The View’s Joy Behar claimed Monday that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a speculated 2024 Republican presidential contender, is “just as bad” as former President Donald Trump.
“DeSantis could take his place, and that’s just as bad,” she told her co-hosts.
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Neo-Nazis were “out there in front of the conference with antisemitic slurs,” Behar said of the recent Turning Point USA Student Action Summit. She then compared the demonstration to that which would occur “during the Third Reich,” saying, “It’s the same thing.”
“And DeSantis did not say anything about it,” she explained, then referencing a statement from Trump following a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that turned fatal in 2017. “So it’s his rendition of ‘good people on both sides,’ same idea.”
“Why trade a headache for an upset stomach?” she asked. “Because that’s what’s going to happen if they get rid of Trump and put him in.”
Co-host Ana Navarro, however, disagreed. “As many issues as I have with DeSantis, I don’t think it’s the same thing,” she said.
“Because I don’t think DeSantis has been involved in promoting a coup against America,” Navarro continued.
“Not yet,” Behar chimed in.
“When he does, then I’ll have that issue with him,” Navarro responded. “I think Donald Trump is in a class all by himself, thank God.”
She added: “Thank God there’s only one Donald Trump.”
Turning Point USA “100% condemns those ideologies in the strongest of terms,” spokesman Andrew Kolvet told the Washington Examiner.
Because the neo-Nazi demonstration occurred on public property, Kolvet said security was unable to remove them. However, he said that after the confrontation with students ended, the demonstrators made their way home.
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“We have no idea who they are or why they were at the convention center,” he said. “They have nothing to do with TPUSA, our event, or our students.”
DeSantis’s office did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.
