Posted on 03/25/2023 2:47:23 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s donors and supporters are beginning to question if the potential 2024 Republican presidential candidate should run in the next election cycle — a bid that would put him against former President Donald Trump — or wait until 2028, according to reports.
According to a report from NBC News, donors and supporters of DeSantis are having second thoughts on the prospect of the governor’s potential presidential bid. Per the report, one main issue seems to be the governor’s ability to take Trump — who has been criticizing the governor for months — head on.
Per the report:
At a Sunday luncheon following the annual Red Cross ball in Palm Beach, Florida, a group of 16 prominent Republicans, described by one attendee as a mix of DeSantis backers and Trump “skeptics,” discussed misgivings about the governor’s standing for the future if he tussles with the former president.
One attendee told the outlet that these individuals believe that DeSantis’s future is better secured without facing Trump directly this election cycle.
“He will get scarred up” by the former president, according to the attendee.
The report also highlighted the newfound hesitancy among some of DeSantis’s backers, including what NBC News described as “conservative billionaire shipping goods magnate Richard Uihlein” and his wife, who gave roughly half a million in contributions to DeSantis’s reelection campaign. NBC News, citing someone “familiar with the strategy” around their spending, said, “The brakes are pumped,” in part, due to DeSantis’s waning status in recent surveys. And, indeed, Trump has continued to grow in survey after survey, even garnering 50 percent or more as DeSantis appears to lose momentum, particularly following the news of Trump’s forthcoming indictment and what some conservatives view as the governor’s insufficient response.
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Yup. Many haven’t a clue as to what a great candidate Pompeo would be. If they paid attention to his successes as Sec State and bothered to listened to dozens of his speeches and interviews, they would know who the man is.
DeSantis is put up by the Jeb wing of the Uniparty to take out Trump.
Nobody wants Trump but voters, and in this brave new world that doesn’t seem to be enough.
Biden is a puppet. We don't need another one.
Unfortunately for America, there is a strong plurality of Republica primary voters who while have obviously gotten tired of winning, have most certainly not gotten tired of losing.
As it stands today, Trump is favored to win the GOP nomination. He will then be soundly defeated in the General Election, taking the House down with him and any chance of regaining the Senate.
MAGA!
Every time I suggested Pompeo...People were screaming CIA CIA. All that tells me is first and what authority different people have.....and they didn’t even look beyond the CIA. What a way to make a decision.
We already had one CIA President, we don’t need another.
"Failure to launch."
[note to self: add Sacajaweau to list of indian freepers who are delusional]
I think history will demonstrate your statement was correct.
“Trump can’t win again.”
“This DeSanctimonious Campaign Message brought to you by the DeSantis “Not Campaigning Yet” Campaign, the GOP-E, the DeepState, and GOP Moderates everywhere!”
...and repeated ad nauseum by people who can’t think.
“Look at me I’m smart because I have an opinion.” Yeah, an opinion spoon fed to you by charlatans counting on your stupidity to repeat it like its your own.
Dunces everywhere. Why do I have to share a planet with these insufferable half wits?
I've yet to meet an honest CIA person who was not subverting the US Constitution to international law and globalism.
Duh! Of course he should wait for 2028 - who didn’t know that?
I got a chill when they said “2028.”
There may not be a 2028.
Unless you count the Communist style “elections” where the fearless leader wins again and again.
Fidel Castro ruled Cuba from 1959-2008. Didn’t worry about mail-in ballots or updating voter rolls. He said in 1959 regular parties and old style of elections were temporarily suspended in order to protect the people’s revolution from danger. Didn’t look back.
Mao Zedong Communist Chairman in China from March, 1943 until his death on September 9, 1976.
Stalin led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.
How in the world do you “know” Trump can’t win? I would say that the only one that knows that is God, and you ain’t it. That is exactly what they said in 2016, and look what happened. You might want to explain why you think you know and on what basis.
Hopefully I’ll be dead before 2028 rolls around so I don’t have to see what loser Presidential candidates the RNC will shove down our throats.
The CIA’s work IS in the International (Global) Arena. Subversion is not part of their agenda. Why do you people just make things up??
Yes kids, the Magic 8 Ball is fun to play with!
Hope is not a strategy.
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