Posted on 07/19/2023 8:50:43 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
The Dims will create donors from thin air to help DeSantis get to the debate.
I guess he forgot to tell his big donors to order their employees to pony up to beef up the numbers.
Seriously, he is the governor of Florida and belongs on the stage. At this stage, pack ‘em in, see who catches fire. It is too early to have these things anyway. Of course, that’s not Mike Pence’s problem.
Time to roll out the guac bowls. 😆
Seriously he’s the Governor of Florida. He belongs in Florida. 😏
This USA Today article says that he has about 50,000 donors as of late June:
Doesn’t the GOP also have criteria, about candidates having a certain minimal amount of support in national polls? Certainly DeSantis easily qualifies based on polling, if they indeed used polling support as a criterion.
Hahaha. Funny but I assume they’ll change the rules to get the results they actually want. That’s how it works these days.
whoops.
Nice
There is this political pundit named Bill Mitchell, I used to follow him religiously on social media. Back in the 2016 election he kept me off the ledge when thing looked rough, he was all-in for Trump.
Now he is flying the DeSantis flag and has turned into an annoying blowhard...
I go to his twitter feed from time to time just to see how ridiculous it has become... I’m just flabbergasted!
I wish the poor man would repent and come back to the fold...
https://twitter.com/mitchellvii
Agreed, he should stay in Florida and it is too early for any debate.
Exactly, I see no reason why Ron DeSantis can’t be allowed to participate in the debates.
Florida Man born in 1978
Mom was not Naturalized until 1983
That’ makes him . . .
same as Nimarata
same as Vivek
same as McStain - not US born
same as AuH20 - AZ was a Territory
Guess who is a Natural Born Citizen, accomplished in business, and not a descendent of Slave Owners?
Our PDJT, The GOAT.
Roll MAGA, roll!
The # of donors qualification is there to ensure that the candidate has enough support from the base voter to be viable. DeSantis does not.
The New York Times (no friend of DeSantis or Republicans) reported he had surpassed the 40,000 donor threshhold back in May. I don’t know the current poster is putting out such bogus information and getting all the Trump cultists so charged up.
It only happens on days that end in "Y".
“Doesn’t the GOP also have criteria, about candidates having a certain minimal amount of support in national polls? Certainly DeSantis easily qualifies based on polling, if they indeed used polling support as a criterion.”
Yes, there is a polling criterion. No, DeSantis hasn’t met it yet – nor has anyone else.
The problem arises from the way the RNC set the polling standard. The only polls that count are those that include at least 800 likely Republican voters. National polls usually sample more PEOPLE than that but they draw respondents from the entire electorate, so they might fall short of 800 likely Republican voters.
So far there’s been only one poll that met the standard (see https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/12/anti-trump-presidential-candidates-poll-debates-00106000 for details). From that article:
“The poll showed eight candidates hitting another RNC debate criteria: that they garner at least 1 percent support. Those were Trump (56 percent), Ron DeSantis (17 percent), Vivek Ramaswamy (8 percent), Mike Pence (7 percent), Nikki Haley (3 percent), Tim Scott (3 percent), Chris Christie (3 percent) and Asa Hutchinson (1 percent).”
I assume DeSantis will qualify. The candidates who are on the bubble, though, might have a problem, because they’ll have very few chances to hit the qualifying minimum. Most of the polls that get widely reported won’t count.
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