Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis agreed in a recent interview that MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred should apologize for taking the All-Star Game away from Atlanta in 2021 in response to Georgia’s voter laws.
DeSantis said on “OutKick the Show” with Clay Travis that MLB responded to a “fake narrative.”
“The Democrats lie. The corporate press amplifies the lie. There becomes a frenzy and then people just genuflect to that. And that’s not responsible,” the Republican presidential candidate said. “You have to look to see whether this is truthful or not. And that’s why a lot of those companies – Coca-Cola or whatever – a lot of people were not happy with them. Because look, if they really did Jim Crow 2, as a corporation speak out against it. I mean that’s fine. But that was a lie.
“This was very common sense stuff. It was not targeted at anybody. And as you say, the elections that have happened since then, there was massive turnout. And there’s zero, zero truth to that. But if you read the bill at the time, you knew it was a lie then.”
DeSantis also agreed there should be accountability for everyone involved over the furor, including the media.
“They would never admit a mistake. But I mean that was a false narrative,” he added. “And it was knowingly false because if you would have done any research you would’ve known that it wasn’t true and yet they parrot it, parrot it, parrot it, create a narrative (talking about) ‘Georgia you can’t vote’ or whatever, and that was an absolute lie. And that’s just what they do.”
MLB did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Manfred said earlier this month that Atlanta was “in the mix” to host the All-Star Game in the future.
He said back in 2021 that Atlanta would “certainly be an option at some point in the future,” but not unless change “I would need to see” was made, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
However, no laws have changed since they were implemented.
The law places…
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