A.G. Gancarski
With less than two weeks until votes are counted, the Florida Democrats have their eye on 2024.
A new email from the party Thursday, framed as a reaction to this week’s gubernatorial debate, contends that Gov. Ron DeSantis is “terrified” of former President Donald Trump, amid new suggestions that tensions continue between Trump and his endorsed candidate four years ago.
“Ron DeSantis did himself no favors with his debate performance. Voters in Florida and across the country saw Charlie Crist dominate a weak candidate who is terrified of getting on Donald Trump’s bad side and unable to answer simple questions about his extreme abortion ban or whether he’s planning to serve out a full term,” said FDP spokesperson Travis Reuther.
The question of whether DeSantis intends, if re-elected, to serve his full second term is still unanswered, despite extended prodding from Crist on the debate stage.
“I have a question for you: If you’re running for Governor, why don’t you look in the eyes of the people of the state of Florida and say to them that if you’re re-elected, you will serve a full four-year term as Governor,” Crist said, as DeSantis stood silent.
The 2024 question continues to recur for DeSantis, who polls competitively with Donald Trump in Primary polls. However, he continues to be coy when reporters ask him if he will run in 2024.
DeSantis’ coyness notwithstanding, Trump sent DeSantis a message this week when he announced a South Florida rally with “endorsed candidate” Marco Rubio.
“President Trump delivered a historic red wave for Florida in the 2018 midterms with his slate of endorsed candidates up and down the ballot and molded the Sunshine State into the MAGA stronghold it is today. Thanks to President Trump, Florida is no longer a purple state; it’s an America First Red State,” Trump’s press release contended.
Trump often reiterates the claim that he made DeSantis, even as he wasn’t “too thrilled” about endorsing DeSantis because “people didn’t really know who he was.”
The most recent tête-à-tête between DeSantis and Trump came after the Governor endorsed Joe O’Dea for Senate in Colorado. O’Dea suggested Trump’s time had passed.
“A BIG MISTAKE,” Trump decried.
30 comments
Tom
October 27, 2022 at 5:22 pm
No biggie.
I love Dummycrats on the verge of beat down chastising the highly likely winner. Dums have no support from DNC nationally or money.
Shut the hell up.
Charlie Crist
October 27, 2022 at 5:40 pm
I smashed Ron in his bung hole so bad during the debate that he won’t come back. Backstage, he threw chairs and screamed. He might get reelected because of so many stupid people and grifters in Florida, but Republicans will not win another presidential election in your lifetime. Enjoy!
Donna Murphy
November 6, 2022 at 11:15 am
Your such a liar, you were not supposed to ask him questions and you broke the rules. Your a piece of work that only knows how to lie!
Trice
November 7, 2022 at 4:46 pm
Bahaahaa! More left bullshit! Or should we call it like it is propaganda! Crist is an over confident talking head with no substance!
Bonnie
November 9, 2022 at 7:50 am
Mr Crist I’m glad you understand that. You are so correct there will never be another Republican president in office and there will never be another Democrat in office. Hey bye as Jesus will be coming soon and we’ll wrap her his church to meet him in the sky is going to show up and he will rule from Jerusalem. That’s why I did not donate any money to the Republicans because I knew the end was near and when Jesus puts his feet back on this Earth everybody who has done all the harm and damage they have to this world to this country and to the people that live here will be judged. Your employee wow surprise, Jesus came to this earth died on the cross for everybody seeing and some people just turned him aside I have a hard time believing that Donald Trump is a Christian because of his remarks and things he does but that’s between him and God. I like Ron DeSantis I think he was a very good governor just to think if we’d have had someone like Joe Biden to Florida would probably have s u n k by now
Tom
October 27, 2022 at 5:22 pm
No biggie.
I love Dummycrats on the verge of beat down chastising the highly likely winner. Dums have no support from DNC nationally or money.
Shut the hell up.
Charlie Crist
October 27, 2022 at 5:43 pm
Double post there dummypublican. Ashli Babbitt has a higher IQ right now than Fake Tom. Tropical 2 sea whirlwind coming in 2024. Republicans have no chance because they just obstruct and sabotage government. People see!
Tom
October 27, 2022 at 7:24 pm
Mental degenerate Joey corsin, alias Charlie Crisp, and others.
Very jealous, Gov Ron used my suggestion on using term, chameleon, towards Crisp.
Dummycrats disaster, losing Miami Dade, Hispanics, women and people to America’s Gov and Sen Marco.
Big wins coming, hugely, 55% to 56% minimum.
What a joke. Corsin has driven all Dums away from FP, Total mental case.
Charlie Crist
October 27, 2022 at 7:44 pm
👆 “Governor has used my suggestion.” See? Not working with a full deck.
Tom
October 27, 2022 at 8:16 pm
You are mental. What do you care?
Write your crap on a stick Joey!
Yes, moron he used my chameleon term, how ignorant are you?
Shut your pie hole. Go shove ice cream up POTUS’s pie hole!
Dems have abandoned FP because of you! FP is losing value. You are a mental idiot.
Tom
October 27, 2022 at 8:16 pm
You are mental. What do you care?
Write your crap on a stick Joey!
Yes, moron he used my chameleon term, how ignorant are you?
Shut your pie hole. Go shove ice cream up POTUS’s pie hole!
Dems have abandoned FP because of you! FP is losing value. You are a mental idiot.
Phil Ammann
October 30, 2022 at 2:05 pm
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Charlie Crist
October 27, 2022 at 9:24 pm
“Write your crap on a stick” – Borderline psychotic Tom
Tom
October 27, 2022 at 7:24 pm
Mental degenerate Joey corsin, alias Charlie Crisp, and others.
Very jealous, Gov Ron used my suggestion on using term, chameleon, towards Crisp.
Dummycrats disaster, losing Miami Dade, Hispanics, women and people to America’s Gov and Sen Marco.
Big wins coming, hugely, 55% to 56% minimum.
What a joke. Corsin has driven all Dums away from FP, Total mental case.
Charlie Crist
October 27, 2022 at 7:45 pm
👆Double post… can’t work a device but voters. Florida is fucked.
Ocean Joe
October 27, 2022 at 7:27 pm
Don’t know if Desantis is terrified of Trump, but one thing is certain: the salad bar has nothing to fear from either of them.
Tom
October 27, 2022 at 7:56 pm
That’s all you got ocean.
You got nothing.
I warned you 20 plus months ago you have this day coming, I told you Gov would get 60%, you scoffed. He’s in the running.
This is going to be a huge smack down, it’s in the Bob Graham Senate re-elect vs the pathetic perennial chameleon plus 60%.
The Dems losses will be devastation across the state, county and local. Dems extinct for a generation.
I doubt Dumings goes to see alzie Joe, do you? How you like the 1/2 alive senate candidate in PA? He’s pathetic, besides the stroke. Schumer admitted GA is losing. We’re looking at 35 new GOP house seats, maybe even 40 now. And 53, 54 GOP Senate seats. Repub..are in Dem house seats that voted plus 20% for Biden, avalanche coming.
Enjoy!
Enjoy it Ocean Joe, btw you noticed all the Dums are hiding. Between your two awful candidates and Joey corsin, they’ve run away. Enjoy the 8th.
Tom
October 27, 2022 at 8:21 pm
Ocean, I forewarned you that Gov would get 60% some 20 months.
It’s is in the Bob Graham re elect be the pathetic chameleon crisp.
The Dums are going to get wiped out.
Enjoy!
Charlie Crist
October 27, 2022 at 9:17 pm
👆 Intellectually disabled and disordered…too incompetent to vote.
Tom
October 27, 2022 at 8:21 pm
Ocean, I forewarned you that Gov would get 60% some 20 months.
It’s is in the Bob Graham re elect be the pathetic chameleon crisp.
The Dums are going to get wiped out.
Enjoy!
Charlie Crist
October 27, 2022 at 9:19 pm
👆 Grandiose narcissistic personality disorder, fortune teller, double poster… needs medication. Too incompetent to vote..
Phil Ammann
October 30, 2022 at 2:05 pm
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David in Shoreline
October 27, 2022 at 9:02 pm
Trump needs take the high road, sit back, play the king maker and endorse DeSantis for President in 2024. Otherwise the protégé will have no choice but to destroy his former master. I voted for Trump twice. I’m not voting for him again. DeSantis has earned his shot.
Joe Corsin
October 27, 2022 at 9:22 pm
It’s crazy you’d admit online that you voted for Trump twice! I guess being anonymous cushions the blow a bit. Brave man. Not too many people will come out and admit they don’t mind a narcissistic sociopath as leader of USA…or that they are stupid and proud of it one.
Dan
October 27, 2022 at 11:05 pm
Democrats and the media are totally obsessed with that one question during the debate….. but no one else cares about it. DeSantis is going to win by double-digits. Yet this clown writing the article calls him a “weak candidate?” If DeSantis is weak and beats Crist by 10+ points, then what do we call Charlie Crist?
Lots of sitting governors run for President. Even some Democratic governors will try to run for president too in 2024. This is not uncommon in American politics. It happens all the time.
marylou
October 28, 2022 at 1:30 pm
Q: If it “happens all the time” why is Desantis hiding it?
A: because Desantis will lose the votes of people who want a full-time, full-term governor AND because Trump and Trump voters won’t like Traitor Desantis pushing Trump out of the way AND because answering the question would be a direct challenge to Trump. Trump would destroy Desantis for that. Desantis is hoping Trump self-destructs.
Donna
November 6, 2022 at 11:21 am
Desantis hasn’t even said he was thinking of running for president. Charlie Crist was not supposed to ask questions at the debate and when Ron Desantis didn’t answer Crist jumped all over it. Crist did not follow the rules. Desantis is not scared of anyone especially a democratic piece of baby killers.
Tom
October 28, 2022 at 11:00 pm
My compliments Dan, cheers!
Agreed! See you at the victory party!
Dum Dems getting crushed, they will be lost in wilderness for next 10 yrs.
Political annihilation coming to your favorite Dummycrats.
Phil Ammann
October 30, 2022 at 2:00 pm
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Venom72
November 1, 2022 at 9:05 am
Man cannot govern man successfully. The Bible says do not put your trust in nobles nor in the son of man to whom no salvation belongs. Human governments can only fail.
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