News

Corey Lewandowski & Florida GOP State Senators Almost Get Into Fight Over Donald Trump

President Donald Trump‘s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski on Wednesday evening got into a contentious argument with Florida Republican officials over Trump’s influence on the midterm election results.

Lewandowski, who served as Trump’s first campaign manager in 2016, lauded the president for campaigning intensely in Florida ahead of the midterms. He claimed Trump’s actions helped GOP Rep. Ron DeSantisdescribed by many as a “mini-Trump,” win the gubernatorial race and Republican Gov. Rick Scott  win his Senate bid. Both contests faced long ballot recounts due to close margins between their respective candidates.

“Donald Trump saved Florida, from the top to the bottom of the ticket,” Lewandowski said Wednesday night, according to Politico

Florida Senate President Bill Galvano, a Republican, agreed but noted that the Florida Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee (FRSCC) he led, as well as the GOP candidates and committees, spent a record $44 million and that his also likely sparked higher Republican voter turnout.

Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter!

A week of political news in your in-box.
We find the news you need to know, so you don't have to.

“There were lots of efforts put forward,” Galvano said, according to one witness. “Maybe it helped that FRSCC and our candidates knocked on 725,000 doors?”

SLIDESHOW: DONALD TRUMP’S 30 CRAZIEST TWEETS

“No! I know Florida!” Lewandowski replied in a higher tone, according to witnesses. “It was Trump!”

Galvano then came up with the perfect response: “Then explain to me why we maintained Senate seats in districts Trump lost by double digits,” he fired back.

Lewandowski, a frequent Fox News contributor, found himself at the center of a controversy over the summer when he said “womp womp” in response to a report about a young immigrant girl with Down Syndrome who had been torn away from her family at the border, when the Trump administration’s controversial zero-tolerance policy on illegal immigration that resulted in family separations was being protested.

 

Pablo Mena

Writer for upolitics.com. NY Giants and Rangers fan. Film and TV enthusiast (especially Harry Potter and The Office) and lover of foreign languages and cultures.

Share
Published by
Pablo Mena

Recent Posts

Trump’s DNI Tulsi Gabbard Posts ‘Strange’ Video Warning Of ‘Nuclear Holocaust’; ‘Needs To Change Her Meds,’ GOP Senator Advises

Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), posted a video to X, a social…

7 hours ago

GOP Rep. Mary Miller Slammed For Criticizing Sikh Man Delivering Prayer In Congress, Confusing Him With A Muslim

A Republican congresswoman is facing bipartisan backlash after calling a Sikh's deliverance of a morning…

8 hours ago

After Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Fires Members Of Vaccine Advisory Board, Experts Warn About Politicization Of Science

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that he was removing all…

8 hours ago

Musk Apologizes To Trump For X Outburst Linking Him To Jeffrey Epstein

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has apologized for his public falling out with President Donald Trump.…

12 hours ago

Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy Launches PAC To Fight Trump Agenda Amid Reports Of ’28 Presidential Bid

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) has launched a new political action committee (PAC), the American Mobilization…

13 hours ago

Fox News Analyst Britt Hume Refutes Trump’s Claims About Ukraine, Saying It Has ‘Quite A Few Cards To Play’

Brit Hume, the Fox News chief political analyst, contradicted President Donald Trump's statement to the…

15 hours ago