Posted on 03/23/2023 2:14:29 PM PDT by conservative98
Could his 2024 presidential campaign be over before it even starts?
At this stage in the 2024 GOP presidential primary cycle, the fact that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) hasn't officially declared his candidacy for his party's nomination feels more like an administrative afterthought than a sign of genuine electoral reluctance. With his reputation bolstered by a rare good showing during an otherwise disappointing GOP midterm election, DeSantis has spent the early part of 2023 crisscrossing the country with conspicuous stops in presidential primary hubs like Iowa and New Hampshire, hawking his "make America Florida" memoir, and weighing in on matters ostensibly outside the scope of someone content to stay in state government for long.
Despite his early reputation as a potential Trump-slayer — coupled with a number of encouraging, if largely premature, polls — the light from DeSantis' political star seems to be dimming.
A 'very bad week' for DeSantis supporters
Data analytics firm Morning Consult released an updated 2024 GOP primary tracking poll taken over the weekend of March 17-19 that showed DeSantis tied with his record low. Meanwhile, Trump surged to more than double the Florida governor's support.
DeSantis' slippage comes amidst a particularly rocky stretch of headlines for the governor. He downgraded Ukraine's defense against an ongoing Russian invasion as not part of the "vital national interest" for the United States — a foray into international politics which earned him the surprisingly caustic ire of many of his fellow Republicans. This foreign policy squabble was overtaken by rising questions over DeSantis' personal touch on the campaign trail, and his capacity for retail politics. That was followed by the most open warfare to date between DeSantis and Trump, whose allies blasted the governor as a "weasel"
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When you hire GOPe garbage to run your campaign and you actually listen to them, you are bound to lose. After they get hired and create too many loses a few times, nobody wants them and the go work for CNN and MSNBC where they turn into lying leftist twats like Nicole Wallace did.
trump has 2 failed marriages...
trump filed for bankruptcy 6 times...
trump claims the experimental shots are “safe and effective”
trump let fauci and the kung flu scamdemic destroy his 4 years of maga...
Excellent point.
Gee, THANKS for letting me know; I had no idea! (Is /s necessary?)
Can I ask you an honest question? Over the last few weeks, Trump has staged an all-out verbal assault on Desantis. Do you think that was also a "bad strategy?"
MCCAIN. ROMNEY. DESANTIS. pic.twitter.com/muJMu0aZvE— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) March 23, 2023
11 second vid….says it all.
That’s all the FR NTs have left.
Yes, I do, and I have said so on many occasions.
They didn’t have to attack McCain much because he had a campaign that was going nowhere.
They attacked Palin and not McCain most of the time.
If you personally do not vote for Mr. Trump, yes, that is exactly what you will bring down upon us
That’s how I see it. I mean, if his goal was to win Trump voters, he should have stood solidly with him against an obvious attempt at criminalizing a political opponent.
If Trump went down, he would have stood to benefit. Now he looks like someone who helped in the effort to shiv Trump like Brutus did Caesar.
Yup. Pathetic.
Hi Jane, I'm back, hope you're well. Having trouble following that though, as Trump is the only one who actually endorsed McCain and Romney? Just asking, thanks.
I have repeatedly said that I want the Republican candidates for President to focus on articulating what their policies would be and how they would implement those policies.
Funny how that works, isn’t it?
Good grief, DeSantis should be totally ashamed. He can’t even come up with his own lines.
It is a terrible point. Trump lost because INDEPENDENTS ran away from him as fast as they could. Stop believing that members of the GOP won’t vote for the Republican nominee. They will. However, Independents will never vote for Trump again. He cannot win, and it’s going to take 2024 to show you, and many other FReepers, that fact.
Because he’s coming office too polished and nuanced.
We need a freaking pitbull that’s gonna start cracking some skulls.
So you think presidential candidates should not ever speak ill of their competition? I would love to live in that world. Lol.
It was necessary to get Desantis to reveal himself. It worked too.
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