Great news for Ron! If all the other candidates drop out, and he gets every voter from all the other candidates, then he'll only be 26 points behind Trump. Womp womp.
Congratulations to the Great People of Texas, and the State Senate, for rejecting POLITICAL PERSECUTION, and respecting the Integrity of our Elections. We should choose our elected officials by VOTING, not by weaponizing government. That is for Banana Republics, and Third World
The Durham Report is a scathing indictment of the FBI & my proposal to shut it down is pragmatic: just as local prosecutors don’t require a separate investigative agency to work with local police, neither should the DOJ require an FBI to work with U.S. Marshals. Bureaucracy is a
If you’d have told me nearly 3 years ago when I was just a CEO that Jan. 6 was an inside job, I would’ve said that’s crazy talk. It’s not. There is now clear evidence that there was at the very least entrapment of peaceful protestors, similar to the fake Gretchen Whitmer
I can’t believe it ended this way. I’m so proud to have worked alongside these men and women at NBD 24/7 the past nine months to save the country. Good luck the next 28 days and a wake up. I’m so sorry I can’t be there with you.
Incredible. A Republican who doesn't apologize and retreat when a reporter demands him to do so. We need more JD Vances. (One of 'Trump's candidates' in 2022.)
🚨Just in: Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders plans to endorse officially endorsed Donald Trump for President on Wednesday at his campaign rally near Miami.
So Trump's absolute floor - if he loses EVERY voter who leans his way and gets NO voters who currently lean to another candidate - is 27%.
Ted Cruz won with 27% in 2016. RDS people think this is great news?
This thing is over.
According to the DMR poll, a majority of Republican primary voters say they’re open to changing their minds
This includes 37% of Trump voters.
This means Trump’s floor in Iowa is 27%
DeSantis said on his CNN townhall tonight that he plans to stay in (and thinks IA will select the anti-Trump candidate).
That all but guarantees Ron and Nikki split the runner-up status in IA and NH. After that, Trump will be unstoppable. A perfect scenario for Trump.
At this point, you can’t blame campaign staff or comms advisors. DeSantis’ consistent refusal to acknowledge and condemn the most grievous abuse of law enforcement authority against a selected group of Americans including his own constituents is all on DeSantis himself.
Mitt Romney is fine with Ron but not Trump. Same with Jeb. Also Paul Ryan. Ditto Karl Rove. Gee, where would anyone get the idea that Ron is an establishment guy?
I don’t get it. Trump is literally the GOP establishment, was a liberal throughout his career, during his presidency he did not fulfill on so many promises, and now he’s running to the Left of Ron DeSantis.
In what fucking world does a conservative choose him over Ron?
@kylenabecker
You are very wrong about that. Three months ago, a lot of us thought DeSantis was Trump's natural successor.
Rolling out with a Jeb infomercial and cautious statements on Ukraine and the politicization of justice are taking a legitimate toll. Ignore that if you must.
.
@WillieGeist
: If Donald Trump's convicted, "do you actually still believe [he] should be president?"
@GovRonDeSantis
: "No, that will not happen...it would be fatal in a general election. I don't think the party should should nominate in that situation."
Trump is masking the major damage elected Republicans are doing to the GOP brand. After Trump is gone they will get destroyed...and try to blame it on Trump. (Like every election they lose where Trump isn't on the ballot.
Oh, and Speaker Johnson met with Paul Ryan yesterday.
We're not going to win back our country trusting Republicans to do anything they're as bad as the leftists. I will never vote for another career Republican politician again. They're the Same as the other scumbags.
BREAKING: Gov. Ron DeSantis receives thunderous welcome at the
@FloridaGOP
Freedom Summit, immediately asks the teleprompters be turned off
"Can we get rid of these teleprompters? [...] No, I don't think we need those in Florida [...] You got to speak from the heart."
In the last 24 hours GOP voters spoke up, made calls, and let our representatives know we want Jim Jordan for Speaker...and he LOST votes.
Save your votes and dollars for Trump and abandon the failed
@GOP
losers.
A good litmus test: Every GOPe hack considers McCain and Romney better candidates than Trump. They'd rather lose with a "respectable" RINO than win with Trump.
Desantis once again ignores the massive fraud in Maricopa and Fulton counties, says Trump “lost” Arizona and Georgia
He then insinuates that McCain and Romney were superior candidates to Donald Trump
His establishment colors shine brighter every day
EXCLUSIVE: Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) talks about the pressure fmr. Pres. Trump puts on Republicans.
DeSantis: “You could be the best governor ever and he’ll trash you. You could be a terrible, corrupt politician. But if you kiss his ring, then all of a sudden he’ll praise you.”
Anyone wondering how dead the DeSantis campaign is should just check Kurt Schlichter's timeline. Ron's Super Crusader has left the fight. Among others.
Mike Johnson doesn't have any retirement savings, own a single stock, or have any assets at all. He has less than $5,000 in his bank account.
He's got a 250-500K mortgage, a home equity loan, and a personal loan.
So what's his retirement plan? To lobby?
SEE IT: Former Speaker and member of
@FoxNews
Board of Directors Paul Ryan (
@PRyan
) says Trump should be defeated because "Trump would blow (another presidency) for us," says
@RonDeSantis
,
@NikkiHaley
or
@GovChristie
are better choices. WATCH
To the Republicans who are losing it over McCarthy being ousted:
What great conservative victories will be thwarted by this? Will we no longer be able to:
- keep shoveling $ to Ukraine
- increase total govt. spending
- continue to quash subpoenas to Hunter B.
- missing anything?
I wish House Republicans fought as hard for everyday Americans as they do for Kevin McCarthy.
They never show this level of passion when it comes to the border, the opioid pandemic, the housing crisis, the nationwide crime wave, the trade imbalance, inflation, or anything else.
There needs to be a focused campaign to expose Steve Scalise. He didn't even have the decency/courage to vote against Jordan himself.
This is the swamp at its worst:
BREAKING REPORT: 14 Republican HOLDOUTS including Steve Scalise attempting to stop JIM JORDAN purportedly implicated in FTX AND VOTER MULE donations..
Steve Scalise (R-LA), who is opposing Jim Jordan's bid for House Speaker, received financial contributions from Sam
@MAGAoriginalist
@JesseKellyDC
I love how guys like Jesse Kelly and Kurt Schlichter build an audience with all their tough talk and take-no-prisoners attitude - and then are like, "oh, and don't forget to vote for Jeb's candidate for President!" Sure, guys.
@KurtSchlichter
Oh look, another feckless argument that won't work.
DeSantis can't give a straight answer on Ukraine, campaigns with RINOs like Chris Sununu and thinks a fake electronic "Trump stamp of approval" will fix things.
Hilarious. The RDS campaign is endlessly entertaining!
What explains DeSantis supporters playing make believe that Bush, Rove and Ryan would be fighting mad if Ron won the nomination?
It's too obviously false to be effective. Are they really in total denial?
@KurtSchlichter
We heard you the first 1,000 times. We heard you in 2016.
The data doesn't back you up, and Republican voters don't buy it. You can tell us, "I told you so," if we're wrong.
But we're telling you Trump will be the nominee.
Will isn't stupid, so the obtuse act is a cynical play because he thinks average voters are stupid.
It's not complicated. GOP voters turn out for Trump. They don't turn out for the GOP as a whole, because the brand of the GOP is in the toilet.
DeSantis would get Alf Landon #'s.
You have to hand it to him. Gaetz has been more effective for conservatives in three weeks than National Review has been in the last 10 years. This was a big win.
This guy repeats a leftist lie about Trump...to make the case that GOP voters are eager to move on from lies?
The DeSantis campaign has gone from dead to despicable.
#Trump2024NowMorethanEver
Just returned from an Iowa stronghold for
@realDonaldTrump
Person to Person told me they are done with him.
While they long to leave the topic of ‘golden showers’ and return to the discussion of gold standards,The final straw…his lies about
@KimReynoldsIA
#ChooseWell2024
@Peoples_Pundit
The DeSantis team isn't interested in persuading Trump voters. They are using an old CruzCrew playbook to just dismiss and mock people who don't agree with them. Looks like that's still good for 20 percent of the vote.
This is why people are done with the Republican Party.
Many of the "great conservatives" (Freedom Caucus!) are total frauds and losers. The GOP without Trump is garbage.
🚨BREAKING: Ken Buck will not be voting for Jim Jordan for Speaker of the House.
Ken Buck says he is not voting for Jim Jordan due to his involvement in the efforts to overturn the 2020 Presidential election.
Thoughts?
Tuberville and Vance. Trump created two of the best Senators we have. Remember that the next time the Loser Cons whine about not getting more Mitch-picks in 2022.
Man, is JD Vance impressive. He is the kind of gunboat diplomat we need to continue driving out the neocons after Trump. They'll be looking for another RDS-style Trojan Horse for the Bushes and Roves to seep back in.
#Vance2028
George Will is the kind of small government conservative who believes the government can’t do anything right, except hand out hundreds of billions of tax dollars to corrupt foreign oligarchs. The government is really good at that.
Great piece on his intellectual decline.
What kind of mental block does someone have to have to look at consistent data like this and say to themselves (and everyone else), "We obviously can only win if we pick DeSantis"?
Haley continues to pass Ron, but note that much of that is due to Ron's voters coming home to Trump. Both Nikki and Ron now in single digits as Trump moves into the mid 60s.
@GovRonDeSantis
Where's the statement about Trump? If DeSantis hides under the bed while this is going on, the GOP nomination will be worthless. Millions will never vote for him even if he gets the nomination.
❗️ JOHN FETTERMAN ON SANTOS' EXPULSION:
"We have a colleague in the Senate that's actually done much more sinister kinds of things. He needs to go. If you are going to expel Santos, how can you allow Menendez to remain in the Senate? Menendez is really a Senator for Egypt, not
🚨 JUST IN: A source close to Jim Jordan tells Punchbowl News:
“Everyone said Jordan would lose an extra 20 votes during the third ballot. But it did not happen. The base is sticking behind Jordan.”
KEEP HOLDING THE VOTES! DON’T GIVE UP!
Why didn't Ron DeSantis help out in KY?
No one is asking because it's a ridiculous question. RDS couldn't have helped if he had set up camp in KY for four weeks. If Iowa is any indication Cameron would have lost half his support.
If Ron Desantis was the political Messiah the nerds on this website make him out to be, why hasn’t he helped a single Republican win a race over the last 2 elections?
Trump is masking the fact that Republicans are held in contempt by a massive number of their own voters.
The GOP that can't wait to be rid of Trump is going to have major issues once he's gone.
There's no "personality cult." Bush was a lousy neocon president. Most Republicans are disappointments, and so voters aren't loyal to them.
So when GOP politicians see loyalty they don't understand it. They call loyalty a "cult" to help themselves cope.
DeSantis takes questions from crowd and then has Sununu come up and add his thoughts too
This at back and forth is working well for both of these Govs - and the crowd seems to love it too
@AureliusStoic1
Every eight years some Florida governor comes along with $100 million and dreams of being President, and Trump has to send them right into retirement.
A political activist pretending to be a judge is mulling an order that would prevent Trump from “invective” against “perceived enemies.” If you gag Trump in the middle of a campaign it’s a direct assault on the First Amendment and the judge should be immediately impeached.
@bonchieredstate
He's not a RINO, but it's concerning that the chief RINOs who always hated Trump love DeSantis. (See Jeb's infomercial for him on Paul Ryan's Fox).
When DeSantis can say, "We are never going back to the party of Paul Ryan and Jeb Bush," he will have a lot more success. Can he?
DeSantis hasn't been honest with voters about his support for more $ for Ukraine or the fact that he shut FL down. Why would he be honest about Trump's positions? His whole campaign is based on GOPe lies.
Trump’s full unedited remarks on Hezbollah that
@DeSantisWarRoom
took out of context.
You can clearly see that Trump is mocking Biden’s failed foreign policy and his national security team disclosing Israel’s vulnerabilities.
I agree with Trump on some things & I disagree with him on others.
I don’t agree with his massive spending. Or congratulating the Chinese Communist Party on its 70th anniversary. Or ignoring China’s role in the fentanyl crisis.
@alexbruesewitz
@theflstandard
Megyn Kelly said on her podcast that DeSantis won't even come on her show, and she is not exactly a Trump "cultist." RDS must be very delicate.