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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe big takeaway from DeSantis' DeBacle yesterday.
His campaign staff are rank amateurs, not ready for the big leagues. The primary job for any presidential campaign staff is to put your candidate in the best possible situations. You have to ensure that major events like a kickoff announcement go off without a hitch. The whole thing should have been worked out in advance. Any sliver of a doubt about the set up means scratch it and go with an alternative plan.
Now, it could've been possible that DeSantis insisted on doing this above the objections of his staff, but that shows that he has no faith in his staff or that his staff has no way to influence him. If that is true, then that means that he's going to run a national campaign against Trump pretty much by himself which is just more disasters waiting to happen.
We can safely assume that there are no Jim Bakers or James Carvilles or David Axlerods or David Plouffes or Jen O'Malley Dillons around him.
MontanaMama
(23,297 posts)The rubes dont care, unfortunately. However, I hope the DeBacles keep coming fast and furious.
Yavin4
(35,427 posts)Not nearly enough. He's the underdog. He has to make the case that he will be a better nominee than Trump just like Obama did in the 2008 primaries.
RussBLib
(9,006 posts)Ever heard of a mic check, or a dry run, or a "rehearsal?"
Or maybe the woke mob sabotaged his event. Yeah, that's it!!
Yavin4
(35,427 posts)I'm sure this is something that Twitter's engineers can simulate. Someone should have ensured that this was the case. If not, go to plan B.
RussBLib
(9,006 posts)all bets are off....my brain seems stuck in the land of TV, which is probably where this should have happened.
BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)Guess he thought he'd look "cool" to the twitterverse.
LisaM
(27,800 posts)Do they have any left?
sdfernando
(4,929 posts)Eloon fired most of the Twitter staff .so there is that too.
dembotoz
(16,796 posts)suddenly if twitter could host tv network like numbers
folks laugh at tucker talking about his twitter show....They would not be laughing today if he could have demonstrated the ability to host a nationwide twitter call.
Yavin4
(35,427 posts)It wouldn't have been that big of a deal.
Scrivener7
(50,934 posts)BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)Posts like that keep me coming back to this place lol!
tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)So, even worse than rank amateurs, you have a biased sycophant amateur.
Yavin4
(35,427 posts)Like a Thanksgiving turkey.
erronis
(15,216 posts)Maam, can I see your credentials?
pirsquared
(77 posts)His wife is a vicious anti-gay, rw evangelical.
She is as ugly on the inside as on the outside.
BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)Oh, very well played!!!
erronis
(15,216 posts)Of course he got rid of anyone with that might be more intelligent than him (80%?)
This all reflects well on the repugs and libertarians being able to run a government, right? NOT.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)Bev54
(10,044 posts)markodochartaigh
(1,138 posts)One person's disaster is another person's delight.
"Roasting chestnuts on a dumpster fire, Jack Smith nipping at Trump's lies, Ronnie's campaign being crashed by a Mouse, And Twitter going up in smoke."