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Don’t write off DeSantis – he’s been rope-a-doping Trump and is about to come out swinging
The New York Post ^ | May 16, 2023 | Piers Morgan

Posted on 05/18/2023 2:00:10 PM PDT by TBP

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To: TBP

Unfortunately Trump has an inexhaustible supply of tweets. The analogy doesn’t work. But I hope, if DeSantis decides to “come out swinging”, he swings at Biden for a change. dittos for Trump btw.


21 posted on 05/18/2023 2:16:14 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: TBP

LOL Piers Morgan the soothsayer speaks. If De Santos wants to lean back on the ropes and let Trump land haymakers his chances of ever being POTIS is dead.

I had such high hopes for him next go around but he stepped in the bog and the swamp took him. Such potential sounded by bog politics.


22 posted on 05/18/2023 2:18:40 PM PDT by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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To: TBP

Forget it Piers. Its over.


23 posted on 05/18/2023 2:19:41 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: tflabo

I agree. But there are so many here on Free Republic, who claim to hate DeSantis, and claim they would never vote for him, not even in a future election where Trump isn’t involved.

I’m trying to figure out the mindset of hate for a successful conservative governor.


24 posted on 05/18/2023 2:23:05 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: TBP

Wishful thinking on the part of the British gun grabber.


25 posted on 05/18/2023 2:24:45 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Chgogal

Because he’s done an excellent job as governor. It’s just not his time to run for presidrnt.


26 posted on 05/18/2023 2:25:22 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: TBP

DeSantis polled strongest before it became clear that he was going to run.

Every since then, he has been losing ground.

He’s like Hillary.

Polls strongest on Day One of the campaign and loses ground every day after.


27 posted on 05/18/2023 2:26:56 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Metrobank

Agreed. DeSantis had a lane and an opportunity. He pissed it down his leg.


28 posted on 05/18/2023 2:27:19 PM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: TBP

All Trump has to do is talk about how DeSantis has refused to secure Florida’s elections, and Florida’s budgets since DeSantis became gov.


29 posted on 05/18/2023 2:29:20 PM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
But there are so many here on Free Republic, who claim to hate DeSantis

Who are the FReepers that hate DeSantis? I'm talking genuine, irrational hatred of him. Not his policies or the fact that he's a Bush stooge. Names and posts, please.

and claim they would never vote for him, not even in a future election where Trump isn’t involved

Maybe signing anti-1st Amendment legislation on foreign soil was the deal-breaker. I don't know?

I’m trying to figure out the mindset of hate for a successful conservative governor.

Again, what "hate" are you referring to?

We think he's a Bush/Ryan stooge backed by Koch and Murdoch.

I personally think he's too friendly with you know who. That Middle Eastern country we give billions of dollars to every year and has people all throughout the Biden cabinet.

He lied when he said he was going to focus on his 2nd term.

Never attacked him personally, his family, or his good job as FL Governor.

Stop insinuating s--t.

30 posted on 05/18/2023 2:29:25 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Dilbert San Diego

He is too cozy with the GOPe, and 100% of the time, we get the short end of the stick. That’s why.
I am beginning to think his Disney fight was just a chess move to give him political cover to stab us in the back with the rest of the GOP agenda.

And he still doesn’t call 2020 stolen.


31 posted on 05/18/2023 2:30:15 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Metrobank

As we have observed when DeSantis waffled on Ukraine that was the end. It was a fatal error and I do not think he even knows it.


32 posted on 05/18/2023 2:30:21 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: hinckley buzzard
He could have been hitting Trump this entire time about the lockdowns, not firing Fauci and his President Pfizer routine. DeSantis decided to wait and lost his chance.

As has been stated on this forum numerous times....Trump has the right enemies. DeSantis has the wrong friends.

33 posted on 05/18/2023 2:30:36 PM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: TBP
Nobody could understand this apparently suicidal rope-a-dope strategy other than Ali himself, who had deliberately planned it to exhaust his opponent.

This cheesy comparison to a great boxer is probably from Desantis' expanding circle of well paid establishment advisers and operatives.

After all the Murdoch/Ryan/PiersMorgan NY Post is on Team DeSantis.

34 posted on 05/18/2023 2:30:51 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Metrobank
"He has misplayed his candidacy badly."

He hasn't even announced yet! LOL, you people are so strange.

35 posted on 05/18/2023 2:32:46 PM PDT by thefactor
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To: jacknhoo

Yep. Sad thing is the Republicans and the RNC don’t want to win the White House. They are at each other’s throats, and instead of uniting y’all are slitting your own throats making it extremely easily for the vegetable to win another term. By the time the primaries roll by, Trump and DeSantis will hurt their chances by their bickering. No unity-no unity the knell blows in the republican party. They don’t call it the stupid party for nothing.


36 posted on 05/18/2023 2:33:05 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: gibsonguy

Maybe, maybe not on that one but when Paul Ryan and Jeb! said they backed DeSantis it made Trump’s “Establishment Ron” shots land even harder and I’m not sure he can recover. DeSantis had the opportunity, which is sad.


37 posted on 05/18/2023 2:33:31 PM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: nonliberal

Yes that created a pattern that gave the impression that Ron was the GOPe’s boy. That is poison to the base.


38 posted on 05/18/2023 2:36:54 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Reverend Wright

That’s a great analogy.


39 posted on 05/18/2023 2:37:08 PM PDT by GulliverSwift
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To: RoseofTexas

“They are at each other’s throats, and instead of uniting y’all are slitting your own throats making it extremely easily for the vegetable to win another term.”

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Already making excuses.


40 posted on 05/18/2023 2:37:27 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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