Posted on 08/05/2023 5:25:46 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
“He’s crashing badly,” Trump said of DeSantis.
DeSantis, who in the lead-up to this interview taped at Trump’s golf club here last Thursday laid off dozens of campaign staffers, has said just weeks into his presidential campaign he is now doing a “reboot.” Trump mocked the idea that DeSantis could successfully “reboot” his failing campaign.
“This is his third one,” Trump said.
Asked what went wrong with DeSantis, Trump said the Florida governor has “got no personality.” Trump also pointed out that without his support in 2018, DeSantis never would have been elected governor.
“He’s got no personality,” Trump said. “He just has no personality.”
DeSantis, Trump accurately noted, was significantly trailing then-Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam before Trump endorsed DeSantis in the 2018 Florida gubernatorial primary. “Poll shows Trump endorsement gives DeSantis an edge in Florida governor’s race,” was the headline in Politico in 2018 about the primary shortly after Trump endorsed DeSantis, a story that noted: “Prior to Trump’s re-endorsement of DeSantis, the congressman was trailing Putnam in a number of Florida polls.” Similarly, a Tampa Bay Times piece published after the primary noted that DeSantis’s victory over Putnam was “Fueled By Trump.”
“The only reason he won in the first place was because I endorsed him,” Trump said. “He was dead. He was down by 30 something points to Adam Putnam who was the Secretary of Agriculture. He came and asked me if I would endorse him. ”
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Trump noted that DeSantis has proven to be a “lousy candidate” and will likely fall behind other candidates in the GOP primary.
“People said he was a lousy candidate,” Trump said. “He turned out to be a lousy candidate. I don’t think he’s going to be second very long. It looks like he’s being superseded by others or getting very close.”
At least then he can rage about the new second-place guy.
At what point is Breitbart simply considered part of the Trump campaign?
How will he re-invent himself this time?
This loser had 90 people on payroll....what in the world were all of them doing.
Last year…
Posting on Free Republic?
“Posting on Free Republic?”
I’m not sure that them attacking Trump voters here was very helpful to DeSantis...but now, it appears, they’ve been told to stand down.
“Posting on Free Republic?”
I ask one of them on this forum if he was on the DeSantis payroll. I never got back an answer.
True, but the GOP is known as the ‘stupid party’ for a reason.
It wouldn’t surprise me if some of those 90 former staffers were actually Democrats who weaseled their way into the DeSantis campaign and used their positions to make both Trump and DeSantis look bad while being paid by stupid Republican mega-donors!
I’m not tired of winning yet. Waiting to see if PDJT has a plan to beat FJB’s pupetmaster’s
Wuhan biowarfare ballot harvesting and deep state lawfare.
So far it’s been leave ALL Jan 6th Warriors behind.
The biggest problem De santis has is that he was recruited by the anti Trump Republican power structure to beat Trump by being Trump Lite and he has to try to satisfy all of the conflicting desires of the money men and power brokers he has become beholden to .
Trumps right the guy has zero charisma. To run for office you have to have some kind of appeal.
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