Posted on 05/04/2023 2:54:39 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
The GOP’s two biggest leading rivals are in for a surprise after polling found that their union on a presidential ticket could result in them carrying the popular vote by the largest margin since Bill Clinton in 1996.
If President Trump were to select Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as his vice presidential running mate, the ticket would carry the popular vote by nearly double digits over Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, according to polling.
A Rasmussen Reports poll found that the hypothetical duo led the incumbent Democrats in the presidential race by eight points (51 percent to 43 percent).
The poll also found that a unifying ticket between Trump and DeSantis would bring five percent more independent voters and increases of two and four percent among every age group and ethnicity.
Additionally, a ticket with Trump and Kari Lake, the former Arizona Republican gubernatorial nominee, defeated Biden and Harris at 47 percent to 42 percent, according to Rasmussen Reports.
We the People Convention President Tom Zawistowski said that a Trump-DeSantis ticket would bode well for Republicans who are hoping to unseat Biden in 2024.
“We can’t win if either Trump or DeSantis is up on Biden by five percent or six percent and if we are not over 50 percent,” Zawistowski said.
“Across the poll, we see a six percent jump from people who would vote for ‘other’ who move to Trump-DeSantis. That’s a big deal. Plus, a Trump-DeSantis Unity Ticket does well in the swing states,” he added.
Should they choose to join forces, a Trump-DeSantis ticket could result in a landslide victory against Joe Biden, as each of them is wildly popular among their core bases.
Trump and DeSantis have recently thrown jabs at one another as the campaign trail heats up. DeSantis has not yet announced an official presidential bid.
Trump, however, has consistently led DeSantis by massive margins in recent polling. An Ipsos/Reuters poll from last month found that Trump led DeSantis by nearly 40 points (58 percent to 21 percent) for the nomination.
Trump has all the right enemies and DeoSantus il Brute has all the wrong friends.
That's OK as long as they apply the Cheney (Richard B.) standard of residency.
Trump could announce he was a resident of Wyoming and all would be well.
Trump did not “make” Desantis. He did endorse him in 2018 and that appears to have helped, but after that Trump had nothing to do with his success as governor. Desantis first supported Trump in 2016 and through 2018 as a congressman, and then he y supported Trump in 2020, so the idea that Desantis owes it to Trump to stay out of the race is childish. You could just as easily say Trump owed it to Desantis to endorse him in 2018 since Desantis supported Trump first. And after the crap Trump pulled on Desantis in 2022 and all of the attacks since then, Desantis has no obligation to Trump at all.
Cheney had long-standing ties to Wyoming (he was their congressman for years) and still owned property in Wyoming, so moving his domicile back to Wyoming was a simple thing. Trump could not just announce he is a resident of Wyoming, but he could move his domicile to a state where he already has ties and owns property fairly easily.
Well, that's what my son says. He says the MSM is way to soft on DeSantis. After some of the stuff he has done in Florida of recent, they're not attacking him like you think they would. My son thinks there's Something fishy about that..
I think maybe they're just saving it all up to use a fresh ammo against him if he decides to run for the job.. Or maybe they're thinking ANYBODY but Trump..
But, in my opinion, if DeSantis is just HALF honest, that would be twice as good as Pence ever was..
Everyone who has ever tried has come away seriously disillusioned and all bridges burned/
Of course, it has tp be that they all failed Trump somehow, right?
Everyone stabs poor old Donald in the back--especially the very "best" people he promised us all he would have working for him .
"The Donald can never fail, he can only be failed by those who do not love him enough."
He dared to win a swing state by 20 points and show Trump for the loser he is.
Your Bridge.
Return to it.
My point was, Cheney was provably a resident of Texas and should have been disqualified from receiving electoral votes from that State if GWB got them.
I don’t care about this issue at all, Trump is not going to be the GOP nominee and will probably be in ADX Florence by Summer 2024, DeSantis is hopeless on my major issues, I voted for Ed Clark in 1980 and Ross Perot twice, so I’m probably going to find someone who can earn my vote by November 2024.
I am not a Libertarian, but Ed Clark was a good man.
Since Trump and his supporters have spent months trashing DeSantis, why shoukd DeSantis and his supporters embrace Trump?
Sauce for the goose.
“why do so many on Free Republic dislike DeSantis?”
The answer is very simple, yet sad.
Numerous — quite possibly most — Freepers suffer from a novel malady known as DDS — DeSantis Derangement Syndrome. It’s as irrational, and apparently as incurable, as TDS — Trump Derangement Syndrome.
It’s quite tragic, really
They have no election prospects.
Trump has a hard ceiling of 232, DeSantis probably much less.
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Trump's already had four. Couldn't handle
covid 19 and re-election. Just my two pennies .
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