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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Hoping for a prison cell of coffin. Nice.
If only this jerk had waited for 2028 he would have fooled everyone into thinking he was maga and the brass ring would have been his. Lucky for us, he exposed himself as a deep state backstabbing, socially inept RINO before it was too late.
Wasn’t Epstein Island in the Virgin Islands???.......
Hannity has always been a Hannity supporter.
How about Jeb’s Guam?
Yes. They changed the name to “Ex-virgin Islands”.
Trump won't get taken out with lawfare and if something catastrophic should happen to his health, Trump supporters would not be switching their votes to Ron in the primary(lol) and delegates will NOT be switching their votes at the convention to Ron (LOL).
Somebody who is real MAGA would step up.
Yup. Pudding Face has no chance.
That is classic campaign spinning.
Liars come out of the woodwork for campaign season—they really need their own award show.
We can call it “The Biggest Whopper by a campaign consultant or media figure”.
It would actually be fun.
Stay in Berlin. Dumbass.
“U.S. Virgin Islands”
Probably getting help from Bill Clinton there.
Isn’t that the one Bloomberg won?
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