Posted on 10/01/2023 4:45:25 PM PDT by backpacker_c
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a GOP candidate for president in 2024, on Sunday went after former President Trump for not showing up to the GOP debates, suggesting Trump was “adopting Joe Biden’s basement strategy.”
“With all due respect to Donald Trump, we’re not going to beat the Democrats by adopting Joe Biden’s basement strategy,” DeSantis said in an interview on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”
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I bet he regrets saying that. Attacking PDJT at this point is just career-stupid for Desantis. The guy..imho...should praise the man and acknowledge all the things that he did for US citizens across all demographics and pay grades and also what he was proven to be right on...like the hunter laptop from hell back in October 2020. I just dont see how any Republican presidential hopeful can help their cause by looking/speaking down to PDJT. I wonder when Desantis will drop out? May God bless and protect Donald J. Trump!
HilARIOUS. The man is on the move daily, with more appearances all over the country than you can watch. Some funny-lookin basement. Lot of people down there for a basement.
desantis statement about Trump is ...
it goes something like this-
He considers his platform a argument YET he is failing to bring in the numbers.
He has very low poll number
Knowing now he will be sleeping with the sharks albeit ,out of water he makes heavy handed
statements which given the time of day or night believes he is “ the one” and yet he is unable to meet the bar. These statements are excuses for his perceived personal failures
Governor Ron DeSantis has challenged Mister Trump to a debate.
Mister Trump will display the reciprocal of courage and decline, citing (likely) that the process is 'rigged'.
That said, the format for such a debate could be anything that the competitors agree to.
And, what about the likelihood that Mister Trump will not agree to debate(s) with the Dem nom? (Unlikely Mister Biden, my guess.)?
Trump has legitimate worries about questions that might appear in a debate.
-Care and respect for classified documents and information.
-Hush money for porn stars.
-An astonishingly foolish claim that he can end the Ukraine war in 24 hours.
The list is, of course, much longer. The Dems know every item and will play them 24/7 with oppo ads once Mister Trump assumes the nomination.
The general election will be about one, and only one thing.
Trump.
He has no chance, and the up and down ballot candidates will suffer as a consequence.
Sadly, I wish this were not true, I have grandkids.
Ah, the same old TDS mouth-foaming.
I'm interested, my FRiend, if Mister Biden is not the Dem nom, do you think that Mister Trump will somehow win the general?
Meanwhile, watch this short clip of Ramaswampy imitating Obamas lines from speeches…
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0UVGNStMc6o
This is rich .... coming from the meatball who promised to make Iowa his top priority and hasn't been there in two weeks.
It seems the meatball's campaign has decided to follow the Biden campaign's strategy of keeping the candidate away from the voters.
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Respectfully, yours is one moronic post. 😶
DeSantis has quickly gone from awkward to embarrassing to desperation.
FL should be pissed that the guy’s being paid for a job he’s not there doing.
You are being too kind.
My guess, you love Mister Trump so much that you are willing to encourage him to insult his way into the GOP nom, making enemies all the way, and somehow think that he'll win the general. (He won't. He can't.)
Unlike many of our Trump aficionados hereabouts, I will vote for whomever is the nominee of the GOP. Even if it's DJT. Many of my Conservative friends and fam, all of whom voted for Trump in 16 and 20, hate is behavior so much that they have no interest in voting for him a third time.
Most of the Trumpians will not vote for a different nom, apparently out of political indignance and pure get-even spite.
Simple questions.
1. Do you support and encourage Mister Trump to take part in a debate between him and Gov. DeSantis? And,
2. Do you support and encourage Mister Trump, should he win the GOP nom, to take part in a debate between him and the Dem nominee (unlikely Biden)?
If not, no need to respond.
Regards.
You throw in the towel then, The rest of us will keep the faith & the fight. There are no better hands for America’s tiller than Trumps. I’d be reluctant to say he would not be able to end the Ukrainian conflict quickly in view of all the other successes he has had in similar circumstances where others had only failures for decades.
Debates don’t win elections.
Mass voter fraud does.
If people get out & vote and the election fraud is tamped down of course. The democrats are destroying the Country and Americans are suffering. If they have any self preservation instinct Trump will win. What fool would believe Newsoms\e’s promises looking at California?
Quite true, however many low info voters on the dole, and voting Dem, are living large.
If they have any self preservation instinct Trump will win
Yes, but that requires thinking deeply and ahead. The Dems will swamp the election season with opo ads, 24/7, all about Trump. Low info voters will vote to preserve next week, not next generation.
Just the fact that you use the appelation Trumpians shows that you have bought into the never Trump lies.
What a tremendous waste of time those debates are. They add nothing to our assessment of the candidates other than that they had the poor judgement to participate in a dog & pony show.
It is sad when people ignore accomplishments and service to our Country to concentrate on perceived foibles.
You have not understood the lessons of history. Extraordinary times require extraordinary men and those men are seldom polished fops. Many of the figures that were pivotal in America’s history were controversial figures, coarse, blunt spoken and willing to do what it took to win America’s battles.
One example is Ulysses Grant
https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/op-eds/icymi-the-real-ulysses-s-grant-was-an-american-hero
Your point? Or do you just wish to air your defeatism?
Dems are not living large. Their businesses/jobs are failing, they don’t have the money for food & gas. Do you think only Republicans are feeling the pressure?
It is pointless to cry that there is no hope. There is no one on a white charger riding in to save America. Trump is the best and only hope at this juncture. The rest, especially DeSantis are bought, sold and operating based on self interest.
As I explained, I'll vote for the GOP nom, whomever, even if it's DJT. Thus, I'm not a "never Trumper". I know several, however, and it's about Trump and his intemperate behavior.
And, ... There is no one on a white charger riding in to save America. Trump is the best and only hope at this juncture.
If Trump is the nominee, my FRiend, the election will be about Trump. Not the white charger stuff, but the porn star stuff. 24/7. I'd love to be wrong, I'm not. And, it's all on Trump and his choices.
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