Posted on 06/25/2022 3:26:12 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
According to Ed Rollins, the campaign strategist behind the 1984 Reagan reelection who’s now working with a DeSantis PAC, it’s increasingly looking like a Trump 2024 presidential run is sure to happen.
Speaking on that, Rollins was quoted by the Epoch Times as saying, as of June 14th:
“The information that I’ve gotten the last several weeks is Trump is definitely running”
That could be wrong, however, as it is not congruent with what he said in a pro-DeSantis fundraising email on June 10th. In that email, he said:
“Donald Trump is not running, that’s why we have to prepare for Ron DeSantis running for President if we’re going to have any shot at restoring Donald Trump’s America-First agenda and getting America back on track.”
However, explaining away the difference, Rollins, in his interview with the Epoch Times about the potential for a Trump run and a DeSantis run, said:
“We’re not working at all against Trump, At that point in time, I didn’t know if he [Trump] was running or not. What I’ve said since has made it clear is that he [DeSantis] won’t run against Trump.”
But he does seem to think that DeSantis would be a better candidate, which is why he has kept the DeSantis machine rolling despite being reasonably certain that Trump will run, though the Epoch Times implies that if Trump does run and DeSantis then decides not to do so, then the fundraising apparatus would be turned to helping Trump win.
That might be the most likely situation as, regardless of whether DeSantis and Trump end up competing or if DeSantis backs off beforehand and doesn’t fight Trump, it’s looking like Trump will dominate the field.
Recent polling reported on by the Morning Consult, for example, found that more than half of the GOP supports Trump over anyone else, and though DeSantis was the closes runner up, he still only had 16% of the vote compared to Trump’s 53%. The Morning Consult, reporting on that, said:
June 4-5 survey, 53% of GOP voters said they would vote for Trump over at least a dozen other potential candidates if the 2024 Republican presidential primary were held today — down just 3 percentage points from his potential vote share in a survey conducted before 2022’s primary season heated up.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — who for the second year running defeated Trump in an unscientific straw poll of conservative activists at the Western Conservative Summit in Colorado over the weekend — saw his support tick up from 13% to 16%.
16% isn’t bad, and it beats Mike Pence by a few points, but it’s still light years away from Trump’s whopping 53%. Assuming that result holds even somewhat constant heading into 2024, Trump will be the GOP pick; though DeSantis is a rising star and a wonderful candidate, Trump is Trump and it’ll be hard for anyone, even DeSantis, to top him.
So perhaps the DeSantis fundraising will continue, but unless Trump changes course dramatically, it’ll end up in his campaign coffer when he fights Brandon or whoever the Democrats put up.
That would be a very bad, self destructive idea.
What?
BTTT.
Trump spends half his year in Bedminster, and with just a few more days in-Jersey, could easily switch his residency to NJ, so as to run with Floridian DeSantis as VP.
How so?
President Trump is going to know the US Senate results for 2024 beforehand?
No but he’ll get a good idea on how well repub turnout will be and will see if repubs take either house in 2022. Doesn’t guarantee what will happen in 2024 but it will be an indicator on how serious conservatives are about taking things back and also an indicator on how many hispanics/blacks have swapped sides.
The campaign finance laws governing President Trump's Save American PAC.
“The only restriction on money in a leadership PAC—it can’t be used to campaign for an office,” says campaign finance attorney Brett Kappel. “You could use it to buy a suit, or pay your legal bills. He could put his kids on the payroll of the leadership PAC. He could put anyone on the payroll of the leadership PAC as long as they’re doing work for the PAC.” Trump could even put himself on the payroll, Kappel adds. But all those perks go away if Trump declares himself an official candidate. So if Trump were to declare himself a candidate, the hundreds of millions he has raised for his Save America PAC cannot be used for any expense directly related to his 2024 presidential campaign. If he wants to open a presidential campaign office, if he wants to hold rallies as a presidential candidate, if he wants to buy ads for his bid to retake the White House—none of that can be funded by this money.Not only is it easier to spend money with a leadership PAC, there are fewer fundraising restrictions, says Paul S. Ryan, a campaign finance attorney and vice president of policy and litigation at watchdog group Common Cause. “Candidates need to be raising the money under a much lower contribution limit—$2,800 per election, per donor, for the 2024 primary, versus the Save America PAC which can raise $5,000 per calendar year per donor,” Ryan says."
Once a Tedlimette always a Tedlimette L. O. F. L...Ruff Ruff! LOFL!
"And me. I supported the conservative in the race. I'm disappointed that I won't be able to vote for a conservative in the fall...I'm also very disappointed in the race that Cruz ran in the last part of his campaign. " -- DoodleDawg, May 4, 2016
And you ignored the underlying question because...?
DeSantis may take the VP don’t want to give to much away now it would be a great team to recover America.
MAGA
Sorry but Trump has to make it through Jan 6 and Merrick Garland, possible grand jury. Then he still has NY AG to deal with and that investigation.
Having a sizeable majority in house and Senate won’t help Trump much if both McConnell and McCarthy tie his hands to do what they want, select for Judges, positions they want, AG they want, hell they may even tell Trump he can’t fire Garland. We did that song and dance with Ryan and McConnell.
I want DeSantis.
I’m going to support and vote for Trump. And if for any reason Trump does not prevail, DeSantis will be an excellent Plan B.
Can’t go wrong.
Amen!
Could not agree more!
Who is going to be Trump’s VP?
I agree.... also. There are things that are not going to be popular that need to be done and it is best that trump do these things and then DeSantis comes in for a possible 8 more years. the net affect will be that the supreme court will be cleaned up long term not a bounce back to non-structuralist control of constitutional interpretation
trump/musk revenge tour 2024...
our turn to nominate an ineligible african-american... 😁
Up to your usual insulting nastiness again I see.
that’s a minor technicality.
didn’t slow down Bush/Cheney when both res of texas
Good song for Trump’s next run!
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