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Posted on 05/17/2023 9:11:22 AM PDT by conservative98
'Ron’s magic is GONE!' Former President Donald Trump is weighing in on the Jacksonville mayoral race, which saw a Democrat win just months after Republicans carried the state handily.
On Truth Social, Trump said Republican Daniel Davis’ “shocker” loss to Democrat Donna Deegan came down to Team Davis courting Ron DeSantis’ endorsement instead of that of the former President.
“In a big upset, the DeSanctimonious backed Republican candidate for Mayor of Jacksonville, Florida, LOST. This is a shocker. If they would have asked me to Endorse, he would have won, easily. Too proud to do so,” Trump said.
“Fools! This is a BIG LOSS for the Republican Party,” Trump added. “Remember, ‘Rob’ only won because of me!!!”
In a follow-up post, Trump doubled down.
“Ron’s magic is GONE! He also lost, shockingly, in Jacksonville last night (Mayor).”
DeSantis endorsed Davis after the First Election in March, which saw Davis rebuff three other Republican candidates to emerge into the General Election with roughly a quarter of the vote, 15 points behind first-place Deegan.
Jacksonville has a voter registration advantage for Democrats, with 40% of the electorate registered Democrat and just 35% Republican, according to the most recent L2 voter data. But Republicans, as typically happens in local elections, won the turnout battle Tuesday, with a 7,100-vote advantage translating to an R+3.25 map.
Yet despite the GOP turnout advantage, it was clear that crossover Republicans and no-party voters turned out for Deegan, with the DeSantis endorsement apparently not being a factor to unify the party. Word was that the DeSantis endorsement was contingent on Davis not chasing Trump’s backing, in yet another sign of Republicans being compelled to pick sides.
DeSantis offered paper endorsements, but never came to Jacksonville to help the candidates he backed. Nor did he offer a robocall or other material support.
Davis wasn’t the only DeSantis-endorsed loser Tuesday.
Property Appraiser candidate Jason Fischer touted his DeSantis endorsement ahead of the March election, which gave him a ticket to the May runoff. But he lost to Democrat Joyce Morgan.
C’mon man haven’t you heard? Only way any repub can get elected is with Trumps endorsement......and if you lose without it that’s why.
Sounds to me like Trump is letting a guy that hasn’t even declared his intentions to run for POTUS that he’s supposedly 800 points ahead of in every poll live rent free in his head to me. 🤭
The lockdown big pharma billions prez is wrong about a lot of things. Like thinking we forgot about people who died alone in hospitals and homes without the decency of a funeral because he let fauci n birx run his presidency.
It would be like forgetting 9/11.
It appears the Floriduh boyz voted with their penises. Geez.
“Say goodbye to J-ville as goes down the Democrats sewer.”
Jacksonville at this time is similar to what Columbus (Ohio) and Indianapolis USED to be. Large cities (large in land area) which once were surprisingly Republican in their politics.
It is precisely BECAUSE of their large area that things were like that politically. They got large by annexing numerous suburban areas containing GOP voters.
But, as with any large city, the demographic balance got worse and worse over time, and those midwestern cities flipped from blue to red (proper color usage). Now it’s Jacksonville’s turn.
I wonder why Dear Leader, who lost Jacksonville in both 2016 and 2020, didn’t go campaign there for the GOP candidate, or even spend a few seconds to endorse him? Was it likely to be too close of an outcome to risk the “winning percentage”? Too busy tweeting? Hoping the Rat would win so he could blame DeSanktimooenyuss or whatever his juvenile name for the Governor is today?
Ron just signed the 6 week abortion ban into law.
Get used to losing races, Rs. Especially ones endorsed by Ron.
If you don’t live here, you don’t know how bad that law galvanized the opposition. I hear women talking about the new law with disgust all the time now. Serious backfire coming. Desantis is polling 20 points behind Trump IN FLORIDA.
And I’m a big Ron fan, and Trump fan. But I’m right on this.
Democrats
You can’t be trusted.
DeSantis: GOP 'Must Reject the Culture of Losing,' No More 'Excuses':
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4153130/posts
And then from his SuperPac:
It's about winning – and producing results. That's what Ron DeSantis does, and that's why so many are supporting him for president! pic.twitter.com/rUnrqbfczW— Never Back Down (@NvrBackDown24) May 16, 2023
If you can't take the heat, don't start things.
I'm eagerly awaiting the Trump groupies to tell everyone how calling a fellow Republican childish names like "DeSanctimonious" unifies the party.
All the major cities in Florida now have Demo mayors. So what? Everyday Florida is run by the State Govenor and Legislature. Local Mayors have no real power here.
The women of America want unlimited abortion and a Leviathan welfare state. America is dead. Get used to it.
There are new threads everyday , featuring fighting about this Trump versus DeSantis situation.
So here we go.
The six week law is folly. Fifty years of secular brainwashing has had a powerful effect, with plenty of women believing that they have the RIGHT to slice and dice their own flesh and blood through a Veg-o-matic.
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Trump can't be trusted, per the desantis supporter
But, desantis, who
Has lied and continues to lie, about his intent to run for president, even back when he was running for re-election as governor.
Is deceitful and plays games with when he's announcing his intent to run for president, i.e. I'm not a candidate - bobblehead desantis
And fraudulently converting state campaign donations, to use in his presidential campaign, which is illegal per FEC.
And endorsed and supported by swampy GOPe rinos, most recently from Iowa GOP.
So, desantis supporters/nevertrumpers, explain why desantis, who deliberately lies, jerks people around, and is willing to do illegal acts to become president, is who you want and should be, president?
That’s how it starts… next stop for FL is Californization
B-but Trump needs to unify the party but DeSanctimonoius doesn’t?
If you live anywhere near Jacksonville and saw how the Republicans ran in the primary, it was shameful, at the end you would have thought each one was a child molester and serial killer, all this PAC money was paying for ads savaging each other.
Donna Deegan was the lone Democrat and didn’t do anything but shore up her base, when the general election came around, a good number of Republicans stayed home over the negative primaries, Deegan turned out the black vote and ran a good campaign.
I should also note Deegan ran two other times for US Congress and was routed each time in a 60-40 or 70-30 type of margin, she is a horrible person in real life, but she ran a good campaign and won after the Republicans destroyed each other.
Trump is wrong on this issue but what else is new.
With Democrats in control, how long will it take to “Californicate” Jacksonville?
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