On Monday evening, reporter Tara Palmeri of Puck News (formerly of Politico) released a hit piece on Ron DeSantis, something that has become all the rage among the mainstream press. In it, she claimed that the Florida governor ran from her hard-hitting questions. That was then used as part of her evidentiary basis to claim that he’s a “paper tiger” who isn’t ready for “prime-time.”
in person, I immediately sensed a very different potential candidate: a guarded politician who had no interest in actually engaging with other humans, and was perhaps even a little scared of the spotlight. He had trouble making eye contact with people in the crowd.
— Tara Palmeri (@tarapalmeri) May 22, 2023
For context, this is the same reporter who proclaimed back in March via “sources” that DeSantis might be taking a weight-loss drug. So as you can see, she’s a super-serious reporter and not at all a left-wing