Posted on 05/24/2023 12:09:38 PM PDT by Reno89519
Ending months of speculation, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared his presidential candidacy Wednesday, setting up a seismic clash with former President Donald Trump for GOP supremacy.
The graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School
A more formal announcement is expected to follow at 6pm, when DeSantis is appearing in a Twitter Space with Elon Musk.
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This isn’t the base of the party, it’s become more like the basement of the party.
What truly sucks is that DeSantis could have run fresh in 2028 but now, Trump is going to absolutely savage him, which will give the leftist filth serious ammo against him if he decides to run then.
The usual cast of amoral, immoral, demonic filthbags are doing everything possible to sidetrack Trump but I don't think they'll be able to prevent him from being the nominee. I fear that if he wins, they'll assassinate him before he can take office. They cannot afford to have him get back into the White House and I believe they will do anything to stop that from happening.
Serious prayers up for DJT and his family!
Well, I don't think "Trump could ever say anything or do something to end his chances", but the first thing an overpaid consultant will tell you is to get in in case something happens to the incumbent.
Here is the problem for DeSantis in 2024.
He. Can't. Win. He has NO CHANCE whatsoever. Why? Well, let me indulge the best-possible Ronlim fantasy scenario, and you'll see how the Meatball will still get thrown out with the trash, at least in 2024.
If Trump is f'd over by the RINOs who are in league with the Deep State, he can go 3rd party.Ron cannot, because he will want to try again in 2028.
Any party that has made the general election ballot can still swap out the candidate.
You only have to beat mail-in ballot headlines, and there are no 'sore loser' laws preventing party-swapping in Federal elections.
Given mail-in ballots in a Presidential election year won't be printed anywhere in any state until the last major-party convention affirms their President and VP candidates, Trump could either quietly trojan horse an "MAGA Party" 3rd-party all along under another name, and swap out before, let's say, Easter, when the GOP primary winner will have been decided [Trump, but indulge Ron's conundrum for a brief further moment, for the sake of "legitimate discussion" lol]; or, Trump could simply take over the Libertarian or Alliance or Constitution nomination, having quietly ensured that they had full 50-state ballot representation beforehand.
Trump could then change the name of the American Party or Alliance Party or Constitution Party to the "MAGA Party", as long as he made it before the mail-in ballot printing deadline.
That's it, that is end game.
President Trump either wins the GOP primary or goes 3rd party. And Trump can win either scenario.
Either way, the Meatball goes back in the fridge until 2028.
Yep! DeSantis backer here, too!
“Also-ran?”
DeSantis won his reelection by 20%.
Then Biden wins and America losses, not that you care.
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He was just replaced by - wait for it - the death of 83 year old singer Tina Turner!
I will guess that Senator Tim Scott got more exposure than that a couple days ago.
No he didn’t, he never said he wasn’t running for President. In fact he was asked that question multiple times, including in he debate for governor and never once said he wasn’t running. You’ve been lied to all right but it was DeSantis who lied to you.
scrubbing the web to eliminate that quote... wont erase it from my memory.
Nothing was ever scrubbed, he was asked a lot, and never once siad he wouldn’t run. So that’s another lie someone is peddling.
It’s a shame that he is running against Trump instead of against Biden and the Democrats .
He’s doing exactly what his handlers want.
The deep state wants one of their own in there. Went to the “right” schools and sold his soul in congress for the governorship in Florida.
I’m not a Republican, so I don’t owe you, Ron DeSantis, Karl Rove, Paul Ryan, Rupert Murdoch (foreigner), Elon Musk (foreigner) or the Bush clan a damn thing. Go peddle you hand-wringing nonsense somewhere else.
>>>>He.. Can’t. Win. He has NO CHANCE whatsoever.
Then why the nonstop 24/7 attack against DeSantis? Why not treat him like Haley or Christie or any other single digit loser running for president.
>>>>>If Trump is f’d over by the RINOs who are in league with the Deep State, he can go 3rd party.
If you knew your US history, you would know that’s a stupid idea. Go back and see how well that turned out for Teddy Roosevelt and the Bull Moose party.
He’s an Also-Ran in this primary, that’s for sure.
You are not even am American.😃
I’d say Vivek, Elder, Haley, Scott, Desanctimonius, Asa. That’s the non Trump order. The careerist aren’t the answer
This appears to be a phony lie made up by the Trump campaign.
Name who these donors are, and lets compare them to Trump donors of the past.
From what I’ve read, a lot of those donors you’re referring to never actually donated to him, and reported to the press that DeSantis had turned them off by being too conservative on social issues.
I don’t want anyone seeking to “manage the country”, I want our President to fill the job as the Constitution prescribes.
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