Posted on 01/08/2023 12:45:49 AM PST by blueplum
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem appears to be showing off her bona fides ahead of what's expected to be a competitive 2024 Republican presidential primary as she gave her second inaugural speech Saturday.
Noem, who won re-election by 26 points, spoke ahead of the speech, which included a reference to David Letterman's famous 'Top 10' lists and discussed how her leadership can offer lessons for the rest of the country.
She was asked Saturday if she wasn't ruling out a 2024 run and responded that 'that's fair to say. But there are a lot of people out there talking about running for president. I also know that politics changes quickly and things change on a dime on who's going to run and who's not going to run. I want the best person.' ...
...At the Conservative Political Action Conference in February, she was voted No. 2 by attedees, after DeSantis, when former President Donald Trump wasn't in the mix, in the event's annual presidential straw poll....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
We cannot have a governor who leads a group less the most. She’s got 800K population to look after. She’s got the easiest gig in the country. She needs way more experience. She’d be eaten alive the first day she’d actually have to work.
Might as well make it the British crown. Hand pick next in line like in England. That basically what you advocate.
Or maybe he’s trying to fix Miami’s flooding problem. You do know that flooding has increased in the city. Whatever the reason, DeSantis is taking action.
Well...she’s not hard to look at.
Yes, I’m a rude and crass male. Not really, but the lib weenies would say so.
Those same tax cuts you brag about turn into tax increases in 2025 due to his insistence of having a sunset provision put in for working class. Funny the tax increase begins after his second term was supposed to be over. Pretty sneaky.
She pushes trans stuff.
Only Trump has a chance.
Meh...you've already gone 'all in' with the WEF on your support of Zelenski and Ukraine.
Too late to back out now.
“Kristi Noem Calls for Conservative Critic’s Ouster over Complaint about ‘Kid-Friendly’ Drag”
Perhaps we should consider more than just looks when considering a female for the top job?
“As for me, If DeSantis challenges President Trump in the Primaries, I won’t be voting GOP in the General, primarily because DeSantis will have proven himself to be a traitor where MAGA is concerned.”
My estimate is about you and 20,000,000 others...and I certainly cannot see DeSantis replacing any of those votes by ‘reaching across the aisle’.
Do you have the quote of DeSantis saying what you claim he said?
She’s positioning for #2 as either Trump or DeSantis will be at the head of the ticket.
‘Tis the season...
We will be inundated with these kinds of articles from 2024 wannabes. Like 2016, it will be a list two-dozen long.
The problem is, out of that two-dozen only 2 or 3 would even be worth considering as having statesman-like qualities. Most of the others are nothing more than a-dime-a-dozen run-of-the-mill politicians.
Is that it? Good grief.
Short answer: He said exactly the opposite.
“When they try to act like this is something akin to the Sept. 11 attacks, that is an insult to the people who were going into those buildings,” DeSantis said. “And it’s an insult to people when you say it’s an ‘insurrection’ and then, a year later, nobody has been charged with that.” "However, referring to House Select Committee hearings, DeSantis said Democrats were “beating a dead horse” and trying to “divert attention” from inflation."On the anniversary of the Capitol riot, DeSantis likened Jan. 6 to “Christmas” for “D.C.-New York media,” saying the incident lets news outlets create “narratives that are negative” about former President Donald Trump’s supporters. “They are going to take this and milk this for anything they could to try to be able to smear anyone who ever supported Donald Trump,” DeSantis said at a news conference.
DeSantis has said that protestors who commit violent acts, regardless of what they are protesting, should be held accountable, --a position not at all out of step with mainstream America.
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