“Where are they going to suggest they go? Chicago? Baltimore? Really? I don’t think so. If they want to say, ‘Look, Ron DeSantis is a secret crossdresser,’ that would, at this point, probably have a little bit more energy than to say that he’s a racist.
“Anyone who knows Ron DeSantis knows he’s not a racist, this is crazy, and when you have nothing but that to throw out, it really does lose any effectiveness at all.
“And I think the best way to deal with this kind of stuff is respond with ridicule. Just laugh in their faces and tell them, ‘You guys have got to come up with something better. This just isn’t working anymore.'” – Mike Huckabee, on Fox.
Huckabee then took the same message to Newsmax.