Trump Confirms New Social Media Platform, Also Names Several Republicans To Watch For 2024 Presidential Primary

Daily Wire ^ | 03/22/2021 | Ryan Saavedra

[SeekAndFind]

Former President Donald Trump confirmed news that he plans to launch his own social media platform in the near future, and he named several Republicans that conservatives should keep their eye on as potential 2024 presidential candidates.

Trump confirmed the claim made to Fox News on Sunday by one of his advisers that he was creating “the hottest ticket in social media” that is going to “completely redefine the game.”

In a podcast interview, Trump told “The Truth with Lisa Boothe” with iHeart Radio and “Gingrich 360” that he is “doing things having to do with putting our own platform out there” that will be coming out “soon.”

When asked about 2024 and viable Republican presidential candidates, Trump said people should keep an eye on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, Sens. Ted Cruz (TX), Rand Paul (KY) and Josh Hawley (MO), among “others.”

Trump specifically referenced a straw poll that was conducted this year at CPAC that surveyed attendees on a wide range of issues.

The most noteworthy results from the poll included:

Thinking ahead, if the 2024 Republican primary for president in your state were held today among the following candidates, for whom would you vote?

Donald Trump – 55%

Ron DeSantis – 21%

Kristi Noem – 4%

Nikki Haley – 3%

Mike Pompeo – 2%

Now among a different list of candidates, which does not include Trump, if the 2024 Republican primary for president in your state were held today, for whom would you vote?

Ron DeSantis – 43%

Kristi Noem – 11%

Donald Trump Jr. – 8%

Mike Pompeo – 7%

Ted Cruz – 7%

“I mean, you know, there’s a, there’s a pretty deep bench,” Trump added. “I’ll make that decision sometime later, but there’s a pretty deep bench. If you look at the polls, they love the job that I’ve done. We had a 97 percent approval at C-PAC, a 97 percent approval on policies and different things.”

DeSantis is increasingly discussed as the emerging star of the Republican Party after the way that he navigated Florida throughout the coronavirus pandemic, which included outperforming many Democrat states that used strict lockdowns while he kept his state largely open.

Joe Gruters, a Florida state senator and chairman of the state Republican Party, said of DeSantis, “I think he’s the odds-on favorite to be the next president.”

Tony Fabrizio, Trump’s chief pollster in 2016 and 2020, said of DeSantis:

When you look under the hood of those numbers, DeSantis garners a lot of support from Trump voters in the absence of Trump. As the media beat him up as the anti-Cuomo and DeSantis stood up for himself, voters liked that. They associate that type of scrappiness and speaking your mind with President Trump. He is inheriting a lot of that.

DeSantis has had very high poll numbers in the past with nearly every key demographic of voters and appears to appeal to both the Trump-wing of the GOP, and he appeals to the establishment-wing of the party.

[Steve Van Doorn]

If we don't clean up the voter rolls we can never win again

The largest voter turn out in the history of the US was about 7% greater then average. Obama was so well liked they talked about it for years the amazing accomplish to pull in such a large percentage of voters. 2020 election there was about 40% greater then average.

(Wikipedia "claims" 239 million eligible voters (still an anomaly of 65% (their math is off.)) real figure was 213 million voters (source worldpopulationreview registered voters by state) would be about 75% turn out in 2020. The record turn out in US history was 45% when Obama ran in 2008. Or an approximate mean of about 37 to 39% since the 1930's (going by wikipedia chart on voter turn out) With cheating this doubles the average presidential turnout and about 40% greater then our all time record of 2008
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_United_States_presidential_elections
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/number-of-registered-voters-by-state

[AnotherUnixGeek]

That is total unadulterated crap.
If Gab built their own servers with their own routers etc, what makes you think President Trump can't do it?

Gab has been in business for over 4 years. It still is not reliable or secure or widely used. It was hacked in February, with passwords and private messages leaked. If Gab is meant to be the benchmark, it's laughable.

Ranting about how easy it is to build up an entire cloud infrastructure and then build up a social media platform on top of it, along with the financial infrastructure needed to support it - that part is easy. Actually doing it will be far harder.

[Mr. Blond]

No thanks. Just another platform to have your data scraped, be put on a donor mailing list, and then get doxxed. Get on Gab.

[proust]

Or Queenmaker when he picks Ivanka.

[Fai Mao]

Did not know that about the casinos.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Trump/Desantis 2024”

DeSantis/Trump 2024. This way the rats will leave DeSantis alone.

[1Old Pro]

Nikki Haley – 3%

Thankfully Trump didn't mention her. As far as the social media platform it will be his biggest and most profitable business venture ever. An instant 80,000,000 customers/users. People are sick of the Leftwing social censorship, this will be hugh!

[who knows what evil?]

Cruz needs a dentist...big time.

[ByteMercenary]

The next Republican POTUS candidate should be a red state governor. Most senators regardless of party couldn’t manage the complexities of operating a lemonade stand.

It is far more important that the Rs re-take the majority in the House and Senate in 2022. All of us should be letter-bombing our state level politicians demanding that the mail-in balloting be canceled and voter ID becomes mandatory. It wouldn’t hurt to demand an end to motor-voter registration also.

But it won’t matter if HR-1 is signed into law. Elections will then be run by the party in power in WDC. It will probably be found to be unconstitutional but that will take years before the lawsuits get to the USSC. By then the left will try to have the important components of HR-1 infused into each state laws ie mail-in voting only - no in person appearances. If that happens, your vote will be just as important as a vote for a third party candidate - worthless. The Party will select your representative for you.

And if all that happens nothing will change until we open the third box ...

[SmokingJoe]

Gab has been in business for over 4 years. It still is not reliable or secure or widely used

Gab is running great right now and have been running great for most of the over 2 years I've been on it.
I don't know about you, but running a real estate business at the top of the most competitive and the toughest real estate market on the planet for over 40 years is a heck of a lot tougher than merely setting up a web site and building up servers. It's not even close.
You need to get into the real world.

[FLT-bird]

Noem I have questions about. Cruz has proven to be reliable. I had a lot of doubts about him 4 years ago but he’s proven to be a legitimate conservative and to have a spine. We could use more like him.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

You need to get into the real world.

I am in the real world, developing the software it takes to keep social media sites up and running. I know the problems and limitations Gab has had and is having right now. I know the challenges Trump will face in building up a credible and usable social media platform. And I know that Trump has never done anything like this before.

But you believe whatever you want, and keep posting about things you don't understand - it's harmless bloviating, and that's hardly the biggest problem we face right now.

[SmokingJoe]

I am in the real world, developing the software it takes to keep social media sites up and running.

If Gab has been able to do all that, with little money and very few staff, plus total war against Gab from the far left Big Tech lunatics like Amazon etc, what makes you think President Trump, with vastly more resources and over 75 million hard core voters who voted for him in November, cannot set up a social media site?

I know the problems and limitations Gab has had and is having right now.

I know more about Gab than you do.
I have been a member for over 2 years and I am there several hours a day. It's a great social media site and in my book a heck of a lot superior to Twitter, which has vastly more resources.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

If Gab has been able to do all that, with little money and very few staff, plus total war against Gab from the far left Big Tech lunatics like Amazon etc

They haven't been able to do it yet. When they were inundated with new users in January, they could not scale and the site went down or was unresponsive. They were subject to a massive hack just last month which exposed passwords and private messages. They are up and running now because they have a relatively small number of active users.

I support Gab - social media sites which do not censor are badly needed. They seem determined to eventually build out their infrastructure to support millions of users securely and reliably and I'm sure they will some day. But they aren't there yet - it takes time and lots of development to build a scalable and secure platform. It will take time, money and lots of development for Trump to do it, too - especially since he will not be able to leverage AWS, Azure or any of the existing cloud platforms. It's not going to be easy.

[SmokingJoe]

I know the challenges Trump will face in building up a credible and usable social media platform.

President Trump will have vastly more resources (human and technical), and vastly more power and vastly more money and vastly more business experience than Facebook and Twitter did when they first started.
What business experience did Zuckerberg have when he first started Facebook? ZERO.
President Trump has had over FORTY YEARS business experience in the toughest business in the toughest market on the planet. And been very successful at it.
Not to mention President Trump starting a brand new TV progrsm called “The Apprrntice” and getting a massive 20 million people watching it whenever it was on. And oh, did I mention he run for president the very first time actually WON?
You are basically talking about the wrong man here, dude.
President Trump actually does what people like you think he can't do. Been doing it all his life.

And I know that Trump has never done anything like this before.

You mean like President Trump had never run for President as a Republican before back in 2015?
Listen to yourself man.

[SmokingJoe]

They haven't been able to do it yet.

Except they actually HAVE.
I've been using Gab for over 2 years. They beat Twitter in every way I can think of, apart from Twitter having more users mostly made up of brain dead morons I don't care to hear from.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

President Trump will have vastly more resources (human and technical), and vastly more power and vastly more money and vastly more business experience than Facebook and Twitter did when they first started.

He won't have more resources. Watch how this will work - he will have trouble finding existing software firms who will contract to do this work for him. This should be obvious. If he sets up his own company, it will take him at least a year simply to staff the company and get the beginnings of projects set up - and that's assuming he's able to attract enough talent in the first place.

Twitter and Facebook operated in spaces which were formed by them - there were no existing social media monopolies or cloud infrastructure monopolies when they started. Any company which tries to operate in the social media space now will face hostile monopolies, as Parler learned. And any company backed by Trump will face far more hostility than Parler ever did.

[SmokingJoe]

He won't have more resources

Of course he will.
Even at his worst, President Trump is still worth $3 Billion. How much were Zuckerberg and Dorsey worth when they decided to start Facebook or Twitter?

Watch how this will work - he will have trouble finding existing software firms who will contract to do this work for him. This should be obvious. If he sets up his own company, it will take him at least a year simply to staff the company and get the beginnings of projects set up - and that's assuming he's able to attract enough talent in the first place.

You really get off spewing out garbage of the worst kind wiyhout even thinking about it don't ya?
The beauty of it is, know you are talking nonsense yet you keep billowing out smoke anyways.
Whwt makes you think the 75 million Patriots who voted for President Trump on November don't have hundreds of thousand of programmers who can't wait to make every contribution they can to President Trump's social media network?
Even right here on FR alone we have excellent programmers who will be only too happy to help President hit back at Big Tech and the Dems if it comes to that.

[SmokingJoe]

Twitter and Facebook operated in spaces which were formed by them - there were no existing social media monopolies or cloud infrastructure monopolies when they started.

Not only are you totally ignorant, you don't even know the history of social media.
For your information, MySpace existed before Facebook was even founded. Not only that, MySpace was very big and successful before Facebook later bloomed.
And there were plenty of other big social media outfits before Facebook and Twitter too.
Next you ardgpkng to tell us that Google invented internet search.
Are you like 5 years old?

[SmokingJoe]

Any company which tries to operate in the social media space now will face hostile monopolies, as Parler learned. And any company backed by Trump will face far more hostility than Parler ever did.

There you go again with your far left hyperbole.
Is Parler back in business? YES.
Is Gab doing more business than ever despite a brutal sustained attack from far left Big Tech, The Dems ,The Biden regime etc? YUP.
If these jokers can't even stop Gab ,what makes you think they can stop President Trump?