Posted on 05/23/2023 5:14:28 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has updated his Twitter handle ahead of his widely anticipated 2024 launch for president, dropping the nod to his home state.
DeSantis dropped “FL” from his Twitter this week, just days before he is expected to officially announce a bid for president. He changed the handle on his personal campaign Twitter account from “@RonDeSantisFL” to “@RonDeSantis,” while his team also dropped their Florida connection from their “@TeamRonDeSantis” account this week.
After months of speculation, DeSantis is set to enter the 2024 GOP presidential primary this week after months of trips to early primary states, media appearances and other preparations were made. The Florida governor is poised to file paperwork for his candidacy just ahead of when he is slated to meet with donors from Miami, a source told The Hill last week.
DeSantis has been the subject of many attacks in recent months by former President Trump, who has railed against the governor over his potential run he has said is a “a great act of disloyalty.” Trump has repeatedly taken credit for DeSantis’s win in Florida during the 2018 gubernatorial election, saying the governor came to him “with tears in his eyes” to ask for an endorsement at the time.
DeSantis has steadily been in second place to Trump in many polls across the country and is even leading in some. In the RealClearPolitics’ polling average, DeSantis is averaging about 19.6 percent of the Republican 2024 primary vote — a significant amount behind Trump, who is averaging 56.3 percent for the nomination.
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) jumped into the Republican 2024 primary race Monday, joining Trump, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson.
Other potential GOP candidates include former Vice President Mike Pence and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, though neither has launched an official bid.
Meh. Whatever. BFD. Today I don’t care. BORING.
The dumber the news story, the more often it gets repeated and reposted. It is like children’s TV pushing that purple dinosaur song.
The author of the Hill article has some of the chronology wrong. Some observations from the first time I saw a similar post at http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4155116/posts which includes an image of the tweets:
The tweet without the FL was when DeSantis joined Twitter in 2012 (see both time stamps of his tweet) when he was a candidate for the Florida legislature. This feed is still active.
The tweet with the FL was from his gubernatorial candidate days when he updated his information. However, there’s no time stamp on that section, which is odd (or maybe it’s just the update info section?). It’s what comes up when searching for the FL version. It is apparently the one he added Gov to. He apparently joined that one in 2013.
As you were told before the tweet from 2012 was just an example. The 2012 thanks to John Bolton tweet was posted as an example to troll you. We like to do a little trolling. FL was dropped in the past two days. DeSantis’s handle was previously @RonDeSantisFL, but he has dropped the abbreviation for his home state. His page is now simply @RonDeSantis. If you guys don’t care about Desantis dropping FL, stop lying or understand what you are talking about.
I feel that Ron DeSantis dropped me as a resident of Florida. He’s on to bigger and better things than this State he was just elected to run 6 months ago. He is getting paid to be the chief executive of Florida. If he was honest he would quit as Governor. He is not a loyal person and he will never get my vote again. End of story.
Does Ron really not get how utterly dull an audio-only podcast on Twitter will be as an announcement non-rally? This is nuts.
You really think it’s funny that Ron DeSantis, elected governor of Florida has abandoned the state? Shows me who you are also
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