“That's pretty good," Rep. Byron Donalds when asked if GOP campaigning on "F*** Joe Biden," not GOP record in House

Rep. Byron Donalds (4-19-2024)

Rep. Byron Donalds speaks with reporters in the Old House Chamber the day Rep. Mike Johnson became Speaker Mike Johnson (2023). Photo: Matt Laslo

Who?

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL)

LISTEN: Laslo & Donalds

Ask a Pol asks:

Sounds like your guy's pitch in November isn’t, ‘Hey, re-elect us because we can govern’ — it's, ‘Hey, fuck Biden’?

Key Donalds: 

“That's pretty good. I think they call that FJB,” Rep. Byron Donalds tells Ask a Pol. “Listen, I'll tell you this — Joe Biden is the master of disaster…”

Donalds full response is below.

LISTEN: Full extended gaggle w/ Donalds

Caught our ear:

“I don’t agree with Marjorie [Taylor Greene]. I think this is a bad move. We should not do this, but, then again, I disagreed with Matt [Gaetz]. We shouldn't have done this with [former Speaker Kevin] McCarthy. That was a bad move. We shouldn’t have done that,” Donalds says.

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Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), slightly edited for clarity.

TRANSCRIPT: Rep. Byron Donalds

SCENE: Rep. Byron Donalds is taking questions from the congressional press corps on the steps of the US Capitol after Speaker Mike Johnson advanced the foreign aid package for Ukraine relying on Democrat’s votes to advance it Friday.

Byron Donalds: “…unfortunate for the American people.”

Matt Laslo: “Sounds like your guy's pitch in November isn’t, ‘Hey, re-elect us because we can govern’ — it's, ‘Hey, fuck Biden’?”

BD: “That's pretty good.”

Press corps and Donalds laugh.

BD: “I think they call that FJB. Listen, I'll tell you this — Joe Biden is the master of disaster. Turn on your TV, ladies and gentlemen, and just take a look. Read five articles and you will see. Go to the grocery store and you will understand. He is the master of disaster. And a Republican majority is significantly better than him being in charge of Washington, DC. Period.” 

Another reporter asks a question…before Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) and Donalds exchange some friendly banter.

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