Ron DeSantis says his 2018 ad touting Donald Trump was just a play for 'free media'
Florida’s Governor is explaining away a controversial ad in which he touted his deep affinity for Donald Trump as a “tongue-in-cheek” play for “free media.”
“That’s obviously tongue in cheek. … Of course, it’s a funny video, but here’s the thing about it,” Ron DeSantis said, “when you’re doing these campaigns, you want to get as much free media as possible. So I knew that that would cause the corporate media to light their hair on fire and they did. And so they just kept playing it for me. So we didn’t even have to really pay for the ad.”
From there, DeSantis suggested that the ad’s touting of Trump wasn’t as appealing to Republican voters in the race against Adam Putnam as the depiction of...
