Posted on 03/27/2023 12:09:12 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
The donors behind Ron DeSantis for President in 2024 are now asking him to sit this one out, according to recent reports.
(We heard this rumor last week that the big money behind DeSantis for 2024 were abandoning ship.)
According to CF:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s donors and supporters are beginning to question if the potential 2024 Republican presidential candidate should run in the next election cycle — a bid that would put him against former President Donald Trump — or wait until 2028, according to reports.
According to a report from NBC News, donors and supporters of DeSantis are having second thoughts on the prospect of the governor’s potential presidential bid. Per the report, one main issue seems to be the governor’s ability to take Trump — who has been criticizing the governor for months — head on.
NBC reports:
Ron DeSantis may be missing his moment.
A number of the Florida governor’s donors and allies are worried his recent stumbles suggest he may not be ready for a brutal fight against Donald Trump. Some feel DeSantis needs to accelerate his timeline to run for the GOP presidential nomination and begin directly confronting Trump if he’s to have any chance of thwarting the former president’s momentum. Others believe DeSantis should sidestep Trump altogether and wait until 2028 to run.
At a Sunday luncheon following the annual Red Cross ball in Palm Beach, Florida, a group of 16 prominent Republicans, described by one attendee as a mix of DeSantis backers and Trump “skeptics,” discussed misgivings about the governor’s standing for the future if he tussles with the former president.
“They liked him — many of them might even support him,” the person who was at the event said of DeSantis. “But they thought on balance that his long-term future was better without him trying to take Trump head on.”
“He will get scarred up” by Trump, the person added.
Then there’s conservative billionaire shipping goods magnate Richard Uihlein and his wife, Elizabeth, whose $500,000 in combined contributions ranked them among the most generous donors to DeSantis’ 2022 re-election campaign.
DeSantis’s recent snarky remarks about President Trump while the Soros-backed corrupt DA in New York was threatening an arrest on totally bogus and made up charges may have been the end of DeSantis.
After waiting two days DeSantis came out and slammed President Trump. This was the beginning of the end.
Then later in the week, DeSantis said he was an executive guy, indicating he didn’t want to be President Trump’s VP pick, and that was it for Ron.
Ron DeSantis Says He’s Not Interested In Being Trump’s VP Pick, “I’m An Executive Guy”
Trump lost to a demented idiot.
Let’s try someone different.
Let’s not.
We could us an executive VP. Sounds like DeSantis thinks he is too good for the VP Position.
Sounds like the establishment knows they can’t win the nomination and will sit on their hands or worse still help the Democrats again if Trump wins and then try and put in one of their drones in 2028 if there is anything left of the country. The establishment can’t win without the MAGA voters and yet hates their existence and that hate is returned right back at the country club trash with money by the MAGA voters.
All of this being said and everyone ignoring the 800lbs gorilla in the room, Democrats openly stealing elections with no consequences, dooming any GOP win in the future.
If he continues to run, he’ll certainly lose and he’ll never achieve higher office as a Republican.
If he sits this one out, he has a chance to run against Rand Paul in 2028.
If his handlers really do consist of Karl Rove and the Bush family, the first suggestion he should heed is to dump those assholes.
Trump had the 2020 election STOLEN from him by the handlers of a demented idiot......there, fixed it for you!!!
No he didn't. He lost to the combined rigging and cheating of the deep state/neocon/globalist/DNC complex. The 'tard in the basement had nothing to do with it. Trump garnered the most votes of any Republican candidate in the nation's history. They had to cheat extra hard to beat him.
I like DeSantis, but he won't come anywhere near the high-water mark that Trump achieved in 2020. Not in 2024, and probably not even in 2028.
He actually won but we all know how that one went. You expecting anything different this next election?
If DeSantis had stayed out of the fray and waited for his turn in ‘28 he would have been a shoo-in for the nomination at that time. But now he’s damaged goods and has less stellar political prospects. He shouldn’t have listened to his deep state handlers.
Get a clue.
The election was stolen.
A better angle would be to say no republican can win in 2024 because of democrat control of the election process.
Yawn
Trump won!
The cheat was exceedingly strong and effective.
Either that or they don’t want to get blacklisted. Worried will have to take the Repuke from Georgia to get in. If they steal Georgia again that’s all she wrote. That prick knows how the cheat works there. They also may still run him if Desanctimonius is out.
Bull crap. Don’t believe a word.
Voters were deluded into thinking Biden would be same as Trump without the mean tweets and insults of other politicians. Now they found out the hard way, there is more inflation tax, more crime, more taxes, more regulations, more illegals, more welfare, and more foreign wars with Biden.
I have a feeling they can’t wait to go back to the life they had during Trump’s 4 years.
Reagan ran against Ford even though he was a dark horse. I don’t think there is a downside, particularly if Trump loses the general election.
Amen. I can’t wait until the election is over just so the cult posts will finally go away.
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