Kamala Harris 'complicit in massive cover up' to hide Biden's decline: Ron DeSantis

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said that newly minted presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris was complicit in "a massive coverup to hide and deny the fact that Joe Biden was not capable of discharging the duties of the office." DeSantis, who ran for the GOP presidential nomination during the 2024 cycle, indicated that due to her complicity she is not a viable choice to lead the nation.

"Kamala Harris was complicit in a massive coverup to hide and deny the fact that Joe Biden was not capable of discharging the duties of the office," DeSantis posted. Rumors about President Biden's declining mental capacity had been swirling for years, even during his first run for the White House in 2020. 

In September 2023, Harris said she was "ready to assume the presidency" if Biden were unable to continue due to his age and declining mental state. There is every reason to assume that concerns about Biden's ability were already being asked nine months ago. But Harris, ABC reports, "has remained completely loyal to Biden, being one of his toughest defenders in the aftermath of the disastrous debate performance."

"She also was the the border czar during the worst border crisis in American history," DeSantis said. "Democrats are just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic." 

Biden dropped out of the presidential race on Sunday afternoon and shortly thereafter endorsed his VP for president. In the hours that followed, Democrats joined in to praise Biden and the service he's done for the nation—and the party—by stepping aside and allowing another candidate to run. While some have endorsed Harris, many others, including former President Barack Obama, did not.

DeSantis spoke at the RNC last week and urged Republicans to "send Joe Biden back to his basement."

Shortly after Harris took office in 2021, she was tasked by the White House with handling the US-Mexico border. She claimed that her job was to deal with the "root causes" of migration, namely in the Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, and declined to visit the border for some months. 

The efforts of the administration resulted in a border crisis of unprecedented proportions in which more that 2 million illegal immigrants came through each year, claimed asylum, and were released into the United States—many of them landed in Florida and began DeSantis' problem.

Harris and DeSantis also sparred over a Florida law that banned curriculum that claimed one race is better than another. Harris claimed the new standards prevented teaching the history of slavery and that the new standards said slavery wasn't all bad. 

"I’m here in Florida," she said in August 2023. "And I will tell you there is no roundtable, no lecture, no invitation we will accept to debate an undeniable fact: There were no redeeming qualities of slavery." The curriculum in question stated that enslaved Americans often learned labor skills during their forced servitude that they were able to take with them once they escaped or were freed.