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DeSantis suggests Biden, Trump too old to be president
Just the News ^ | 9/12/23 | John Solomon

Posted on 09/12/2023 2:41:14 PM PDT by hardspunned

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday suggested that neither President Joe Biden nor former President Donald Trump were of an appropriate age to lead the nation.

Appearing on CBS News, the governor fielded a question as to the ages of Biden, 80, and Trump, 77. Biden is the oldest president in U.S. history while Trump previously held that title.

"I think that's absolutely a legitimate concern," the governor said. "The presidency's not a job for someone that's 80 years old, and there's nothing wrong with being 80 obviously. I'm the governor of Florida. I know a lot of people who are elderly. They're great people."

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 60minutes; agecard; allthathate; backstabber; cbs; deplorables; desanctimonious; desantis; donatedonaldtrump; donatetrump; elderly; fakemaga; gobacktoflorida; greatpeople; hatesseniors; listlessvessels; lowenergy; norahodonnell; seniors; stupid; trump; weaklikebudlite
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Reagan responded: “Not at all, Mr. Trehwitt, and I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth, and inexperience. If I still have time, I might add, Mr. Trehwitt, I might add that it was Seneca, or it was Cicero, I don’t know which, that said, ‘If it was not for the elders correcting the mistakes of the young, there would be no state.’”

https://youtu.be/fJhCjMfRndk?si=5EWzsxNbs83TCNXt

1 posted on 09/12/2023 2:41:14 PM PDT by hardspunned
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To: hardspunned

https://youtu.be/fJhCjMfRndk?si=5EWzsxNbs83TCNXt


2 posted on 09/12/2023 2:41:38 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: hardspunned

Gon DeSantis


3 posted on 09/12/2023 2:42:40 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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His youth and inexperience are showing.


4 posted on 09/12/2023 2:44:17 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: hardspunned

Yup, DeSantis is the Ted Cruz of the 2024 campaign.


5 posted on 09/12/2023 2:46:22 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: frank ballenger

Yep, just like Mondale’s youth and inexperience.


6 posted on 09/12/2023 2:47:27 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects )
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To: hardspunned

I love the reaction by MSM guy after realizing he had just served up the biggest softball of the decade, “Mr. President, I’d like to head for the fence and try to catch that before it goes over but I’ll move on”.


7 posted on 09/12/2023 2:47:28 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: hardspunned

RDS is too stiff to be b president


8 posted on 09/12/2023 2:52:15 PM PDT by bigbob (Q)
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To: hardspunned

fire away ron

your bullets bounce off superman


9 posted on 09/12/2023 2:52:22 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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All people age at different rates.
I am 77 like Donald Trump. I am thankful to God for my amount of mental and cognitive function while my 4 years younger sister has been in and out of hospitals a lot. It’s not all age.

Joseph Campbell was still touring cities, delivering lectures and writing new nonfiction books when he suddenly got pneumonia and died at 83. George Burns joked about his three young doctors who started practice, aged and died, to be replaced by another. He died at 100.


10 posted on 09/12/2023 2:52:52 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: joshua c

fire away ron

your bullets bounce off superman


THAT….is classic!!

May have to steal it :)


11 posted on 09/12/2023 2:53:28 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: frank ballenger

I am starting to think this guy isn’t too bright.


12 posted on 09/12/2023 2:53:37 PM PDT by dforest
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I suggest DeSantis is too stupid to be President. You don’t repeatedly attack the leader of the MAGA movement and alienate the vast majority of the Republican base unless you are stupid. DeSantis will NEVER get my vote. I don’t vote for lifer lazy ass government employees who are disconnected from hardworking Americans that have jobs in the private sector. It’s those Americans that pay the bills of lazy ass government employees. DeSantis should STFU, quit the presidential race, finish his term as governor and then get a real eff’n job. Maybe in 20 years he’ll have the experience required to be a good president.


13 posted on 09/12/2023 2:54:16 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (The Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself. )
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When does it get to the point where Ron is worse than Jeb? I’m thinking we’re about there.


14 posted on 09/12/2023 2:56:46 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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If I were this guy Desantis, I would cut my loses and try to establish myself for 2028 by suspending campaign and endorsing Trump...if they manage to make it possible Trump can not be on ballot I will then be the front runner and reactivate my campaign...but I fear the damage as been done to Desantis already and he will never be GOP nominee ever not matter what...as he as shown himself to be a RINO with his thinking...which fool convinced him to challenge Trump?


15 posted on 09/12/2023 2:56:59 PM PDT by bte
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At this point he is a stiff. He might want to go back to Florida and do his job. If his heart is set on DC, he’d make a great FEMA director in the next Trump administration. Yes, Trump is that kind of guy. He’d forgive him just like he forgave Little Marco.


16 posted on 09/12/2023 2:58:55 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: hardspunned

Thanks for the link. And to President Reagan’s spirit may I say, I love and miss you sir. You had more class in your little finger than most politicians before or since.


17 posted on 09/12/2023 2:59:27 PM PDT by Avalon Memories (Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats. -- P.J. O’Rourke)
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Geezers in Florida won’t take too kindly to the ageism.


18 posted on 09/12/2023 2:59:31 PM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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“I am 77 like Donald Trump. I am thankful to God for my amount of mental and cognitive function while my 4 years younger sister has been in and out of hospitals a lot. It’s not all age.”

I agree with you. It totally depends on the individual.


19 posted on 09/12/2023 3:01:56 PM PDT by Parley Baer (GO )
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To: hardspunned

This guy.

He should be a MAGA hero rallying for Trump. Instead he is...this guy.


20 posted on 09/12/2023 3:03:14 PM PDT by 13foxtrot
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