“The debate showed what DeSantis can do. Trump could learn a few things from the way DeSantis performed — if he can ever learn to cease name calling and personal attacks.”
Yes, so a guy who’s BEST polling shows him losing to Trump by more than 2 to 1 can offer lessons on how to WIN to Trump....
DeSantis supporters I am starting to have to mentally classify with the potheads, they just truly live in an alternate reality.
If only Trump would act more like our guy, who’s getting his clock cleaned up and down the hallway, Trump would be so much better.
DeSantis sadly has shot himself in the foot with this idiotic attempt to run this cycle. Forget the fact that he’s a terrible retail politician.. just look at the actual messaging.. “I’m like that guy you really like and want, but better, somehow... but we can’t really articulate how I’m so much better.. but I can win.” What kind of messaging is that? And that’s been this campaigns messaging from the start.
Desantis has done a commendable job as FL Governor, but he’s also done it with an overwhelming GOP led legislature that has let him engage in some HUGELY SWAMPY THINGS.... like changing the laws just so he could run, trying to hide his travel plans... etc etc... Yes, he won re-election by a landslide, but he also was running against Crist! A turncoat who NO ONE WANTED or SUPPORTED. He nearly lost to a corrupt drug addict, and only Trump’s support pulled him over the finish line to be governor in the first place.
Desantis took himself from being, what would almost certainly be a heavy contender if not the front runner in 2028, to basically never ever having a shot at the White House by listening to stupid establishment people and running this term.
Desantis peaked back in January, when he was still an blank page to most Republican voters, since then, the more they see of him the lower he polls. The belief that this guy is going to be able to fight at the national level against a system fully stacked against him is comical. Hell he can’t even stand up to the Cheney money men who have been backing him... every time he utters anything that goes against the establishment narrative, he walks it back faster than hooker drops her panties.
DeSantis isn't slick. Anyone who says DeSantis is slick is not telling the truth.
Newsom - he is slick. Haley is slick. Trump can really work the camera too; he has years of experience practicing on national television shows.
And Trump has some really slick zingers. Criticize Trump for embracing BLM and see if you don't get a slick zinger.
DeSantis is not slick.