But DON'T say you weren't warned.
Posted on 08/08/2023 9:51:54 AM PDT by conservative98
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday completed the full-scale reboot of his once-promising presidential campaign, reassigning his campaign manager and elevating a loyal hand from his governor's office.
The news comes just weeks before the GOP field will face off in the first presidential primary debate in Milwaukee, a chance to reverse a summer that has seen DeSantis, Trump's best-positioned challenger, slip dangerously far behind former President Donald Trump in national polling.
Like every reset — DeSantis insists it's a "reload" — the real question remains on if DeSantis waited too long to execute the retooling. Past presidential cycles are littered with candidates who tried to fix things only to be washed out. Both President Trump and President Joe Biden ended their first successful runs with new campaign managers, but their experiences, especially Trump's, are an exception to the rule.
James Uthmeier, DeSantis' chief of staff in Tallahassee, will now lead his campaign, news first reported by The Messenger. DeSantis' former campaign manager Generra Peck, who also led DeSantis' midterm reelection romp, will remain as a chief strategist. Peck had been the subject of multiple reports questioning the direction of the Florida Republican's campaign.
As The Messenger pointed out, Uthmeier has no campaign management experience.
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DeSantis trails Trump by 38 points in FiveThirtyEight's weighted national average. While pundits often dismiss early polling, FiveThirtyEight found that a review of 40 years of data shows that can be predictive and becomes even more so as we reach the second half of the year before state primary and caucuses begin. Even more concerning for the former governor is that he is also lagging behind Trump in Iowa...
The reality, as Politico summed it up recently, is that a DeSantis comeback this large and an accompanying Trump collapse would be unprecedented.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
ver 7.0 for the Meatball.
But DON'T say you weren't warned.
DeSantis is having trouble picking quality people to run his campaign.
My post from 7/2/2022, go:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4075718/posts
Newsmax Host Rips Into ‘Career Politician’ Ron DeSantis Over Potential 2024 Run Against Trump
7/22/2022 | Zachary Petrizzo
Posted on 7/2/2022, 9:00:25 PM by conservative98
As the Republican Party seems to move away from Donald Trump, Newsmax host Greg Kelly says it is too soon to jump to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
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Newsmax’s top-rated host Greg Kelly warned Republican Governor Ron DeSantis on Friday night: Don’t take on Donald Trump for president come 2024.
The declaration from the primetime star comes more than two years ahead of a 2024 general election and months ahead of the 2022 midterms, as behind the scenes, Republican Party lieutenants mull potential 2024 GOP presidential contenders.
“Governor Ron DeSantis. He is amazing, so talented, so smart, unlimited political future. I want him to be president someday,” Kelly began his Friday evening show as a graphic appeared on screen stating, ‘Not Yet, Ron.’ “I think that’s almost guaranteed to happen, but I’d rather not see him run in 2024.”
The message from Kelly comes while Trumpworld remains unsure of precisely when a Trump 2024 campaign announcement might come. The New York Times reported Friday that Trump could announce his candidacy “unusually early,” and the news may come not at a rally but on social media.
After airing a highlight reel of the Florida governor taking aim at reporters, Kelly heaped on the praise before cutting to the chase.
“Let’s face it, though, he’s borrowing heavily from Donald Trump style and agenda and policies, and that’s fine,” he said. “That’s totally fine, but I’m hearing from more and more Republicans. ‘Well, you know, Donald Trump has all that baggage, and it’s time for a fresh face.’ Don’t fall for that argument!”
Kelly then dug in, arguing that, unlike Trump, DeSantis could be considered a “career politician.”
“Let’s see, he’s forty-three now, on Election Day in November of 2024, he would be forty-five years old. Now, here’s the thing. That makes him, what, three decades younger then-President Trump. I’m not saying that’s a good thing, I’m saying he’s got plenty of time ahead of him to make his move, but not now, and there are some things he needs to clean up,” the primetime Newsmax host said. “Just a little bit.”
The Newsmax host added that in 2018, he believed DeSantis should have easily defeated then-Democratic candidate, Andrew Gillum. Yet, instead, he said DeSantis was “nervous” and “fidgety” during a debate.
“I think he [DeSantis] needs work on that,” he added.
Further, Kelly chalked up DeSantis as a wannabe Trump clone.
“Obviously, he [DeSantis] has studied President Trump very, very carefully. You can kind of see it in this picture in Mar-a-Lago. I mean, they’re very similar, and I think DeSantis inhaled so much from Donald Trump,” Kelly said. “The agenda, the style, it is all Trump’s.”
“He [Trump] changed everything, changed everything, and I think he can change it again,” the host concluded.
Give it up Ron. Deck chairs and stuff.
You could have been a contender…
Don’t you love how the left presumes they can decide who we can even vote for months before the first primaries? They want Trump and him alone.
Are we going to see The MAGA version of DeSantis again. It’s so confusing.
Sure, blame the failure on the person running the campaign, not the product being promoted.
Makes you wonder who it actually was that told him to ditch Generra Peck, who is apparently staying on, but in a more subdued role.
I wanted DeSantis to succeed.
He has self-destructed quickly—paid attention to the big money donors and the high paid consultants.
That is his fault—not ours.
I learned a long time ago, that when the press and Democrats start pushing a Republican candidate down our throats, to immediately run the other way.
“DeSantis is having trouble picking quality people”
LOL !
This is the DeSantis critique of Trump’s Presidency.
He was never going to win the primary. Like most political candidates...it take years to build a national following. Trump used a TV show to do that.
Not enough scar tissue Ron.
Nope. They wanted and still want DeSantis or anyone but Trump, but DeSantis crashed and burned even faster than Jeb Bush did. He is the new Jeb Bush. That’s where we’re at with DeSantis.
Don’t you love how the left presumes they can decide who we can even vote for months before the first primaries? They want Trump and him alone.
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No they don’t, I read the leftist message boards almost everyday.
They want Trump taken off the “political menu” and locked up in prison.
They would love for us to nominate a minor league scrub candidate in 2024.
Exactly. They basically want to convince us that Trump is running as an incumbent. No need to have debates or primaries. In reality, the fat lady hasn’t even been auditioned yet on who the GOP nominee will be.
Kelly is a huge Trump cheerleader. Much of his analysis should be discounted due to his often stated bias.
I would agree in retrospect DeSantis made a mistake getting in, but to describe hem as a career politician ignores much of his background.
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