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DeSantis team claims Trump supporters will switch allegiance when he enters the race
PM ^ | 5.12.23 | Jarryd Jaeger

Posted on 05/12/2023 4:31:31 PM PDT by conservative98

With Florida governor Ron DeSantis expected to launch his presidential campaign in the coming weeks, there has been much speculation regarding whether or not he will be able to draw support away from the Republican frontrunner, Donald Trump, and emerge as a fresh new alternative for the party.

Members of DeSantis' team have argued that, despite continously trailing the former president in the polls, the governor's base of support will expand as soon as he officially declares that he's running.

According to Politico, DeSantis' team is confident that their guy has what it takes to become the nominee, with gubernatorial campaign manager Generra Peck suggesting that "everyone knows the majority of the Republican Party wants to move on."

DeSantis' spokesperson David Abrams highlighted the fact that Trump took to attacking the governor personally and professionally long before any talk of a presidential run was openly discussed. He suggested that the former president "knows that his greatest threat is Ron DeSantis."

Of course, DeSantis made all the moves of a man seeking to become president save for actually announcing.

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DeSantis "has clearly made the calculation he needs to be a good alternative for Trump diehard voters out there."

(Excerpt) Read more at thepostmillennial.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 0001absurdity; 0001neverrds; 001onlytrump; 01hellnords; 2024; davidabrams; delusional; desanctus; desantis; donatedonaldtrump; donatetrump; generrapeck; ncalburt; robertblizzard; roybailey; teamdesantis; trump
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To: dragnet2
I live in the real world in which Trump actions destroyed and has never recovered from .
Trump wiped out millions of jobs and hopes- dreams by
getting rolled by Two well known DC Demoncrats.
His beautiful Vaccine was used as a weapon on the powerless public .
The US has never recovered spiritually.
He has no chance of being re-elected especially with five times loser good old Crooked Incompetent Ronna .

I want to win in 24 .

61 posted on 05/12/2023 5:47:01 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil )
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To: bte

The only person with an R by their name I’m convinced could win in 2024 is DeSantis.

Is not on policy or anything else, it’s the fact that the powers who be will him to win in order to shove it down the American populace throats about who is winnable candidate.

The whole system is corrupt. DeSantis had an easy cruise to nomination in 2028 (better or worse) but I think he blew it over the non-chalant/delayed announcement this year.


62 posted on 05/12/2023 5:47:48 PM PDT by It Aint Easy
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To: Allegra

Lol .
The truth was too much .


63 posted on 05/12/2023 5:48:29 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil )
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To: conservative98

Desantis should wait 4-8 years. Build his bona rides. Patience, grasshopper.


64 posted on 05/12/2023 5:50:37 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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To: Seaplaner

“If the Dems win in 24, what might we expect thereafter?”
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The literal end of our nation. That’s why Americans, and especially Repu, have to rally around a proven leader who will fight with everything he’s got to restore this nation to greatness. If Trump isn’t our next President, we are in for VERY difficult times on every front imaginable.


65 posted on 05/12/2023 5:50:40 PM PDT by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: conservative98

My Take:

DeSantis is counting on the the corrupt legal system to take out Trump. If they can get Trump on a Felony then DeSantis figures he is a shoe in.


66 posted on 05/12/2023 5:51:56 PM PDT by Revel
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To: catnipman

Exactly


67 posted on 05/12/2023 5:54:41 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: conservative98

I like DeSantis well enough. Also Cruz. A few others.

But I’m voting Trump in the primaries.

That said, in the general I will vote for any of them who gets the nomination over whatever corrupt garbage the Dems put up as their nominee.

Heck, I’d vote for a ham sandwich, gerbil, or piece of toast over any Dem candidate.


68 posted on 05/12/2023 5:56:38 PM PDT by piytar (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit!)
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To: Jane Long

My POTUS, PDJT, is a once in a lifetime historic leader who sacrificed a life of luxury to stand in the breach for all of us to save the world.

DeSanctimonious is another run-of-the-mill political puppet who’s following his masters who just so happen to be donors determined to take down the very man to whom he owes his current office. His betrayal of our GOAT POTUS has exposed his considerable character flaws and his recent overseas travel demonstrated his unfitness to be the leader of the free world.

I will never cast a vote for him nor for any of the other far inferior and delusional GOP 2024 candidates.


69 posted on 05/12/2023 5:58:47 PM PDT by edie1960 (7)
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To: dragnet2
We have Lost Five Times since Trump .
2018 was a most significant wipe out .
The dems flipped the house and almost the senate but worse
WI MI PA both Gov and houses flipped .
Those losses were the one of the main reasons for our 2020 defeat .
Those State dems controlled the secretary of stare offices.

Trump has done nothing for the Gop but use it .
He is a opportunist .
He was a Clinton Dem donor who knew Hillary was intensely hated and could be defeated . The Dems like him pushed her off the 2008 ticket because of it .
We are going to be crushed in 24 if Trump is on the ticket .
He is our Hillary .

70 posted on 05/12/2023 5:59:06 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil )
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To: ncalburt
We have Lost Five Times since Trump .

lol....Apply for a job at CNN burt. You'd fit right in with those leftist bull s*****.

71 posted on 05/12/2023 6:12:23 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Jane Long

I suspect Republican party apparatchiks approached DeSantis soon after Trump took office, and got into his head. They convinced him that if he aligned himself politically with Trump, he’d have a bright future.

They stroked his ego, and his wallet, and told them if he did things just right, he could become the leading contender to succeed Trump once Trump was out of office. DeSantis is ambitious and like what he heard. It would be an easy blueprint to follow - support and align yourself with a popular populist candidate. He probably envisioned running in 2024, after Trump finished his second term. Then Trump had the election stolen from him, and his consultants and handlers switched from - “You’re well positioned to succeed Trump” to “You’re well positioned to replace Trump”.

Now if DeSantis had really loyal to Trump or to Trump’s anti-establishment, anti-globalist agenda, he would have said, “No thanks. Trump’s still in the game and he’s the clear favorite to be re-nominated in 2024. I’ll wait till he’s served his second term.” But DeSantis was never about MAGA, or loyalty. He’s always been an opportunist.


72 posted on 05/12/2023 6:13:24 PM PDT by mbrfl (That's my Governor! That's right. That overhyped Establishment tool is my Governor. .)
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To: ncalburt

I’ll never support another career lawyer politician. I’m done with that. Thanks to the never ending conga line of these types, America is now all but dead on the floor.


73 posted on 05/12/2023 6:16:39 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Ancesthntr
the literal end of our nation. That’s why Americans, and especially Repu, have to rally around a proven leader who will fight with everything he’s got to restore this nation to greatness. If Trump isn’t our next President, we are in for VERY difficult times on every front imaginable. The "proven leader" has feet of clay, my good FRiend.

If Trump wins the GOP nod, and that may very well happen, the Dem oppo ads will be non-stop about porn star hush money indictment, impeachment, J6, and many other loud, but effective, slurs.

The electorate has changed much in the soon-to-be 8 years since '16. More low info voters who get their "news" from online leftists.

And, on top of that, Mister Trump continually and continuously chooses to insult and disenfranchise GOPers and Indies, whose votes he desperately needs, to divide his own party. Astonishing. He shrinks his own base, would a complete thinker do such a thing before an election?

Ancesthntr, I'm certain that you are a very nice person, that we have much in common, and that we are really on the same team. You like Trump, and that's fine with me.

I would like him better if I thought for a second that he would win the general election in 24.

He simply can't.

74 posted on 05/12/2023 6:17:40 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston Churchill)
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To: conservative98

DO NOT HOLD YOUR BREATH


75 posted on 05/12/2023 6:18:02 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: conservative98

They’re desperate and delusional.


76 posted on 05/12/2023 6:20:33 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: adorno

Well said, but way fewer will jump ship than the rinos hope


77 posted on 05/12/2023 6:20:45 PM PDT by Wpin ("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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To: dragnet2

Sadly , A fact .
Trump has lost Five Times in a row
and his brilliant hand picked crook Ronna
he pushed to make 24 his sixth loss .


78 posted on 05/12/2023 6:22:32 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil )
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To: dragnet2

Desantis is a self made man .
He fought to get where he is today .
Trump got 400 million from Dad in the 1970s .
I like a self made man not a Rich Boy .


79 posted on 05/12/2023 6:25:11 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil )
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To: ncalburt
Trump NY tactics have divided and destroyed the Gop .

Nonsense.

Trump tried working with the RINOs. The RINOs stabbed him in the back, to this very day.

Pretty clear to anybody who has followed what has happened, day after day, over the last 6 years.

80 posted on 05/12/2023 6:31:37 PM PDT by FreeReign
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