DeSantis predicts Trump won't accept results in Iowa or New Hampshire if he loses

cbsnews ^ | Dec 15, 2023 | Aaron Navarro, Olivia Rinaldi

[backpacker_c]

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said he expects that if former president Donald Trump, the front-runner for the GOP nomination, were to lose the first Republican voting contests, in Iowa and New Hampshire, he won't accept the results.

"He will say it's stolen no matter what. He will try to delegitimize the results. He did that against Ted Cruz in 2016," DeSantis said, referring to Cruz's victory in the Iowa caucuses.

"I don't think there's been a single time he's ever been in competition for something, where he didn't get it, where he has accepted [it]," DeSantis added. "I think that that's to be expected, but I don't think people are gonna buy it."

[Theodore R.]

We’d better hope Ted Cruz can hold on in 2024; it will be a very tough fight to stop the TX “blue wave” coming.

[Redleg Duke]

Talk about projection!

[M. Thatcher]

Trumpers seem to have a lot of butt hurt here

Trumpers are the vast majority of GOP primary voters.

Jeff Roe and multiple high-level campaign and superpac staffers are gone; there's nothing but turmoil in the ever-shrinking (now at SEVEN PERCENT) DeSantis camp. As Trump said, "Game over."

[Reno89519]

There’s still a month till the first votes, over six months until the convention. It’s not over until it’s over.

[M. Thatcher]

Knock yourselves out. It’s not my money or reputation he’s wasting.

[mass55th]

"If DeSantis had not been allowed to run for president while staying governor, he would most likely never have run in the first place."

Precisely. The only other Florida Governor who changed the law was rino Charlie Crist, who is now registered as a Democrat. Crist believed he was going to be picked by McCain as his Presidential running mate, so had the law changed. He never changed it back despite not being chosen. It was Rick Scott who changed the law back to its original state when he became Governor, and then DeSantis did the same thing Crist did. Will he have the law changed back once he slithers back to the Governor's office? Nope, because he's too arrogant to do so, and totally unprincipled.