I'll Send 'Joe Biden Back To HIs Basement': In Iowa, DeSantis Vows To Win In 2024, Blasts Biden For His Failed Policies

Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) made a bombastic beginning to his presidential campaign, appearing at an event in Iowa Tuesday night slamming the national spending and promising it “[send] Joe Biden back to his basement in Delaware.”

The Sunshine State governor made his appearance at the Eternity Church in Iowa, the first stop of his 12-city tour that will have him campaigning through the important states of Iowa, New Hampshire, and North Carolina. DeSantis already appeared in the Hawkeye State two weeks back before even announcing his presidential bid where he was met with roaring success, per the DC Enquirer.

Lightning seemed to strike twice for the former House Representative as he spoke at the church. “It is great to be back. And it’s great for me to report that our great American comeback starts by sending Joe Biden back to his basement in Delaware,” DeSantis excitedly opened to the overflowing crowd in the church, referencing his ‘Great American Comeback Tour’. “I mean, he’s spent so much of his time as president on vacation, we might as well make it permanent.”

DeSantis was quick to get to the major talking points of the night, opening up about how he intends to run his campaign and build his political legacy. “At the end of the day, leadership is not about entertainment,” the governor declared. “It’s not about building a brand. it’s not about virtue signaling. It is about results, and in Florida, we didn’t lead with merely words, we followed up our words with deeds, and we have produced a record of accomplishment that we would put up against anybody in this country.”

After discussing the numerous successes that the 44-year-old found while governing over Florida, he began to slam McCarthy for the lopsided debt-ceiling deal that was recently reached with President Joe Biden. 

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“We now see Washington has now cooked up their latest ‘debt deal.’ And I can tell you this, our nation was careening towards bankruptcy before the debt deal, and it will still be careening towards bankruptcy after this debt deal. This is greenlighting $4 trillion in new debt in less than two years,” the Sunshine State governor warned. “It took us almost 200 years to get to $4 trillion in debt in the first place. It locks in inflated COVID-era levels of spending. And it keeps 98% of the 87,000 new IRS agents that Joe Biden instituted.”

DeSantis was also happy to get into the major border crisis that has been hitting southern border states like his own, explaining that the Mexican drug cartels have taken “more control over what goes on at the border than our own government,” something that he was not pleased with. 

“Millions of illegal aliens have poured into this country including criminal aliens, and even individuals on the terrorist watch list. The massive amounts of fentanyl that the cartels are bringing in have killed tens of thousands of our fellow Americans,” he said, lambasting the current handling of the situation.  

The Florida governor also touched on the subject of Hunter Biden, believing that were he the son of a Republican president, the younger Biden would have already long been jailed for his actions.

“We have a bureaucracy that our Founding Fathers would find unrecognizable,” DeSantis said. “It is an unaccountable, weaponized administrative state that unevenly wields authority, depending on its targets, two different sets of rules depending on whether you’re a member in good standing of elite society or not. If Hunter were a Republican, he would have been in jail years ago.” 

The night proved to be a major success in both rallying support for the young politician but also raising money for the coming campaign. DeSantis will be returning to Iowa again on Saturday to attend Sen. Joni Ernst’s (R-IA) ‘Roast & Ride’ fundraiser that is held in Des Moines.