Posted on 04/19/2023 2:52:49 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Another three endorsements for President Trump today from the Florida congressional delegation, bringing the total so far to ten with more anticipated. Meanwhile, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is in Washington DC seeking support. DeSantis is warmly greeted, but President Trump gets the endorsements. What’s going on?
Republican Congressman Greg Steube gives an explanation below about the Ron DeSantis Floridians know, but nationally most do not.
DeSantis is an out-of-touch aloof persona, who generally projects himself as better than others. In person he projects an arrogance and condescending personality trait also carried by his insta-selfie supporters and ‘influencers.’ It comes through the camera lens. Everything constructed around DeSantis is fake, even the fake blue-collar handshakes that have to be photo-shopped to give a common man impression.
The donors are pouring in hundreds of millions to pay for the fake DeSantis constructs, Top Gov brand imaging and Madison Avenue illusions, but you cannot purchase authenticity, and you cannot rewrite the history of who DeSantis is. Greg Steube explains:
[I]n a brief interview last night [Steube noted] that DeSantis has never once reached out to him during his five years in Congress nor replied to his multiple attempts to connect. He recalled a recent news conference dealing with damage from Hurricane Ian where the governor’s aides initially invited him to stand alongside DeSantis, only to tell him that he wouldn’t be part of the event when he showed up.
Trump, on the other hand, was the first person Steube remembers calling him in the ICU to wish him well after he was injured in a January tree-trimming accident. “To this day I have not heard from Gov. DeSantis,” he said.
Things suddenly changed last week, Steube said, as Trump started rolling out his Florida congressional backers. ”For the first time ever, I hear from DeSantis’s political person,” he said, referring to aide RYAN TYSON, who reportedly contacted other Florida Republicans about their endorsements.
For Steube, the outreach was too little, too late. And he continues to have sharp words for DeSantis, criticizing him for his robust political travel schedule amid a busy legislative session and just months after winning a new four-year term. “Floridians want him focused on Florida,” he said, “which is the job they elected him to do.” (read the entire article)
Like I said last year, once people get to see Ron DeSantis up close, his disdain for people just jumps out at you. He loves standing at the podium telling you what’s wrong with you, and what is brilliant about himself; however, he just doesn’t like people in an authentic or natural way you would expect from executive leadership.
The same disconnected snobbery applies to everyone his team has recruited.
Ken Cuccinelli and Jeff Roe are two of the biggest self-important jackasses in national politics. They don’t carry an ounce of humility or introspection. They are always right, and the problem is it just takes too long for everyone to come around to admitting how great they are. This is the character of DeSantis that flows through everyone he associates with. Here’s an example from one of the ‘influencers” a few days ago.
This Twitter account is connected to both Representative Thomas Massie and DeSantis campaign official Christina Pushaw:
That tweet encapsulates the worldview of the average Ron DeSantis supporter in Florida.
This is why the overwhelming majority of the Florida Republican delegation, will not endorse him. These outlooks are toxic and elitist. Florida First Lady Casey DeSantis did not wear elbow length silk gloves at the noon-time inauguration day event accidentally. Casey already went shopping with Cindy McCain and has her 2024 tiara picked out.
As I keep saying, there are not enough people who take Instagram pictures of their lunches to make Ron DeSantis a viable candidate. The polo club, cocktail party circuit of people who eat crustless triangle cucumber sandwiches and look down their noses at everyone else, is just not a large enough coalition to win DeSantis the nomination. It means he will have more money; however, factually, the professional donor class is annoying with the level of self-righteousness and condescension they promote.
WASHINGTON DC – […] In yet another blow to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s not-yet-official presidential bid, two more Republican members of Congress from his own state are gearing to endorse Donald Trump for another term. Reps. Gus Bilirakis and Carlos Gimenez are each planning to announce their support for the former president this week, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell TIME.
Their pledges continue something of a downward spiral for DeSantis, who has been steadily losing ground in the endorsement battle for legislators from his own backyard. The development is even more noteworthy after his political team recently tried to stop the bleeding by asking Florida Republicans to refrain from endorsing Trump.
Bilirakis and Gimenez have also committed to be at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach on Thursday night, as the former President hosts members of the Florida delegation who have already endorsed him, including Reps. Matt Gaetz, Anna Paulina Luna, Cory Mills, and Greg Steube. It’s not clear yet whether Reps. Byron Donalds and John Rutherford, who have also endorsed Trump, will be at the gathering.
Neither Bilirakis nor Gimenez responded to requests for comment. Rep. Brian Mast, another Florida Republican, has also told associates he plans to formally back Trump in the coming days. And on Wednesday, Rep. Vern Buchanan officially thew his weight behind Trump. TIME reported last week that Buchanan was planning to endorse Trump in the coming days.
All of their endorsements will bring Trump’s tally of members of Congress from Florida to ten, whereas DeSantis has just one, Rep. Laurel Lee, who announced her support for the governor on Tuesday. Before winning her House seat last year, Lee served as DeSantis’s first Secretary of State. (read more)
Lance Gooden (R-TX) – “Today, after careful consideration and a positive meeting with Governor DeSantis, I have decided to endorse President @realDonaldTrump for 2024.”
Rolling Stone – […] “Over the past few years, the Florida governor has risen to Trump’s top internal rival without even declaring his candidacy. And part of that rise has been fueled by his pull with the GOP’s megadonor class, who prefer him to Trump because, while he brings a similar set of MAGAfied policies, he has not, to date, attempted a coup. That wellspring of financial support has been instrumental in fueling his rise, but the investments are predicated in large part on a belief that he can take down Donald.
That belief seems to be wavering, as the donor revolt has been brewing since at least last month. And it’s not just skittish donors like Richard Uihlein or Thomas Peterffy, who went public with his complaints last week. Several other top donors to DeSantis were livid about the governor referring to the brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine as a “territorial dispute,” with at least one major donor calling DeSantis to urge a walk-back, a source with knowledge of the outreach and another person briefed on it say. “My understanding is that the message was: ‘If we wanted a fucking MAGA candidate, we would donate to Donald Trump,’” the second source says.
[…] Those polling troubles may be giving some megadonors second thoughts. Sources familiar with Schlitz Brewing heir and shipping titan Richard Uihlein’s thinking told NBC News that the “brakes are pumped” with the megadonor’s DeSantis giving after the governor’s lackluster polling has given some “pause” about his viability.
Other conservatives have taken to predicting that DeSantis is potentially the second coming of Scott Walker, another Republican governor and conservative-media darling who many thought would be the favored candidate in a presidential primary — only to flame out before any ballots were cast. (read more)
Has he ever told us he is even considering running?
When asked he has refused to rule it out.
So he’s no different than I am, today.
I haven’t refused to rule it out, either.
I also haven’t refused to rule out flying to the Moon, buying a Ferrari, or vacationing in Japan.
Harvard+Yale
Double elite
>>I live in Florida. Think DeSantis has been a good Governor. Better than most past Florida governors. But, not my first choice for President at this time.
Same here . . .
Mr. Kalamata
I would like Ron DeSanis to run and do well but lose the primary vote. I want to keep him in Florida so long as his term lasts. He also needs the experience of mounting a presidential campaign Regan ran and lost once before he ran and won. And. If Trump meets with a fatal “accident” during the primary campaign then I would prefer Ron to anyone else who is in with the possible exception of Ramaswami, who has announced and running but has not even managed to get mentioned in MSM.
DeSantis is not a RINO operative. The Rinos support him because he is the only possible viable person who is not Donald Trump. That said, I do not want to see him as the Republican Candidate in 24. I would rather he run in 28.
You've made political in stops Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina?
You've been to DC, meeting with representatives looking for endorsements?
You have Fox News, PAC's, numerous surrogates and an army of supporters, day after day pushing you to run?
You've been asked and have refused to answer in a gubernatorial debate?
Yes sireee. There's not a dimes worth of difference between you and DeSantis.
agreed
Trump knows DeSantis is bought and paid for, no way Trump would support him now and going forward. Trump helped him get elected and DeSantis threw Trump to the curb quickly after.
DeSantis is for no one but himself (and made his family), if others are helped along the way that is just an unimportant bonus, not DeSantis’s real intention, worse is if it’s so obvious to us, God knows that too.
😮 Ron can’t recover from that I don’t think. I live in Florida but I don’t remember these ads probably because they did not pertain to me.
And living in Florida, I know a great many FL vets that love DeSantis, myself included. Maybe the reason it isn’t talked about politically is that most of the “great many” vets who don’t like him are the same amount as those who vote Dem. There may be many, but statistically, are insignificant when it comes to voting for a candidate for office. Primaries, maybe. And I guarantee a significant slice of that “great many” will hold their nose and vote for him in ‘28 if faced with a Marxist alternative.
Think about it. How better to maintain support for Trump during the latest witch-hunt by the deep state. RDS deflects attention from the pending persecution, while gaining more national exposure, getting Squishies on record for supporting him, and screwing then in the end in 28. All these negative RDS vs Trump polls (the only positive polls show RDS beating Biden) allow DeSantis to bow out of the primaries (which he still has never declared) without getting pummeled by Trump. Mark my words, if this is true, Ron will never enter the running in 24 and will endorse Trump, and Trump will seemingly be back in love with Ron.
“Maybe the reason it isn’t talked about politically is that most of the “great many” vets who don’t like him are the same amount as those who vote Dem.”
This statement is an ignorant and immature statement. Your entire post totally ignores the issue that angered a great many Combat Veterans about a JAG Lawyer turned politician that attempted to associate himself with the Elite Warriors, Navy SEALS, and the anger this pathetic attempt caused among Combat Vets.
Ouch
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