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Ron DeSantis zings Trump for skipping events: ‘Nobody is entitled’ to GOP nod
NY Post ^ | 07/13/2023 | Ryan King

Posted on 07/13/2023 9:03:39 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has taken aim squarely at Donald Trump, with the former president set to miss a major forum in Iowa Friday and dangling the prospect of playing hooky from next month’s first debate. “Nobody is entitled to this nomination,” DeSantis told conservative Boston radio host Howie Carr Wednesday. “You have got to earn the nomination and doing things like the Family Leader event in Iowa, doing things like these debates, they’re important parts of the process.” Trump has been noncommittal about attending the first Republican showdown, hosted by Fox News and slated for Aug. 23 in Milwaukee. Earlier this week, organizers of a key Des Moines cattle call — the Family Leadership Summit — revealed that the former president won’t attend that event.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: desantis; events; skiiping; trump
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Ouch..
1 posted on 07/13/2023 9:03:39 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

True. But it doesn’t help that the GOP is actively stacking the deck against Trump.


2 posted on 07/13/2023 9:05:06 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Nobody is entitled to this nomination,”

The candidate that the people want is. He’s entitled to it.

Not the candidate the party bosses prefer though. He’s not entitled to it.


3 posted on 07/13/2023 9:05:51 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It would be a grave mistake for Trump to skip the debates. I hope he does, for it would help Desantis close the gap.


4 posted on 07/13/2023 9:06:41 AM PDT by rod5591
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“‘Nobody is entitled’ to GOP nod”

Especially the no-charisma Florida Man.
Give it a break.
He’s already destroyed any chance for 2028.
Now he just looks stoo-pit’.

Roll MAGA, roll!


5 posted on 07/13/2023 9:08:12 AM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hey, if Joe Biden can sit in his basement all summer eating ice cream and still “win” an election, then why should Trump do anything except hold rally after rally in various cities across America?


6 posted on 07/13/2023 9:08:27 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: ChicagoConservative27
‘Nobody is entitled’ to GOP nod


7 posted on 07/13/2023 9:12:09 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Trump has all the right enemies, DeSantis has all the wrong friends.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Trump doesn’t need to be there, and only those that need to catch up to Trump need to be there.

As far as deserving or entitled, YES HE IS!

He was the best that the republicans could hope for in 2016 and in 2020, and now in 2024. He served the country fantastically and people expect the same from him in 2024. DeSantis thinks that his record in Florida is enough for him to deserve the nomination, but Trump record in the highest office in the world, can’t be matched by anyone; NO ONE!

The rest of the republican field wants and needs Trump to go to the events where they are all expected, but Trump doesn’t need those events.


8 posted on 07/13/2023 9:12:24 AM PDT by adorno
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So let me get this straight, the candidate from Florida who is skipping the Turning Point USA conference this weekend, is “zinging” the candidate from Florida who is attending the Turning Point USA conference, because he won’t sit down the the dwarfs for a televised “showdown” hosted by Fox News and a “cattle call” in Iowa? Do I have that right?


9 posted on 07/13/2023 9:13:56 AM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Trump has EARNED the nomination with a stellar record and because real conservatives know that he is the only one that isn't in control of the Republican and establishment and its donors that can win the nomination.

But, if DeSantis wants to throw elbows, Trump will throw one back and knock his teeth out.

10 posted on 07/13/2023 9:14:37 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: SoConPubbie

Oh, Trump?


11 posted on 07/13/2023 9:15:10 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
The thing with presidential debates is that they are no longer seen as mandatory - the JFK-Nixon debates kicked off the modern era of televised presidential debates, and we had several decades of primary candidates also participating in televised debates, but the recent trend toward biased debate moderators has pretty much de-valued presidential debates.

No one much cares about these debates anymore, there's no real pressure on a front-runner with a big lead to participate and if you're the front-runner with the big lead, why bother participating in an exercise where you have very little to gain and could end up losing?
12 posted on 07/13/2023 9:17:22 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: rod5591

Yes, let’s not forget that debate he lost to demented fool Biden, of all things. Ouch.


13 posted on 07/13/2023 9:17:25 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

trump’s absence is a two-edged sword for desantis: on one hand, there will be no trump to eviscerate desantis in a debate; on the other hand, almost no one will be watching a trump-less “debate” ...


14 posted on 07/13/2023 9:18:25 AM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Another yawner, from Mr Meatball

🥱


15 posted on 07/13/2023 9:22:18 AM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Well, first off, Trump is not Biden.


16 posted on 07/13/2023 9:22:50 AM PDT by Reno89519 (DeSantis 2024. Successful Governor, Honorable Veteran, Respectful, Respected.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Nobody is entitled to this nomination,”

DeSantis gets it wrong again. What was stolen from Trump should be returned to him.


17 posted on 07/13/2023 9:23:47 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

You are when it was stolen from you (us). Do you not think it WAS stolen, meatball?


18 posted on 07/13/2023 9:24:14 AM PDT by TheElectionWasStolen
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Quit whining Ron. Man up. You been sending the wife out to cover you.


19 posted on 07/13/2023 9:24:25 AM PDT by dforest
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Like how DeSantis is following the footsteps of Neocon Nikki, Mike Pussy Pence, and Tim RINO Scott in not attending the Turning Point Action conference this weekend.

Big mistake to stick one’s nose up at the grass roots.


20 posted on 07/13/2023 9:25:19 AM PDT by DMD13
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