Posted on 10/12/2023 1:11:06 PM PDT by conservative98
'We should be doing these Republican debates in New Hampshire and in Iowa.'
Gov. Ron DeSantis has participated in two Republican presidential debates so far, with a third scheduled, but he doesn’t think any of these events have been in the right place.
“We should be doing these Republican debates in New Hampshire and in Iowa, since we’re going to be there anyway,” DeSantis said in Concord, New Hampshire, where he was Thursday to qualify for that state’s Primary ballot.
The Governor offered specific criticisms of the debate last month in California.
“I mean, I love the Ronald Reagan … Library but to go all the way out there, we were out there for a week, which is fine, you know, we did our thing,” DeSantis said. “But I hope the other debates will be, will be closer to where the action is.”
This is DeSantis’ first overt criticism of the debates thus far based on location. His previous critiques have focused on the relative comportment of his opponents.
“Anyone that watched that debate the other night saw, you know, there was one person who acted like a President should act. And if you look at how they were carping and all this stuff, to me, I thought it was very off-putting,” the Governor told reporters in Long Beach, after the second debate.
During an interview on “Fox & Friends” after the first debate in August, DeSantis defended his low-key strategy as avoiding a “food fight” between candidates.
“If someone came after me, I was ready to go loaded for bear, we were going to respond and put that to bed. But, you know, I was more interested in talking directly to the people at home rather than kind of some of the bickering that was back and forth,” DeSantis said. “There was a lot that was going on and, you know, my thing is just, like, OK, that’s fine, but let’s focus on the issues that matter.”
Next month’s debate is in Miami, and as with the previous events, the big question is whether Donald Trump bothers with it, and if it even matters if he doesn’t. The Race to the White House polling average in Florida shows DeSantis trailing Trump, 56% to 23%.
A circus.
Are they still having those Loser Debates?
Meatball is a clown
Every dog has its day.
You day has passed, Ron. You couldn’t run with the big dogs, so stay on the porch.
What a waste. No more dumb debate shit shows. All the embarrassing sweat and makeup with dumb looking shoes and leftist mods.
Spare us. You don’t need that to state your case. That line up of RINO losers is sickening.
How about stop wasting people’s time with bogus debates, drop out of the race, and consolidate money and support for the one person everyone knows will win? You have to be a real meatball and lie to yourself to not accept the truth. I guess that happens when you get paid by Big Donors and have a bunch of Bush advisors telling you what to do.
I think debates are a good thing just not the way the GOP is doing them which stinks
What I would do is take the debates off of network television and make them no more than 3 people preferably two candidates drawn from a hat, have the debates multiple times per week, stream them on the Internet with reliable people asking the questions and post the debates to be watched whenever possible, don’t stop the debates until every candidate has debated every other candidate one on one
You don’t need network television to stage a debate anymore
These are not debates. No serious candidate would participate in these so called debates.
The action right now is in Gaza. Why don’t you head there Ron.
Said the deep state puppet trying to assist the Biden DOJ in lo king up Trump so he can win the presidency.
Meatball should debate Zelensky for the title, “Biggest Loser of 2023”
desanctus could get kitted up and be the door kicker the team desantis campaign ads tried to portray him as....
Sorry Ron.. but it doesn’t matter, Trump will be the nominee.
He can hold the debate in his living room for all we care. Nobody’s watching it.
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They’re not... accept it already
“GOP debates need to be ‘where the action is’”
at a Trump rally?
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