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”
What assurance do we have that Trump won’t let the Dems steal the election again?
Trump lost in 2020 to BOTH...vote fraud AND mean tweets. Many voters thought Biden was a centrist and life would continue great but without insults and mean tweets. I bet millions of Biden voters have buyers remorse now.
Stop playing with yourself over Deep State DeSantis.
“With the active participation of NeverTrumper RINOs like me but more influential, and the Democrat ‘most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization’ we in the Uniparty were able to stop counting in key states simultaneously, flip them at 3 in the morning, prevent any court from entering any evidence into the record, and cap it off with Pence’s stab and an engineered fake riot to terrorize Americans by locking peaceful Americans away for years. Now stop trying to act like free citizens, and we’ll give you a choice of two of our chosen operatives to undertake our agenda against you.”
FTFY.
Sod off, Swampy.
Sooz - It’s apparent that this BG guy is only here as a stirrer-upper. The task of the RAT embeds is to do drive-by posts, and then wait to see the chaos that is created. Several of them have appeared over recent weeks.
I think you may be right but Trump has also shot himself in the foot repeatedly since then. He’s not going to win in GA or in AZ. Both those states are trending Blue and he’s burned a lot of bridges. He lost both those states in 2020. His candidates also lost for the most part in 2022. In addition, he’s older and less attractive to younger voters who comprise a larger segment of the electorate. And I am not at all convinced that Biden will be the nominee. If he is, he will have a different VP. I am pretty sure DeSantis could beat Biden. Or anyone else the Dems nominate.
Running-
Pros-1) Strike while the iron is hot.
2) Let everyone know you’re serious and not afraid.
3) Let Republicans know there’s another way(suburban women).
4) Fresh start in Wis/Mich/Pen. We’ll need one or 2.
Cons-1) DeSantis could blow himself up for ‘28, especially w/Paul as VP.
2) He could hurt Trump(see con #1).
Don’t be a fool, Bryan.
Strategically, and for the good of the GOP, DeSantis needs to wait until 2028.
It’s a no-brainer.
You notice, every post these days has at least one SA like this guy....
Well … bye.
Trump lost to a demented idiot.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Only demented IDIOTS believe that BULLSH*T!
No establishment GOP politician has a chance in hell of winning a single electoral vote in PA-MI-WI in 2024.
Ford was not popular like Trump.
Yes, the Desantis cultist fluffers are getting old.
Ford also screwed up the Swine Flu vaccine.
I think I get what “SA” means, but what do the initials stand for.
And every thread these days has about an average of five of ‘em.
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