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Ron DeSantis is on a path to 2024. Democrats hope to head him off.
CNN ^ | Sat May 8, 2021 | Dan Merica

Posted on 05/08/2021 9:29:44 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has a clear pathway to running for president in 2024, emerging from the coronavirus pandemic as the most recognizable Republican governor in the country.

But Democrats, hoping to reverse years of letdown in marquee races and mismanagement inside the state party, are eager to stop the Republican governor before he even gets to the starting line of a presidential bid, viewing the 2022 gubernatorial election in Florida as a chance to cut short the governor's surge.

"It is always easier to stop someone's rise sooner rather than later," said David Turner, spokesman for the Democratic Governors Association. "You don't lose your race for governor and then run for president." DeSantis burnished his position as a conservative media darling on Thursday when he signed a controversial bill aimed at curbing access to voting in the state during a so-called exclusive event with Fox News.

A group of organizations swiftly filed a lawsuit against the bill, but the point already had been made: DeSantis has the Fox News platform and can use it to deliver on Republican priorities.

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1 posted on 05/08/2021 9:29:44 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
"You don't lose your race for governor and then run for president."

Actually, you do:


2 posted on 05/08/2021 9:32:11 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Trump would be wise to pick him up as VEEP ...

8 more of Trump and 8 of DeSantis ?

Welcome back, Amertica !

3 posted on 05/08/2021 9:38:12 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true !)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Ron DeSantis is on a path to 2024. Democrats hope to head him off.

With Crist? Good luck with that one.

4 posted on 05/08/2021 9:38:59 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: knarf

The Democrats fear DeSantis. They’ve destroyed Trump (as much as I love that guy).


5 posted on 05/08/2021 9:40:30 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

No matter who runs for the GOP in 2024, it won’t matter unless what happened in 2020 (stolen election) won’t be repeated.


6 posted on 05/08/2021 9:40:42 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: DoodleDawg
With Crist? Good luck with that one.

It's over before it started.

7 posted on 05/08/2021 9:41:03 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
Watch for DiSantis to be indicted by the Department of Just Us for taxes....hundreds of thousands of unpaid taxes.It will come in early '24.
8 posted on 05/08/2021 9:42:16 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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To: MinorityRepublican

“ DeSantis burnished his position as a conservative media darling on Thursday when he signed a controversial bill aimed at curbing access to voting….”

Keep in’ up the Big Lie I see.


9 posted on 05/08/2021 9:43:25 AM PDT by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Nixon lost to a popular incumbent, he didn’t lose gubernatorial reelection in a Republican state.


10 posted on 05/08/2021 9:44:58 AM PDT by Impy ("Burn them all!!" - King Aerys II Targaryen, I share the sentiment )
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To: Impy

The Democrat quoted put in no qualifiers.


11 posted on 05/08/2021 9:46:25 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Signalman

DeSantis might actually fight it though. Notice Broward wasn’t a problem in 2020.


12 posted on 05/08/2021 9:46:50 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

They have four long years to character assassinate him. Believe me right now they are in the back room like a bunch of witches brewing up in their cauldron pot something to cause havoc, disruption, and destruction on the state of Florida. Mark my words!


13 posted on 05/08/2021 9:53:10 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Gay State Conservative

Is this based on some rumor or just a guess? Obviously they will try to take him down, but I mean with regard to the method.


14 posted on 05/08/2021 9:56:16 AM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: RoseofTexas

Character assassinate? Just turn the DOJ loose on him. Easy.


15 posted on 05/08/2021 10:11:01 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (No audit. No peace.)
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To: Stravinsky

The dems have already activated their front line troops, the media here in Florida. It has been that way for at least six months.


16 posted on 05/08/2021 10:11:39 AM PDT by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media.)
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To: Signalman
it won’t matter unless what happened in 2020 (stolen election) won’t be repeated.

Unless the use and/or possession of a Dominion fraud machine is made a felony, there won't be a need for pretending there are elections.

Since the Commies are in power, they won't vote to take away their source of power.

17 posted on 05/08/2021 10:13:32 AM PDT by ASA Vet (The first two boxes failed. Only one remains.)
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To: Signalman

“No matter who runs for the GOP in 2024, it won’t matter unless what happened in 2020 (stolen election) won’t be repeated.”

You are exactly right! The election is the key to all of it. We can’t repair and erase the Bidama socialist revolution without taking the cockroaches out of the election machines.


18 posted on 05/08/2021 10:19:21 AM PDT by Pirate Ragnar
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To: Mouton

I’m in Florida. I’ve seen the attacks. But I’ve missed any suggestion of tax evasion, so that’s why I asked if that part of it was based on rumor or just a guess. He’s obviously the biggest target for the Dems right now.


19 posted on 05/08/2021 10:23:41 AM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: MinorityRepublican

Just cheat. Rarely fails. Gillum and Fat Stacy excluded maybe.


20 posted on 05/08/2021 10:24:31 AM PDT by Luke21
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