Posted on 02/05/2023 7:33:00 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is nearly three months old, but already it’s clear whom he sees as his biggest threat with the Iowa caucuses still a year away: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
The perspective comes as Trump continues to act more like an underdog in the race for the Republican nomination. In recent days, the former president has gone after DeSantis, with Trump somehow claiming that Florida “was closed for a long period of time” after the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March 2020.
“They’re trying to rewrite history,” he added of DeSantis in an interview earlier this week.
It’s an odd front for Trump to open given that he praised DeSantis’s re-opening approach three years ago. Not surprisingly, the 45th president also failed to mention that he advocated lockdowns in the spring of 2020.
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Or we have, desantis is great and trump needs to shut up
On live television.
Trump’s not agitated in a crazy way. He’s just not satisfied with the status quo. He has a vision of how things should be. That is what makes him a great leader.
The rest are mediocre administrators parroting whatever the polls find popular.
I like both of them and will gladly vote for whichever of them is the nominee. Is that an acceptable position?
Great idea
Depends on who you’re talking to. 😂
I like both men.
I would prefer that de santos be the republican presidential nominee in 2028
The Hill
Let’s you and him fight.
“I want to hear them both debate and in those debates I want to hear what concrete plans either of them have to crush the deep state and their plans on a host of other issues.“
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I am curious how you define “deep state” and how you envision their crushing.
I am not disagreeing with the need to fundamentally change how citizens see how the Government—but crushing it is not likely without a seismic change in world events. I just don’t think one person is going to be able to articulate and execute a plan from within. The people who literally run things (the day to day administrators) are so entrenched that they cannot make such a fundamental change.
Nothing short of an real existential threat to the US would motivate or necessitate such a shift. And nothing today is threatening our existence as a nation any time soon.
One pushes the jab
The other is making sure no one is forced to take it.
One signs all sorts of spending bills
The other is controlling spending
One supports swamp creatures
The other has remained quiet
Careful who you call the Rino. Trump fits the bill better than desantis.
The Hill lies. Trump has been very restrained. He seems to be running a different kind of campaign this time around.
Cruz vs. Trump tore Texas apart. It was brutal and Cruz supporters made life miserable for Trump supporters. If DeSantis runs, Florida will be torn apart too. I find this coy game DeSantis is playing not endearing in the least.
I was way anti-McCane in ‘08 and was roasted here over and over, but eventually I had no choice but to vote for him. Many however stayed home. 2024 may come down to Trump getting out the vote. I suspect many like me have tired of Trump’s goof-ball behavior and would like someone else, but at the ballot box I’ll vote for the nominee. If it is Trump many will not.
I agree with you on that!!
You.
Pretty strong language. While Trump is far and away my preferred candidate, DeSantis has done a pretty good job as a non-RINO in getting Florida back on the right path. I'd like to see DeSantis remain in Florida to solidify and strengthen the reforms he's spearheaded in Florida before he moves on to the national stage.
the tearing apart is happening right now ... DeSantis isn’t a candidate ... the same people put both Trump and DeSantis into office ...
Coy game? DeSantis hasn’t attacked Trump at all. DeSantis has told people to not donate to any group that is pushing him to run for President. DeSantis hasn’t even announced yet. Trump is going off the rails here and attacking someone who isn’t even an opponent yet.
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