A.G. Gancarski
In Iowa next Saturday, “Top Nunn” will be joined by “Top Gov.”
Gov. Ron DeSantis will be one of the so-called “wingmen” at Rep. Zach Nunn’s “Operation Top Nunn: Salute to Our Troops” fundraiser, joining Sen. Joni Ernst for an event starting at 1 p.m. at the Ankeny Airport.
Veterans get in free. Others will pay.
Admission prices include the $24 individual ticket, the $500 “Wingman Level,” the $3,300 “Bombardier” status, and the $6,600 “Aviator” level.
DeSantis predicated messaging during his 2022 campaign on “Top Gun: Maverick,” which was in theaters at the time.
Appearing on the Aug. 13 2022 episode of the Glenn Beck Show, he blasted the Department of Defense for not living up to the standards of the durable Tom Cruise franchise, which he praised for appealing to “normal people” because it wasn’t “overwhelmingly woke.”
“DOD! I take my son to watch “Top Gun: Maverick,” right? And you’re proud of seeing the pilots and all that. Then in real life, what’s the Navy doing? They’re focusing on pronouns and all these other things, this woke garbage, while China’s laughing at us,” DeSantis lamented.
He also used the movie to explain why he doesn’t poll.
“Too many politicians, they get paralyzed by these polls,” he said in June. “A leader needs to understand where ‘true north’ is. You know, have you guys seen ‘Top Gun: Maverick‘? The Navy, like, we always know where true north is … these ships are out there, you’ve got these planes landing on the carrier, the jets,” DeSantis said, calling their efforts “really impressive” in remarks to the Boys State Program.
The DeSantis political operation also has pushed tribute merchandise, including black-and-white T-shirts ($30), posters ($25), and koozies (two for $15).
DeSantis’ next trip to Iowa comes in the wake of less than sterling polling.
A new survey conducted by National Research Inc. and reported by American Greatness reveals Donald Trump has more than double the support Ron DeSantis has among 500 likely GOP caucus participants next year.
The survey shows Trump with 44% support, with DeSantis drawing 21%, a 23-point lead well outside the +/- 4.38-percentage-point margin of error. Trump’s lead has grown from the 39% to 24% advantage he enjoyed a month prior.
U.S. Sen. Tim Scott’s 7% is good for third place, ahead of Chris Christie, Mike Pence and Vivek Ramaswamy (each at 3%). Nikki Haley (2%) and Asa Hutchinson (1%) are even farther back. Undecided voters make up 14% of the sample.
The Governor’s path is narrow, the polling memo says: “DeSantis is losing among voters who have a favorable impression of him. Twenty-eight percent of these folks say DeSantis is their preferred candidate while 42% chose Trump. Voters who have a favorable impression of both men chose Trump as well, 55% to DeSantis’s 25%.”
A National Public Affairs poll and the Race to the White House average for the state both show Trump leading DeSantis, 41% to 18%.
Trump was in Iowa Friday, where he messaged heavily about DeSantis’ previous opposition to ethanol subsidies. The former President has discussed this matter previously, in an effort to show DeSantis doesn’t support the priorities of the state’s corn farmers.
11 comments
JB
July 8, 2023 at 12:39 pm
Any man who has to go to such extremes to convince the public of his “masculinity” is the exact opposite.
Real men don’t have to advertise it. They already demonstrate it in their deeds, actions, and how they treat others. They also don’t put others down.
DeSantos is a deeply fragile and broken individual.
My Take
July 8, 2023 at 2:20 pm
“DeSantos is a deeply fragile and broken individual.”
0.5He (“half a man”) likely soon will be fully rejected. Then what does he do?
TJC
July 8, 2023 at 12:42 pm
I guess Ron can’t find any points to be scored by touting what he actually did as an officer in the U.S. Navy. He was a lawyer in the Navy. He was not an aviator, he was never in harm’s way, he was a suit wearing a uniform. A pencil pusher.
Now he’s a governor, and look what that has done to reveal who he really is: a craven little man drunk with power.
Thank God he never commanded a ship in the Navy.
Dont Say FLA
July 11, 2023 at 8:03 am
He worked at Guantanamo Bay. Not sure there were too many legal issues down there. Some of the tortured POWs have made claims Ron tortured them. Ron denies it, but different folks say if it wasn’t him, he has a twin. At 5’6″, Ron stands out, or stands short. How many 5’6″ white dudes with Apparent Asperger’s tortured POWs at Guantanamo? To begin answering that question, how many 5’6′ white duds with Apparent Aspergers workws at Guantanamo? Just one, you say? There’s a height requirement for boarding Navy ships? You must be as tall as Mr Owl’s wing? Hmmm.
SteveHC
July 8, 2023 at 1:39 pm
Apparently DeSantis will continue to vomit as much nonsense out of his mouth as he believes his sycophant followers will swallow. So far none of it seems to have produced an increase in the number of his followers, leading to the conclusion that his overall “popularity” as compared to other Republican presidential contenders remains well below the 20% mark no matter how you look at it.
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July 8, 2023 at 3:28 pm
Wasting his time and someone else’s money. GOP is finished in presidential elections. Just too far right.. just too fascist.
Ocean Joe
July 8, 2023 at 4:02 pm
Those tickets…what a waste of farm subsidy money.
Sailor Ron-Which Is The Bow?!
July 8, 2023 at 6:46 pm
Imma do Master Baiter-$4000 and you go fishing with this All-Hat-No-Sail Sailor 😉
Tjb
July 10, 2023 at 11:19 am
Interesting that DeSantis is wearing a fighter pilot helmet in the above picture. Viewing the appearance on his face, Ron knows that his plane and campaign is going down.
Dont Say FLA
July 8, 2023 at 7:26 pm
Rhonda is pretending not to have dreamt every night since 1982 about the oily volleyball scene from Top Gun, one of the gayest scenes ever seen in a mainstream movie at the time of release.
Very cute how Rhonda is trying to pass as “Top Gov” thinking that will trick us all, but we know better.
Casey is the top and Rhonda is in the other position. Casey is Top Gov.
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