Posted on 08/18/2023 7:25:30 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
President Trump has confirmed he will not be participating in the Fox News debate scheduled for August 23rd. The insufferable Martha MacCallum and Bret Baier will be moderating the first loser Republican primary discussion where leaked information from Ron DeSantis debate prep has been revealed.
[SOURCE]
Meanwhile the Never Back Down SuperPAC supporting Ron DeSantis has shared their goals and objectives with the New York Times.
Hundreds of pages of blunt advice, memos and internal polling were posted online by the main super PAC backing the Florida governor, offering an extraordinary glimpse into his operation’s thinking.
Ron DeSantis needs “to take a sledgehammer” to Vivek Ramaswamy, the political newcomer who is rising in the polls. He should “defend Donald Trump” when Chris Christie inevitably attacks the former president. And he needs to “attack Joe Biden and the media” no less than three to five times.
[…] “There are four basic must-dos,” one of the memos urges Mr. DeSantis, whom the document refers to as “GRD.”
[…] “1. Attack Joe Biden and the media 3-5 times. 2. State GRD’s positive vision 2-3 times. 3. Hammer Vivek Ramaswamy in a response. 4. Defend Donald Trump in absentia in response to a Chris Christie attack.”
The documents were posted this week on the website of Axiom Strategies, the company owned by Jeff Roe, the chief strategist of Mr. DeSantis’s super PAC, Never Back Down.
The New York Times was alerted to the existence of the documents by a person not connected to the DeSantis campaign or the super PAC. After The Times reached out to Never Back Down for comment on Thursday, the group removed from the website a key memo summarizing the suggested strategy for the debate. (more)
the most disturbing thing about these leaked campaign memos is that they even exist ... anyone truly fit to be President of the United States should be WRITING these memos, not READING them!
“Ironically, I suspect much of the debate will be about Trump.”
indeed ... Trump will dominate the debate without even being there!
“What would be telling is how much MAGA bashing using Trump as a proxy occurs.”
that too ... gonna be interesting to see how much anti-MAGA, anti-Republic, anti-free-speech, pro-fascist, pro-deep-state sentiment comes out ... who will be unmasked, who will make a fool out of themselves ... how much ducking and weaving and content-free rhetoric occurs ... how biased will the trump-hating moderators be?
actually, given the complete lack of impact this debate will have on the primary vote itself, one could sit back objectively with a bowl of popcorn and be ready for quite an entertaining evening ... at least for a while ...
“No one comes to power without God’s permission.z”
So, why did God permit Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao Zedong, Kim Jong Un, and Fidel Castro come to power?
“He’s not going to change who he is in order to attract that segment of voters”
I’ll be happy if he talks more about issues and less about his enormous lead, his posture toward debates, etc.
We must have a conservative that can defeat the liberal candidate.
“We must have a conservative that can defeat the liberal candidate.”
DeSantis’s strategy might be to win by picking off democrats that can’t vote for Biden and also can’t vote for Trump. That might be enough.
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