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.
they all say that.
“DeSantis has nothing to gain to challenge Trump for the nomination and everything to lose.
If Trump runs, win or lose, DeSantis will be president in 2028.
If Trump chooses not to run, DeSantis will be president in 2024.
DeSantis only loses if he chooses to fight Trump for the nomination, in which case he will never be president.”
I agree. Trump in 2024 and DeSantis in 2028.
I honestly don’t want DeSantis as Trump’s VP. He just needs to wait and see what Trump does.
If Trump runs, DeSantis runs the next time around and in the meantime continues as the amazing governor or Florida.
If Trump doesn’t run DeSantis gets the nomination easy and beats Biden epically!
the worst thing DeSantis could do would be to run against Trump for the nomination, and 2nd worst thing be Trumps VP.
desantis has proven he doesn’t fall in the “they” category...
If Trump decides not to run, there is a 100% chance DeSantis runs.
It is not even a question. He would be drafted!
Biden will not be on the ticket in 2024.
Lets see what the young Ivy League Bull is made of.
The Orange Elephant will win, but this could be entertaining.
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Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, which is in the Ivy League.
and who would replace him? Heels UP Harris? LMAO
it doesn’t matter who they run, liberals a screwed if inflation doesn’t go away.
And inflation CAN’T go away with liberals in charge, because the only solution to ANY problem liberals encounter is to ... throw money at it... which is the ONE thing you CAN’T do to fix inflation! and in fact, only makes it worse.
Liberals are screwed.
thank you for proving red bull gives you wings...
maybe Mayor ButtPlug!
LMAO
Is Trump young?
But it won’t be Biden. It will be someone far more electable.
De Santis is more conservative than Trump and would not win over enough Democrats in the general.
Thank G-d. Let’s go. See my FR handle.
I don’t know who they’ll run, but it won’t be Biden or Harris.
DeSantis is just another politician who pretends to be conservative but once in the WH will support the MIC/CIA/NSA to destroy humanity.
Trump won’t.
I would argue DeSantis isn’t more conservative than Trump. He is about equal to Trump on policy, he just doesn’t have the personal baggage that puts many off about Trump on a personal level.
Many of the TDS conservatives would vote for DeSantis that wouldn’t for Trump as an example.
you obviously don’t live in the free state of florida...
If Trump runs, DeSantis wont. It’s that simple.
So you don’t have to choose one or the other, either Trump runs and you get to vote for Trump, or Trump doesn’t run and you can then freely support DeSantis.
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