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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Ron, Ron, Ron you ignorant political slut.
Nice to know Ron is on the Banana Republic Express of arresting one’s opponents to knock them outta the election.
We’ll remember that the next time he pops up for the Big Gig primaries.
The forces behind DeSantis were obviously promised that Trump would be taken off the board.
People might not vote for some candidates convicted of felonies, but how seriously do voters take, a conviction in a kangaroo court? How many voters take all these legal cases seriously? How many view them as political, and not real crimes?
I know the MSNBC crowd considers the charges against Trump to be crimes against humanity, but what about regular people, regular voters?
BTTT
Depending on which charge he is convicted of, it’s either persecution. Will that matter to lower information voters, those who are not engaged like we are here on FR. Will other Republicans run from him and demand removed from ballot. Ultimately the party, whole doesn’t support Trump has final say on who is and is not on the Republican ballot. Trump has already snubbed the regarding debates and pledges, so they my say no to him.
Felony smellony. If he doesn’t win it’s due to another rigged election
That may be true but if Ron got the nomination it would be easy enough to bring a case against him too since it just requires a “novel interpretation” of the law
Any Trump conviction will be pure politics, not justice.
If BIDEN and stealth president (OBAMA) can govern from basements, PRESIDENT TRUMP can govern from a jail cell.
By the way, this will NEVER happen.
What if Biden is also indicted and nominated?
“So you mean there’s a chance...”
He’s not wrong.
Actually, here's whose election chance is close to zero: Ron DeSantis.
The left is fighting as hard as they can, in many different ways, to keep Trump from being elected—or even from running on all state’s ballots.
Suppose, for a moment, that they succeed.
Do you suppose there would be no reaction — no blowback — from that?
Do you think Conservatives and Trump voters would just meekly accept that? If they Do, then it’s all over.
What do you suppose would happen? (Because you KNOW the Left will NOT back down.)
This is The Big Crunch coming. ...or not. ...we’ll see.
President Trump is guaranteed to be elected if convicted. We know lawfare when we see it and lawfare is just a form of warfare.
I’ve come to believe that the main reason Trump is being saddled with all these ridiculous charges is so that, in order to explain the results of a stolen 2024 election, rather than trying to make the absurd case of Biden (or whoever ends up on the ticket) getting enough votes to win despite his feebleness and the disastrous impact on the country of the Dem policies during his term, they’ll just rely on the argument that Trump was simply toxic enough and damaged by his legal issues that he couldn’t get enough moderates to throw in with the MAGA base. Unfortunately, most of the sheep will swallow that.
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