Posted on 08/13/2023 8:33:42 AM PDT by backpacker_c
It seemed everything that could have gone wrong for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Saturday did.
The governor has spent the past two days coddling and cozying up to every Iowa voter and state legislator possible. The return on investment? Being drowned out by his biggest adversaries: progressives and Trump loyalists.
On Saturday afternoon, while DeSantis joined Reynolds and Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst at a grill to flip pork chops, Trump supporters surrounded the venue and chanted, “We love Trump!” Moments later, Trump’s plane flew overhead, seeming to taunt DeSantis as fairgoers craned to get a look.
Trump’s visit to the state fair lasted about an hour — long enough to arrive to the overflowing Steer N’ Stein bar,... the crowd outside of the bar, craning for a glimpse of Trump as he entered or exited, was at least three times the size of the crowd at DeSantis’ “fair-side chat” with Gov. Reynolds
Meanwhile, DeSantis walked through the fair for the better part of Saturday, surrounded by about a dozen men carrying DeSantis signs, who identified themselves as employees of DeSantis’ political action committee, Never Back Down.
Even the crowd at DeSantis’ morning event, protesters aside, was not entirely convinced by the governor.
The fact that a significant portion of DeSantis’ audience couldn’t hear his speech before the audio cut didn’t help, either. Reynolds hadn’t even asked the first question when a group of six protesters began blowing whistles and ringing cowbells, causing Reynolds to stop the event and ask all attendees to be “Iowa nice.”
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Your candidate has no path to the GOP nomination and is completely owned by the GOP establishment, military-industrial complex, and AIPAC.
Specifically, what “gun” did he ban by EO...
Not gun part, “gun”, as per definition, capable of using explosive force to propel a projectile.
BT
I can’t find your fact. Could you post a link?
What guns were banned and under what Ex Order did it take place? You are well known around these parts to be a liar about all things Trump, so show your work.
Florida had a law against this which DeSantis self-servingly just changed.
Florida
Title IX, Chapter 99, Section 99.012 of the Florida Statutes states:
(3)(a) No officer may qualify as a candidate for another state, district, county, or municipal public office if the terms or any part thereof run concurrently with each other without resigning from the office he or she presently holds. (b) The resignation is irrevocable. ... (4)(a) Any officer who qualifies for federal public office must resign from the office he or she presently holds if the terms, or any part thereof, run concurrently with each other. (b) The resignation is irrevocable. ...(8) Subsections (3) and (4) do not apply to persons holding any federal office. Subsection (4) does not apply to an elected officer if the term of the office that he or she presently holds is scheduled to expire and be filled by election in the same primary and general election period as the federal office he or she is seeking.
*Note: On May 24, 2023, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed SB 7050 into law, which exempts those running for president or vice president from Florida’s resign-to-run law. The bill declared, “Any person seeking the office of President or Vice President of the United States is not subject to the requirements of chapter 99, Florida Statutes, which govern candidate qualifying, specifically those which require the submission of certain documents, full and public disclosures of financial interests, petition signatures, or the payment of filing fees.”[6] The resign-to-run portion of the law went into effect the same day. As of May 24, 2023, the Florida Statutes had not been revised to reflect the new law. Ballotpedia will update the above text once the statute is revised.
Previously, in 2018, the Florida Legislature expanded the resign-to-run statute to include all federal officials.[7]
https://ballotpedia.org/Resign-to-run_law
I must have missed when that happened. What make and model? What caliber?
It seems to me, that you’re the one gaslighting and lying, when you say Trump banned more guns than Obama did...
Trump didn’t sign and EO that said guns with bump stocks are banned.
LOL! Your candidate filled his administration with dozens of former Bush staffers and well-heeled donors, including many from Big Pharma. You don't get more "establishment" than that! Oh, he also declared himself the "most pro-Israel president in history."
And your candidate has no path to the White House.
You people are being played like a fiddle by the Left but you're too blindly devoted to Trump to see what's happening.
The Left is laying the trap for Trump to win the GOP nomination, where he'll be soundly defeated by whichever candidate has a (D) after their name. After which point, he'll be hounded mercilessly by lawsuits, bankrupted, and quite possibly imprisoned.
And then they'll go after his kids.
If Trump had any sense, he'd quit this quixotic crusade, drop out, apologize profusely to DeSantis, and endorse him wholeheartedly. It's the only chance he has to at the very least not be cleaned out financially and spend the rest of his life under house arrest at Mar-A-Lago.
Heck, he might even earn himself an invitation to the White House for the unveiling of his official portrait.
“And Trump himself promised to give Ukraine everything they ask for if he can’t personally end the hostilities in 24 hours.”
That was in context of negotiations with Putin, to induce Putin to negotiate.
But you know that.
Oh we’re beyond pissed. People don’t like to be fooled.
LOL!
Every time Trump says something idiotic, his supporters always have to come behind him him to clean up the mess, divining the tea leaves to explain to us what Trump really meant to say.
And gun stores in California are full of guns. Are you going to tell me there’s no gun ban there?
There’s a chain of stores in California called Turner’s outdoorsman...
See what is available in their fall advertisement for california, here,
https://www.turners.com/tv3c82m7s-lp-page-1
Sure there are banned guns, and few newer gun models available, but there certainly are guns available in California
Did he win the presidency then? Not until 1980.
But it didn’t do him that much harm in the long run.
Its time for the establishment to realize, the Republican Voters are sticking with Trump... all the political prosecutions won’t change that...
This circus they are calling a primary of also rans is basically at best a dark comedy at this point.
The establishment/uniparty/nevertrumpers are like Gretchen just trying to make “Fetch” happen in mean girls...
It just ain’t happening folks.
“The Left is laying the trap for Trump to win the GOP nomination, where he’ll be soundly defeated by whichever candidate has a (D) after their name.”
Oh, where have I heard this before? Oh, that’s right, 2016.
Uniparty/Globalist/NeverTrumper’s just go to the “unelectability” argument every time when the rabble act up, trying to scare them back on their “Sell American down the toilet” reservation.
Against VP Youngkin? HAW HAW HAW.
Your best hope is that Trump II pulls Rick Scott into Sec'y of State and Greasy inherits that Senate seat. Then he would be like #76 in presidential line of succession, which is as close as Ron is ever getting to the White House short of being invited to another Trump State Dinner...
And that's the last time Trump won anything. He's been on an unbroken losing streak ever since.
Lost the House in 2018. Lost re-election in 2020 (and even if it was stolen, it's because Trump let it happen). Lost the Senate in 2021. And all of his handpicked swing-state candidates were defeated in 2022.
And you think 2024 will be any different?
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