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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What in your opinion made the last civil war possible?
I don’t mean peoples emotions and I don’t mean radical propagandists.
I mean, what allowed large armies to form and to be put into the field under the command of experienced General officers?
Somebody needs to tell him that he’s running his prospects with conservatives. We don’t forget.
He was doing such a great job as governor of Florida but now it looks like it was all an act and everything he did was what his wife told him to do.
I’m not opposed to any politician using good advice from their spouse but when the spouse runs you and you lose who you are and you’re nothing.
We need to fully support the official Republican candidate to be chosen at the RNC convention.
In 1913, the nation got Woodrow Wilson because Teddy Roosevelt ran independently.
“Two weeks to flatten the curve” and two Democratic terms to flatten the nation.
Ronnie says with glee. So. Mr. Low Poller can just slip right in as candidate.
I believe we are headed toward a bloody civil war.
Meatball Ron is nothing but puppet for the Republican establishment. He is an absolutely compromised, unacceptable candidate now and in the future.
He's absolutely no better than Pence, Christie, Romney or Liz Cheney.
Don’t skip the secession part.
He went from being considered a winner..
To a self induced loser.
Do they think they can keep Trunk off the ticket.. Really?
At some point they are going to drop the mask and start arresting all Trump supporters, everywhere, and all at once.
“militias”
Take a look at the picture about 30% down:
https://news.yahoo.com/flir-heat-tech-police-apprehend-fugitive-danelo-cavalcante-pennsylvania-004306315.html
That type imaging is probably combined with a machine gun on US military aerial gunships.
No massed resistance should ever be employed. Never forget what was done to the J6 protesters.
Oh my.. Trump... My phone changes words
Free elections are over if the uniparty can get their way and knock a MAGA candidate out on bogus felony charges.
DeSantis should understand this. Yet he seems unaware.
Ron is either Deep State uniparty or he's a meathead.
“There are numerous militias throughout the country”
Yes I know.
What was Marse Robert’s opinion about them? How do you think your home team would fare against a USMC fire team?
WE will do as WE see fit. I will not support a GOPe candidate and I will not vote for them after what they are trying to do to keep Trump off the ballot.
I do not reward deliberate treachery. WE have done that way too many times.
If Americans allow this, they deserve what they get.
He just don’t get it. Not only will his base be even more fired up, but he’s goanna get the black and Latino vote for sure.
Losers say wha?
Gaetz showed himself to be a strong leader.
They went home and heard the anger at the gop.. One man answered. Where are the rest of congress.
No, what is going to decide my choice is whether a given candidate is older than me. Or perhaps older than my best friend's children. Politics is top-heavy with Social Security recipients.
I wish Ron would condemn the crapola being done to Trump
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