OSKALOOSA, Iowa — Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) joked there would be no cocaine in his White House as he asked Iowans whether they were better off under President Joe Biden.

“If I can make one pledge for sure, when I’m president: no cocaine in the White House,” DeSantis said Friday during a meet-and-greet event in Oskaloosa after the drug was found near a visitors’ entrance to the West Wing. “We may have some problems with my 6-, 5-, and 3-year-old with finger painting and things like that, but it’s all going to be very G-rated.”

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Before he releases his economic policy next week, DeSantis criticized Biden’s “Bidenomics” during the second day of his first bus tour through Iowa, organized by his super PAC Never Back Down amid a campaign reset.

“Does anybody feel better off than they did prior to [Biden] becoming president?” the governor asked. “Everything’s more expensive. Things are harder to come by. He wants to impose his agenda and control your behavior. That’s why he’s attacking our American domestic energy. That’s why they borrowed, and printed, and spent so much money.”

“Your standard of living goes down, and you’re supposed to thank him for the courtesy of putting you in that position,” he said. “We need to do better, and we need to reverse Bidenomics. And that’s what we’re going to get done when we go to Washington.”

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A day earlier, DeSantis implied Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) had sided with Vice President Kamala Harris after Donalds agreed with some of her scrutiny of Florida’s new black history teaching standards for school curricula.

“At the end of the day, you’ve got to choose: Are you going to side with Kamala Harris and liberal media outlets, or are you going to side with the state of Florida?” DeSantis told reporters on Thursday in Chariton, Iowa. “I think it’s very clear that these guys did a good job on those standards. It wasn’t anything that was politically motivated.”

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