2024 GOP Presidential Race (1 Viewer)

[SteveSBrickNJ]

Many of Trump's endorsed candidates did not do well on Nov. 8th.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis DID do well.
He won convincingly.
Yet in this OP's opinion, Donald Trump is an egomaniac who is seemingly incapable of putting "Party over Self"
Trump has ZERO chance of being elected our next president.
In my opinion, if Trump would just shut up and go away (fat chance of that)...but "if" Trump did that, Gov. Ron DeSantis would have a CHANCE to be a formidable candidate for President in 2024.
Here is an interesting article on this topic...

Donald Trump warns Ron DeSantis against 2024 presidential bid as Republican rising star wins big

Donald Trump has warned Florida's Governor Ron DeSantis against running for president in 2024, saying doing so would harm the Republican Party.

www.scotsman.com

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What do any of you think re. Trump vs DeSantis?

 

[Optimus Prime]

 

[bird]

My god we’re gonna have to do this again aren’t we. fml

To call Trump an idiot is to insult idiots.

 

[Lapaz]

I think DeSantis is insulated in FL, we don't know how he will play on a National level.

Similar to how a House member of a gerrymandered district decides to run for Senator. The playing field is bigger, the lights are brighter, the game is different, the rules are different, the scrutiny is harder (If George Santos ran for Senator, or Gov, his lies would have been exposed and become front page news PDQ)

Also, Florida Dems ran a former republican governor as their candidate. Kinda see how that would dampen enthusiasm and lower turnout

I think DeSantis is not that insulated in Florida. Florida has been purple for a while. DeSantis barely won his first election, and then faced another former Republican in his second election. I think DeSantis has a false sense of bravado. He is going to face a national backlash from some of his actions, like with the immigrants. He's governing pretty far right, but the country isn't far right. I think he still might beat a weakened Trump, and may be able to beat Biden, but if the Democrats run a good candidate, I think DeSantis would get beaten.

 

[Lapaz]

My god we’re gonna have to do this again aren’t we. fml

He's a serial lier. He should get George Anthony Devolder Santos to be his vice presidential nominee. It would be opposite world. The opposite of whatever they say will be the truth.

 

[SteveSBrickNJ]

Interesting article about the polls...
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Is Trump Way Up or Way Down?

Is Donald Trump the clear favorite and front-runner to win the Republican nomination? Or is he badly weakened and even an underdog against Ron DeSantis? At the onset of the Republican campaign, the polls are exceptionally divided on Trump’s support among Republican primary voters. Sign up for...

www.yahoo.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

The network of donors and activist groups led by conservative billionaire Charles Koch will oppose Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination, mounting a direct challenge to the former president’s campaign to win back the White House.

“The best thing for the country would be to have a president in 2025 who represents a new chapter,” Emily Seidel, chief executive of the network’s flagship group, Americans for Prosperity (AFP), wrote in a memo released publicly on Sunday.

The three-page missive repeatedly suggests that AFP is taking on the responsibility of stopping Trump, with Seidel writing: “Lots of people are frustrated. But very few people are in a position to do something about it. AFP is. Now is the time to rise to the occasion.”


The move marks the most notable example to date of an overt and coordinated effort from within conservative circles to stop Trump from winning the GOP nomination for a third straight presidential election.

Some Republicans have grown increasingly frustrated with Trump after disappointing midterm elections in which he drew blame for elevating flawed candidates and polarizing ideas.

But absent a consolidated effort to stop Trump, many critics fear he will be able to exploit GOP divisions and chart a course to the nomination as he did in 2016.

While the memo didn’t name a spending target, AFP’s affiliated super PAC spent more than $69 million in the 2022 cycle, according to Federal Election Commission disclosures.

The Koch network now joins the Club for Growth, another of the largest outside spenders, and several of the party’s biggest individual donors such as finance billionaires Kenneth C. Griffin and Stephen A. Schwarzman in signaling their opposition to Trump’s current campaign. Others are holding back for now…….

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/05/koch-trump-2024-gop-presidential-primary/

 

[MT15]

This should be read if you are thinking of voting for Ron DeSantis. Or if you care about education in the US.

 

[MT15]

This should be read if you are thinking about voting for DeSantis, believe it or not, he inserted himself into a corrupt case involving county commissioners at The Villages. No corruption is too small, evidently.

 

[cuddlemonkey]

This should be read if you are thinking about voting for DeSantis, believe it or not, he inserted himself into a corrupt case involving county commissioners at The Villages. No corruption is too small, evidently.

What a crock of shirt. They railroaded Miller and everyone involved in that prosecution should be forking ashamed.

 

[MT15]

What a crock of shirt. They railroaded Miller and everyone involved in that prosecution should be forking ashamed.

I was viscerally angry reading that. It was sick.

 

[bird]

I was viscerally angry reading that. It was sick.

Yup, and typical of things in DeathSantistan.

 

[Booker]

And here...we...go...

Trump amplifies posts claiming DeSantis was 'grooming high school girls'

Former President Donald Trump escalated his attacks on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday, seizing on a story that his rival for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination partied with underage students when he worked as a teacher at a Georgia high school.

www.yahoo.com

 

[bird]

And here...we...go...

Trump amplifies posts claiming DeSantis was 'grooming high school girls'

Former President Donald Trump escalated his attacks on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday, seizing on a story that his rival for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination partied with underage students when he worked as a teacher at a Georgia high school.

www.yahoo.com

Where’s my popcorn?

 

[SteveSBrickNJ]

Where’s my popcorn?

What I see is that Trump is desperate for power. He will do anything and everything to achieve power.
"Dignity" is not a word he is familiar with.

 

[wardorican]

This should be read if you are thinking about voting for DeSantis, believe it or not, he inserted himself into a corrupt case involving county commissioners at The Villages. No corruption is too small, evidently.

That was straight up cruelty.

 

[MT15]

What I see is that Trump is desperate for power. He will do anything and everything to achieve power.
"Dignity" is not a word he is familiar with.

So, no comment on DeSantis attending parties with HS students as a teacher? It’s pretty icky, IMO, and shows he thought that rules don‘t apply to him even then.

 

[SFIDC3]

What I see is that Trump is desperate for power. He will do anything and everything to achieve power.
"Dignity" is not a word he is familiar with.

Dignity is not a word pretty much the entire R party (with a few exceptions) is not familiar with……

 

[SteveSBrickNJ]

DeSantis, Trump and Nikki Haley
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Poll: DeSantis leads Trump for 2024 GOP nod — but not if Haley and others split the vote

A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that in a head-to-head matchup, more Republican voters would cast their ballots for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (45%) than for former President Donald Trump (41%) if the party’s 2024 presidential primary were held today.

www.yahoo.com