Posted on 04/17/2026 11:37:52 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Ron DeSantis isn’t committing to making another run for the presidency, saying he’s “got to run through the tape” and cautioning that it would make little sense to plan too concretely in such a dynamic environment.
..."Think of all the new things we’re talking about right now with what’s going on in the world and everything just in the last two months. And so who knows how all this stuff evolves?”
Yet he warns that the midterm elections will be tough for his party.
“I think the way the winds are blowing currently, I don’t think it’s insurmountable, but I do think it’s a challenge,” DeSantis said.
As he has before, he suggested the GOP has accomplished little legislatively despite controlling both houses of Congress since the second election of Donald Trump.
“Politics is cyclical. Politics is, what have you done for me lately? Politics is any time you rest on your laurels, something can happen very quickly... If I were advising people in Congress, I would say, well, one way you can maybe change the narrative is actually get off your rear ends and do something for a change because they’re not doing very much,” he said...
As he has before, he fretted that future candidates may not have the gumption to carry on his record of conservative reform, and that voters won’t reward them.
(Excerpt) Read more at floridapolitics.com ...
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Yeah. Nuke the filibuster and pass the SAVE America Act along with a bunch of other MAGA bills just floundering around in the Swamp.
“GOP has accomplished little legislatively despite controlling both houses of Congress”
It’s been exactly like that especially the last two generations especially the last one, and the politicians themselves, MSM, and foolish voters always state “it’s always like this.”
NO. Plenty enough of RINOs/unipartiers from dog catcher on up without even voting for them and we are told to ‘go out and vote.’
I would be OK if he were to be permanent AG within the next 4-6 months.
That’s Iran’s not so secret weapon. The longer they drag this out, the worse it will be for Trump supporting Republicans in November.
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