Posted on 02/13/2023 11:10:46 PM PST by Trump20162020
His support among Republicans at this early stage of the primary cycle puts him in rare company.
Is Ron DeSantis the next Scott Walker? It’s a question I’ve been hearing a lot lately.
The premise is that there’s an important similarity between the two: They both earned the affection of conservatives by “owning the libs” as governors, rather than by giving soaring speeches or otherwise demonstrating the skills to win a presidential nomination.
In the end, Mr. Walker’s success in Wisconsin did not translate to the national stage; the implication is that Mr. DeSantis’s success in Florida might not translate either. A wave of articles over the last few weeks has questioned whether he has the charisma, charm and likability to win the nomination. If he falters, the ending of his campaign might read a like lot the story of Walker for President.
But, at least at the beginning of the race, Mr. DeSantis is no Scott Walker. He would start the campaign in a very different and far stronger position, even if there is still no way to know whether he “has what it takes” to succeed against former President Donald J. Trump. What sets Mr. DeSantis apart from Mr. Walker? To be blunt: how many people already say they want him to be president.
In this narrow but important respect, Mr. DeSantis has a lot more in common with Barack Obama or Ronald Reagan than Mr. Walker or the other promising first-time candidates who did not live up to high hopes in recent years, like Kamala Harris, Rick Perry or Wesley Clark.
Overall, Mr. DeSantis has 32 percent support in polls taken since the midterm elections. This is not a fleeting product of a wave of favorable media coverage. Instead, he has made steady gains in the polls over the last two years.
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Shape shifters should be banned from politics.
I hate it when people turn out to be someone else.
When the NYT is pushing for a particular Republican to run for office, that right away is a suspicious move on their part. What the NYT really wants is to set up a double death match between Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, effectively denying Trump the election in 2024, and DeSantis the election in 2028.
Who says the NYT doesn’t want to play the long game? The CCP has taught them well.
The formula for a Pubbie to win the office of POTUS in 2016 was obvious to One Guy very in early 2015. DJT, then a non-candidate, clearly read those same tea leaves, because he ended up launching his candidacy with every ingredient of the aforementioned formula (and yes, he instantly garnered One Guy’s support at that time). The formula for a Pubbie to win the office of POTUS in 2024 is now nowhere near as obvious to One Guy. Hopefully Trump’s tea leaf-reading skills are at least as good now, or preferably better, than they were in 2015, because the stakes are even higher now.
Is that true?
I’m suspicious of anything The New York Times does, given their long history and agendas
[Nate Cohn]
Career
After graduating from college, he began working at The Stimson Center in Washington, D.C. He was then recruited by The New Republic before being hired by David Leonhardt to work for The New York Times in November 2013. At the Times, he has worked with Amanda Cox on many of “The Upshot”’s election-related stories.[7][8]
Cohn has been a political commentator on CNN, MSNBC, C-SPAN, and NPR.[9] In addition to writing for The New York Times, Cohn has also written columns for The Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, and RealClearPolitics, among others.[10]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nate_Cohn
I heard DeSantis speak in person at a rather small venue late last summer. He is charismatic and may well have what it takes to win an election.
But....unfortunately, he has a lot of splanin' to do on issue after issue. From weak support of voter fraud to his friendship with Jeb to issue after issue that go largely unnoticed until now.it all needs to be addressed by DeSantis.
Than there is the "Libby problem" raised by Mike Lindell. Mike Lindell is one of three voter fraud experts who command a national stage for me along with Maria Zack and the real potus president:President Trump. When these three talk about voter fraud we need to listen.
How do you run for potus on our side yet pal around with a lawyer representing Dominon and his weak/woke leadership for kids over third grade.
It's on and on with this guy.
Is it all mistakes? If so I want to hear it from him not others.
Not only was Cruz the Cubamerinadian was not just clueless. He was also ineligible. He would have served his country so much better in the 2013-2015 timeframe by admitting his constitutional ineligibility, teaching the rest of the country just why he was ineligible, and sitting and waiting to be nominated to SCOTUS (where his non-U.S.-soil (Canada) birth and his non-U.S.-citizen-blood (Cuba) paternity were both non-issues).
It's not 2016 and Ron DeSantis isn't Ted Cruz. Trump is no longer the warrior outsider taking on a field of lightweights that the base has little enthusiasm for.
Trump is now a defeated Washington insider with a tarnished record whose handpicked candidates were thoroughly rejected during the midterms while Ron DeSantis is the most popular Republican governor in the country, re-elected in a massive landslide and enjoying an 85% approval rating.
If Trump thinks he's going to roll over Ron DeSantis like he did Cruz, Rubio, or Jeb, he's in for a surprise. DeSantis has an army of enthusiastic supports who love the fight he's put forth in championing conservatism while destroying liberal institutions in Florida.
DeSantis is taking on the Biden Administration while Trump tweets about Stormy Daniels, Rihanna, throws gay soirées at Mar-A-Lago, and needlessly attacks Republican leaders who are wildly more conservative, likable, and accomplished than he is.
Excellent post right to the source of what is going on here.
DeSantis has said that all violent protestors (keyword: violent) deserve to be locked up regardless of their ideology, a view not outside the mainstream.
He has condemned the J6 committee as "Christmas for Democrats" and an "excuse to attack everyone who supported President Trump."
Wonders whether for the J6 people still wasting away in jail, the bloom may somewhat be coming off the Trump rose.
Wonders also whether Trump may need to make permanently wiping their criminal liability away (like with a cloth) not only AN ingredient of his 2023-2024 campaign (he’s already done that), but also an indispensable one, AND a screamingly obvious one.
Are you saying it is not true?
The problem with DeSantis — and why he is now the Left’s favorite foil against Trump — is that DeSantis lacks the combination of personal wealth, relentless drive, and experience to stand up to what the Left would inflict on DeSantis as President. In comparison, Trump is like a block of asbestos — flawed and often nasty to deal with — but fireproof in ways that DeSantis is almost certainly not and can never be.
“Others might disagree with me, and that’s fine. That’s what primaries are for.”
I’ll support those who aren’t Marxist, Satanist (which covers a lot of the crazed mob) Philistines... or Democrap jackasses.
The premise that “In the end, Mr. Walker’s success in Wisconsin did not translate to the national stage” is wrong. Walker blew a lead because he hired DC Consultants to run his campaign who ran on anti union, which was not who he was.
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