Posted on 08/13/2023 7:22:00 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Last week brought yet another campaign reset for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a DailyMail.com poll found his support in the crucial early state of Iowa had crashed by nine percent.
But stop to ask the actual men and women who will take part in the first contest to choose the Republican nominee next year and they will tell you to ignore the headlines and that there is a long, long way to go.
'I think that Trump is in the lead now, but Trump's gonna say something dumb and make a mistake, and people are gonna turn to Ron,' said John, 38, a pastor from Des Moines, who attended the Iowa State Fair at the weekend.
Thousands of people used the fair as a chance to cast their eye over the 2024 candidates at the fair.
And the DailyMail.com poll reveals that Republicans in the state are keeping an open mind on whether DeSantis' presidential run is a success of failure even after another week of negative headlines.
Although only 18 percent said they thought his campaign was going 'quite well' or 'very well' and 34 percent thought it was going badly, some 38 percent said it was going 'neither well nor badly.'
Among people saying they are backing the Florida for the nomination, some 41 percent say his campaign is going well, while nine percent think it is doing poorly.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
J.L. Partners surveyed 600 likely Republican caucus-goers in Iowa from August 1 to 7. The results carry a margin of error of +/- four percentWoo-hoo!
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They may be right. The Uni-party Republicans are going to need a designited loser once they and the Democrats find a way to disqualify President Trump.
” but Trump’s gonna say something dumb and make a mistake, and people are gonna turn to Ron,’ said John, 38, a pastor from Des Moines,”
Oh geeze, really?
Turn to Ron?
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It’s gonna be a long road to Nov 24.
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Is that what the Iowa voters say
whether think desantis campaign is failing or not is completely irrelevant ... it’s who they say they’re actually going to vote is the only thing that matters ... article is typical daily mail nonsense ...
DeSantis will win the Caucuses. Trump will win the primaries.
Sound familiar?
I think Iowa is do or die for him. It’s tailor made for him. Santorum and Cruz won there. You don’t need a huge turnout and being second pick gets you brownie points. If Trump wins this caucus and then destroys everyone I’m NH a week or 2 later it’s going to take outright banning Trump to keep him from the nominate. If that happens, it really doesn’t matter what happens. Country isn’t worth spit in a bucket
His campaign has already bought off the so called evangelicals ... He sure ought to win the Caucuses ... It is Cruz 2015 repeat... except I do not think the gov is sleeping with any CNN agent (O’ Mandy) to claim another candidate has pulled out of the campaign ... just using the same Cruz MO and campaign operatives ... they call them principal conservatives ..
Hopefully, DeSantis is taking notes. So he'll be able to fine-tune his campaign for '28.
Hey John the Pastor, you absolute cuck tool. For 8 years they have tried to destroy Trump. He said all the “stupid” crap that any other candidate wouldn’t even utter under their breath. Remember “bleeding out of her whatever” when he went after Megyn Kelly?
Trump supporters are not going to turn away from Trump.
There is no path to the GOP nomination for DeSantis.
There certainly is bottled up enthusiasm for him. 🤣
So how did he win big in Florida in 2022?
Easy. He had a great 1st term and his opponent was an absolute joke, Crist would have lost a race by himself.
All shot to Hell by a vanity run for President because the GOP elites want to get back to the good-old days of being pets for the Democrats and media.
Besides that his trajectory has taken a course that is bleak at best. I won't say all hope is gone, but it most certainly is not going well. They are beginning to talk Youngkin now.
People are beginning to see DeSantis as a supporter of the Deep State, which means he is not concerned about the people at all. In other words, his sham as being an America First Supporter, was nothing more than taking advantage of MAGA. We may be a weak group, but we are a loyal group to our nation, and her citizens. There is an inherent power in numbers, and without MAGA support, no one is going to out perform Trump, period.
It does sound familiar. Imo the caucuses were rigged in 2016 in Iowa. —If I remember right, Cruz was first, Jeb second, and Trump third. Problem was, the morning of the caucus it was posted online that that was what the outcome would be.
You can be sure the storyline in Iowa is already set by the legacy media and Republican leadership: Trump will win, but will not meet expectations. That is a victory for them. From a political perspective that’s the beauty of the caucuses. It’s all an inside game run by the party.
That's a lie.
Anyway, we'll be back here on Tuesday, November 5, 2024 when Joe Biden gets reelected in a landslide victory.
If that is the case, it will be because Trump is not the nominee.
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