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 ...
“DeSantis is having trouble picking quality people”
LOL !
This is the DeSantis critique of Trump’s Presidency.
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He can’t put a viable campaign staff together, but he’ll make all the right choices in DC.
“Yeah right.”
These “consultants” live in a bubble. What idiot told him to go after the guy that half of the Republicans would vote for no matter what?
“If he thinks the 2020 election was above board and that Trump lost fair and square”
That was a fatal error—he will never get the Republican nomination if he runs ten times.
If I knew he was going to be that stupid I would have told him to stay in Florida and never leave and keep his mouth shut.
“DeSantis is having trouble picking quality people to run his campaign.”
Yes, remember all the DeSantis-bots snickering over Trump’s supposed inabililty to pick the right people?
What is going on with the special 8th day warrior creation? He is getting rid of all his early appointments.
Ron needs to quadruple down. (that’s a joke Ron)
It was a joke the first two times I said it, but you didn’t listen.
PT did have a bad record of trusting globalists too much in his 1st Term, but that would not be the case this time. Ron is done. Byron Donalds will benefit.
For any discerning person it’s obvious this election is being driven by factors far outside normal patterns. But then, there aren’t many discerning people left. That portends some real wake up calls down the road. The first will be those who consider themselves “consultants.” The only thing they’re consulting is their own foolish ignorance.
Trump was a big deal log before his tv show
Here’s what we do know....if enough RDS voters are sickened by this name calling political process.....and decided to not vote Trump...the guy is toast.
“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”.
Precisely. Democrat strategists and their accomplices in the legal arena are pulling all the levers behind the scenes to ensure Trump gets the GOP nomination. A plurality of GOP primary voters seems all too willing to comply at this point. Biden has one shot to get re-elected: a Trump candidacy. Nothing motivates and unites Democrat voters more than Trump on the ballot. While polling shows Trump with a sizeable lead in the GOP contests, he remains stuck in the low -to-mid 40s when matched against Biden.
Despite the loyalty of Trump’s finite army, there are not enough troops to prevail in the corrupt Democrat swing states (PA, MI, WI, AZ), as well as Georgia. Trump would lose again, and Biden would shortly thereafter turn the keys over to Kamala Harris. Scary.
As for DeSantis (an outstanding conservative GOP governor), he has been on the receiving end of $25M in despicable attack ads from Trump (from the left) and is still in the game. If the Only Trump crowd is convinced that Desantis has been hopelessly defeated, then it’s curious that they remain fixated on his candidacy. Every day there are countless negative threads against DeSantis on FR. If you’re convinced that he is toast, then move on and pick another target for your vile attacks (maybe Biden?).
DeSantis is done—yesterday’s news.
It is too late to stop a Trump nomination at this point—and this is from someone who wishes it were possible.
The political indictments/probable convictions guaranteed his nomination—for better or worse.
President Trump has become a legend at this point—for a Republican it is like running against Abraham Lincoln.
Reciting his flaws has become irrelevant.
I still think that they are keeping Youngkin as the ‘ace in the hole’.
LOL!!! And they've done that precisely HOW??? By pursing him the past 8 years, investigating him up the yin-yang, impeaching him twice, stealing an election from him, and charging him with multiple nefarious State and Federal criminal felonies that would see him locked away for the rest of his life? If they are trying to make sure Trump is the GOP nominee, they're going about it in a very strange way.
“DeSantis is done—yesterday’s news. It is too late to stop a Trump nomination at this point—and this is from someone who wishes it were possible”.
While I understand the sentiment, it is not too late for the GOP electorate to reconsider what they are about to foist upon the country. It remains possible that the Aug. 23 debate will cause voters to take pause and consider other alternatives.
Remember - Trump was supposed to be the inevitable victor in the 2016 Iowa caucuses - until Cruz defeated him. In New Hampshire, the popular governor there is fighting for anyone but Trump. When the primaries begin in earnest next March, Trump will be in a New York courthouse explaining why he paid hush money to a porn actress and a Playboy playmate.
He could have avoided this humiliation. Play stupid games. Squander stupid money on a failed stupid campaign. 2028 could have been his year. It still might be, if he bows out graciously and endorses Trump, and Trump is more gracious than he lets on.
Agree…
The problem with your analysis is that every Republican has already heard all the bad news about President Trump—a thousand times.
Nothing new is coming from these court cases.
The mass media will beat up on him like a drum—and Republicans will rise to his defense—as I say—like Union soldiers defending the reputation of Abraham Lincoln.
This was Hillary’s and her mass media kneecap crowd’s fatal mistake—massive overkill drowns out your own message.
Any Republican opposing President Trump comes off sounding like a traitor—fair or not—that is just where we are right now.
I think DeSantis comments on the 2020 election doomed him forever.
I don’t see how he recovers from that.
Has he ever worked outside of government (JAG, Congress, Governor)?
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