Donald Trump claims Ron DeSantis is ‘desperately trying’ to end 2024 campaign
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Trump DeSantis
'Ron should get out NOW, while the getting is still good.'

In a series of Truth Social posts Saturday, former President Donald Trump raised questions yet again about the campaign of 2024 rival Ron DeSantis.

“Ron DeSanctimonious is desperately trying to get out of the Presidential race, while at the same time saving face for 2028, where he has been greatly damaged. Jeff Roe, Ron’s boss despite having a terrible record of winning, is spending money like a wild man gone bad. Much of the money being used was raised for his Gubernatorial race, and transferred over (illegally?) because his Presidential donors have largely fled do to his terrible, and still falling, poll numbers. Ron is just wasting time,” Trump claimed Saturday afternoon in one of three blasts at DeSantis.

Trump questioned the movement of more than $80 million from the former “Friends of Ron DeSantis” political committee to the Governor’s political operation in that post.

Subsequent posts went on to diminish DeSantis at Trump’s expense.

Steve Cortes, the Ron DeSanctimonious top political strategist, thinks that Ron should get out NOW, while the getting is still good. He also said (thank you Steve!) that Donald J. Trump is the best Presidential debater ever, and can’t be beaten at the debate game. Well, based on that, maybe I should enter the debates — But, then again, when you have a 40 to 50 point lead over the field, maybe I shouldn’t???”

Cortes said DeSantis was “way behind” on a recent Twitter Space, but Trump misrepresents his comments. Cortes contended that, despite Trump being the debate equivalent of Jack Nicklaus, the race was “not unwinnable.”

Trump went on to take issue with claims that DeSantis is only held back by a large field.

“Despite Fake News protestations to the contrary, I do better one on one against Ron DeSanctimonious than I do with a field of candidates, large or small. Personally, I don’t think it matters. MAGA!!!”

Trump’s words are somewhat true, in the sense that his number is bigger in a two-person field than a larger group of candidates. Overall though, DeSantis gains more from a reduced field.

The Race to the White House average of polls shows Trump up 53% to 21% in a crowded field, but if the race is reduced to two candidates, the 32 point lead shrinks to 24, with Trump ahead 57% to 33%.

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. His work also can be seen in the Washington Post, the New York Post, the Washington Times, and National Review, among other publications. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


10 comments

  • Eduardine Slaveen Salahuddin 👍

    July 9, 2023 at 9:40 am

    His political career is over along with Trump. Not too many people want far right mad men in the Whitehouse. Just ask Ashli Babbitt on the Ouija board how that turned out.👹

    • Dot The I Twice

      July 9, 2023 at 10:04 am

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      • Ashlii Babbit Ghost

        July 9, 2023 at 4:44 pm

        Those MAGGAs that i was wish, they said “those cops won’t shoot a woman” and shoved me through the door, betting my life the cops wouldn’t shoot me. MAGGA, please. Buncha stupid lazy MAGGAs is what those white “men” are. If I could do it all over, I would have just got one of those doggie poop bag dispensers for homeless guy pooping on my lawn. Getting drawn into the world of MAGGAs, over poop, POOP, did not improve my lot in life.

        • My Take

          July 11, 2023 at 8:25 am

          The MAGA “men” hide behind women.

  • WhatNow

    July 9, 2023 at 9:40 am

    Anybody have an unused playpen that these two toddlers can use?

  • Church Grooming

    July 9, 2023 at 10:03 am

    Church-goers, the pair of them.

  • PeterH

    July 9, 2023 at 12:59 pm

    These are the best candidates is today’s GQP!

    LOL

  • Dont Say FLA

    July 9, 2023 at 5:06 pm

    I will go ahead and retract my correction where I said I’d got Rhonda’s campaign fundraising numbers wrong. I didn’t get them wrong. Rhonda did. Oopsie Doopse Rhonda. $80 million immigrated from their Ron for Gov campaign account to their Ron Allegedly For Prez campaign account. Was that $80 million legally immigrated or not? Will Rhonda be putting that money onto a plane in Texas and flying it to Gov Newsom in California? Rhonda might as well give it all to Newsom. Rhonda’s best chance is to stay out of the public eye, leaving that abstract idea of “Trump but not Trump” or “Trump but smart” out there in the 2nd spot rather than getting out and proving concrete Rhonda does not fit their abstract billing because Everybody Hates Rhonda.

  • WNs never win

    July 9, 2023 at 9:13 pm

    Ron should bow out, should never have gotten in. Let the white n*ggers in MAGA/Cult 45 take full responsibility for losing AGAIN in ’24 and delivering our country to the left. Let the country be completely run into the ground by the left for four more years because white n*ggers in MAGA/Cult 45 are all talk and will never rebel. They are simply losers who are wallowing in grievance waiting to die with no plan. In 2028 once their cult leader passes away and they cannot hide from their responsibility for failing to actually protect the country (since they will not support a candidate that can actually win in 2024), they will be irrelevant electorally and Ron can run to restore the republic without being associated with them or needing their vote. Mark my words, the white n*ggers of MAGA/Cult 45 will be the death of us, they will bring us all down to their level of loserdom without real action.

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