[Zhang Fei]

Speaking of astroturfing:

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/poll-rigging-for-trump-and-creating-womenforcohen-one-it-firms-work-order-11547722801
[In early 2015, a man who runs a small technology company showed up at Trump Tower to collect $50,000 for having helped Michael Cohen, then Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, try to rig online polls in his boss’s favor before the presidential campaign.

In his Trump Organization office, Mr. Cohen surprised the man, John Gauger, by giving him both a blue Walmart bag containing between $12,000 and $13,000 in cash and, randomly, a boxing glove that Mr. Cohen said had been worn by a Brazilian mixed-martial arts fighter, Mr. Gauger said.]

[aMorePerfectUnion]

[JoSixChip]

LOL, what else would you expect a loser to say? My God! This guy can’t win a single state in the country. Hell he’s losing in his own home state by like 40 points. Not a chance he will even be able to come in second place. crispy cream is more popular then desanctomonious, how much worse could he possibly do?

[tennmountainman]

LOL.

[BobL]

They’re now making Memes of that legendary picture...

DeSantis’s wife should have known that there would be MAGA at a football game - but I guess nobody is perfect.

[lee martell]

At least DeSantis is doing better than Mike Pence.
I don’t hear much about Pence, one way or another.

[megaMAGA]

He took the gig because “they promised” they were going to stop Pres. Trump from running. In that case runner up sounds good.

[Jyotishi]

“a second-place finish is good enough to continue”

DeSantis must know something or have a feel for coming events.

[catnipman]

““a second-place finish is good enough to continue””

a DISTANT second place after putting nearly all of ones resources in achieving such a small result does NOT bode well in going forward into the rest of the states with little or no resources ... my guess is that is there’s going to be LOTS of “re-evaluation” going on by big campaign donors if Trump blows away the rest of the primary field ion Iowa ...

[FrankRizzo890]

I understand this thinking. He’s assuming that if Trump gets convicted of something and drops out, that makes him the candidate by default.

Yes, there’s a HUGE hole in his thinking.

[Garden Island]

Trump is too old. I want a president that I can depend on, not a president with Depends on. No wonder you obsess about RDS day in and day out. He is young and gets results without all of the needless blathering.

[bigbob]

Would have loved to hear Trump’s LOL when they showed him that pic!

[Robert DeLong]

“But the reality is, on the ballot there are other choices, and our goal is to get this down to a two-person race on the ballot, especially as we head into South Carolina and beyond into March.”

The outcome in Iowa has little bearing or influence, if any, on what other states will do. Basically that sentence means nothing whatsoever.

[McCarthysGhost]

I am officially nerver-DeSantis. I’ll never vote for this proven backstabbing, rino-loving, vest wearing putz.