Posted on 11/05/2022 9:36:58 PM PDT by thegagline
Former president Donald Trump boasted on Saturday that he’s polling way above “Ron DeSanctimonious” for the GOP 2024 presidential nomination, in an early taste of the rivalry that’s widely expected to develop after next week’s midterms.
Trump at 71, Ron DeSanctimonious at 10 percent, Mike Pence at 7 percent . . . Oh, Mike’s doing better than I thought,” Trump told a crowd of supporters at a rally in Latrobe, Pa., for Republican Senate and gubernatorial candidates Dr. Mehmet Oz and Doug Mastriano.
The fact that Trump assigned the governor of Florida a derogatory nickname is a telltale sign that he considers him a legitimate competitor for 2024, and that he is indeed gearing up to run. Governor Ron DeSantis has long been regarded a GOP rising star and strong contender for president, one who could potentially have the conservative-populist credibility to take on Trump in a primary.
While presiding over the Sunshine State, DeSantis has demonstrated a willingness to apply government power to achieve conservative policy goals — incorporating some of Trump’s confrontational approach. For example, he enacted a mask-mandate ban for K-12 public schools and a prohibition on teaching gender identity and sexual orientation to elementary-aged children. Both laws received widespread support among residents. The hope of some Republicans who favor DeSantis over Trump is that he can pursue a similar agenda without the political baggage of the former president.
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I have a theory about that. The ones like that are for the most part election fraud deniers.
I love Trump but this is a HUGE error in judgement. This is exactly what turned some voters off that we needed in his re-election bid.
Not good. Cheap shot, totally uncalled for.
First time I’ve ever been disgusted by Trump.
My enthusiasm for him just went from Eleventy to about a 7. Serious messed up thing to do.
Just. Dumb.
I love Trump precisely because he's gonna Trump. 7+ years later it's still so refreshing. I would take Trump any day over a scripted boring politician who says all the right things.
People automatically jump in against trump king before 2020. Half the people on these three threads say trump is selfish about the campaigns and doesn’t care who wins. Would they say that about DeSantis if DeSantis had shown up and run 100+ campaign rallies?
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/11/05/likely-in-response-to-the-ron-is-god-campaign-ad-president-trump-gives-ron-desantis-a-nickname/
the far-left democrats and Deep state republicans can’t destroy Trump, but his own personality could... till DeSantis moves to get into the race for the presidency trump would be wise to refrain from his use of nick names to frame perception of his political enemies in this case Desantis.
Pope Ron of Florida is not the national hero his disciples think he is.
“Just. Dumb.”
Just. Selfish. Too.
Who does The Don’s comment help 2 days from midterms?
Only himself. And that is only in his mind.
This will be forgotten by 10:00 am tomorrow.
The prior thread posted previously attempted to bring awareness to the ad, but it looks like the nevertrumper/desantis pseudo supporters are ignoring it and continuing to attack Trump and his supporters here.
Sundance talks about the ad here
Likely in Response to the Ron is God Campaign Ad....
but then again, when does the truth ever stop TDS?
Top article on Breitbart right now.
What a rotton thing to do, by Trump. I’m a diehard for both of them.
Was.
Trump just forced us to pick one or the other. How many conservatives in Florida did Trump just lose?
He may have just lost me. And I’ve been on the Trump train since the escalator ride. In fact, my handle here on FR was Cruz2Victory, but I begged JimRob directly to let me change it when Trump jumped in.
Just. Dumb.
Excellent point.
Trump/Lake ‘24
Desanctimonius is running against Trump. He’s probably up by 15. Good for Trump. Dean is a phony and he’s working with the very people we are battling to take down Trump. Hopefully he wins by 3 or 4. It’ll be a nice message.
Wanna throw them a REAL curveball???
Lake/Trump ‘24.
:)
Keep up. Desanctimonius had been working with the Never Trumpers to take down Trump for 2024. If you were ever on the wagon you should get off fast (obviously we want him to win as Govenor or Florida). This guy got a few attaboys from the GOPe and was instantly on board. You think he’s going to fight them once he gets real power. He absolutely will not. He’ll be Bush 3.
He might turn out to be good. I don’t know. But that’s it. I don’t know. People want to jump on trump so fast. Still.
They say he doesn’t care about Tge campaigns only himself.
After he’s run over a hundred rallies and got about 80 endorsed candidates elected. DeSantis hasn’t. But then pounce. Trump is a do nothing selfish cheap person.
No. He is not. They see that. Yet they defend anyone against him just if he goes after him. What did DeSantis do? What we know is that he’s done nothing for trump. Doesn’t that make him selfish and egotistical? After trump helped him get elected?
Will they say anything about DeSantis when he doesn’t show up in Miami tomorrow while trump is working hard for Florida candidates? Will they call DeSantis selfish? No way. Why not?
Rhetorical questions
Mob think I guess.
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