Double Standard: NYT Adores Beto While DeSantis Echoes ‘Conspiracy Theories’

The New York Times skipped around the map to cover three state governor’s races, showing clear bias against a potential Republican presidential contender, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and Trumpite Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano. Meanwhile, The Times once again fawned over a liberal Texas long-shot and repeat-election loser Beto O’Rourke.

In Saturday’s “DeSantis, Thinking of 2024 Election, Reaches Out to the Far Right,” Trip Gabriel and Patricia Mazzei laid out red flags as DeSantis sold himself in Pennsylvania while ostensibly campaigning for Mastriano.

The TimesIn a menacing manner, DeSantis Mainstream was tried to blend in with Trumpian Candidates.

Gov. Ron DeSantis from Florida is the Republican widely considered to be the greatest threat to Donald J. Trump. On a nationwide tour of hard-right candidatesHe clearly meant to improve his position and make political capital in the eyes of potential leaders from battleground states.

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DeSantis, who aims to take control of the conservative movement’s leadership, is joining some of its most prominent and respected members. Most incendiary figures— Midterm Candidates who, contrary to him, continue pushing the myth that the 2020 election is stolen. On Friday, he rallied for J.D. and Mr. Mastriano. Vance was the Republican nominee in Ohio for Senate. He came just five days after an event to honor Kari Lake (the G.O.P. Blake Masters is the Senate nominee and Blake Masters will be elected governor in Arizona.

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He attacked Democrats’ newly passed climate, health and tax law by zeroing in on its hiring of more than 80,000 Internal Revenue Service employees over a decade, meant in part to restore the agency’s depleted enforcement staff.

They then smeared DeSantis for having [e]Chop[ed] conspiracy theories on the right about the hires, which the Biden administration says will not result in new audits of households earning under $400,000, Mr. DeSantis claimed that the increased staffing was ‘absolutely going to hit people who are small business folks, contractors, handymen, you name it.’”

Mastriano has himself raised funds The Times alarm by rallying Republicans to his cause of late, as documented by Gabriel, who claimed “Democrats remain anxious they could lose to Mr. Mastriano because of the free-floating angerThe electorate in this year[.]” A good thing Democrats never vote angry!

The reception was far sunnier for perennial liberal also-ran O’Rourke against Republican incumbent Greg Abbott. Providing a reminder that The Times serves only the liberal elites in New York and Washington (and not Texas), they portrayed both O’Rourke and his supporters as sunny optimists against hateful anti-abortion hecklers.

“Beto O’Rourke Takes on Abortion and Guns in Texas Governor’s Race” by J. David Goodman portrayed O’Rourke’s pro-life, pro-gun opponents as nasty, while he stood blissfully above it all, proving the paper adores Beto, lose or….lose (click “expand”):

As supporters of Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic candidate for Texas governor, emerged from a crowded campaign event in a quaint, conservative bastion north of Dallas, Treva Sanges was there to protest them.

“Murderers!” she called out.

Many people walked past her. But Abbi Greg and a friend, both of whom support abortion rights stopped to engage Ms. Sanges and have a long, passionate discussion in the late afternoon sun. They quickly saw that they had been neighbors once they became political enemies.

“I actually have a few of her art pieces hanging in my house,” Ms. Gregory, 22, said. “And I love her to pieces,” added Ms. Sanges, 58. The two women came up with a compromise: Texas law did not allow for exceptions to the ban on abortion.

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