DeSantis 2024? Think Again.
PJ Media,
by
David Solway
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
11/11/2022 11:39:44 PM
It should be clear by this time that popularity has nothing to do with electability. Trump filled rally after rally in state after state with countless, full-house, full-stadium crowds, and such numbers do not lie. There really was a red wave in the midterms, but it was macro-engineered to a trickle, as should have been expected. The scam of “malfunctioning” voting machines, the shortage of paper ballots, the tsunami of mail-in and late ballots, the temporary closing and slow-downs of polling stations, and so on would have been sufficient to determine an electoral result. 2020 was an early run for 2022,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Ketchuplover 11/12/2022 1:40:02 AM (No. 1331386)
Hear! Hear! Great article with a new perspective. Thanks for posting! Hope it becomes a Must Read.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
GustoGrabber 11/12/2022 5:32:44 AM (No. 1331410)
What happened to yesterday’s article from Sundance about hedge fund donor Griffin bragging about being DeSantis treasury secretary?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
mifla 11/12/2022 5:50:59 AM (No. 1331413)
The new Dem strategy is to let the Republican egos fight it out among themselves. It has worked in the House, the Senate, and perhaps the White House. The new RNC motto should be:
"Split The Vote!"
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
chumley 11/12/2022 6:31:16 AM (No. 1331433)
I can't think of a more arrogant and condescending phrase in use today than "think again". When I hear it I immediately hate the one who said it and disregard whatever his point was. Its right up there with "its that simple".
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
chance_232 11/12/2022 6:52:39 AM (No. 1331445)
My take away is that outside of solidly red states, we should just give up. There is no chance that any Republican can win because of Democrat cheating. That's what I read and that's what I've been hearing.
OK...... So how do WE, cheat better?? Once we figure that out, Democrats will insist on secure elections.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jinx 11/12/2022 7:07:36 AM (No. 1331448)
The Democrats have become professional cheaters. They know they can get away with it. RINO's help them. They enjoy the perks of the office too. I am sick of them all.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
cgood 11/12/2022 7:21:27 AM (No. 1331459)
Thank you OP. I fully support the author’s position. The democrats have found avenues to systematically stuff the ballot boxes and to suppress the vote in Republican areas. We need to focus on the fraud- and that is still what it is- or we won’t ever win another election. There is no excuse for states run by republicans to still allow mass mailing of unsolicited ballots, extended voting periods, suspect voting machines, lack of ID requirements, etc. Cleaning up the process must be our priority. I am, frankly, sick of people I once respected claiming the voting was legit and the people are just fine with the way things are going as long as Trump is not involved. Right.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 11/12/2022 7:44:34 AM (No. 1331472)
Let the dooming begin ...
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Mulhaven 11/12/2022 7:46:27 AM (No. 1331473)
This article is spot on. It is best that the Rats are defeated by the people, not by political operatives. Great gains were made in this regard. Of the Trump endorsed candidates 219 won and 12 lost. That should be impressive, not discouraging. The anti-Trump people want everyone to focus on the 12 loses and ignore the 219 wins. The anti-Trump say he is divisive and let the claim hang. He obviously has the Socialists up in a fury against him because they oppose the freedom of the American people. Since they have been in charge they have been overt in having bureaucratic control of the people. They oppose the Constitution. That division (divisiveness) should be welcome. Great advances have been made by the people as they continually organize themselves to fight back. The process is very difficult. The stranglehold by the formidable enemies - WEF, Central banks, media, academia, Soros, Rats, etc - has been weakened in the last six years. The recovery is a monumental struggle, but Trump and his colleagues have led the people in their pursuit of freedom. The people have made tremendous gains. They started their fight-back six short years ago and they are definitely on the road to victory. Lost battles are to be expected in a war. Fortunately the view of the battlefield should give all patriots hope. The people have taken back control of Congress and the they are on the march. Pessimism is flat out defeatism and is completely unwarranted. Let's be realistic and participate in the Great Recovery. It is happening in the midst of a difficult war. Focus on the anticipated bright future and not the current battle scars. Optimism is a strength needed to succeed in this historical war.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
justjoe1237 11/12/2022 8:08:32 AM (No. 1331485)
Why run the most popular and effective Republican in the country? Let's go with the most loathed man in America. If Trump runs he will lose in a historic landslide.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
spacer 11/12/2022 8:14:27 AM (No. 1331492)
None of the " conservative" mouth pieces would help President Trump make the very clear case of voter fraud and ballot stuffing when it mattered. None would clarify the fraud at state government violating their own state laws and the subsequent court cases that were never allowed to present evidence of fraud and theft. Cowards all. The RNC lied through their teeth about lawyers being on the ground. The steal is running amok and the next step for the thugs is imprisoning us.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
fysammy 11/12/2022 8:15:13 AM (No. 1331493)
Augean Stable. Perfect!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
abuela10 11/12/2022 8:22:39 AM (No. 1331496)
There is only one way to prevent voter fraud. Beginning in January, all voter registration rolls must be purged. To register one must provide valid citizenship docs. and personal ID. Legislation for this can only be enacted with GOP congress
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Strike3 11/12/2022 8:45:21 AM (No. 1331515)
Finally! An intelligent, well-written article that makes perfect sense and doesn't blame Donald Trump for ruining GOP chances in the 2022 election. The man made America great and put the entire world in its place, in line behind America. To the people who loved him while he was president and dropped him because he made a remark about DeSantis, go pound sand. How soon we forget. MAGA.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
NamVet70 11/12/2022 8:49:50 AM (No. 1331518)
Right on point! Years ago I had strongly doubted we would ever see a Republican president again. Jimmy Carter was showing us how badly a Democrat could quickly harm this nation. Then Ronald Reagan won and I recognized he had given us a new chance at greatness. I was amazed, it hadn't seemed possible. Donald Trump is like a second coming of Reagan. As President Lincoln said of his General Grant, "We need that man, he fights." The stolen election of 2020 showed us vividly how an elite conspiracy has denied us the representation we deserve through many forms of propaganda and vote fraud. They made the term "conspiracy theory" sound unreasonable but the evidence is there for all to see and the evidence proves the theory is correct. After 2020 we haven't done nearly enough to enforce fair elections. To make every vote count depends upon strict control to stop diluting our votes with methods like drop box ballot stuffing and counting fraud.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 11/12/2022 8:54:31 AM (No. 1331522)
From the article: "In a rigged electoral system, no Republican candidate, not even DeSantis, can be expected to win a national election. DeSantis cruised to victory in Florida because, as governor of the state, he had the means and the authority to ensure a clean election." If that were the case, Tim Michels should have beat Tony Evers. Do not underestimate people.
I have additional thoughts that I have posted in another article concerning the infighting for the 2024 election. Donald Trump's behavior reminds me of the tug-of-war game that comes after an ugly divorce. The kids are in the middle but don't want any part of the infighting. I am so tired of the people who are elected President of the USA thinking they automatically should get another term. Barack Obama was the worst. He acts like he should have had a third term and set out to do just that.
We have the immaturity on the Democrat side with the likes of Clinton, Obama, Schumer, Pelosi, Soros and the list goes on. Now we have Donald Trump acting in the same fashion along with Liz Cheney, Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, George Bush and that list goes on.
AND they are all saying the same, meaningless things to get themselves elected. I am sick of the infighting, cheating, dragging up the dirt etc. God should be getting all of the glory in this but they all thump their chests. Generally speaking, the President of the USA should earn the right to the next four years only by working hard at the first four years.
Sad and disappointed. . .
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Muguy 11/12/2022 9:00:03 AM (No. 1331530)
Here we go again about the "electability" argument versus the "popularity" argument.
This may well have been the last election in which the public has a choice of candidates. There is always a primary fight between INCUMBENTS and challengers. The INCUMBENTS almost ALWAYS win, and the longer they stay in office, that seems to be what they do more than anything is to STAY ELECTED once they get on the "gravy train".
Popularity and the fact that 1/3 of the Senate was facing re-election is what KEPT BJ Clinton in office, BECAUSE he was popular with the public and the Whitewater investigation had the goods on him, yet the Media kept making it all about his dealings with Monica. When Prosecutor Ray took over, he GOT a confession that Clinton HAD suborned perjury, VIOLATED a gag order, and other things-- most people have no recollection of THAT, but its a FACT.
We must stop our focus on personalities and the media spin....
Who in their right mind is HAPPY about the current economic situation? Evidently, no one seems to care about it!!! Lost in the media reporting are the VICTORIES-- while there was no national 'wave' in this election, there were gains in STATES and some great candidate simply could not overcome their RECONFIGURED voting districts as a result of the required creation of new districts because of the 2020 Census data.
The focus on dividing the party by the Trumpites and DeSantisites is about to take center stage whether we like it or not. Trump and Biden were NOT on the ballot, but now we find out that Dems were giving money to paint the Trump-supported candidates as something they were not....
Meanwhile the TURTLE and his RINOcrats pulled out $$$$$ supporting Republican candidates who wouldn't kiss his ring... Where does he get to decide who WINS and who loses??? The RINOholes always seem to come out on top while the BASE of the Party wallows in self-pity for not doing enough to win...
Perhaps MORE important is that it is still possible for STATES to control their own destiny-- starting at the local level. Who said a "wave" didn't happen on a more regional basis?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 11/12/2022 9:10:11 AM (No. 1331541)
At this point after seeing what Pennsylvania has elected DeSantis or Trump can't win against Pete Buttigieg or if Biden is still without embalming fluid running through himself he would win a second term, trust me.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Italiano 11/12/2022 9:33:31 AM (No. 1331564)
DeSantis did and does a great job in Florida. So what? Most of us are not Floridians.
Trump was America's last chance, IMO. Since he went, everything has gone downhill. Everything that he accomplished was undone in less than two years, with Republican complicity. MAGA is finished.
I hope I'm wrong, but I know which way I'm betting.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
red1066 11/12/2022 9:42:07 AM (No. 1331572)
Suddenly, an unbeatable Trump/DeSantis ticket is going down the tubes. A Republican victory in 2024 which looked like a cinch just a few months ago, now looks like it's impossible no matter what braindead candidate the demosluts put out there in 2024. At this point, the demosluts could run a potato for office and win. If Whitmer can win another term after what she did to the citizens of Michigan for two years. If AOC can win for doing absolutely nothing for anyone, and if what's his name in Arizona can win another term as senator simply because he was an astronaut, then all hope is lost for this country. I'm glad I'm old enough that I won't live long enough to see this country destroyed by stupid citizens. It was a good run while it lasted.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Blackfeet 11/12/2022 9:54:27 AM (No. 1331578)
President Trump is a savant with a personality disorder.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
RUReadyY3K 11/12/2022 9:56:00 AM (No. 1331582)
Voting on Election Day has become voting during Election Season. Republicans need to adopt the strategies and tactics of Democrats in order to move levers of government. Focus on getting control of the Secretaries of State and counting the votes.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Rama41 11/12/2022 10:00:41 AM (No. 1331588)
#20. What happened in PA we did to ourselves by not endorsing primary candidates for governor or senator. Trump supporters insisted on an open primary, giving us the Trump-Mastriano ads financed by Josh Shapiro (THE GUY WHO BEAT HIM!) and Trump's support gave Oz a squeaker victory over McCormack, the most winnable of our Senate candidates. I have no doubt a Republican other than Trump can win in PA.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 11/12/2022 10:04:50 AM (No. 1331595)
It's all flak to blunt the effect of Trump's anticipated announcement.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Zigrid 11/12/2022 10:07:01 AM (No. 1331597)
Let's remember...it ain't over till it's over...the ballots are still being counting...and I'm sick and tired of the media trying to make a narrative for themselves and depressing the MAGA voters...WE did better in 2022 than in 2020...and are sending representatives to Washington with new purpose....as for Ronnie Santimonious and his puffed up wife...trying to look like our beloved First Lady Melania...and throwing hats out to try to immulate our President Trump...it won't work...and lying Ryan can spin his trying for power and control of MAGA all he wants with carl rove at his side....WE are loyal to President Trump and will follow his lead...
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Cousair 11/12/2022 10:07:13 AM (No. 1331598)
No honorable system has yet been devised to deny a Democratic from losing a close race.
Hershal Walker can have all the money on the planet at his disposal and he will not be able to give control of the senate to the Republicans.
When the Democrats can elect a dead candidate and committed Socialists enough ballots can be found to win any position.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
pensom2 11/12/2022 10:12:09 AM (No. 1331606)
The mail-in ballot voting system is a huge problem. Few understand that mail-in voting and absentee voting are different systems. An absentee ballot is requested, along with two forms of identification, for invalids, travelers on election day, military personnel stationed abroad, and so on. I have no objection to absentee voting. I strongly object to the practice of mailing millions of ballots willy-nilly to dead folks, to every known address of every adult, to the practice of pre-registering immigrants, and so on. All this invites vote cheating and causes ridiculous delays in vote counting, even if the Dominion vote-counting machines are not tampered with.
Under the Constitution, state legislatures are responsible to impose appropriate voting laws and procedures. That's inescapable. That's why Florida's voting system worked in this election and Pennsylvania's didn't. Even if the Pennsylvania legislature passes tighter voting laws, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court creates "fairness" or "equity" escape hatches, by ignoring the precise language of State laws, and allowing mailed-in ballots to be counted days or weeks before and beyond the election day, even without postmarks, without proper signature verification, and so forth.
There is little point in expecting Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis or Jesus Himself to win a presidential election unless stern laws are passed to impose proper voting--and vote counting--procedures.
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I don't think any of the concerns listed the author are deal breakers. The potential problem with DeSantis is that he is currently "all things to all people:" Many are attracted to DeSantis aas someone who can implement the MAGA agenda more effectively than Trump, but the like so Jeb Bush, oligarch Ken Gilbert and Paul Ryan support him because they see him as a MAGA-killer. Someone is going to be disappointed when DeSantis finally reveals where he stands on a whole host of domestic and foreign policy positions.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Quigley 11/12/2022 10:44:46 AM (No. 1331639)
It seems that somehow the dims’ psyops are finally working. The “insurrection” didn’t get us. But the midterms and a couple of tweets did. I do wonder why the tweets were tweeted though, but I’m not too affected by tweets.
I guess alicia’s right: is this war or high school popularity issues? Will the Dims finally win the Civil War? Did the Republicans go to sleep thinking they had permanently won and then the Dims worked all night? In the morning will everybody be slaves?
Desantis needs to stay where he is. This premature upward mobility of American politics has always struck me as a huge flaw. I understand the point about having a buzz around your name and exploiting it when it arises. But that is celebrity, eg obumbum. Trump started and developed his own. Desantis can too when the time is ripe.
Stay the course. Don’t jump to the sirens. Or to the writers who are eager to have been first to write about the “new trend.”
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
felixcat 11/12/2022 10:49:56 AM (No. 1331641)
Reporters on Fox News and elsewhere who claim that the 2020 election has been fully investigated and Trump's claims that it was stolen are false is BS. That Trump and his supporters are election deniers is BS. The 2020 election was not investigated by any component of the federal government - thank you Bill Barr. Only outfits like True the Vote investigated it as best they could as a private organization.
But Hilary, Jamie Raskin, et al can still go on about 2016, the insurrection, etc while McConnell, McDaniels and McCarthy count their pieces of silver.
As for DeSantis, he is only 44 years old so he has plenty of time for higher office. If I lived in Florida and voted for him this past Tuesday and in 2024 he announced he was running for Prez, I would be angry. Serve out your full term or don't run for re-election and the Left will go after him and his family like they went after Trump unless he says the right things.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Citoyen 11/12/2022 11:32:22 AM (No. 1331674)
All though this article takes a dour view of the next presidential election the author is right about our corrupt elections. The Republicans deserve a huge helping of blame. Take Georgia and Arizona. Both states are Republican with the governors and legislature run by Republicans. In 2020 both states went for Biden and the two Democrats in Georgia and the one Democrat in Arizona running for the Senate won.
Georgia had foolishly entered a deal, after Stacy Abrams lost in 2018, with the Democrats to loosen voting requirements. Trump was 100% right to condemn the Secretary of State and governor for making such a stupid deal.
After 2020 Georgia did tighten up voting yet still kept early voting and ballot harvesting, concocted by Democrats to rig elections. Why? Because they are weak.
In Arizona the county of Maricopa (Phoenix) vote counting has been a mess for years yet the Republican governor and legislature haven’t cleaned up a system that obviously doesn’t work.
Florida has cleaned up its voting and Tuesday we saw the result. Republican office holders after 2020 have no excuses for failing to remove the BS Democrats have inflicted on our voting.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Robert Jones 11/12/2022 11:39:22 AM (No. 1331681)
Don’t worry. The Dems, the Media, and even a few GOPe will do to DeSantis what they did to Trump even so far as to negatively compare him to Trump. They tried this on Reagan. Don’t think he will fare any better.0
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 11/12/2022 11:54:34 AM (No. 1331695)
You know, I always wanted to believe that the vitriol aimed at Donald Trump was unprovoked. Given #28's response, I am not certain anymore. The comment "as for Ronnie Santimonious and his puffed up wife...trying to look like our beloved First Lady Melania" threw a lot of things out the window.
I have no idea why Donald Trump is speaking out about Ron DeSantis and Glenn Youngkin but has he heard the expression "you should never give to receive" which could apply to endorsements. I am sad for it all because the comment above was painful to read.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
cold porridge 11/12/2022 12:31:55 PM (No. 1331716)
This article explains in a better way the issue at hand than the one from David Strom at HotAir entitled "DeSantis 2024? Think Again" This article is today's winner in my opinion.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
lennon47 11/12/2022 1:10:22 PM (No. 1331735)
FACT: Whoever the Dems run for President they will win - They will Cheat. Whoever the Dems run for Governor, Senate, or critical House seats the Dems will win - By CHEATING. America wake up! Damn it !
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
judy 11/12/2022 1:16:55 PM (No. 1331739)
The so called media is obsessed with dividing Trump & DeSantis…let the people decide….the media is garbage!!
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
RWPollock 11/12/2022 1:41:40 PM (No. 1331751)
To stop cheating ideas:
1 Prosecute and throw in jail those that are shown and proven to have cheated.
2. Get control of the house and senate. Clean the FBI and DOJ up
3. Stop doing nothing to the cheaters
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
Italiano 11/12/2022 2:02:14 PM (No. 1331757)
4.Believe in the Easter Bunny.
No disrespect intended, but let's get real. It will never happen.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
mean Gene 11/12/2022 2:58:19 PM (No. 1331796)
Millions spent. Hours wasted. We wake up to the same problems. Better start prepping seriously, but
find new ways to communicate. You must understand all the intelligence services are monitoring you.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
ARob101 11/12/2022 9:34:11 PM (No. 1331979)
They are trying to steal your spirit, like a Dementor in the Harry Potter movies. Don’t let them. Stand strong with our Father.
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