Roger Stone threatened to run against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis if an audit of the 2020 election is not conducted.
“I heard Ron DeSantis say that Florida had the most honest election in our history in 2020 yet I know for a certainty there are 1 million phantom voters on the Florida voter rolls,” Stone wrote in a post to his Telegram channel. “These ‘voters’ simply do not exist.”
Stone, a longtime confidant to former President Donald Trump who lives in Florida, said on Sunday if the Republican governor does not conduct a “full audit” of the 2020 Florida election results that he “may be forced to seek the Libertarian Party nomination for governor in 2022.”
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Trump, who won Florida, has insisted widespread fraud and irregularities cost him the presidential contest against President Joe Biden and has been pushing for partisan audits in states he lost, including Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, and in states he won, including Texas. State and federal election officials across the board have said there is no evidence to support claims of a stolen election.
A day after the 2020 November election, DeSantis, a Republican, praised the way the Florida Division of Elections conducted a “smoothly” operated Election Day, according to NBC Miami.
“People are actually looking at Florida and asking the question, ‘Why can’t these states be more like Florida?'” DeSantis added.
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Still, the governor signed a bill in May that proponents said was geared toward improving election security, including adding ID requirements for mail-in voting and restricting the use of drop boxes, which opponents are challenging in court.
In October, DeSantis, who is widely seen as a possible 2024 presidential GOP front-runner, said Florida would not conduct another review of the 2020 election.
“What we do in Florida is, there’s a pre- and post-election audit that happens automatically,” DeSantis said. “So, that has happened. It passed with flying colors in terms of how that’s going.”
