DeSantis Lashes Out At Reporter During New Hampshire Campaign Stop: ‘Are You Blind?’

The heated comments came after Associated Press reporter Steve Peoples asked DeSantis, “Why not take any questions from voters governor?”—DeSantis immediately shot down the question, replying “People are coming up to me, talking to me,” DeSantis said, “what are you talking about? Are you blind? Are you blind?”

DeSantis was leaving the campaign event in Laconia, New Hampshire, at the time of the exchange, and was shaking hands with members of the crowd before departing, and while the Florida governor was able to answer individual questions, he did not take questions from the lectern allowing all voters to hear his answers at once, NBC News reported.

Peoples, who has been traveling with the presidential hopeful throughout the week from Iowa to New Hampshire, noted on his social media that DeSantis did not take questions from voters during his campaign stops in Iowa earlier in the week.

Before the heated exchange, Peoples tweeted, pondering whether DeSantis would take questions from New Hampshire voters during Thursday’s campaign stops, as the state is one “where voters have been asking presidential candidates tough questions for decades,” Peoples said.