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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sun Apr 11, 2021, 03:07 PM Apr 2021

Could Ron DeSantis Be Trump's GOP Heir? He's Certainly Trying.

MIAMI — No one had to tell Ron DeSantis that his mock debates had bordered on disastrous. His answers rambled. He seemed uninspired.

By the time he got to the greenroom of the biggest political stage of his career, a Republican primary debate for Florida governor in June 2018, he had made a risky decision.

“I thought about everything we did in debate practice,” his campaign manager, Brad Herold, recalled DeSantis telling him. “I’m going to throw it out and do my own thing.”

At the debate’s start, the audience applauded louder for his better-known opponent, Adam Putnam. By its end — after he had cast Putnam as a vestige of old Republicanism and delivered a rat-a-tat of one-liners — DeSantis had taken command of the crowd.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/could-ron-desantis-trumps-gop-151337499.html

He attracts Trump's largest constituency, the dumbass vote.

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Could Ron DeSantis Be Trump's GOP Heir? He's Certainly Trying. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2021 OP
If Trump runs, DeSantis will be his VP. slater71 Apr 2021 #1
NO. bullimiami Apr 2021 #2
He's too creepy and not charismatic enough to anyone outside the cult. kimbutgar Apr 2021 #3
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