[Alberta's Child]

I posted my concerns about DeSantis back in #5. But beyond that, there is a much more practical problem for him to deal with …

Go back to 2012 — the last time the GOP ran a “conventional” Republican candidate for President. Which states is DeSantis going to win in 2024 that Romney lost in 2012? The only one that stands out to me is Ohio, and that isn’t good enough.

What the DeSantis peddlers here on FR seem to be overlooking is that Trump had a huge base or support among registered DEMOCRATS. And I can tell you that very few of those supporters would even walk across the street to cast a vote for Ron DeSantis or any other career Republican politician.

[Drew68]

Go back to 2012 — the last time the GOP ran a “conventional” Republican candidate for President. Which states is DeSantis going to win in 2024 that Romney lost in 2012? The only one that stands out to me is Ohio, and that isn’t good enough.

Nobody cares about 2012. We’re not the same country as we were then. Romney was an uninspiring candidate who didn’t really want to win running against a fairly popular incumbent.

The real question is what states will DeSantis win that Trump won in 2016 —but lost in 2020.