Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) broke down into a conspiracy-laden rant about Hunter Biden when confronted on CNN about why he is putting so much trust in former President Donald Trump when he appears to be costing his party elections.
This comes after Trump pulled off a victory in the New Hampshire primary against his final major remaining challenger, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. The latter has vowed to stay in the race, but political analysts are increasingly convinced Trump has the nomination wrapped up.
"Congressman, as you look across the party — unity right now, the reason why officials are calling for unity is they know it's a long path ahead," said anchor Phil Mattingly. "It's a tight race regardless what happens. When you dig into the numbers in New Hampshire, you see Nikki Haley's strength with independents, independents breaking away from Trump, having issues with Trump, being concerned about Trump. That's why Democrats won the House in '18. That's why they won the White House in '20. That's why they overperformed in '22."
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With all that in mind, Mattingly continued, "Are you concerned about that dynamic heading into '24?"
"I think that's a miscalculation of what took place," said Mast. "When you look at the last election, you saw a media that tried to bury Hunter Biden, bury what was going on with the Biden family side-hustle, tried to use the FBI and CIA to bury the former President of the United States, tried to do so many things."
"America is on to what took place," he added. "That's not going to happen again. That's not going to be allowed to happen again. You see judicial propaganda. Every time that that happens, Americans are being aware of what's taking place, that Democrats will do anything possible to keep Donald Trump off the ballot. Not because they want to run against him. Because they are deathly afraid of running against Donald Trump. That is the situation that's playing out."
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