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A new Ron DeSantis campaign advert claims the Florida governor is a “fighter” created by God “on the eighth day” (Ad can be seen at the link).
A new ad for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' reelection bid appears to present him as a "fighter" created and sent by God to serve Floridians.
In the video, a narrator is heard telling what seems to be a continuation of the Bible's story of creation, in which God works for six days and then rests on the seventh. The ad's narrator begins by saying that on the eighth day, God "looked down" on his work and decided that he needed a "protector."
"So, God made a fighter," the narrator said as DeSantis is shown in the video. "God said, 'I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, kiss his family goodbye, travel thousands of miles for no other reason than to serve the people, to save their jobs, their livelihoods, their liberty, their happiness.'"
Throughout the rest of the ad shared by Florida's first lady on Friday, stills are shown of DeSantis as he makes speeches, spends time with his family, poses for pictures with constituents and meets with law enforcement, among other activities.
In these moments, DeSantis appears to be shown as the answer to the narrator's story about God needing someone "to be strong, advocate truth in the midst of hysteria, someone who challenges conventional wisdom and isn't afraid to defend what he knows to be right and just."
"God said, 'I need somebody who will take the arrows, stand firm in the wake of unrelenting attacks, look a mother in the eyes and tell her that her child will be in school. She can keep her job, go to church, eat dinner with friends and hold the hand of an aging parent taking their breath for the last time,'" the narrator says.
The message seems to point to DeSantis' pushback at restrictions amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Last year, he signed legislation limiting COVID vaccine mandates across the state, and early this year positioned Florida as an "escape hatch" for mandates and restrictions in other states.
Ron DeSantis likened to prophet sent by God in new ad praised by wife
A new ad for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' reelection bid appears to present him as a "fighter" created and sent by God to serve Floridians.
In the video, a narrator is heard telling what seems to be a continuation of the Bible's story of creation, in which God works for six days and then rests on the seventh. The ad's narrator begins by saying that on the eighth day, God "looked down" on his work and decided that he needed a "protector."
"So, God made a fighter," the narrator said as DeSantis is shown in the video. "God said, 'I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, kiss his family goodbye, travel thousands of miles for no other reason than to serve the people, to save their jobs, their livelihoods, their liberty, their happiness.'"
Throughout the rest of the ad shared by Florida's first lady on Friday, stills are shown of DeSantis as he makes speeches, spends time with his family, poses for pictures with constituents and meets with law enforcement, among other activities.
In these moments, DeSantis appears to be shown as the answer to the narrator's story about God needing someone "to be strong, advocate truth in the midst of hysteria, someone who challenges conventional wisdom and isn't afraid to defend what he knows to be right and just."
"God said, 'I need somebody who will take the arrows, stand firm in the wake of unrelenting attacks, look a mother in the eyes and tell her that her child will be in school. She can keep her job, go to church, eat dinner with friends and hold the hand of an aging parent taking their breath for the last time,'" the narrator says.
The message seems to point to DeSantis' pushback at restrictions amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Last year, he signed legislation limiting COVID vaccine mandates across the state, and early this year positioned Florida as an "escape hatch" for mandates and restrictions in other states.
Ron DeSantis likened to prophet sent by God in new ad praised by wife
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