Posted on 02/05/2023 7:33:00 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is nearly three months old, but already it’s clear whom he sees as his biggest threat with the Iowa caucuses still a year away: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
The perspective comes as Trump continues to act more like an underdog in the race for the Republican nomination. In recent days, the former president has gone after DeSantis, with Trump somehow claiming that Florida “was closed for a long period of time” after the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March 2020.
“They’re trying to rewrite history,” he added of DeSantis in an interview earlier this week.
It’s an odd front for Trump to open given that he praised DeSantis’s re-opening approach three years ago. Not surprisingly, the 45th president also failed to mention that he advocated lockdowns in the spring of 2020.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Passive-aggressiveness is a feminine trait.
It is to me. I’ve heard plenty of RINO accusations tossed at DeSantis. I don’t quite understand that. Some people have zero understanding of what we are truly up against and will gladly and zealously burn our house down, allowing the left to pick us apart.
I’m for either as well. And yeah, good strategy DeSantis. He hasn’t declared anything yet, so just remain quiet.
Please tell me how this former naval officer that served honorably is “traitorous”. I’ll wait.
He’s 44 and still in political adolescence.
I attack them all, here, on Truth, & Getter.
I will take Trump or DeSantis over the politics as usual, while I do not hold either of them up as beyond reproach. Both are flawed human beings like the rest of us, but at least they are not the typical corrupt DC swamp natives.
desantis ran for reelection for florida governor last year (2022)...
his opponent was “globalist” charlie crist...
desantis needed big money donors to combat and win against big money backed “ globalist” charlie crist...
are you suggesting we should’ve voted for the “globalist” charlie crist?...
I consider all neocon globalists “traitorous” to the interests of the American people. We can thank those people for putting us in $31 trillion in unpayable debt that poses more of a danger to America’s security than Russia ever did.
“I will never vote for the traitorous neocon globalist DeSantis either in ‘24 or ‘28. If he’s stupid enough to challenge Trump he will become as irrelevant as Jeb Bush.”
Please give examples of DeSantis being a neocon.
Please give examples of DeSantis being a globalist.
Name calling like an adolescent is one thing, backing it up is another. Throwing mud proves nothing. If you are trying to convince anyone that way, it is not working.
“This is how passive agression works You know that.”
So either DeSantis is passive aggressive if he doesn’t respone to Trump’s insults or he is disloyal if he does. Right.
“If DeSantis runs, Florida will be torn apart too.”
Nope! Florida loves DeSantis.
desantis ran for reelection for florida governor last year (2022)...
his opponent was “globalist” charlie crist...
desantis needed big money donors to combat and win against big money backed “globalist” charlie crist...
are you suggesting we should’ve voted for the “globalist” charlie crist?...
DeSantis has largely avoided responding to Trump’s digs. And without a campaign apparatus, he doesn’t have a rapid response team or surrogate operation designed to engage with 2024-related fire.
But earlier this week, he seemed to be knocking Trump — at least, indirectly — when asked about the former governor’s repeated attacks.
“The good thing is, is that the people are able to render a judgment on that whether they re-elect you or not,” DeSantis said when asked about Trump, who lost his 2020 reelection.
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/desantis-eyes-2024-from-afar-as-gop-rivals-move-toward-runs/
RDS is being passive aggressive. Boys call it nicey-meanie
Folks,
this is fake news, choreographed.
And as always, it seems to work.
When “the Hill” gives you advice, it is a sure bet that their suggestion is never in your best interest.
“Trump needs to have a strategy of not getting agitated...”
You mmean you accept the premise of the smear article? That is called being very suggestible.
“He’s 44 and still in political adolescence.”
DeSantis 2924: Three term congressman, two term governor of a major state.
Yrump 2016:
Nope.
That's what gave him the POTENTIAL to be a great leader.
But great leaders use their potential to do great things.
Given the most powerful office under the US Constitution, he failed, again and again, to use the powers of that office to destroy the Deep State conspiracy strangling self-government in this country for the past 59 years.
When General Milley openly defied him in the riot torn streets of DC, for example - why wasn't he relieved on the spot? A haberdasher from Missouri would have done that. When his Attorney General moved to appoint a special counsel to investigate a made-up story, why wasn't he fired? The examples are numerous.
A patriot whose heart is closer to the right place than anyone since JFK? Obviously true of President Trump.
But a great leader? Show me.
What are DeSantis views on the 2020 election?
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