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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The question that you asked, and that I answered, was about applying the same standard to both of them.
I want to hear candidates’ concrete solutions to the mess that America is dealing with.
obviously trump isn’t his own man according to your statement...
What did DeSantis reveal, that was so terrible? Try not to use any guilt by supposed long distance association tricks. Thanks.
desantis is winning while trump is whining...
DeSantis is dropping like a rock.
Except for the NY Post, which ran 4 glorious full pages with many photos of smiling Ron.
Along with some grotesque photoshops of Trump in various demeaning postures and situations. Of course they were careful to tell their readers ha ha aren’t these funny.
It's like the poem:
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face though they come from the ends of the earth!
desantis never announced he’s running for president...
your iq is dropping like a rock...
You are just bitter. I can tell!
He cozied up to the Bush RINOs. Big mistake, but I’m glad he showed us who he is.
I was very important with DeSantis for a while, but now he’s hanging out with the wrong crowd and looking somewhat Romney-ish.
Droop, you accepting your Ronlim fate, before he even declared, it’s a beautiful thing. It affirms everything about Ronlims, and Ron, and well, Freeptards in general, that I predicted.
DeSantis has blown it with the people who he hired to run his campaign and with the fact that he seems to be very non inventive and original. He is coming off a Carl Rove (canned ham) creation. Trump was cheated and he won the second time in 2020. Independents will vote for him again. You have no proof whatsoever that they won’t vote for him.
I also think Ron is not someone I would trust because he won Governor after he went to Trump for backing the first time. He almost lost to a naked homo drug addict.
I almost softened on him until this policy on Ukraine flip flop and that was enough. I don’t like weasel words. And that was what he responded to Tucker with.
I don’t like how he has sold himself to the GOPe
Indeed their TDS has taken over their mind years ago the wretched creatures have no brains or spine.
*impressed, not “important.” LOL
Well I think you can guess what it is over the past week. Being a flip flopping weasel on a big policy and being a weasel with his words supposedly in defense of Trump didn’t win him any followers.
Ron doesn’t seem to be his own man yet. Listening to GOPe handlers will do him no favors because they are out of touch with voters and they will make him look bad. Well, they already are, I guess.
i’m loving life living in the free state of florida...
the only bitter is your uneducated attitude...
“obviously trump isn’t his own man according to your statement...”
What do you do when you post a reply, use a Random Word Generator? That has nothing to do with my post, but it is kind of LOL-funny.
The facts do not support that claim. They never have supported that claim so far.
thank you for proving you’re not your “own man”...
What the hell are you talking about? You are not making any sense in your replies.
Put down the bottle. Posting while drunk?
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