‘I want to break the swamp’: DeSantis goes hard against D.C. in New Hampshire speech

Ron DeSantis wants to break the system in Washington, D.C., claiming Donald Trump’s 2016 slogan of “draining the swamp” is no longer enough.

The Florida governor spent much of his remarks in New Hampshire on Tuesday ranting against the federal government’s establishment and urging Americans to move to the nation’s capital for a few years to allow the replace bureaucracy.

He also lamented that many of the wealthiest counties in the United States are in the DC suburbs — claiming that those connected in this area “have a different standard of justice.”

“DC has benefited from all this borrowing and spending – seven of the 10 richest counties in our country or suburbs of Washington DC. How did that happen?’ DeSantis wondered.

“You can understand whether it was the Silicon Valley area or the Texas energy area,” the presidential candidate continued. “DC you know – they don’t produce much of anything except a lot of debt and a lot of hot air and yet they keep all this money flowing into those communities.”

It’s because the people who are politically connected often benefit from the way the economy works. And if you don’t belong to that class, you end up footing the bill.’

Trump has long called for getting corruption and bureaucracy out of DC. During his 2016 and 2020 campaigns, crowds often chanted “Drain the Swamp” at his rallies.

But DeSantis says it doesn’t go far enough and that Trump was unsuccessful in his mission because someone can always come in and “fill in” the swamp.

When asked why he is the right candidate to run for president in 2024, DeSantis promised, “One thing you get from me: When I tell you I’m going to do something, I’m not just saying it for an election.”

“There are promises I could make that might help me marginally politically that I don’t know I can necessarily keep, so I won’t make those. [promise],’ he added.

The Florida presidential hopeful and governor has named himself as his and Trump’s ore conservative option.

He also claims Trump failed to live up to many of his premises in 2016 after four years in office and says he doesn’t think another four years will give the ex-president time to get things done.

“I think in some ways about the idea of ​​draining the swamp,” DeSantis said Tuesday while speaking to voters in New Hampshire. “I think it’s kind of missing it because we haven’t drained it, it’s worse today than it’s ever been. And that is sad proof of the state of affairs in our country.’

“Even if you manage to drain it, the next guy can just refill it,” he said, referring to the failures of President Joe Biden’s administration.

“So I want to break through the swamp. That’s really what we need to do.’

A new Morning Consult poll Tuesday shows Donald Trump has an ever-growing lead nationally with 57% support among Republican primary voters — compared to 19% for DeSantis

Later, DeSantis went on to describe how he thinks he could destroy the current system by not continuing to “recycle” the same people through different positions and attract new blood from all over the US.

“Part of what you have to do to really break through the quagmire is you — your president can’t do it all alone — and you have to have the humility to understand that,” he said. “And the idea that you don’t just walk in, snap your fingers, and have everyone bow to you — these people aren’t willingly giving up their power. Are you joking?’

“So you have to get thousands of people to come to Washington with you, willing to serve in the administration — some in the White House, mostly in the cabinet and agencies,” DeSantis continued.

“You can’t recycle just anyone from DC,” he told the crowd in New Hampshire. “You have to bring people from other parts of the country. You can go for two years, four years, six years, eight years – bring your family, go serve.”

Five of the 10 counties with the highest median household income in the United States are in the suburbs of Washington, DC. This includes Arlington, Loudon, Fairfax and Falls Church in Virginia, as well as Howard in Maryland.

All five counties have a median income of more than $125,000 and a maximum of $156,000.

But income inequality isn’t DeSantis’s only concern — it’s the unbalanced way justice is administered to the elites who not only have money, but are tied to government leaders.

“I can tell you this in this country right now: if you’re connected to the entrenched DC class, a different standard of justice is applied to you than if you’re someone who isn’t part of that faction of our society,” said DeSantis when asked about the “slap on the wrist” Hunter Biden received.

He added, “Hunter Biden, if he had been a Republican, would have been in jail a long time ago and we all know that.”

DeSantis demanded that a “single standard of justice” be reintroduced in the federal government, especially within the Justice Department.

President Biden’s son Hunter agreed earlier this month to plead guilty to two tax-related misdemeanor charges and reached a deal to avoid jail time for lying on a federal form to purchase a firearm by saying he was not addicted to drugs at the time.