play the McCarthyite game.”

McDermott then continued, again quoting Horowitz, this time asking “if blacks are oppressed in America, why isn’t there a black exodus?” And then McDermott quoted DeSantis calling himself “a big admirer of an organization (the David Horowitz Freedom Center, led by David Horowitz) that shoots straight, tells the American people the truth and is standing up for the right thing.”

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