2024 intrigue: DeSantis declines to ask Trump for reelection endorsement

[zuul]

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/22/desantis-trump-support-governors-mansion-00040942

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has plenty of advantages ahead of his November reelection. More than $100 million in the bank. A growing statewide Republican voter advantage. Massive popularity with the conservative base. What DeSantis doesn’t need and isn’t requesting: former President Donald Trump’s endorsement.

According to four people connected to the governor and former president, DeSantis has not asked Trump for a formal endorsement and isn’t planning to. It’s a clear sign that DeSantis, who more than four years ago was a little-known congressman from northeast Florida, has risen high in the GOP stratosphere.

DeSantis’ reluctance to seek the former president’s public support comes as the Florida governor prepares for a likely 2024 White House bid, even if Trump also runs in 2024 — setting up a potential clash between two powerful figures in the GOP.

“[DeSantis is] a Cat 5 hurricane in Florida politics — and in a good way if you are a Republican,” said Anthony Pedicini, a veteran GOP consultant in Florida. “He is a force of nature.”

[Dorian Gray]

1. And so it begins....

mwah ha ha ha ha ha

[LenaBaby61]

3. AND, on top of what Roger Stone ....

Nixon Back said he had ON DeathSantis He's also turning tRump more against DeathStantis I hear.

Seriously though, DeathSantis will be in some deep poo by the time 2024 rolls around. Plus, tRump isn't going to be running.

People crack me up, thinking he'll be a viable candidate in 2024

[Dorian Gray]

4. I'm not as optimistic as you are

about DeSantis not being a viable candidate. (Or that Roger Stone actually has any goods on DeSantis that will turn the electorate against him.) I think Trump is over and Ron is the next generation of MAGA.

But, I do look forward to him and Trump attacking each other through proxies. Maybe something will stick. And I relish Trump going apoplectic about DeSantis. You know he's angrier about Desantis than about even H. Clinton.

[moonscape]

5. That's the same way I was

laughing in 2016, re Trump being a viable candidate.

[LenaBaby61]

6. When you think about all of what russia did ....

In spreading misinformation, and the fact that fatso got help from russia, and I don't care what anyone says, with the way the GQP tried to steal this election, I'm sure that they flat out stole the 2016 General Election. I also read Malcolm Nance's book from around that time, and he was dead on the mark as well about fatso pulling some shenanigans and that's what happened. Finally, what sealed the deal for me is what Jimmy Carter said. But the FBI was not and is not ever going to investigate what Jimmy Carter mentioned. Dems always have to take it on the chin for the good of the country, and the GQP merrily strolls away committing crime after crime, and plotting the next crime they can commit.

Jimmy Carter says a full investigation would show Trump lost in 2016.


https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/28/jimmy-carter-russia-investigation-trump-lost-1387634

[moonscape]

7. No argument here. It was in plain

sight. The same would be done on DeSantis behalf which is why I can’t laugh about his chances.

[Jade Fox]

2. DeSantis scares me to death..........

I'm afraid he is our future, and that he will make the Trump era look almost comical in comparison.