After releasing the video suspending his campaign, Marc Caputo unleashed a torrent of mockery on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).
Speaking to CNN's Jim Acosta Sunday, Caputo and Republican Scott Jennings discussed the downfall of DeSantis, but it was the former who waxed poetic about the governor's personality.
Acosta quoted DeSantis attacking Republicans for kissing Trump's ring so that he'll say that they are "wonderful." But that's exactly what happened Sunday.
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"Yeah, and Trump is saying he's wonderful. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy," said Caputo.
He said that he spoke to members of DeSantis' campaign who were trying to convince the governor that the polls were real and that he was going to "lose big." They encouraged him to quit on the night of the Iowa Caucus and endorse Trump all at once.
"All in one fell swoop because it's better to eat -- and I'm going to use the word crap — it's better to eat the crap sandwich in one bite than to swallow it in little pieces," Caputo cited the adviser. "And what you saw was DeSantis doing just that. DeSantis almost looked like an artificial intelligence animatronic Ron DeSantis with more of a smile, more rehearsed, just getting through it, and had the quality of, kind of, a hostage who's told to be happy, to accept his fate. He's going to escape these prison cells or these walls. So, he did his part and swallowed that sandwich whole, in the words of his advisers."
Caputo said that the media won't hound him about when he would bend his knee, kiss the ring, or eat the sandwich. It happened all at once.
Later in the conversation, he cited a Chinese proverb, "he who swaggers, stumbles."
"There was a lot of swagger with Ron DeSantis," said Caputo. "He didn't want to listen to advice and created consulting structures where only the advice he wanted got to him. He would ignore data. He would ignore people that tell him, look, be relatable to voters. He would say, oh, that doesn't matter. He was told, don't sign the six-week abortion ban. He signed a 15-week one. He said, well, Iowa evangelicals care about that. We saw Iowa evangelicals break heavily to Donald Trump."
Caputo explained that in Florida, winning is all about dumping huge amounts of money on television. In the early primary and caucus states, it's about shaking hands and meeting people in front of the national press corps.
"And what happened with DeSantis? He was so unready for it that he got flummoxed by a 15-year-old kid," Caputo recalled from the New Hampshire teen who was asking presidential candidates questions. "What did the DeSantis campaign do in New Hampshire? They threw him out of a town hall. This wasn't a candidate that was built to last and wasn't ready to take the blows that Donald Trump rained down upon him, nor was he able to throw his own punches as well."
See the clip in the video below or at the link here.
'Animatronic' Ron DeSantis 'ate that crap sandwich whole': reporter www.youtube.com
