CNN Anchor Jim Acosta Torpedoes Fallen Trump Rival On Way Out The Door With Disney-Themed Zinger

CNN anchor Jim Acosta mocked the political demise of chief Trump’s national rival, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), with some Disney-themed zingers.

Many wags on social media greeted the news that DeSantis had dropped out and endorsed Trump by cracking wise about his ongoing battle with Disney.

On Sunday’s edition of CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta, Acosta joined in with a couple of puns along those lines as he and his panel laid the DeSantis candidacy to rest:

ACOSTA: Yeah. And Matt, I wonder, you know, in terms of tactics, you know, Ron DeSantis spent a lot of time in the run up to the primaries and caucuses getting underway, going after woke-ism, going after targets like Walt Disney. And at the end, he went from Space Mountain to It’s a Small World.

I mean, it just did not work. And I wonder, did — does that message really just not resonate with Republicans as much as maybe folks think on social media and that sort of tow snapping —

MOWERS: Right.

ACOSTA: — corners of the far right. It just doesn’t resonate with voters.

MOWERS: Now that’s exactly right especially here in New Hampshire. I mean, at the end of the day we’re the live free or die state, you know. We like government to be smaller and out of the way, let businesses run themselves.

And that was what was always fascinating to me, is that, you know, I think Ron DeSantis and his team early on may have misread the room. They kind of thought their support was going to come from the hardest of hardcore Trump supporters when in reality he was picking up, you know, a lot of the non-Trump supporters, the non-Trump voters —

ACOSTA: Yeah.

MOWERS: — folks who were a little bit more centrist or even center right. And yet he was still moving to the right to try to out maneuver Donald Trump ideologically for Iowa. You know, they made this miscalculation early on in the campaign that somehow, they had a, you know, deal a death blow to Donald Trump in Iowa, which is a caucus state, low turnout affair, the hardest of hardcore party activists participate in it.

And so, in order to try to even have a chance there, they had to move to the right, which really killed all of his appeal to the independent voters and then moderate Republican voters he would need in a state like New Hampshire, where you do have a plethora of other voters to target that aren’t so committed to supporting Donald Trump.

And I’ll just add one other quick thing. The other thing we don’t talk about enough is that Ron DeSantis tried to say, I am Trump without the drama and that I can beat Joe Biden, he’ll lose to Joe Biden. Well, the electability argument went out the window when poll after poll started showing that Trump was leading Biden in a lot of these key swing states.

A lot of voters said, well, if that’s the case, I’m not going to go with new Coke (ph). I’m just going to go with the original because I seem to like that enough and that guy I think can win.

ACOSTA: Yeah.

MOWERS: And so that’s been the challenge to Ron DeSantis there.

ACOSTA: Yeah, Alice. I mean, it seems like Republican voters want Trump and the drama.

Watch above via CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta.