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‘A total failure to launch’: Why Ron DeSantis was doomed from the start
NBC ^ | Jan. 21, 2024 | Matt Dixon

Posted on 01/21/2024 8:46:33 AM PST by conservative98

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To: nopardons

Of the candidates actively campaigning in Iowa, his team was the only that came to or house on three different occasions (they left fliers each time). Thankfully, I had installed a Ring doorbell & didn’t answer.


61 posted on 01/21/2024 12:55:53 PM PST by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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“Only three times since the 1950s has the winner of the New Hampshire primary not gone on to be the Republican nominee. In two of those years – 1964 when Henry Cabot Lodge won the primary and 1996 when Pat Buchanan won – Republicans lost the general election. Bush won the White House in 2000 despite losing in New Hampshire.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/what-to-know-about-new-hampshire-s-first-in-the-nation-primary/ar-BB1h061l


62 posted on 01/21/2024 1:16:54 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: BobL

When?


63 posted on 01/21/2024 1:51:13 PM PST by joesbucks (It's called love-bombing. Claiming he's saving the world. This is a cult. Just back away. )
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To: BobL
Several DeSantis allies say the governor waited too long to become a candidate, finally throwing his hat into the ring in May, over six months after Trump had done so. That left DeSantis open to blistering attacks by Trump, while the governor himself did little to defend himself, insisting he was not a candidate.

DeSantis was a terrible candidate.

64 posted on 01/21/2024 1:55:58 PM PST by joesbucks (It's called love-bombing. Claiming he's saving the world. This is a cult. Just back away. )
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To: conservative98

given the emphasis by NBC of the likely negative consequences of working on a jigsaw puzzle, i can only conclude that MUST be the main reason that DeSantis failed ...


65 posted on 01/21/2024 2:13:36 PM PST by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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To: joesbucks

It wasn’t strategy, it was his opponent.


66 posted on 01/21/2024 2:47:43 PM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: BobL

Could have prevailed? Possibly. But his campaign simply sucked. From the start. Which probably means at the end of the day, he sucked.


67 posted on 01/21/2024 4:56:05 PM PST by joesbucks (It's called love-bombing. Claiming he's saving the world. This is a cult. Just back away. )
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To: conservative98

The night of the 2020 election, when for the first time in history 7 states stopped counting votes, Donald Trump ahead by millions, and in the morning the election was stolen, that was the moment that 60 million people made up their mind that in 2024 , no one but Trump would be the nominee for the GOP. Anybody with clear thinking would know real Americans will fight for justice. No one will defeat Trump this time around. I will never vote for anyone who ran against Trump ever. It shows that they are lacking common sense.


68 posted on 01/21/2024 11:06:30 PM PST by factmart ( )
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To: conservative98

He took money from anti-Trumpers and anti-America sources. He was used to undermine Donald Trump but people saw thru this as he was hardly or not attacking Biden and the democrats.
Nicki Haley is another one as is WEF Vivek.
2 of 3 candidates not eligible to run for president and getting money from the democrats.


69 posted on 01/23/2024 1:44:44 AM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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