Posted on 01/21/2024 8:10:13 AM PST by FarCenter
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign is going so poorly, his team has had to resort to telling donors he has a shot at winning the U.S. Virgin Islands caucus.
After getting trounced by former President Donald Trump in Iowa, DeSantis has faced growing calls from erstwhile allies like The Wall Street Journal and Fox News host Laura Ingraham to drop out of the race.
He’s been deluged by a brutal firehose of obituaries for “the worst campaign in history” that “could go down as one of the most colossal bonfires of cash in American political history” for torching hundreds of millions of dollars only to lose every single one of Iowa’s 99 counties – and they savaged DeSantis personally as “an aloof not-ready-for-primetime candidate who didn’t know what he didn’t know and was arrogant about it;” who offered a failed message of being “just like Trump, but awkward, shorter and less interesting;” was “woefully underprepared for the rigors of retail politicking, often coming off as awkward and robotic in his interactions with voters;” and a candidate plagued by “fake smiles and fake laughs and all around weird behavior” who “always chooses cruelty over kindness, dog whistles over empathy, divisiveness over grace.”
“At best, DeSantis is in full-on survival mode now. At worst, he’s living in fantasy land,” wrote NBC News’ Matt Dixon, one of many reporters who have followed DeSantis’ political career for years and cannot see a viable path forward for him, with Trump continuing to dominate the polls and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley nearly beating his much-touted Iowa ground game and far more competitive with the ex-president in New Hampshire.
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Pathetic...,,.....,
What’s bad about being Florida Gov?
Ronnie deserves every slight.
It is the endless spinning of the DeSantis campaign that is like fingernails on a chalkboard.
Yuk.
DeSantis is this for the long haul, and this campaign is only step 1. Good thing because Trump is getting old and could be taken out by the left.
Hero to zero. Jeb was Governor of Florida too.
You left out the “Not the Bee” tag line.
I thought perhaps this was from the Bee.
That is wonderful—the only hope DeSantis has now is that we all shift into an alternate timeline.
;-)
Casey is much more ambitious than that.
BTTT
DeSantis and Haley are both vultures circling.
Remember Hannity promoting DeSantis and his wife at a special town hall? Hannity just another fake conservative / trump backstabber / neoCON scumbag.
Made us all look like fools with his tick tock BS. Screw you, Hannity!
Yup.
The “never give in” scamsters want to keep the con going as long as they can.
The question is whether DeSantis understands that they and he are destroying his brand.
At this point there is zero chance he would get the nomination.
Zero chance.
The vast majority of future potential delegates are disgusted by him at this point.
Some of us have been warning about Hannity for years.
He is a warmongering Deep State apologist.
More private planes than delegates. oof
The not so secret wish of desantis supporters/nevertrumpers, even here on FR....
When you see them saying ‘desantis has to stay in the race, because there has to be someone to step in because Trump is old, and his health might not be good’
they are saying they are hoping Trump gets assassinated.
Not surprisingly though, the bastard media is claiming that if DeSantis wins the VI Caucus, it is a better gauge of US Voters because it is a “ranked choice” voting system: “How the Virgin Islands could play a key role in choosing the GOP nominee” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/03/virgin-islands-trump-republican-caucus-election/
Talking about being desperate!
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