Posted on 05/22/2023 3:52:38 PM PDT by conservative98
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis hasn’t even officially announced his 2024 presidential candidacy, but that didn’t stop a Fox Business panel from offering a brutal assessment of his standing in the Republican field.
The governor has barnstormed the country in recent months, especially early primary and caucus states where he hopes to drum up support ahead of his anticipated announcement this week. Polling shows him well behind former President Donald Trump.
On Monday’s edition of Kudlow, Larry Kudlow, Mark Simone, and Pete Hegseth discussed the ways they feel DeSantis has underperformed.
“I’m waiting for DeSantis to show me an economic prosperity agenda,” Kudlow said. “This is going to be a pocketbook election. This is going to be a kitchen table election. And the candidate who has a good, strong, pro-growth, pro-prosperity agenda is going to win.”
Kudlow chided DeSantis over his vendetta against Disney – one of Florida’s largest employers – after the company opposed legislation he signed into law last year.
“It is all about attacking a company in his state named Disney,” he continued. “He won’t let up. Conservative free market people don’t attack businesses. They do promote jobs and businesses. He hasn’t done that.”
“Everything about Florida that you love – Desantis inherited,” Simone said. “The no state tax, all that stuff. He’s done a great job of running it. But most of that was inherited. You watch DeSantis turn Disney into World War III. Imagine what he would do with Putin. This guy has got problems. He’d be great in 2028. Wait ’til then.”
Hegseth chimed in to hit DeSantis over his handling of questions about Ukraine.
“Part of his rollout that was so poor from DeSantis was being on both sides of the Ukraine issue,” he said, referring to the governor’s dithering on the question of Russia’s war on the country. “Trump’s been very clear about it: ‘It didn’t happen under my watch and it wouldn’t have happened. And I don’t want to start foreign wars.’ DeSantis kind of tip-toed on the establishment route and then went another direction.”
Simone essentially opined that DeSantis lacks people skills.
“He’s got all the drama of Trump without the charm or the humor,” he said. “That’s his problem.”
Watch above via Fox Business Network.
DeSantis inherited a purple state. Now it is solid RED!
Why are they Dogpiling Ron deSantis?
I would have thought the New Fox News would be eager to promote anybody other than Trump.
It was headed that way for YEARS.
COuldn’t that just easily be “Fox Panel Flames DeSantis: ‘Everything About Florida That You Love – DeSantis saved’?
Had among the best economies coming out of the scamdemic.
Despite tourism obv being a huge part of it.
The non right to work states are still lagging to this day.
This is Fox Business. There are still some good people at Fox and they can’t controll everyone. On the other hand, on FoxNews.com and in the NY Post and in the WSJ they always covering for DeSantis.
If the GOP-E and Faux News crowd are able to push Trump off the chessboard, they will then turn on DeSantis and endorse Biden.
Maybe they want Trump to win the nomination. He is certainly quite newsworthy.
I am frankly amazed (not in a good way) at the speed with which the erstwhile conservative commentariat has turned on DeSantis.
You have to give credit where credit is due. The guy has managed a solidly conservative series of legislative accomplishments, didn’t blink in the face of the woke Disney brouhaha, is fighting back on the DEI insanity, handled the COVID scam as well as any governor and delivered electoral results that were solidly republican. Trump is being Trump, just as he did to Ted Cruz, trying to beat up DeSantis to make himself look better. In my opinion, DeSantis has far better conservative bona fides than the Donald.
His only problem, as far as I can tell, is a milquetoast personality that doesn’t translate well in public speaking and debates. I hate the fact that loyal republicans are attacking their own and in the process, setting the GOP for another round of electoral underperformance. Until conservatives can learn to present a unified front, things will only get worse.
I will support either one if they get the nomination, but this personal destruction leading up to the primary season has to stop.
“It was headed that way for YEARS.”
LOL!
In 1982 it was 65D-35R
In 2000 it was 50-50.
In 2018 it was 50-50.
It will soon be purple again, when debt default will be blamed on GOP.
DeSantis won Florida by a bigger margin against a Democrat than Donald Trump ever has and ever will.
Simone, Hegseth and Kudlow want Trump. Enjoy it while you can. Murdoch may try to silence all Trump supporters now that he has Desantis in his pocket.
Using the very same argument, that certainly doesn’t explain how Bidens group of Marxists have driven America into the ditch. All they had to do was nothing.
BS. DeSantis has no balls to impose tariffs on China and he is for foreign war in Ukraine before he was against it. DeSantis is nothing more than CAREER POLITICIAN WHOSE STRINGS ARE PULLED BY HIS RICH DONORS.
Kudlow only sees $
This DeSantis bashing will only lead to one thing, A Democrat eventually winning the Governorship in Florida.
It needs to stop.
If Trump has ideas, let us hear them and stop attacking others
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