Ron DeSantis debate memo urges him to defend Trump and take 'a sledge-hammer' to Vivek Ramaswamy
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Source: NBC News
Allies of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis outlined a strategy for next week's GOP presidential primary debate in a memo encouraging him to defend former President Donald Trump from attacks by rival Chris Christie and call upstart contender Vivek Ramaswamy "fake."
The two-page memo, authored by leaders of the pro-DeSantis super PAC Never Back Down, was published to the website of Axiom Strategies and dated Aug. 15. Axiom founder Jeff Roe also leads the pro-DeSantis' super PAC. “Defend Trump when Chris Christie attacks him,” the memo reads, adding a potential line for DeSantis to use on stage in Milwaukee against the former governor of New Jersey: “Trump isn’t here so let’s just leave him alone. He’s too weak to defend himself here.
We’re all running against him. I don’t think we want to join forces with someone on this stage who’s auditioning for a show on MSNBC.” On Ramaswamy, the 38-year-old businessman whose long-shot campaign has seen upward movement in the polls in recent weeks, the DeSantis allies write that the Florida governor needs to “take a sledge-hammer” to him, calling him “Fake Vivek” or “Vivek the Fake.”
The New York Times was first to report on the memo. Never Back Down did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The document offers an insider's perspective into what DeSantis' boosters believe he needs to accomplish on stage next week, listing among "four basic must dos" his defense of Trump and attack on Ramaswamy.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/desantis-debate-memo-urges-defend-trump-attack-ramaswamy-rcna100414
NYT version posted here - https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218192551
I don't understand the disconnect shown in the recommendations for debate prep to "defend" someone that you are running against to become the nominee, who is already leading the loon pack. It is either a "deep fake" document or goes to show how his whole shtick is fake.
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Response to BumRushDaShow (Original post)
like "trophies" and that is what she would become. A "trophy running mate" for all those Karens who support the GOP. She would have no real power but is there "for show". She did work for his administration, albeit briefly, as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.
I wouldn't put that past him either. 
they wouldn't switch over to him. He doesn't have the same level of slick sadistic dynamics and hasn't learned to "code talk", whether it be to incite violence or to magnify how racist they are.
DeathSantis is like a wannabe "sorcerer" who "goes through the motions" but doesn't have the evil thoroughly and completely coursing through his veins enough for it to ooze out rather than squirt out. He's a year younger than Don Jr. so just a baby to 45.
(I know that imagery is wild 
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