Well, now we wait to see if it will happen
DeSantis to launch presidential campaign May 24, sources say
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to formally announce in a “virtual” way on May 24 that he is running for president, as donors and fundraisers gather in Miami to make calls and fundraise for his campaign, according to three sources familiar with the planning.
He plans to file papers with the Federal Election Commission to officially establish his presidential candidacy. The Miami gathering, which includes some of the governor’s most generous longtime donors, are expected to receive briefings on campaign strategy and requests to help raise significant sums of cash for his bid, three people familiar with the plans said.
A more formal kickoff event is expected to be held closer to June 1, according to those familiar with his plans. It is likely to occur in DeSantis’s hometown of Dunedin, Fla., sources familiar with the plans said.
A DeSantis spokesman declined to comment on the timing for an announcement. The news on a launch next week was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
While no article has a named source, this is a case where it’s most likely true. So now you have
(Newsweek) In a post on Truth Social, the former president said that DeSantis has “zero chance” of gaining the White House, despite the governor attempting to increase his name recognition with appearances across the country over the past few months.
And
(NY Times) Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida all but declared his presidential candidacy on Thursday afternoon, telling donors and supporters on a call that only three “credible” candidates were in the race and that only he would be able to win both the Republican primary and the general election.
“You have basically three people at this point that are credible in this whole thing,” Mr. DeSantis told donors on the call, organized by the super PAC supporting him, Never Back Down. “Biden, Trump and me. And I think of those three, two have a chance to get elected president — Biden and me, based on all the data in the swing states, which is not great for the former president and probably insurmountable because people aren’t going to change their view of him.”
Who’s right, and who’s wrong? I’ll say again, I just do not think Trump can win in 2024, even against Biden. Even without Democrat cheating, the electoral college math is just not in his favor. It doesn’t matter how many votes he got in 2020, things have change. The constant whining about 2020, the legal actions against Trump will hurt, there are too many who are just over him. Democrats seem to be over Biden, but, they really cannot get rid of him. Trump spends too much time bashing Republicans. Sure, people were surprised in 2016. This is not 2016. Hey, anything can happen. I just do not think he can win the White House, and if citizens are voting against him, they may vote against Republicans in the House, Senate, and even state elections.
Their policies are similar, but, DeSantis is less bull in a china shop, more focused on policy, and doesn’t sit around and bash Republicans. We’ll have to see how it goes.
No republican appointed judge has ever found any substantive “cheating”
Even Fox News admitted that was a lie.
“Cheating” could come in many forms. The GOP FL legislature li.ited polling places in Dem majority cities, forcing people to wait in line for up to 3 hours to vote. They also passed laws prohibiting wYer from being given out on the grounds that it might be an inducement to vote for a particular party
Look at how gerrymandered NC voting is. And then talk about Dem “cheating”
John,
Why would anyone honor your observation. You know nothing of the irregularities, judicial process, Dem corruption or any other aspect of the forces tearing down our government and way of life. In your ignorance you go on and on about how a trace gas causes so called climate change. Despite the fact none of your physics works.
Oh, so it suddenly matters who appoints these judges?
No evidence was ever presented in open court. None. If you think the American people voted for this sh!t-show, then they don’t deserve the vote.
Hogwash. Evidence was presented and denied. For the basest of reasons. Anyone who argues this has not just drunk the Kool Aid, he brews it to serve to others.
DeSantis will have to out-Trump Trump in terms of populist, right-wing crazy to win the nomination, and then thread the needle on non-crazy to sway independents.
DeSantis’ strength in FL lies with his cultural warrior-tude – groomers, Disney, ‘mutilations’, La Cage Aux Folles, book bans, CRTs etc.
Maybe Brandon should hire Rimjob as a political adviser for his throughly proficient insight.
#LetsGoBrandon
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Maybe DeSatan should hire DickBreath for his throughly proficient spellchecking.
Maybe DeSatan should hire DickBreath for his throughly proficient spellchecking.
Thanks for the tip, Rimjob, I knew you’d bite.
Ahem, chubby. How’s that ass taste?
#RimjobSpellchecking
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Throughly is archaic, like you,DickBreath.
Butt, nice try.
DeSantis will have to out-Trump Trump in terms of populist, right-wing crazy to win the nomination, and then thread the needle on non-crazy to sway independents.
DeSantis’ strength in FL lies with his cultural warrior-tude – groomers, Disney, ‘mutilations’, La Cage Aux Folles, book bans, CRTs etc.
I suspect many MAGAts can’t possibly imagine that you do not represent the majority of Americans, but that’s not the case.
I ain’t voting for DeSantis
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I guarantee you: DeSantis running, as much as I like him, will split the party and lose the country for good.
Anybody whining that Trump talks too much of the stolen election is hearing what he wants to hear. For Trump’s supporters, the following things are true:
(a) he won despite election rigging in 2016
(b) he won despite election rigging and a whole lot of shenanigans in 2020
(c) the federal apparatus worked its very best to destroy him and will do the same to DeSantis or anyone else
(d) anyone else on the ticket in ’24 will confirm for them once and for all that voting is pointless and they will sit it out making even more election shenanigans unnecessary and permanent Democrat rule a certainty.
DeSantis is either a slave to ego or he has been convinced that Trump cannot win by people who do not want him to win and instead of backing him to the hilt is deciding to take the long odds.