Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is further being roasted for wearing boots with heels amid a tanking presidential campaign.
During an appearance on the “PBD Podcast,” DeSantis was confronted by host Patrick Bet-David over whether he was wearing hidden high heels inside his cowboy boots.Â
“I’m sure your marketing team points out how they’re trying to troll you in the market… I know you were on Bill Maher and Bill Maher talked about the boots,” Bet-David said, referencing DeSantis’ recent appearance on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” during which he wore a pair of boots that received massive attention both during and after the show.
“I’ve seen you walk with these boots, go ahead and play this clip, this on TikTok went viral. It doesn’t have a million views. It doesn’t have, you know, 10 million views. This thing’s got 1.2 million likes and some people are wondering,” the host continued.
The presidential hopeful then cut off Bet-David and asked, “What are they? I don’t even know, I haven’t seen that.”
“Okay, what they’re trying to say with this is that in your boots, you have heels,” responded Bet-David. “No, no, no those are just standard off-the-rack Lucchese,” answered DeSantis.
The phenomenon appears to be stealing the spotlight from DeSantis’ floundering campaign, as social media users are more focused on mocking his strangely shaped cowboy boots instead of hearing what he has to say.
“The internet single-handedly forcing Ron DeSantis to address wearing heels is probably one of my favorite things to come out of 2023,” conservative personality Savanah Hernandez wrote on the social media platform X.
It has also not been reflected in the poll numbers, as a recent survey from The Economist and YouGov shows that 51 percent are still in favor of former President Donald Trump, while DeSantis comes in second with only 14 percent.
Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy comes in a distant third with five percent. Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley comes in fourth with four percent, followed by former Vice President Mike Pence with three percent, former New Jersey Gov. Christie with two percent, and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott with two percent.
