Posted on 12/20/2022 8:52:47 AM PST by Drew68
The nation's largest annual conference for Millennial and Gen-Z conservatives, AmericaFest, drew tens of thousands of attendees who seem divided on who should win the 2024 nomination—a troubling sign for the former president.
As Trump acolytes, like his eldest son Donald Trump Jr. and unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, sang praises for Trump's 2024 campaign, many event speakers avoided endorsing the former president and interviews with attendees revealed that many aren't prepared to commit to another Trump term just yet.
The four-day event in Phoenix, Arizona, is a glaring red flag for Trump's campaign. It signals there may not be a welcomed embrace awaiting the GOP figurehead in the Republican primaries.
"The fact that a previously elected president, head of the party with universal name ID is having any trouble solidifying enthusiastic support [from] the GOP faithful is a massive blinking warning sign," Republican strategist Alex Patton told Newsweek. "No one is just given the nomination. The former President is gonna have to work for it if he wants to win."
"People who formerly were openly pro-Trump are now hedging their bets," GOP political consultant Christopher Nicholas said.
While Trump has lambasted polls that show Florida Governor Ron DeSantis neck-and-neck with him for the 2024 GOP nomination, AmericaFest attendees reaffirmed that many conservatives remain divided on who to support for a presidential bid—even though DeSantis has yet to officially announce a 2024 run.
A number of eventgoers said that while they're fans of both Republicans, Trump has become so polarizing that it may be in the party's best interest to support a candidate who independent voters could get behind.
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There is not one negative they can cite about DeSantis so they make up stuff.
What a joke.
I’ve watched much of the AMFest and it is overwhelmingly pro-MAGA and Trump.
Desantis has done a good job in Florida, but he has supermajorities in his State government and a friendly judiciary. He gets little resistance to anything he does. Trump has fought vile forces from every direction yet still accomplished more than any President in recent memory.
————Tucker Carlson speaking at AMFEST—————
“And I thought I need to be more like that. That’s exactly right. I mean, let’s be honest. Who cares what I think— you know what I mean? Like, I’m not endorsing anybody. I have no idea what’s going to happen in the Republican primary.
“I spend a lot of time in Florida. And I think Ron DeSantis has done like an unbelievable job. And I mean that. I don’t know DeSantis that well. But let me put it this way. People move to Florida because he’s the governor. I’ve lived in a lot of states. You know, I grew up in California. I’ve lived in DC, Rhode Island, Arkansas, like I’ve kind of, you know, I’ve lived in this country for over 50 years, I know it pretty well. And I’ve never lived in the state where people just like unbidden at dinner like, ‘yeah, I’m really glad we have our governor’
“I was like ‘what?’ I’ve never lived a place people knew that governor was. ‘The governor, really? Was he here?’ ‘No, I just love him.’
Yawn
We’ll see
Tucker Carlson lied every night in the two weeks up to the Mid-Terms. Every night we were flooded with Dr. Oz. Lee Zeldin, Tudor Dixon, General Bolduc, etc were all ahead and were going to win. They all lost.
But Tucker got huge ratings on selling false hope for a “Red Wave”
3, 2, 1... "Tucker Carlson is a Deep State GOPe RINO stooge!"
He’s in Florida , it’s all fags
Everyone was selling a massive Red Wave.
It turned out that voters who hang up on pollsters and delete text messages from pollsters without replying represented a majority of voters.
Oops.
And actually, the GOP did OK in places where Trump didn't pick the candidates.
You: Every night we were flooded with Dr. Oz. Lee Zeldin, Tudor Dixon, General Bolduc, etc were all ahead and were going to win. They all lost.”
———————Truth:————————
On Friday’s edition of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” the host tried to get to the bottom of “the sad and bewildering story of Dr. Oz, a man with absolutely everything going for him.”
“Talent, decency, charm, money, name recognition, all the right endorsements…” Carlson began, referring to Oz. He continued, switching his attention to Fetterman, “…who is nevertheless losing by a big margin as a Republican in what should be a Republican wave election to a radical and incompetent Democrat lieutenant governor, who’s presided over the decline of the state, and who - by the way - who’s had a stroke and can no longer speak in complete sentences.”
Carlson went on: “Dr. Oz is getting crushed by a stroke victim who was already crazy.”
“He’s in Florida , it’s all fags”
Grow up.
Trump or DeSantis?...
Ah, you are a Paul Ryan fan. THAT explains everything Deep Stater.
Well, money is another reason. Either money from the books or using “book sales” as a cover for an otherwise unexplainable increase in visible wealth.
EC Washington: Tucker Carlson lied every night in the two weeks up to the Mid-Terms. Every night we were flooded with Dr. Oz. Lee Zeldin, Tudor Dixon, General Bolduc, etc were all ahead and were going to win. They all lost.
Tucker makes money from selling doom and gloom. He said back in March US farmers would not be able to afford diesel and fertilizer would be scare and store shelves would be bare come Fall. Tucker also said on Oct 27 diesel would run out the week of Thanksgiving. Diesel prices are now the lowest they have been in 16 months
I take anything Tucker says with a grain of heavy salt.
He was a bow tie wearing liberal while on CNN or at least leaned left.
Lol
Paul Ryan is that you?
A question for newsweek: if Pres. DJT is irrelevant, why waste ink on him?
It’s like agnostics and atheists who devote their lives to studying the Bible, trying to debunk it.
Where is Trump's autobiography?
Excellent post!
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