Posted on 07/17/2023 8:10:15 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Former Ted Cruz campaign manager Jeff Roe is guy who told the Iowa caucus team in 2016 to tell the voters that Dr. Ben Carson dropped out of the race. So it doesn’t come as a surprise to see Jeff Roe now working for Ron DeSantis and deploying his bag of dirty campaign tricks.
The DeSantis team are planning to spend at least $1 million on a TV ad blitz using a fake voice of Donald Trump intended to trick Iowa voters. The desperate effort will backfire as all desperate false efforts always do. If this is the approach of Team DeSantis, they will likely lose more voters than they could hope to gain.
(POLITICO) – […] A person familiar with the ad confirmed Trump’s voice was AI generated. Its content appears to be based off of a post that Trump made on his social media site Truth Social last week. The person said it will run statewide in Iowa tomorrow and that the ad buy was at least $1 million — a massive sum though one doable for the well-heeled super PAC.
“The blatant use of AI to fabricate President Trump’s voice is a desperate attempt by Always Back Down and Jeff Roe to deceive the American public because they know DeSanctimonious’ campaign is on life support,” said Trump campaign senior adviser Chris LaCivita, referring to a top official with the pro-DeSantis super PAC. “After losing big donors and slashing their staff, they have now outsourced their work to AI just like they would like to outsource American jobs to China.” (link)
I have said from the outset, long before anyone wanted to accept that Ron DeSantis was being managed toward this 2024 effort, that everything created by the team around him is fake, astroturf and manipulated. This ad is just another example.
Ron DeSantis cannot win the GOP nomination without an external intervention to change the dynamic. If you start your review of sequence from that acceptance point, then you realize those who support Ron DeSantis will need to support the external intervention. In this instance, a corrupt and weaponized leftist U.S. Dept of Justice.
The DeSantis team, just like the Ted Cruz team that preceded him, are more anti-Trump and anti-nationalism than they are anti-corruption in government.
If it takes a corrupt and weaponized United States government to achieve their objective of a DeSantis nomination, then the corrupt and weaponized government is something they must accept. Hence, the baseline for my snarky prediction, “hey, the bugs ain’t so bad.”
Again, this is not a grand exercise in political insight, it is simply following the sequence of necessary events to its most logical conclusion.
Ron DeSantis supporters will support Joe Biden in order to eliminate the problem of Donald Trump. However, the number of Republican voters who are willing to accept that conflicting outlook is far fewer than the number of ideologues within the GOPe willing to use it.
What I have just described in that dynamic of diminished support, is exactly why Team DeSantis continues to shed supporters amid the ranks of voters.
Team DeSantis, the billionaires, the RGA, RNC and the entire coalition of ideological influencers, may be willing to eat the bugs – but the overwhelming majority of the voters will not; nor will they accept a transparently weaponized Dept of Justice as an external force against the will of We The People.
If you understand this dynamic, I mean really understand this dynamic, it becomes fun to combat the influence group being paid by the hundreds of millions in Sea Island funding.
In order to achieve their objective, the DeSantis supporters are forced to align with the corrupt system they pretend to despise. They are forced to deny that elections are manipulated; they are forced to deny the targeting of Trump is an inflection point that destroys our nation; they are forced to deny their association with the same corrupt and manipulated systems they depend on to achieve their objective. Pushing those supporters into the painful sunlight of their hypocrisy is not difficult.
Team meatball has to win in Iowa, even their own internal campaign team admit that without an Iowa victory the campaign just evaporates. Their desperation with the ad is pathetic, just like the campaign that sits behind it.
This !
Smells like BS
It’s not BS. It’s political math and reality.
any candidate that has to resort to dirty tricks to win, isn’t fit for office ... ted cruz’s entire presidential campaign in 2015-2016 was based on dirty tricks, and desantis is now following in the same footsteps using the same dirty tricksters cruz used then ...
I saw a clip of DeSantis campaign appearance moments the
other day, and it was strange to see the guy looking as
inept as he did.
I don’t recall if it was a gotcha type effort or not, but
what was shown made it seem the guy just wasn’t a public
figure that would endear a person to him based on public
demeanor.
Am I alone in picking up on that?
“Desperate” ??
Someone doesn’t like DeSantis.
We have enough dirty tricks, hoaxes pulled on us by the libs.
Agree..
That thought process would eliminate every candidate everywhere.
“Smells like BS”
Crawl out of Ron’s butt and take a look at reality - and smell fresh air.
“take a look at reality”
Reality = 4 more years of dementia Joe
I’d say that turnabout is fair play and the Trump team could use a fake AI DeSantis voice to make him say all sorts of stupid things... but DeSantis just isn’t popular enough for anyone to have trained an AI with his voice :)
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