He's got a face I just don't trust. The eyes are a give away here.
Posted on 05/07/2023 6:13:40 PM PDT by conservative98
Ron DeSantis grappled with how not to "piss off" then-President Donald Trump's voters during 2018 debate preparation sessions in his first campaign for Florida governor, according to videos obtained by ABC News.
In the videos, the then-congressman can be seen talking through how to answer a mock question on whether there are any issues on which he disagrees with Trump. The question was posed to him by Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, who participated in the mock sessions.
"Obviously there is, I mean, I voted contrary to him in the Congress," DeSantis said in the video. He added, "I have to frame it in a way that's not going to piss off all of his voters."
DeSantis then said he does "what he thinks is right" and that he supports Trump's agenda but added that any disagreement he may have with the then-president he would raise in private.
Dave Abrams, a spokesman for DeSantis' political team, slammed ABC News in a statement and said the footage proved "that Ron DeSantis is unwilling to be anyone but his authentic self -- no matter the politics."
Gaetz, who has endorsed Trump's 2024 campaign, condemned the leak of the tapes in a tweet on Sunday.
The exchange caught on video shows how DeSantis strategized on how to embrace Trump and court his voters while also maintaining his own political identity. It's a challenge the Florida governor is likely to face as he approaches a potential 2024 campaign against Trump for the Republican presidential nomination.
In another clip aired by ABC News, advisers off camera can be heard talking to DeSantis about the importance of coming off as likable and telling him to write the word "likable" in all caps on a pad of paper at the debate podium
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Exactly.
Trump is cooked or his campaign wouldn’t be doing all this stuff. Desperation.
Trump’s campaign didn’t release these tapes. ABC did.
Nice try, though, NeverTrumper.
FAIL.
He's got a face I just don't trust. The eyes are a give away here.
“If desantis was smart, he would get right with God….”
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Did you wake up this morning intent to say the most pathetic and stupid thing ever said on FR or did it just occur spontaneously while typing?
Would the same advice go to a certain orange candidate with a history of philandering, slandering another candidate’s father, and resorting to leftist talking points about the Governor of Florida? Or is he the “god” DeSantis has to get right with to pacify you ever-Trump cultists?
Don’t know the details but in all cases a politician and a celebrity
has to learn to assume every microphone is “on” because most of them are 🎤
and the person within 1,000 yards of you has a smartphone with video capabilities and is ready to go viral with anything recorded 👀📱🤳📹
and your office, car and home are probably bugged by the government.🎧🕵️♂️
And your lawyer🐀, siblings, coworkers💩, best friends and your spouse may testify against you in court someday along with TV appearances to promote their bestselling “tell all” books.🦨🎱👮♂️🗣️⚖️🏛️📗🤑💰
Then speak freely because “this is a free country.”😁
Chickenshit speaks again!
So, the Trump cultists reach back to 2018 in an attempt to smear DeSantis.
Unfortunately, by practicing how to deal with the Trump question, DeSantis earned Trump’s endorsement.
It demonstrates that DeSantis is smart and prepared.
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Isn’t that what Mock discussion is about? Iron out your statements and issues. Trump actually did mock discussions as well. Where are those tapes? Actually trump could use a bit of practice on some of statements. He’d be better off.
Yes because your governor is such a peach. The jealousy is amusing.
Also a strange clasping of the hands with the thumbs not intertwined.
Yikes! The longer I'm at FR, the more I question why I respond to total ignorance {like your statement}.
Trump is cooked? He's leading in every poll [even though polls don't prove the future], and no one is enthused about slowjoe.
DeSantis should finish his term {he is doing an excellent job as gubbernor of FL} because he will be a shoe-in for the pubbies in 2028.
Erik, you should permanently disqualify yourself from ever posting on FR for the stupid position you took in the PA senate race.
STFU and go away.
Tell me what you donate to FR, and I'll double it if you stay away {after I verify the amount you might claim to donate}.
I can understand a strategy session. I can also understand having a few policy differences.
I can also understand when some media entity purposely tries to create mischief over nothing
If DeSantis does enter the race, there will be no way to court each other’s voters because it will have been wrong to create this situation in the first place.
I was right about the PA Senate race. Trump's interference cost us a Senate seat.
Fetterman was elected thanks to Trump. Real conservatives were not given a voice nor a choice.
But you keep on supporting your RINO Trump who was ready to sign an assault weapon ban, who throws parties for groomers at Mar-A-Lago and who backs Romney, McCarthy and Disney/Anheuser-Busch over any core principles.
Trump is a 6-time loser as head of the GOP. 2024 will make it 7. Trump is the Beto O'Rourke of the GOP
And you are the dylan mulvaney of FR, you simpleton.
Please, post the amount of your annual FR donation, visibly, in response to my challenge, I will double it, and you can go over to DU or any other luney tune site and STFU.
Donald J. Trump was the best President of the United States of America, in my life time and you compare that to betoorourke, you EFFFFFing loser.
You do not deserve FR time and space, no matter how much {or nothing, most likely}that you donate.
Why don't you send a nice email to festerman, the guy that you and your hate helped get elected. Oh, BTW, did I mention, STFU.
Re: 33 - Grow up.
You don’t get to determine who posts on FR.
Accept that people will have different viewpoints than your regarding the 2022 and 2024 elections.
USS Alaska is no different than Biden and those who enjoy silencing dissent.
Anything posted outside his worldview gets derision and demands for silence.
USS Alaska is just a fascist.
Well said.
I know that or Erik would be banished.
I've been suspended here for hours, days and weeks by some pucker butt admin, for saying things that irked he/her, so no one has the right to post here, it's a privilege that the Robinson's extend to all of us.
My opinion is that some people, don't earn the right to continue to pollute the universe.
I did offer to double his donation to FR if he bails out, so that FR would be healthier, wealthier and most assuredly wiser.
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