Not really a surprise as they are targeting the same voters bc Ron is too much of a pussy to take on DT directly.
The smart candidates will either try to pick off evangelicals (which should be easy to do given Trump’s various trysts) and/or moderates and others who are never-Trumpers or just not fans.
Ron is basically Trump-lite without the baggage. But Trump voters love Trump and don’t care about the baggage. So he’s not going to convert them.
There are only 2 types that can seriously challenge Trump: (1) Positive vision a la Reagan (Bush 43 also did this well) or (2) Go face-to-face with Trump in the mud/ring. Nobody had the guts to do that last cycle because they were too afraid of his base or thought they could stay above the fray. But those dogs don’t hunt.
GWB was a “play”. He was the “most conservative Governor EVER”...trust us!
A year or two before the primary, he signed the most conservative bills ever seen on the issues of the day. He was “nothing like his father”, we were assured.
I volunteered hundreds of hours of my time, as a very naive young woman, to his election campaign, hoping to return to the happy days of Ronald Reagan’s America first values. You know what happened next..
These are the same Ivy League people, doing the same thing, hoping to fool another generation.