An MSNBC panel slammed a Ron DeSantis campaign ad, along with his efforts to protect parental rights in schools, as evidence of his "White Christian Nationalist" beliefs.
"He thinks that he has dominion over this Earth and God has given it to him," MSNBC columnist Anthea Butler opined on the network Sunday. The liberal panel was discussing the Florida governor's "God made a fighter" ad, which is a spinoff of a famous Super Bowl commercial and 1978 speech by radio broadcaster Paul Harvey titled "God made a farmer."
In the black-and-white ad, a deep-voiced narrator says, "And on the eighth day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, 'I need a protector.' So God made a fighter. God said, ‘I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, kiss his family goodbye, travel thousands of miles for no other reason than to serve the people, to save their jobs, their livelihoods, their liberty, their happiness,’ so God made a fighter."