{"id":590749,"date":"2026-04-23T11:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=590749"},"modified":"2026-04-23T11:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:37:20","slug":"desantis-fires-back-at-trash-talking-jeffries-we-will-take-you-fishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=590749","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis fires back at trash-talking Jeffries: \u2018We will take you fishing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis responded to trash-talking House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) by extending an invitation for a paid trip to the Sunshine State.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease. Be my guest. I will pay for you to come down to Florida to campaign,\u201d DeSantis said on Wednesday. \u201cI\u2019ll put you up in the Florida governor\u2019s mansion. We will take you fishing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jeffries was in hog heaven after voters in Virginia narrowly approved a new map expected to give Democrats total political dominance in the Old Dominion, a major triumph for his party, which stands to give Democrats 10 of 11 congressional seats after the midterms.<\/p>\n

It was the party\u2019s biggest win yet in the redistricting war that started when Texas Republicans moved to approve the redrawing of gerrymandered maps, and the New York City Democrat challenged the Florida governor to go ahead with the Sunshine State\u2019s own redistricting plan.<\/p>\n

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.@RepJeffries<\/a> \u201cOur message to Florida Republicans is F around and find out. If they go down the road of a DeSantis \u2018dummymander\u2019, the Florida Republicans are going to find themselves in the same situation as Texas Republicans.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/3zFoRXRLvD<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 CSPAN (@cspan) April 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cOur message to Florida Republicans is F around and find out. If they go down the road of a DeSantis dummy-mander \u2026 the electoral tide is turning in Florida,\u201d he said during remarks at the Democrat campaign office.<\/p>\n

Jeffries had previously vowed<\/a> \u201cmaximum warfare\u201d by targeting GOP seats in Florida if state Republicans go through with redistricting.<\/p>\n

DeSantis fired back.<\/p>\n

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Congressman Jeffries \u2014 come on down to Florida and make our day. pic.twitter.com\/3yzk9R4vc5<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Team DeSantis (@TeamDeSantis) April 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cI heard this guy, Jeffries, popping off in Washington about Florida. He wants to be Speaker of the House, and he\u2019s kind of more liberal than Pelosi and all this other stuff from New York City,\u201d the governor said.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust, \u2018Oh, Florida can\u2019t do this, or we\u2019re going to go after Florida.\u2019 Please, be my guest. I will pay for you to come down to Florida and campaign. I\u2019ll put you up in the Florida Governor\u2019s mansion. We\u2019ll take you fishing, we\u2019ll do all this stuff,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Florida Republicans proceed with this illegal scheme, they will only create more prime pick-up opportunities for Democrats, just as they did with Trump\u2019s dummymander in Texas. We will aggressively target for defeat Mario D\u00edaz-Balart, Maria Elvira Salazar, Carlos Gim\u00e9nez, Kat Cammack, Anna Paulina Luna, Laurel Lee, Cory Mills, and Brian Mast. We are prepared to take them all on, and we are prepared to win,\u201d Jeffries said<\/a> in a statement earlier this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaximum warfare, everywhere, all the time,\u201d the top House Democrat pledged.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe far left hates him,\u201d DeSantis also said. \u201cThey call him a Dollar Store Obama.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey call him a dollar store Obama.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ron DeSantis slams top House Democrat Hakeem Jeffries, says the \u201cfar left\u201d hates him even though he\u2019s \u201cas left as they come.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/xWrUcKYDCQ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Fox News (@FoxNews) April 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cHakeem Jeffries campaigning in Florida would be an early Christmas gift for Republicans in Florida,\u201d DeSantis said in a Wednesday post<\/a> to X, sharing video of his remarks. \u201cHappy to roll out the red carpet!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis responded to trash-talking House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) by extending an invitation for a paid trip to the Sunshine State. \u201cPlease. Be my guest. I will pay for you to come down to Florida to campaign,\u201d DeSantis said on Wednesday. \u201cI\u2019ll put you up in the Florida governor\u2019s mansion. We… Continue reading DeSantis fires back at trash-talking Jeffries: \u2018We will take you fishing\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":590750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=590749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/590750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=590749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=590749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=590749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}