MSNBC host Jen Psaki performed political shrink Friday, asking Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, “Are you OK?” (Watch the video beneath.)
Psaki’s mocking fear drove a section that completely skewered DeSantis’ sputtering try to win the Republican presidential nomination.
“So in recent times as I’ve been staring at the best way Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is working his presidential marketing campaign, there’s a query that has been working thru my thoughts: Are you OK, Governor? I imply, for actual, are you excellent?” mentioned Psaki, a former White Area press secretary underneath President Joe Biden.
“It’s OK in the event you don’t in fact need to run for president. It’s utterly OK,” she added.
Psaki mentioned it used to be tough to reach at every other conclusion as a result of DeSantis’ “extraordinary” marketing campaign.
She thrashed DeSantis for overspending at the path like a “teenager pop big name,” particularly on personal airplane shuttle. She additionally took him to activity for his state’s new faculty curriculum, which teaches that slaves benefited through studying talents. This caused a rebuke from South Carolina’s Tim Scott — the one Black Republican within the Senate — who mentioned, “There is not any silver lining in slavery.”
In some other head-scratcher, Psaki famous that DeSantis floated the theory of appointing Democratic anti-vaxxer candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to steer the Meals and Drug Management or the Facilities for Illness Regulate and Prevention. (DeSantis has attempted to stroll that one again.)
“DeSantis is floundering within the polls, burning thru money, protecting the deserves of slavery, floating jobs for conspiracy theorist Democrats,” she mentioned. “It’s sufficient to make you ponder whether this complete marketing campaign is truly a cry for lend a hand. Does he truly need to do it?”
DeSantis, who trails former President Donald Trump through greater than 30 issues in lots of polls of GOP applicants, has lower a few 3rd of his paid marketing campaign personnel.