Former President Donald Trump faced backlash from conservatives late last week after using far-left organizations and media to attack Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the state of Florida.

Trump used data from the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) and the Florida Policy Institute to attack DeSantis for allegedly leading the state to “to tumble into complete and total delinquency and destruction.”

“The real DeSantis record is one of misery and despair,” the Trump campaign claimed. “He has left a wake of destruction all across Florida and people are hurting because he has spent more time playing public relations games instead of actually doing the hard-work needed to improve the lives of the people he represents.”

Trump’s remarks come as more Americans have moved to Florida over the last few years — including Trump himself — than any other state in the country in-large part due to the freedoms that were protected in the state during the pandemic.

Fox News reported that the NLIHC is an organization “dedicated to achieving racially and socially equitable public policy,” while the Florida Policy Institute is a left-leaning organization that claims to be non-partisan. Another report said that NLIHC was a “a pro-transgender nonprofit that’s part of a coalition of progressive organizations (Alliance for Justice/AJF) backed by Soros.”

Trump also posted an article on social media from far-left MSNBC host Joy Reid that attacked DeSantis.

Trump now attacking DeSantis using MSNBC and Joy Reid articles. pic.twitter.com/C0jXxKanjA

— David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense (@davereaboi) April 21, 2023

Trump faced intense backlash online over the statement and posts promoting the far-left’s attacks on DeSantis.

Radio host Buck Sexton tweeted: “DeSantis: flipped Florida in one term from purple to solid red, the best governor during Covid, has attracted almost 1 million people to move to Florida in his first term (including me). Trump: Florida sucks, it’s awful, don’t know why anyone would live there.”

DeSantis: flipped Florida in one term from purple to solid red, the best governor during Covid, has attracted almost 1 million people to move to Florida in his first term (including me)

Trump: Florida sucks, it’s awful, don’t know why anyone would live there. Read it⬇️ https://t.co/hRYr7Jdwpn

— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) April 21, 2023

Former Trump Campaign Rapid Response Director Matt Wolking, who has flipped to help DeSantis, tweeted: “Trump just cited the pro-BLM, Zuckerberg-funded National Low Income Housing Coalition, a member of the George Soros-funded Alliance for Justice, in order to attack Governor DeSantis and trash the state of Florida. What happened to Donald Trump?”

Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro tweeted: “This is total crap belied by the hundreds of thousands of people becoming Floridians since 2020 — including my family, my parents, my in-laws, and two of my sisters’ families. This dog won’t hunt. It’s just stupid.”

Fox News contributor Guy Benson tweeted: “Just thinking about how Florida resident Donald Trump lost his home county (Palm Beach) to Hillary & Biden by double digits — and then Ron DeSantis went out and straight-up won it last year.”

“This is just not even slightly true,” Daily Wire podcast host Matt Walsh tweeted.

“No one believes this. Trump is having desperation delirium,” said conservative attorney Marina Medvin. “But ask yourself why— I haven’t seen any polls showing DeSantis take Trump in the primary. So why exert so much energy on beating the guy who, per your own data, isn’t a serious contender … unless, of course, Trump knows something he hasn’t told us. The only reason I think DeSantis DEFINITELY takes the primary, despite all the polls, is because I see things like this from Trump.”

No one believes this. Trump is having desperation delirium.

But ask yourself why— I haven’t seen any polls showing DeSantis take Trump in the primary. So why exert so much energy on beating the guy who, per your own data, isn’t a serious contender… unless, of course, Trump… https://t.co/GNp5wSGpAL

— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) April 21, 2023

Media strategist Noah Pollak tweeted: “Trump went from ‘Florida is great but DeSantis has nothing to do with it, it’s b/c of sunshine and beaches’ to ‘Florida is a shithole and it’s all DeSantis’s fault’ in like two weeks. Amazing.”

Trump went from "Florida is great but DeSantis has nothing to do with it, it's b/c of sunshine and beaches" to "Florida is a shithole and it's all DeSantis's fault" in like two weeks. Amazing. https://t.co/yDO19bb9Qh

— Noah Pollak (@NoahPollak) April 21, 2023

Attorney Will Chamberlain added, “The entire Trump 2024 campaign is an insult to every conservative’s intelligence ‘Ron DeSantis did a terrible job on COVID, which is why I moved to Florida.’ ‘The 2020 election was stolen, but we’re totally going to get the votes in 2024.’ Etc, etc.”

The entire Trump 2024 campaign is an insult to every conservative’s intelligence

“Ron DeSantis did a terrible job on COVID, which is why I moved to Florida.”

“The 2020 election was stolen, but we’re totally going to get the votes in 2024.”

Etc, etc.

— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) April 21, 2023

New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu aggressively defended the Second Amendment over the weekend during an interview on a left-leaning news network.

Appearing on NBC News’ “Meet The Press” with Chuck Todd on Sunday, Sununu said that more laws regulating firearms was not the answer for how to deal with gun violence.

Sununu made the remarks after being asked about some of the recent tragedies that have happened across the U.S.

“If the idea is, “Well, we should just pass more laws,” if that was the answer, then why didn’t Democrats when they ran the House, they controlled the Senate, they controlled the presidency over the last two years, why didn’t they do anything?” he asked. “Because they know it’s not about passing more laws. They know that places like Chicago that have the most, some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country still have some of the worst crime and, frankly, the most irresponsibility with the mass shootings in all of this.”

“I’m the governor of one of the safest states in the country, where we also have some of the most flexible, pro-Second Amendment rules and laws in the country because we take those things very responsibly,” he added. “We harden schools, we deal with mental health, especially in kids. We go after the core of the issue instead of saying, ‘Well, we should just pass more laws.’ If it were that easy, people would do it. But it’s not. If it were that easy, even Democrats would do it. They didn’t. So stop trying to take these tragedies, these human tragedies, and making — trying to make political fodder out of them. It’s a real losing effort, I think, on the Democrats’ part.”

Sununu also took a shot at red flag laws, noting that cities like Chicago that have these laws are still dealing with an increase in gun-related crime.

“Look at the red flag laws in Chicago, just as an example,” he said. “Over the past two or three years, you’ve had nearly 2,000 deaths by firearms and murders. I think the red flag laws have been actually implemented less than a dozen times, right? So as they try these new things, as they try these more restrictive laws in those urban areas that you’re talking about, it’s not working, right?”

“More laws aren’t the answer,” he continued, later adding: “I mean, supporting police, securing your streets, holding people accountable. Enough of this bail reform nonsense. Holding folks accountable so they don’t feel like they can get away with everything. There’s a lot of that going on across the country in a whole variety of ways, specifically in those urban areas you’re talking about.”

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