saying they were so proud to be sanctuary jurisdictions, saying how bad it was to have a secure border. the minute even a small fraction of what those border towns deal with every day is brought to their front door, they all of a sudden go berserk. it just shows you their virtue signaling is a fraud. everybody has got a political position on this. there is so much passion on both sides. but how does this play politically for desantis and his larger political ambitions? is it a stunt? of course it is. are these migrants being used as pawns? of course they are. but let s keep in mind that they provided written consent, according to desantis, before being transported. they re probably doing better than the 1 million others allowed to enter the united states by the biden administration pending their asylum claims. we ve got a problem with porous borders, and vice president kamala harris seems to be the only person who believes the
migrants to jacksonville, many of them originating in texas. at the time, desantis threatened to send them to delaware, biden s home state, but delaware is not a sanctuary state and that threat has not yet materialized. desantis could have sent this week s planes to boston but that wouldn t have got him nearly the attention martha s vip yard did. at a press conference he kourngted accusations that the migrants had gone against their will or were not told where they were going. the folks that were contracted, not only do they give them a release form to sign, they give them a packet. in that packet included a map of martha s vineyard. it was obvious that s where they were going. i would send back to mexico or back to the home country, but here we are doing it voluntarily. attorneys for some of the migrants have contended that s just not the case. arrived last night make it clear that they were lied to again and again.
crist on and a quote in the first segment. he doesn t have anywhere near the resources. he was actually dark on television for three weeks following his primary win in late august. so while i m not saying that they aren t going to campaign veg vigorously between now and november, they have clearly put together an apparatus that takes the position that it s not just that they will win in november, the question is by how much. gary, is this really an issue for florida? is the migrant issue really top of mind as a problem for floridians or has desantis injected himself into a national issue and seized control of it along with ducey in arizona and abbott in texas, who really are on the front line? well, there have been some polls of late that have kind of looked at the issues and what people think are most incorporate here in florida. immigration is not a top issue.
desantis camp basically is donald trump has not made a final decision or not announced a final decision. maybe he has made a final decision, about what he s going to do in 2024. i think there is plenty of evidence that the desantis people are positioning themselves regarding 2024, especially if trump does not run. if trump doesn t run, it s abundantly clear desantis is very well positioned. desantis and trump, while they are allies an while they communicate occasionally, yeah, there is not desantis is not basically waiting to hear from donald trump before he does something. he s going to do things on his own and that includes doing things like this that basically in his mind is going to rile up the corporate media, rile up democrats, rile up leftist activists and he s going to continue to demonstrate that he s the fighter that republicans say they want. he has succeeded. he has succeeded in that regard if nothing else.