A.G. Gancarski
During an interview on Newsmax, former President Donald Trump took aim at Ron DeSantis, calling Florida’s governor a “failed candidate” with “no personality” and suggesting he wouldn’t be in second place in the Republican race for much longer.
Trump also argued DeSantis likely has ruined himself for a future run for the presidency.
“DeSantis is a failed candidate,” Trump said, before recounting his version of events around the 2018 endorsement of DeSantis against Adam Putnam.
“He’s a failed candidate again. He’s got no personality, he’s got nothing going on and he’s dropped like a rock. I don’t even think he’s going to be No. 2 for long. I mean, somebody’s going to come along, like maybe Tim Scott or somebody, and probably take his place and probably this stops him in ’28. You know, he could have walked into ’28 maybe,” Trump told interviewer Eric Bolling.
Most of this material is familiar, though Trump’s contention that Scott, a Senator from South Carolina, could overtake DeSantis in opinion polls and the campaign writ large, is new. Trump had previously floated Vivek Ramaswamy as the heir apparent to DeSantis status atop the non-Trump field. Ramaswamy is telling his own donors that’s likely to happen.
Meanwhile, DeSantis’ own campaign has expressed worry about Scott in a strategy memo to donors, while the Governor has attacked the Senator for criticizing Florida education standards that claim that slavery benefited the enslaved.
Trump’s campaign has continued to attack DeSantis as if he’s still the second-place candidate, including with a memo this week from strategists Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles that questions the viability of the Governor’s latest campaign reboot. The Trump operatives claim that unlike John McCain, the 2008 candidate who turned his campaign into an insurgent operation and won the nomination, DeSantis won’t be able to do that.
Polls show DeSantis is still in second place overall, at least when they are averaged out. The Race to the White House average has Trump at 54%, DeSantis at 16%, and all other candidates in mid-single digits or below.
11 comments
Michael K
August 10, 2023 at 8:38 am
What remains of the Republican party is a hot mess. It’s a cult of personality, with no platform, and stands for nothing but white grievance, corruption, personal greed, and power.
Race for the bottom
August 10, 2023 at 8:50 am
Sadly, that’s why DeSantis still has a chance at being nominated…
My Take
August 10, 2023 at 9:29 am
MAGA = Teabagger relics + Nazis
My Take
August 10, 2023 at 9:33 am
Of course Trump has a highly disturbed personàlity with numerous dysfunctions.
Tjb
August 10, 2023 at 9:36 am
I have to disagree with Trump. Ron DeSantis has a personality. That of a jackass. Want proof? Look at his his facial expression when he laughs. You will see and hear an ass.
Dont Say FLA
August 10, 2023 at 12:18 pm
Ron DOES look like Marjorie Trailer when he laughs!
Earl Pitts "The Big Voice On The Right" American
August 10, 2023 at 9:36 am
Good mornting America,
The decisive difference between future 2024 POTUS Ron Desantis and past 2016 POTUS and 2020 POTUS Failure Donald Trump is this America:
Desantis has Earl Pitts American on board For The Win
And
Trump does NOT have Earl Pitts American on board For The Win
Yes America its just that simple,
EPA
Beverly Brevity
August 10, 2023 at 1:19 pm
Good job, Earl, you must be taking something for that verbal diarrhea.
Dont Say FLA
August 10, 2023 at 9:46 pm
POPS! You ain’t dead! I was worried when I heard about the FBI fatally questioning that guy early this morning.
PeterH
August 10, 2023 at 12:37 pm
It would appear that Biden Harris have 2024 wrapped up. In States other than Florida…. inflation and high paying jobs are well under control. Hopefully the Democrats will aggressively seek to find candidates for House and Senate seats and rid Congress of dead wood do nothing Republicans! We desperately need comprehensive immigration reform, an end to untethered money in our endless election cycles and comprehensive policies to plan for America’s future no the controlling or altering climate change is well beyond our reach. Teachers need to be able to teach without the influence of religious and political hacks wanting to instruct elementary school children that solar panels and windmills are dangerous for the environment.
Silly Wabbit
August 10, 2023 at 1:17 pm
Both kwazy.
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