Won't desantis supporting nevertrumpers join him for his event?
Posted on 01/20/2024 8:59:21 AM PST by backpacker_c
Ron DeSantis is seeking an 'off-ramp' from his 2024 campaign, according to reports, following a disappointing performance in Iowa - buoyed by the promise from Trump supporters to back him in 2028.
Speaking on Tuesday in South Carolina, DeSantis said that Trump voters in Iowa had told him they would support him in four years.
'They were coming up to me saying, "We want you in 2028, we love you, man," he said.
He told a similar story on NBC News.
Andrew Romeo, the DeSantis campaign's communications director, said DeSantis was in the race 'for the long haul,' through South Carolina and beyond.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
desanctus wouldn't be selected to be a maintanence engineer, at this point, in Florida
more in tne article
The old slogan of “buyers are liars” comes to mind.
2028 was totally possible before he took the globalist anti-Trump money to attack Trump in 2024. What incalculable damage he’s done to conservative causes by being such a loser this year. And the run has certainly set Florida back.
Casey’s damned ambition.
You just slip out the back, Jack
Make a new plan, Stan
You don’t need to be coy, Roy
Just get yourself free
Oh, you hop on the bus, Gus
You don’t need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee
And get yourself free
~Paul Simon should manage his campaign
Vivek / Candice '28 !!!!!!
He can go be president of Harvard….
Article: “off ramp”.
Ron is walking the plank into the deep blue sea....
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My post from another thread:
This is good time to write the epitaph for the DeSantis campaign.
The first thing any campaign must do is clearly identify what their critical issues will be.
Those issues should be as simple as possible, easy to explain, easy to understand, and they must stir both the intellect and the emotions of the electorate.
If the candidate currently holds any public office they have one big advantage going for them—they can take specific actions to prove that they take their own critical issues seriously.
There is one other critical task.
The candidate must do focus groups and other market studies to find out what the voters in the district/state think are the most critical issues.
This is actually harder than it seems because it is easy to fall into the trap of the standard “laundry list” of issues and ignore anything outside the list.
The clearest example of this was the 2016 presidential season where the political professionals failed to identify that illegal immigration was a critical issue for many millions of voters. It was not on the standard “issues” list so they just missed it.
I would argue that the critical issue that is not polled in this election is one word:
Courage.
Courage is about being willing to fight the Deep State and every other large corporation, non profit, mass media on issue after issue where they are not serving average Americans.
A governor of a state could show that courage with one simple action:
Stand up—loudly and clearly—for the J6 political prisoners from their state.
DeSantis had a wide open door right in front of him. He was the governor of a major state who could dominate the headlines with a heroic and courageous stand demanding their release—including leading the legislature with resolutions of support for these victims of political prosecution. There are probably many other actions he could have taken to support them—including featuring their plight in his campaign ads. The hate that generated from Democrats and the mass media would have been pure gold for his campaign.
Then he could have argued that he had the courage of a President Trump and had earned the right to be his successor as head of the Republican Party.
It may be that his consultants and advisors were too ignorant to see it—or it may be he lacked the courage to walk through it.
Either way—that was a fatal error.
R.I.P.
While that may be true, DeSantis did serve the function of diluting the Hillary Haley vote, making Trump’s victory margins more impressive.
So, there’s that.
DeSantis is a phony and major backstabber...I’d never vote for that AH...
Thanks for the article... it made me smile.
There will be no "coronation" for you in '28, Ron.
There will be a number of real MAGA candidates who run in '28. They will be the favorites, not you.
Won't desantis supporting nevertrumpers join him for his event?
A lot can happen in 4 years.
If Trump wins and has a disastrous administration, no one wants to be tied to him.
If Trump loses, then the field is open and the people will be done with populism for a while.
If Trump wins, and his administration is great…Trumps VP will be next in line. Is that Ron? I don’t think so.
Nope, I do not see a situation where Ron had a better shot—other than not getting involved this time around.
So then, is DeSantis going to endorse President Trump?
i was never asked, nor given Mssr. DeSantis my vote.
So Haley was the second choice for the majority of DeSantis voters?
We have a fairly good idea on the numbers on that based on “what if” polling questions in a few states.
It looks like DeSantis voters will split 50-50 between President Trump and Nikita if DeSantis is out of the race.
Agree, he should have been looking at 2028 from the start. It was so obvious and such an easy path. I personally believe the GOP elite globalist pushed him hard into this mistake because that were willing to throw anyone under the bus to stop Trump.
As long as Haley remains in the race, DeSantis needs to as well.
If something catastrophic happens to Trump, either legal or health-wise, do we want Nikki Haley to be the only candidate remaining?
Nope
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