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Trump Shreds DeSantis: He ‘Can’t Win the General Election’ Because of Record on Entitlement Programs
Breitbart ^ | 05/24/2023 | NICK GILBERTSON

Posted on 05/24/2023 8:49:46 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Former President Donald Trump blasted Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) ahead of his presidential campaign launch on Wednesday, asserting he would be doomed to fail in the general election after voting to overhaul entitlement programs when he was a congressman.

Trump, the leading Republican presidential candidate, took to Truth Social to hit DeSantis’s support of legislation that took aim at Social Security and Medicare during his time in Congress :

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


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: chicagocon; crybaby; desantis; desimps; entitlement; paulryan; programs; rinos; trump; trump2024; trumpscaredlol; trumpwinningby51pts
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To: V_TWIN

The Democrats have so much damage yet to do under Biden. Polls are worthless.


41 posted on 05/24/2023 9:23:41 AM PDT by cnsmom
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How many of you onlyTrumpers will sit out the election or waste your vote on some third party if Trump isn’t the nominee? Be honest.


42 posted on 05/24/2023 9:23:47 AM PDT by clintonh8r (The truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
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To: Alberta's Child
And Trump is on solid political ground here -- not because massive entitlement spending isn't a problem, but because these duplicitous @ssholes in the GOP who have been pushing for entitlement reform have no leg to stand on while they piss away trillions of dollars on military campaigns all over the globe.

100%. It's obscene and glaring...

43 posted on 05/24/2023 9:23:52 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If Trump really wants to win he should go back on twitter today and announce a twitter space at the same time DeSantis is having his.


44 posted on 05/24/2023 9:23:57 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: Reno89519
Imagine if he'd STFU about fellow candidates

Relax, it's primary season and the sausage making is now in progress. Don't you remember what President Trump did to the field in 2016? And that ended up just fine. Maybe this time you feel sore because it's your meatball in the game.
45 posted on 05/24/2023 9:24:07 AM PDT by Observator
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To: Mr Rogers

“Now we’re a dozen years away from a 30% cut in payouts, and...it is STILL “untouchable”?”

Yep, and watch, when the automatic cuts kick in, all the “conservatives” around here, who didn’t ever want to hear one word about reforming it, will suddenly be griping that nobody fixed it.


46 posted on 05/24/2023 9:24:30 AM PDT by Boogieman
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Why do Democrats always try to scare old people into thinking their precious entitlements will be taken away?


47 posted on 05/24/2023 9:25:44 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Entitlement programs should be overhauled.

Democrats must love it when Republicans attack Republicans.


48 posted on 05/24/2023 9:26:01 AM PDT by ChessExpert (Required for informed consent: "We have a new, experimental vaccine.")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If Trump would just run on his record as President and what he plans to do to MAGA then he could beat anyone. He just doesn’t understand that he needs more than his base. He will always have his base.


49 posted on 05/24/2023 9:26:43 AM PDT by willk (Local news media. Just as dangerous as national media.)
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To: All

Ten bucks says Trump will pull a 1992/Perot if he does not get the nomination.


50 posted on 05/24/2023 9:27:55 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: entropy12

So when the money eventually runs out...these seniors will just say “oh well, I am glad they didn’t try to fix it earlier. My 30% reduction is fine now because we kept those bastards from touching the third rail right up until the system broke.”

How will they vote when there isn’t the money to cover the obligations? Automatically, against all incumbents of both parties?

You can ignore the problem all you want, but the politicians better get serious about addressing it because it is a huge ticking time bomb.


51 posted on 05/24/2023 9:28:42 AM PDT by Codeflier (Don't worry....be happy)
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To: Observator

Ah, you miss the point. Trump is ex-president, should be acting as one, above the fray so-to-speak. He should be vying for the deserved return. Instead, he’s down in the mud acting out in so many ways that only remind people of the worst about him.


52 posted on 05/24/2023 9:28:59 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Anybody But Trump. Tired of Trump's Boorish Antics, Poor Hiring and Life Choices. We Can Do Better!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Trump had another full-fledged spittle-flecked breakdown on Truth Social this morning about DeSantis-- complete with random spelling and punctuation and later shrieking in all caps

It's really interesting how these allegations of disloyalty and betrayal are never leveled at Trump's own VP or his UN Ambassador Nikki Haley running against him

It's only DeSantis. These nervous breakdowns are only triggered by Ron DeSantis

53 posted on 05/24/2023 9:29:35 AM PDT by hcmama
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To: Antoninus
If that's the strategy

I hope so. Let this particular quarrel appear larger than life and make the ultrarinos look more puny in comparison.

54 posted on 05/24/2023 9:29:46 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (Conservatism's last hope, last recourse, in fact last expedient, against the libertarian hordes.)
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To: Observator

LOL!


55 posted on 05/24/2023 9:30:34 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: cnsmom

From what I see on FR, polls are only worthless when they don’t favor trump.......when the show he’s beating Governor DeSantis by 40 points it’s the gospel.


56 posted on 05/24/2023 9:30:57 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I am a strong Trump supporter. And I believe he has this election in the bag right now. He has and will win the primary, but he needs to be careful because if he doesn’t take care he could lose the independents by what he says and how he says it. He cannot win the general without large independent support.


57 posted on 05/24/2023 9:31:26 AM PDT by elpadre (nd )
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To: Codeflier

“ Trump never saw spending he didn’t like...bankrupt the future to pay for living it up now!”

That’s just silly


58 posted on 05/24/2023 9:33:00 AM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne

Ever heard of the CARES Act?


59 posted on 05/24/2023 9:33:45 AM PDT by Codeflier (Don't worry....be happy)
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To: Alberta's Child

“The GOP then kept all the entitlement spending in place in 2017 when it failed to live up to its promise to repeal ObamaCare.

And so here we are.”

What about the CARES Act? Wasn’t that passed with the GOP in control of the senate and executive branches? It was a massive giveaway that handed “free money” to people I know that didn’t need the money and were doing great financially. It rewarded bad behavior by giving it to folks that weren’t “in need”. Talk about “entitlement spending”. But Trump just proved how he is not a fiscal conservative, which we already knew.

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, also known as the CARES Act, is a $2.2 trillion economic stimulus bill passed by the 116th U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump on March 27, 2020, in response to the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The spending primarily includes $300 billion in one-time cash payments to individual people who submit a tax return in America (with most single adults receiving $1,200 and families with children receiving more[5]),...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARES_Act


60 posted on 05/24/2023 9:41:03 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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