Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis got into an argument with a voter on the campaign trail at a restaurant in Littleton, New Hampshire, over the escalating Israeli clashes with Hamas in Gaza this week, with the frustrated voter finally storming out and proclaiming DeSantis had lost his vote.
"Ron, what do you think about the annihilation and the decapitation of all the Palestinians in Gaza right now?" asked the voter. "They're basically bulldozing the whole — I worked in the Gaza Strip, in Palestinian refugee camps."
"But they're not decapitating babies' heads," DeSantis cut him off. "They are not intentionally doing that."
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"They're blowing up entire residential buildings!" said the voter. "I watch Al Jazeera. And they're not covering that on CNN."
"Well, I would be very careful with Al Jazeera," shot back DeSantis. "I mean, that's funded by a lot of these Middle East governments. I'd be very careful with Al Jazeera."
"Okay, but I don't think they're faking pictures of families burying their babies," said the voter. "Israel has been killing Palestinians for the — for the whole time Gaza has existed, and they've been contained in a prison."
"Hamas — Israel put in a warning, we're going to go in this area, civilians leave," said DeSantis. "Hamas tells them not to leave. Hamas wants them to be human shields. That's their tactic, technique, and procedure. Who — how many other armed forces give warnings to get out before they go? I think Israel's probably the only one in the world that does that!"
"I don't condone the killing of any innocent civilians," the voter replied. "And I don't condone what Hamas did ... but Israel is doing the exact same thing with Benjamin Netanyahu, who is a radical right-wing crazy person, and I see hundreds of Palestinian families that are dead. And they have nowhere to go because they can't leave Gaza, because no one's opening their borders."
"Well that's the thing — you bring up a good point there, you bring up a really good point," said DeSantis. "Why aren't these Arab countries willing to absorb some of the Palestinian Arabs? They will not do it."
"Because all the Palestinians — they were all displaced from their homes in 1948," said the voter. "I was there!"
"None of the Arab countries will be able to accept refugees," said DeSantis, talking over him.
"You had my vote, but you don't now," snapped the voter, leaving the event.
