Governor Ron DeSantis appeared to distance himself from his own online campaign, telling broadcaster Megyn Kelly that the “petty Twitter squabbles” his team engages in are “not my cup of tea.”
The comments came just before a revelation that his official campaign communications team – including Zelensky supporter and right-wing entryist Christina Pushaw – oversaw the production of a infamous Nazi-themed video meme. Worse still, the campaign appears to have blamed a sole staffer, Nate Hochman, when in fact several of the official campaign team were involved.
“[This] belongs in the Smithsonian,” texted Kyle Lamb, the campaign’s research and data director at the time, describing the video that featured a prolonged Sonnenrad – a Nazi and neo-Nazi symbol also recently donned by Ukrainians belonging to the nation’s Nazi-lauding Azov battalion.
Speaking to Kelly this week, DeSantis distanced himself from his campaign’s online activities:
“So, look, we have people that are doing this rapid response. I’m not putting my time into it at all. I mean, you know, they’re going and going back and forth. You know, there’s kind of a battle online. I’m not somebody who’s following that very closely. It’s just not my cup of tea.
“I think that there’s a place for that, but, ultimately, you know, the people in Iowa and New Hampshire, you know, they’re not following the latest Twitter war.”
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Jack Montgomery, Jake Welch, and Raheem Kassam contributed to this report.
