It’s the streaks of San Francisco.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis painted a bleak picture of the City by the Bay in a campaign spot released Tuesday night, asserting that “leftist policies” have brought it to its knees.
The Republican presidential contender toured the California town Monday amid a deepening rift with Gov. Gavin Newsom, San Francisco’s former mayor.
“We’re here in the once-great city of San Francisco,” DeSantis says while standing in front of a graffiti-covered wall on an undisclosed street. “We came in here and saw people defecating on the street. We saw people using heroin. We saw people smoking crack cocaine.”
DeSantis, 44, has routinely lashed Democrat-controlled cities as blighted dystopias while elevating the Sunshine State as a thriving counterpoint.
While dodging dung and al fresco drug use, DeSantis said, he observed rows of boarded-up businesses and “so much riffraff running around.”
“You look around and the city is not vibrant anymore,” he states in the spot. “It’s really collapsed because of leftist policies. And these policies have caused people to flee this area.”
Touting Florida as a “law and order” state, DeSantis bashed California’s city and state leaders for prosecutorial leniency and the “wreckage” left in its wake.
“They are doing it wrong here,” he says. “No wonder why we’ve had so many people move from San Francisco to Florida over the last few years. We got to stop this madness. We need to restore sanity to this country.”
R&I ~ MJM
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