Ron DeSantis was winner of the first 2024 Republican debate — the man best suited to unseat Trump

New York Post ^ | August 23, 2023 | Isaac Schorr

[Reno89519]

DeSantis won. And before you say that Trump had more views of his pre-recorded and edited historically reminiscing conversation with Tucker, consider the, at this time, 175 "views" reflect how many people opened tweet, not how many started or watched the whole video. I'm sure they have a stat somewhere that shows the latter. Now, what is the other stat? Likes. There are 574K. That means that 0.003% actually liked what they saw! Consider the comments, only 47.3K, only 0.00027 of those so-called 175 million viewers even commented. And no breakdown, so far, of how many of those 175 million were real or even in the US.

So back to this post, Trump ceded the nomination, likely watched this debate at home by some reports, resting up to turn himself in for arraignment today.

DeSantis won.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

DeSantis can say words he’s paid to say!

Yay!

[TexasFreeper2009]

I think Pence and Vivek also did very well. I would like to see those 4 alone in future debates along with Trump if he would like to show up

[Reno89519]

He says what he wants. Did you watch the debate?

[tired&retired]

This morning I listened to Fox & Friends on XM radio. They were gushing over Haley and DeSantis.

Figures, Murdock owns the Post too.

[traderrob6]

[E. Pluribus Unum]

https://www.wbur.org/npr/510680463/donald-trumps-been-saying-the-same-thing-for-30-years

[usafa92]

LOL. Shocking. The #1 DeSimp on this forum posting from Rupert Murdoch’s rag. Just the print version of Fox News.

[traderrob6]

Carlson has 177M views as we speak.

[niteowl77]

A Murdoch organ anoints their great non-Trump hope.

[Reno89519]

DeSantis was laser focused in the debate last night, very good performance. Pence has experience, as Trump VP, and played that but has zero chance. Christie and Haley did well, performance wise. Same with Burgum at times. Vivek self-destructed by being a jerk throughout the entire evening. Scott was nice guy, but clearly out of his element. Hutchison was there, why?

[Ge0ffrey]

Murdoch gave this writer his marching orders.

[JonPreston]

I didn’t watch, but it appears the Sweaty, Swathy Meatball continued his Lead Balloon tour with a predictable result. It’s time for him to return to Florida and do the job he was hired for. Dontca think??

[Reno89519]

And you realize that the 175 where people that somehow opened the tweet. It has NOTHING to do with watching the video. Only 43K commented, so likely closer to the count. But good luck with that. Besides, the debate was on Rumble, where I watched it, and on Fox. It was live, not pre-recorded and edited. The conversation was interesting, but quiet, boring. The debate, live and exciting.

[Parley Baer]

Figures, Murdock owns the Post too and Fox. No bias from them. Bwahahahaha

[escapefromboston]

I didn’t bother watching the GOP debate. Did any of them say anything interesting ?

[M. Thatcher]

DeSantis won.

Trump is up by 36 points in ... Florida.

DeSantis can't even hold on to the people who once supported him.

[stars & stripes forever]

DeSantis won. ROFL.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I watched him losing the Florida governorship until Trump endorsed him, then watch him put his own ambition over MAGA.

Don’t need to see anything else of the self-serving Bush Crime Family, Inc. asset.

[BobL]

“DeSantis won.”

Even if true, it doesn’t matter as he has no path to get Trump voters to support him. The only question at this point is who can get Trump voters on board, assuming that Trump is somehow ‘removed’ from contention.

Maybe Vivek or someone else jumps into the Republican Primary (Younkin, maybe)? But it has to be someone who hasn’t pissed off Trump voters, or he’ll simply get blown apart in November.