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GOP Strategist Garrett Ventry: DeSantis Campaign Is "In Scott Walker/Jeb Bush Territory"
Real Clear Politics ^
| August 1, 2023
| Tim Hains
Posted on 08/15/2023 7:46:53 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
GOP strategist Garrett Ventry said the DeSantis presidential campaign is floundering in the same way that the past campaigns of Jeb Bush and Scott Walker did, Tuesday afternoon on FOX News.
GARRET VENTRY: I think Ron DeSantis is really in Scott Walker and Jeb Bush territory, here. He's bleeding campaign dollars, he's firing staff, and Ed Rollins, who runs a pro-DeSantis PAC, essentially, is saying he's a flawed candidate. If you dig into the facts and look at the polling, GOP voters in the New York Times poll and your FOX Business poll show by 30-point margin they trust Donald Trump going into a general election. So they have a lot of really good reasons to believe that. A Harvard poll shows Trump up five on Joe Biden, and if you dig into the "New York Times" poll, they're locked at 43-43, Trump and Biden, but Trump is gaining steam with black voters, Hispanic voters, and that is a really good sign for Trump and a bad sign for Biden.
The last thing I would say is there is a rust belt poll that came out of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan, in that poll Donald Trump is beating Joe Biden by seven points and Ron Desantis is losing to Joe Biden by three points.
So again, Donald Trump is not only trouncing in the GOP primary by 37 points in the NYT polls, 30 to 40 points in other polls, but obviously clearly the best choice to go against Joe Biden in 2024.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: desantis; trump
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To: dfwgator
That’s probably true, and if so DeSantis’ apparent naive blindness to this manipulation is another strike against him.
To: Alberta's Child
To: Alberta's Child
Without Trump I don’t see the Republican candidate pulling any significant numbers in the election. Another Bush drone will result in no cross overs, not near enough independents and a significant amount of the traditional GOP base who have had enough of the establishment horse manure saying, they won’t fight, their campaign promises are lies just look at congress, WHY BOTHER.
The Republican Party is in dire straights, after Trump they have nothing to offer even their base except more lies. The country club establishment has destroyed the brand even with it’s previously most loyal voters. If the GOP continues as is 2026 will be a bloodbath for them at the national and state levels, people are fed up with their excuses and lies.
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posted on
08/15/2023 8:34:58 AM PDT
by
sarge83
To: AAABEST
I don’t understand how any thinking person can’t see this. It makes them fools - so people treat them accordingly... like fools.
It is strange to behold. Mike Pence is the same way. He'll never be elected to anything ever again.
These are intelligent people who should see it, so yes the lust for power is truly that consuming.
To: Thapsus_epiphany
Overwhelmingly obvious that Desantis is a tool of the RINOs
You could have stopped with Tool.
To: dfwgator
A lot can happen between now and then. But even so, the Cultural Marxists are so embedded, that we're at the point where who occupies the White House is more and more irrelevant. That's the much bigger problem.I have to disagree with you there because as Biden is proving, control of the administrative state has far-reaching consequences and that is done from the White House. Now yes, the Deep State can do as they did during the Trump administration and thwart a lot of what you want to do from that White House, but they can't stop everything. A committed conservative president who signals his commitment by firing every US attorney on his way in like the RATS do and continuing the bloodletting from there while conservatively running the administrative state will do wonders for the country. I believe President Trump, having learned a very hard lesson the first time around, will do both this time if we can get him back in there.
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posted on
08/15/2023 9:15:18 AM PDT
by
Dahoser
(I finally figured out what to call him: Fakephonyfraudident Biden.)
To: FlipWilson
Put me in the camp that was wrong about DeSantis. I had no idea about his complete lack of charisma and personal relation issues. Do you think he holds on now purely to see if he can influence his way to winning the Iowa Straw Poll and hope to see a rebound?
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posted on
08/15/2023 9:33:11 AM PDT
by
HenryArmitage42
(it was not meant that we should voyage far)
To: SoConPubbie
DeSantis has no choice but to tout his grandma’s lasagna recipe on the campaign trail.
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posted on
08/15/2023 9:41:52 AM PDT
by
bgill
To: AAABEST
Ron listened to the GOPe and this is what it got him. Had he stood with Trump and bided his time he would have bet in a great position. A case study in what not to do
To: bgill
Maybe he can sell some guacamole bowls lol 😂
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posted on
08/15/2023 9:44:44 AM PDT
by
38special
(I should've said something earlier)
To: Alberta's Child
You are correct about the party. I would add the contempt they have for their own base to your list. The last person we wanted for Chair was Ronna they knew it but that’s who they gave it to. The base despises Mitch so they made him Minority Leader. The most popular Republican with the base is Trump so they have spent 6 years trying to destroy him. I see a pretty clear pattern here.
To: SoConPubbie
In retrospect, DeSantis should have stayed out, continued to grow his war chest, continued to support Trump and let the other contenders duke it out.
Then at the last minute he could have said, “Wow! I can’t believe the Deep State is going to prevent Trump from running. I guess I have to step in and save the day.”
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posted on
08/15/2023 9:56:09 AM PDT
by
nitzy
(I wonder if the telescreens in 1984 were first called "free Obamascreens")
To: nitzy
You are exactly right. Without running himself, DeSantis could have been supporting Trump’s policies without actually supporting Trump the person. Does DeSantis disagree with Trump on any of the major issues?
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