Posted on 09/14/2023 8:02:17 AM PDT by conservative98
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who's been trailing Donald Trump in 2024 GOP primary polls, doubts that the former president can be re-elected if he's convicted of a felony.
“I think the chance of getting elected president after being convicted of a felony is as close to zero as you can get,” DeSantis said in an interview with CBS News.
Anchor Norah O'Donnell asked DeSantis if he agreed with former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, another Republican presidential candidate, who said Americans won’t vote for a convicted criminal. She also asked DeSantis if he believes voters will elect someone who is facing 91 criminal counts, as Trump is.
DeSantis said that even before the four indictments were brought against Trump, he didn't think he should run again for president.
Asked for comment, Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung shot back by saying, "Team DeSantis and Always Back Down were caught red-handed as one of their lawyers was outed as the mastermind of falsely trying to use the 14th Amendment to disenfranchise voters and interfere in the election."
He was referring to a recent report by The Washington Post that said a GOP election lawyer with ties to three of Trump's primary opponents, including DeSantis, has been involved in efforts in different states to get Trump removed from the ballot using the 14th Amendment.
"DeSantis knows he has no shot of ever becoming the nominee — he is slipping to third place after all — but cozying up to Never Trumpers and lunatic Democrats is an all-time low for him, almost as low as his poll numbers," Cheung said.
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That’s funny the VC and NVA did not have near the firepower we did but they made life miserable for us in Vietnam. They had RESOLVE.
Your defeatist attitude is contagious.
AT this point, I wouldn’t doubt it.
I didn’t think it was a good idea, but I tried to let him
give it a shot without going ballistic.
As some point you’ve got to face the reality of it.
I don’t think you’re the only one to think along those
lines.
TRUMP has my vote no matter what!!! PERIOD...write in here we come!!!
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