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Leaked DeSantis Camp Audio: Move to ‘the Middle’ After Primary, Clinton’s Approach to Abortion.
The National Pulse ^ | 05/26/2023 | RAHEEM J. KASSAM

Posted on 05/26/2023 4:52:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Leaked audio has emerged from the DeSantis donor strategy meeting in Miami on Thursday. In the clip you can hear below, DeSantis strategists tell high dollar donors making calls for the campaign that:

During the session, the hosts – including DeSantis pollster Ryan Tyson amongst others – can be heard lauding this a “major step forward for the Republican Party in moving to the middle [on abortion].”

There are a number of times throughout the leaked audio that DeSantis’s strategist can be heard telling wealthy donors: “You have to win a primary before you win a general,” – which is political campaign speak for “we’ll move to the middle after we win the nomination.”

The full audio can be heard below. The parts on abortion begin at 27 minutes in, and run until 39 minutes in.

https://soundcloud.com/phil-ammann-1/leaked-audio-from-desantis-donor-retreat

(Excerpt) Read more at thenationalpulse.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: abortion; babykillers; billclinton; bjbilljefferson; clinton; dccratusualgames; desantis; desantisdoctrine; donors; fakemaga; georgewbush; gope; leakers; legalizeabortion; mittromney; moderates; moveleft; movetothemiddle; nobodyleaks; noleaks; pleaseclap; polls; pollsters; proabortion; rondesantis; ryantyson; sameaspdjt; strategery; teamdesantis; thefakepulse; themiddle; trojanhorse
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To: BobL

His squirming and back-peddling on Ukraine was very off-putting.

“Never back down” my @$$.


41 posted on 05/26/2023 7:10:24 PM PDT by AAABEST ( NY/DC/CA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I heard the abortion subject broached at about 43:30, I believe. And that’s NOT what I heard the speaker say. It’s just something they’d de-emphasize in the general election, and why wouldn’t ANY pro-life candidate do that, knowing that the general election voters will NOT be nearly pro-life as the Republican PRIMARY voters. Pretty basic stuff. If something else was said in addition to this, let me know where to find it. But it appears this post is a HIT on Gov. DeSantis, especially considering that Trump himself said that the Florida 6-week abortion ban is “TOO HARSH”!


42 posted on 05/26/2023 7:12:15 PM PDT by rebuildus (MAGA! Last chance""folks! )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I heard the abortion subject broached at about 43:30, I believe. And that’s NOT what I heard the speaker say. It’s just something they’d de-emphasize in the general election, and why wouldn’t ANY pro-life candidate do that, knowing that the general election voters will NOT be nearly pro-life as the Republican PRIMARY voters. Pretty basic stuff. If something else was said in addition to this, let me know where to find it. But it appears this post is a HIT on Gov. DeSantis, especially considering that Trump himself said that the Florida 6-week abortion ban is “TOO HARSH”! But too many FR commenters apparently are not interested in doing the “heavy lifting” of actually checking what was said and not said. Hey, if you want Trump, that’s fine. But don’t make up stuff!


43 posted on 05/26/2023 7:13:34 PM PDT by rebuildus (MAGA! Last chance""folks! )
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To: AAABEST

“His squirming and back-peddling on Ukraine was very off-putting.”

Yep, it basically moved him from being in direct competition against Trump into being simply another one of the GOP-owned non-Trump candidates.

I think the real reason DeSantis had to flip on Ukraine was that he was putting the entire Ukraine Project, which was taking Ukraine for the West, then Crashing Russia, then Crashing China at risk by giving legitimacy to Trump’s position (which has always been against the war). So, for the puppet-masters of the GOP (the big money boys), the cause (destroying Russia, then China) was far more important than the candidate (DeSantis).

But the thing is, DeSantis didn’t have to play along, at least in my opinion, as he was already well enough known to Republican voters to not need the Big Money. But I don’t think DeSantis is the sharpest knife in the drawer, so it simply didn’t occur to him that he could win everything WITHOUT the help of the big money.

Anyway, 2024 is over for DeSantis, and now the only question is whether he can be viable for 2028, and that depends on how he behaves for the rest of the Primary season.


44 posted on 05/26/2023 7:19:35 PM PDT by BobL
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To: ocrp1982

Dumb comments. Just dumb. The guy is the farthest thing from a Rino or moderate I’ve ever seen in a governors mansion. Beholden to no one. Ignores idiot bureaucrats like Fauci and fires them instantly if in his watch. Pushes rightward solutions every day.

The made up fantasy land in Trumpland right now is utter insanity.


45 posted on 05/26/2023 7:30:10 PM PDT by ilgipper (The mob only destroys. Never creates. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

More lying from desantis/desantis campaign.

Yet the desantis supporters will blow it off, excuse it away, and say it’s a good thing.


46 posted on 05/26/2023 7:32:25 PM PDT by backpacker_c ( )
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To: Golden Eagle

Trump identified the problem but is completely incapable of delivering the solutions. The swamp rolled him from day one and he doesn’t seem to have any ability to get out of the chokehold. So many bad picks and then sticks with them. The disastrous RNC chair is a prime example as is his inability commit to getting rid of Wray. Makes no sense.


47 posted on 05/26/2023 7:34:46 PM PDT by ilgipper (The mob only destroys. Never creates. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Want to know how you can tell whether DeSantis, or any other candidate for that matter, genuinely intends to challenge the deep state’s power? Easy. If they acknowledge the theft of the 2020 general election, then they may be serious about addressing the problem.

If they’re unwilling to acknowledge the theft, then they have no intention of going after the deep state. It’s about as clear a litmus test as there is.


48 posted on 05/26/2023 8:58:26 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: Republican Wildcat

“Trump Avoids Definitive Stance On Abortion—But Suggests DeSantis’ 6-Week Ban Is ‘Too Harsh’”

Who appointed the Supreme Court justices that got Roe v. Wade overturned, hmmmm? That’s right, Trump.


49 posted on 05/26/2023 9:53:24 PM PDT by flaglady47 (Trump knows where all the bodies lie - just sayin.....)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

One meatball, without any bread....

Let the games begin......


50 posted on 05/26/2023 10:00:49 PM PDT by flaglady47 (Trump knows where all the bodies lie - just sayin.....)
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To: Golden Eagle

Tell me, how did Trump run to the left in 2016? He was the first republican candidate I had seen in many years who did not run to the left after winning the nomination. There was no point in him trying, the media would not have let him. He was not Bush I or Bush II or McCain or Romney. Praise God.


51 posted on 05/27/2023 12:18:44 AM PDT by Waryone (2 Chronicles 7:14; praise God for His great mercy!)
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To: Golden Eagle

“Trump said ... last week ... he was NOT ready to fire Chris Wray”

THAT is incredibly disturbing!!!!!

I’m sure it has nothing to do with files the efbeeye has on PDJT, making Wray’s job secure forever.


52 posted on 05/27/2023 3:42:49 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Worrying doesn't take away tomorrow's troubles. It takes away today's peace.)
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To: Waryone

He didn’t much, during the election. But as soon as it was over, he announced he wasn’t actually going to try to lock Hillary up, and that he really had no opposition to gay marriage after all, to move much more to the center.

I’m a firm believer it was the power of prayer from millions that helped him win in 2016. I personally know of people who were spending hours in prayer on election day, it was a phenomenon nationwide. Didn’t happen that I saw in 2020, I believe because Trump had changed by then.


53 posted on 05/27/2023 4:55:55 AM PDT by Golden Eagle (Do you really believe DeSantis wants to raise sales taxes by 23% as Trump claims in his big new ad?)
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To: Republican Wildcat
Clearly an honest discussion with you is not possible

Now that is laughable coming from a desanctomonious supporter on FR. Have been reading what you freaks have been posting about Trump?
54 posted on 05/27/2023 5:09:51 AM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths; 2021: My main take away from this year? Trust no one.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Any plan for a Conservative to ‘move to the middle’ is sheer insanity.

You are NOT going to pick up democrat votes. Not one.

Leftists making a fake toward center will get some otherwise Republican votes but it NEVER works the other way around.

Whoever came up with this plan is an idiot.


55 posted on 05/27/2023 6:23:59 AM PDT by joethedrummer (We can't vote our way out of this, folks..)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Ron DeTurkey: putting American babies in danger.


56 posted on 05/27/2023 6:26:22 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: BobL

Ron DeTurkey is NOT getting my vote in the FL primary. Go Trump!


57 posted on 05/27/2023 6:28:23 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: rebuildus

Thanks for the clarification. I’m still not supporting him.


58 posted on 05/27/2023 6:34:40 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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59 posted on 05/27/2023 7:08:24 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: ilgipper

The tell was when Trump let Hillary off scot-free. Should have gone scorched earth on the Clintons on 1/21/2017. There would have been nationwide support for that.


60 posted on 05/27/2023 7:24:03 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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