Posted on 01/20/2024 6:20:12 AM PST by hardspunned
I hope RDS will remain in the race as a Plan B, in case Trump is incapacitated. Otherwise, they will hand the nomination to the fraud Nymphrata.
Empty handed into the governor’s mansion, with his wife and three kids. Everyone should be so lucky!
That is not necessary.
Hopefully President Trump will name his proposed VP early in the process.
A handful of delegates at the convention—whether Nikita or DeSantis delegates—will not decide the nominee if Trump is not available.
That or as the DeSantis pusher would say he’s got it locked up😂
They will probably be Mitch’s b!tches. You will not get a Constitutional nominee.
Returning to FLA as a failure. His arrogance will not let him end the campaign until he's forced to by running out of funds.
I will grant you the fact that you are an eternal optimist for DeSantis.
Nevertheless, the timer has gone off. He's done.
I believe it was Giuliani who waited until Florida to start his campaign for president. By then voters had forgotten he was still running and that was the end.
Maybe Rob spent all his money bribing Bob Vander Pants in Iowa...
The DeSantis campaign effectively ended before it even officially began. Watching his theatrics in late 2022 and early 2023 as he ran around touring the world and making public appearances as a “not a candidate” moron was embarrassing even to me.
"Icky Nikki"....thought she was just behind Trump....In her dreams...
When a candidate stops advertising there is usually only one reason—they have run short of funds.
Often it is a matter of days after that before they end their campaign.
(I worked on many local campaigns in past decades. The primary candidates usually did not announce they were suspending ads. We typically found out from other campaign staffers or consultants in charge of placing those ads—often at a happy hour after they had a couple of drinks and got talkative. The conversation was always a variation of—”I really enjoyed working with you. Unfortunately the campaign is about to be over—get your resumes out now. Don’t forget that I gave you the heads up—hopefully someday you will be able to return the favor.”).
And it will be very late in the game...not to mess with us...but to mess with Biden....or should I say Obama and Hillary...the masterminds of the Dem party.
He’s never going to win this.
Ever.
He’s helping the Dems at this point.
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” You think Ron will throw in the towel before Super Tuesday on March 5th?”
That would be the logical conclusion—but of course each candidate makes their own final call—and the DeSantis campaign has been so awful that it defies comprehension.
My guess is he out of money and thus now gone with Nikki right behind him after New Hampshire on Tuesday.
I must have missed when DeSantis dropped Pushaw. Link?
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.
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