Posted on 08/04/2023 7:54:14 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Ed Rollins, responsible for the early adopter ‘Ready for Ron PAC,’ has abandoned the Governor of Florida’s collapsing presidential campaign, admitting that DeSantis has been a ‘flawed candidate’ unable to focus on anything else other than the culture war in an interview with the left-wing magazine, Rolling Stone.
Rollins admitted his frustration with DeSantis’s candidacy, and explained the Florida Governor only has himself to blame: “I know some of the people around him, and some of them are good, talented people.”
“Every time he opens his mouth, he has a tendency to — shall we say — think out-loud, and he clearly doesn’t understand the game… When you get into these culture wars the way that he has, the vast majority of people don’t understand what they are,” Rollins continued.
Rollins, in his own words, has spent the last 12 months running thousands of TV ads, creating tens of millions of online connections, and mailing millions of Americans on behalf of the Governor of Florida to little avail as DeSantis continues to slide toward single-digits in the polls.
“A top-to-bottom makeover and real accountability may be the only thing that saves Ron DeSantis, but even then you still have the governor at the top… And it is getting harder and harder by the day to see not just his people as the problem, but him as the problem,” he added.
DeSantis dismissed Rollins’ comments as “nonsense” during a recent appearance on Fox. He also doubled down on his culture war-obsessed campaign, calling it “central to the lives of tens of millions of people.”
WATCH:
WATCH: Brett Baier presses DeSantis on political consultant @EdRollins jumping ship and saying the Governor is a flawed candidate who takes culture wars too far pic.twitter.com/SDVXL8F5r7
— Brendon Leslie (@BrendonLeslie) August 1, 2023
DeSantis could *try* to do it, but it would look bad...
Look bad? Look bad to whom? It would look bad to the Deep State, Big Media and the 23% of the voters who are retarded. It wouldn't look bad at all, to the 66% of the voters who are normal and who think the elections are corrupt.
...and probably invite Federal constitutional challenges.
It's perfectly constitutional. What you are saying is that DeSantis is afraid of the corrupt DOJ.
And Trump backed DeSantis.
What do you make of that?
[It’s perfectly constitutional. What you are saying is that DeSantis is afraid of the corrupt DOJ. ]
DeSantis won by 19 points. Why would he roll the dice on something that could reduce GOP victory margins, thanks to adverse voter reactions? Just because you personally want to, doesn’t make it a good idea.
[Okay.
Ignore Rasmussen, a pollster with a great track record, ignore all the evidence that was presented in numerous state legislatures in Nov. and Dec. of 2020 (and then after that), ignore 2/3rds of the voters, and instead listen to the J6 committee, Big Media and 23% of the population, who mindlessly repeat over-and-over again, that Trump’s claim of cheating is “The Big Lie”.
And the senile, stupid, corrupt communist got 81 million votes and won. ]
Nothing. I backed DeSantis as well, until he showed us what he is. The same with Rollins. But once they show you what they are you cut them off.
Fact? Cite source.
Voters want voting machines with "proprietary" software that could easily change their vote? Cite source.
Just because you personally want to, doesn’t make it a good idea.
Look in the mirror. Have some self awareness.
[[Again, you keep ignoring the fact that probably half of the 63% think Biden won by too small a margin, i.e. Biden was cheated of a bigger mandate, because of what they think was the GOP’s efforts to suppress the Democrat vote.]
Fact? Cite source. ]
Note that we are going back and forth over a poll that is not exactly holy writ. Interpreting it right won’t unlock the mysteries of the universe. The poll is, like every poll out there, subject to sampling error. Not even a question of fake polling. Even when done right, with multiple levels of controls, a poll can get things wrong. For a poll without a paying customer, tossed out there just because it’s a trending topic, the degree of care in ensuring a representative sample of the population is probably non-existent. But here we are, wrangling over the number of angels on the head of a pin.
I've heard Rasmussen speak and give the percentages as much higher for Republicans and Independents, as opposed to Democrats. It isn't "half" or close to it as you said.
Note that we are going back and forth over a poll that is not exactly holy writ. Interpreting it right won’t unlock the mysteries of the universe.
Okay, you're free to ignore a reliable pollster and instead offer your opinion, unsupported.
[Okay, you’re free to ignore a reliable pollster and instead offer your opinion, unsupported. ]
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-ratings/rasmussen-reports-pulse-opinion-research/
And this isn’t just Rasmussen. It’s every pollster out there. Note that they really had to make an effort to get good numbers because there was an election result against which they would be compared. Who’s keeping them honest in this trendy poll, created just for clicks?
You have a particular, virulent anger and animosity toward folks who are ProTrump on this forum.
I don’t quite understand how you can spew such nastiness and untruths and still remain.
[You have a particular, virulent anger and animosity toward folks who are ProTrump on this forum.
I don’t quite understand how you can spew such nastiness and untruths and still remain.]
[You have a particular, virulent anger and animosity toward folks who are ProTrump on this forum.
I don’t quite understand how you can spew such nastiness and untruths and still remain.]
It was a big sum for a 63-year-old battling cancer and living in Kansas City on less than $1,000 a month. But that single contribution — federal records show it was his first ever — quickly multiplied. Another $500 was withdrawn the next day, then $500 the next week and every week through mid-October, without his knowledge — until Blatt’s bank account had been depleted and frozen. When his utility and rent payments bounced, he called his brother, Russell Blatt, for help.
What the Blatts soon discovered was $3,000 in withdrawals by the Trump campaign in less than 30 days. They called their bank and said they thought they were victims of fraud.
“It felt,” Russell Blatt said, “like it was a scam.”
But what the Blatts believed was duplicity was an intentional scheme to boost revenues by the Trump campaign and the for-profit company that processed its online donations, WinRed. Facing a cash crunch and getting badly outspent by the Democrats, the campaign had begun last September to set up recurring donations by default for online donors for every week until the election.
Contributors had to wade through a fine-print disclaimer and manually uncheck a box to opt out.
As the election neared, the Trump team made that disclaimer increasingly opaque, an investigation by The New York Times showed. It introduced a second prechecked box, known internally as a “money bomb,” that doubled a person’s contribution. Eventually its solicitations featured lines of text in bold and capital letters that overwhelmed the opt-out language.
The tactic ensnared scores of unsuspecting Trump loyalists — retirees, military veterans, nurses and even experienced political operatives. Soon, banks and credit card companies were inundated with fraud complaints from the president’s supporters about donations they had not intended to make, sometimes for thousands of dollars.
“Bandits!” said Victor Amelino, 78, a Californian who made a $990 online donation to Trump in early September via WinRed. It recurred seven more times — adding up to almost $8,000. “I’m retired. I can’t afford to pay all that damn money.”
The magnitude of the money involved is staggering for politics. In the final 2½ months of 2020, the Trump campaign, the Republican National Committee and their shared accounts issued more than 530,000 refunds worth $64.3 million to online donors. All campaigns make refunds for various reasons, including to people who give more than the legal limit. But the sum the Trump operation refunded dwarfed that of Joe Biden’s campaign and his equivalent Democratic committees, which made 37,000 online refunds totaling $5.6 million in that time.
The recurring donations swelled Trump’s treasury in September and October, just as his finances were deteriorating. He was then able to use tens of millions of dollars he raised after the election, under the guise of fighting his unfounded fraud claims, to help cover the refunds he owed.
In effect, the money that Trump eventually had to refund amounted to an interest-free loan from unwitting supporters at the most important juncture of the 2020 race.]
Cut them off you say. Do you cut a snake off permanently, or just until the titular head of the GOP flashes you a signal to embrace the snake?
Do you remember when Ted Cruz was deep state ‘Lyin Ted’ and lower than bug spit; that was before he became ‘Beautiful Ted’ the MAGA stalwart.
Just for the tally book, how does Cruz stand with you now? I'm not talking about yesterday or tomorrow; I'm asking how does Cruz stand with you right now this very instant?
So you really are delusional
[So you really are delusional]
Still flailing...it’s a good look on you 🤡
[Still flailing...it’s a good look on you 🤡]
The word is that DeSantis is not moderate enough for the GOP Establishment that is backing him. And too cowardly for the anti-establishent. What an ALL-AROUND LOSER!
I was never one of the ones claiming Cruz was Deep State ( I don’t even think the term was around then). I thought Cruz acted inappropriately when he refused to back Trump after losing. What do I think about him now? I seldom think of him at all.
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