Posted on 10/21/2023 12:16:05 PM PDT by conservative98
The G.O.P. contender’s campaign tried to take on Donald Trump’s online army. Now it just wants to end the meme wars.
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In early May, as Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida prepared to run for president, about a dozen right-wing social media influencers gathered at his pollster’s home for cocktails and a poolside buffet.
The guests all had large followings or successful podcasts and were already fans of the governor. But Mr. DeSantis’s team wanted to turn them into a battalion of on-message surrogates who could tangle with Donald J. Trump and his supporters online.
For some, however, the gathering had the opposite effect, according to three attendees who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they did not want to damage their relationships with the governor or other Republican leaders.
Mr. DeSantis’s advisers were defensive when asked about campaign strategy, they said, and struggled to come up with talking points beyond the vague notion of “freedom.” Some of the guests at the meeting, which has not previously been reported, left doubtful that the DeSantis camp knew what it was in for.
Four months later, those worries seem more than justified. Mr. DeSantis’s hyper-online strategy, once viewed as a potential strength, quickly became a glaring weakness on the presidential trail, with a series of gaffes, unforced errors and blown opportunities, according to former staff members, influencers with ties to the campaign and right-wing commentators.
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nevertrumpers/desanctimonious supporters also are blind to the illegal or self promoting acts desantis does, with tax payer or campaign funds...
Yet accuse Trump of all sorts of mis-management.
The nevertrumpers/next candidadate of the day supporters, never acknowledged how illegal it was when desantis fraudulently launderred $82 million in state level campaign funds, into his neverbackdown superpac
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/13/politics/desantis-money-super-pac-transfer/index.html
Or even more recently, how desanctimonious has arranged evacuation flights out of Israel, for p.r. for his flailing campaign...
And they say it’s a good thing and use of money, when desantis spent $4 million of Florida tax payer’s money, to get 270 people out of Israel and meet them at the airport, for p.r. photos...
They are such hypocrits..... and spin things to say Trump is the one that is corrupt and a liar, while ignoring everything desantis does, which shows desantis actually commits those acts.
Nailed it. And the handful of failed Desantis trolls showed up to try their best, right on time.
Like I said, everyone here knows who you are and knows exactly what your pathetic attempts to do are.
It’s working out about as good as the Desantis campaign.
EVERY post you Desantis trolls ever make will be seen through that lens.
It’s over.
Honest question. Bigger than Jeb?
I use X/Twitter. In my opinion, the DeSantis surrogates came out and attacked Trump supporters. The very people they needed to pursuade to switch from Trump to DeSantis. Rather than persuading these voters to switch, they ran them off as not worthy if they were uninformed enough to support Trump. It was childlike.
When MAGA folks pointed this out, they doubled down. Many going for ad hominem attacks just as conservatives face all over social media.
He should contact Al Gore.
I think that is correct.
They’ve got to be 1 - 2.
Yes!
Pimping the morally bankrupt, anti-Semitic New York Times on FR? Seriously??
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