Posted on 04/21/2023 11:29:35 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
The backing of 11 Republican lawmakers out of 20 in DeSantis’s own back yard has raised questions about his viability as a competitor to Trump in the 2024 presidential election.
While DeSantis has not officially declared he is running, he is widely expected to announce a bid for the presidency after Florida’s legislative session wraps up in May. In the meantime, he has stepped up his travel around the country, and is set to go on an international trip to meet with U.S. allies Israel, Japan, South Korea, and the United Kingdom.
This week he met with GOP lawmakers in Washington, DC, and a DeSantis political aide reportedly called Florida Republicans asking them not to endorse Trump — which makes the recent backing of several more Florida Republican lawmakers even more damaging to DeSantis.
So far, Florida GOP Reps. Matt Gaetz, Anna Paulina Luna, Byron Donalds, Cory Mills, Vern Buchanan, Gus Bilirakis, Carlos Gimenz, John Rutherford, Greg Steube, Brian Mast, and Mike Waltz have all endorsed Trump.
Waltz’s endorsement, first reported by Breitbart News, was particularly significant, given that he took over DeSantis’s former district.
Other GOP lawmakers have lined up behind Trump, including Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX), who announced his support moments after leaving the D.C. meeting with DeSantis.
Some lawmakers have begun openly criticizing DeSantis. According to Politico Playbook, Steube said he never once heard back from DeSantis’s office despite repeated calls — until Trump starting picking up Florida congressional endorsements. In contrast, he said Trump was the first person he remembers calling him after he was hospitalized in a tree-trimming accident.
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Why does Trump keep attacking DeSantis from the left? Why is Trump siding with Cultural marxist Disney?, Why is he hosting and lionizing unrepentant homosexuals , and their agenda?
Why is Trump soft on cultural marxism? Why is Why is he attacking DeSantis from the left?
You are delusional.
“President Donald J. Trump marshalled the full power of government to stop deadly drugs, opioids, and fentanyl from coming into our country. As a result, drug overdose deaths declined nationwide for the first time in nearly 30 years. Joe Biden has allowed drug cartels to wage war on America, steal innocent lives, and ravage our communities. President Trump will take down the drug cartels just as he took down ISIS. He will impose a total naval embargo on cartels, order the Department of Defense to inflict maximum damage on cartel leadership and operations, designate cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, and choke off their access to the global financial system. President Trump will get the full cooperation of neighboring governments to dismantle the cartels, or else expose every bribe and kickback that allows these criminal networks to preserve their brutal reign. He will ask Congress to ensure that drug smugglers and traffickers can receive the Death Penalty. When President Trump is back in the White House, the drug kingpins and vicious traffickers will never sleep soundly again.”
via the link above
“Donald Trump recognized long before he became president that we cannot have free and open trade if some countries exploit the system at the expense of others. President Trump replaced decades of calamitous multinational trade blunders with fair and reciprocal trade that returned jobs, wealth, and manufacturing to America. He cancelled the job-killing Trans-Pacific Partnership, replaced the NAFTA nightmare with the groundbreaking USMCA, and renegotiated the one-sided South Korea deal. President Trump confronted unfair trade practices, imposed tariffs on China that brought billions of dollars into the federal treasury, expanded American agriculture, and opened thousands of new factories. President Trump will implement a 4-year national reshoring plan so that the United States no longer needs to rely on China for essential medical and national security goods, and ban Chinese ownership of all critical infrastructure in the United States. We will bring back our supply chains, and build America into the manufacturing superpower of the world.”
We get it that you’re on this forum to run down Trump and hype Ron….
….it won’ work
Your routine is tiresome and obvious
I don’t blame them. We saw what happened at DeSantis’ book signing. Nobody wants to get stalked by crazies like that. These are politians and they are taking the path of least resistance in endorsing Trump. They’ll flip to another candidate the moment it serves them.
“You are delusional.”
Well, then all I need to be Trump’s equal is money and a people personality.
In your dreams! You are more like the please clap Jeb version.
Quite the kick in the tip, isn’t it.
Trump has many positives.
But Lyndon Johnson knew that enacted bills are what really mattered.
Gingrich won in 1994. By 1996 he was largely finished as a political force. By Clinton’s impeachment he was hiding in a closet.
I don’t think DeSantis will run for President this cycle.
Was Mrs. Trump overly ambitious when Trump ran the first time? Has Mrs. DeSantis done something that seems overly ambitious?
31 states have open carry with no extra permits
10 more states require an extra permit.
Florida should have open carry since it gets
hot for 6 months with high humidity and stuffing
a gun in your underwear or wearing a jacket
is not a good option for carry.
Desantis did not get us open carry, the bill
just passed did nothing for people like me
who have had CCW in several states.
Also, for 5 years DeSantis promised us discounted
prescription drugs for what they pay in Canada
and he didn’t keep that promise.
Greg Steube
@gregsteube
Sad to see the Florida House and Senate, two bodies I had the honor to serve in, carrying the water for an unannounced presidential campaign.
To my fellow elected officials serving in Tallahassee, your constituents voted you into those positions to represent them, not to kowtow to the presidential ambitions of a Governor! Be strong and courageous, the people of Florida will thank you.
‘Deeply frustrated’: Florida legislators worn out by DeSantis
The governor didn’t wow D.C. It’s not great in Tallahassee either.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/20/florida-republicans-desantis-campaign-00092994
https://twitter.com/gregsteube/status/1649478744816361480
This same account did the same thing with the vaxs’ if I recall correctly.
Apparently its gotten its new assignment now that that issue is dead.
—> Was Mrs. Trump overly ambitious when Trump ran the first time?
No.
—> Has Mrs. DeSantis done something that seems overly ambitious?
Yes. Have you not read over the past year??
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