Why doesn’t DeSantis just endorse Trump?
Isn’t that what primaries are supposed to resolve?
I am not fine with him attacking DeSantis in a viscous manner as has done in the past (for example showing him in an old photo with high school students and suggesting he was perhaps doing inappropriate things with them). I don't think that it is good to take other MAGA republicans and trash them, Trump cannot be the only MAGA leader standing or he will be a blip in hisory, they GOPe will swallow the movement up and crush it like they did the Tea Party and Contract with America. He needs a team and a next generation that will follow in his footsteps and he should be mentoring and supporting them, not tearing them to pieces in very personal ways. If he does build a team to go on after he is retired from politics than he could go down in history as one of the most influential leaders ever. If he does not, he will be forgotten as a roadbump on the superhighway to fascism.
Trump may be right.
But sometimes the primary debate increases public awareness of platform issues and is a good thing.
The problem comes when citizens decide if I can’t have MY republican candidate, I’m just going to suicide the country and vote Democrat.
Well sir, if you run and he runs, you are likely the one to split the party. Maybe D is waiting to see how the kangaroo court turns out.
The same argument could be made against any other Republicans running in the primary. Why should DeSantis be singled out?
See, I like Trump and will vote for him if nominated. This ticks me off. It’s either vote for him or nobody. I wish he would just campaign on the issues and forget about the others. He detracts from his message when criticizing others.
Big tent, big gov and big pharma will rule us, like they did when he presided over covid.
We need our own party. MAGA can not trust the GOP.
“DeSantis has not yet announced an official bid for the presidency, but he has not denied that he will run, either.”
Well, he certainly did deny it. Perhaps not recently, but he did.
IF DeSantis is the right guy he should be able to withstand a trial by fire. Anyone who believes he’ll get no less from the democrats is in la la land. The bottom line for me is why go Trumplite when you can have Trump? Trump has earned the loyalty of anyone serious about challenging the swamp. Seven decades of watching republican politics tells me if I follow the money and personalities DeSantis has a lot more credibility building to do before I could support him and it won’t happen in the next year. Ron’s best shot at the future is stay in Florida and build his bona fides.
DeSantis is the democrats best hope for them to gum up the election
On the other hand, a Trump/DeSantas run would be a winner.
The Republican Party is already hurt, with so many RINOs in there. When they start actually challenging the left and taking this country back to its constitutional moorings, then they’ll again have my respect.
There is a reason I have a Porcupine decal on my back window.
This is what was discussed here weeks ago...
All DeSantis is a stand in, someone they hoped would take out Trump. But Trump has a welded bond with 75 million of his good fiends. This bond has not been seen in modern American history, you’d have to dial back to the founders to see this kind of relationship between a leader and the people.
Even if DeSantis won the nomination, knocking out Trump, you bet your azz a big portion of those 75 million will never forgive or vote for DeSantis. I’m one of them.
It’s already divided. Has been for a long time. The difference now is that after Trump was elected, a lot less people are willing to hold their nose and vote for a POS candidate, just to keep the seat red. I’ll never do it again.
Attacking another candidate like DeSantis instead of Biden is what divides the party, not healthy competition which makes it stronger.
Is it legal to hold a national Republican only pre-election? I believe that a pre-vote would establish a baseline for analyzing and comparing election numbers from each state to the actual election. Although it may not prevent cheating this could provide data to challenge a future media narrative.
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