A.G. Gancarski
Amid dueling strategy memos from the Ron DeSantis campaign and the Never Back Down super PAC, the candidate himself is suggesting his approach in Wednesday night’s GOP presidential debate in Milwaukee boils down to a simple precept.
“Tell the truth,” DeSantis said during a pre-taped interview that ran Monday on Manchester, New Hampshire’s WGIR.
DeSantis slipped into the second person, saying the goal was to “let people know why you want to be President and how you’re going to fix the country.” Then he flashed a stump-speech line.
“We’ve got to send Joe Biden back to his basement in Delaware and we’ve got to reverse this country’s decline and we’ll show him how it’s done,” DeSantis vowed.
The humble and straightforward approach here accords more with that outlined by his campaign than his super PAC.
“Viewers at home will see the fighter who volunteered to serve our country and deployed to Iraq after 9/11, the father who wants to restore America’s promise to future generations for his children and theirs, and the champion of freedom who stood up time and again as governor to defeat the left,” wrote Campaign Manager James Uthmeier, in a memo first reported by Axios.
The campaign is “fully prepared for Governor DeSantis to be the center of attacks and on the receiving end of false, desperate charges from other candidates and the legacy media,” Uthmeier added. The “competitors have to go down this road,” he added, “because this is a two-man race for the Republican nomination between Governor DeSantis and Donald Trump.”
Uthmeier’s counsel offers contrast to the fiery approach recommended by Never Back Down, which includes advice to take a “sledgehammer” against Vivek Ramaswamy as “Vivek the Fake,” and an urging to defend the absent Trump against attacks from Chris Christie.
Neither the memos nor DeSantis’ brief interview that aired Monday addressed the Governor discussing certain Trump backers as “listless vessels” in an interview that ran last week. Expect the aforementioned Ramaswamy and perhaps others to challenge DeSantis on that framing on the debate stage Wednesday night.
13 comments
My Taket
August 21, 2023 at 9:58 am
DeSSlantis would gag on the truth.
Michael K
August 21, 2023 at 10:10 am
Thats the funiest thing I’ve heard. How stupid does he thing people are? (Well, besides the listless vessels).
Ocean Joe
August 21, 2023 at 10:27 am
The last TWO Republican administrations ended up as economic fiascos, so showing us how to run the country may be a hard sell.
Cut SNAP benefits, double the military budget, destroy public schools, cave on Ukraine, go after minorities. No thanks.
Tjb
August 21, 2023 at 10:45 am
Will DeSantis tell the truth on how he sells hate and lies to his base.
Tom
August 21, 2023 at 11:07 am
Between rhonda and the swami of salami, the word “truth” is in for an awful beating between now and election time. Worms with aspirations to snakehood.
John Francis Moonan
August 21, 2023 at 2:54 pm
DeSantis wouldn’t know the truth even if it bit him in the ass.
Andrew
August 21, 2023 at 3:09 pm
Truth, residents leaving Florida, because instead of resolving economic problems, you profit from them in campaign donations to promote book and your ego attempt at winning the GOP nomination in a two-way fascist race? Insurance costs the highest in the Country, Climate change denial while hurricane stricken areas still not rebuilt, and coral reefs and wildlife dying!
Silly Wabbit
August 21, 2023 at 5:13 pm
He lies.
Lex
August 22, 2023 at 8:06 am
Ron, Do not punch down on Vivek. Vivek is a good man, who has a place in the Party. Your job is to be the grown-up in the room, which will foil Trump, who is like the very smart class clown. You need to be seen as a fighter, but a clean fighter. If you do that and point out politely that Donald Trump, no matter how unfairly, has been indicted four times and that while that is a badge of honor with Republicans, the indictments will not help Trump with the Independents he needs to beat Biden or Obama. Find your niche and know that your time will come, most likely in this election.
Dale A Arnold
August 22, 2023 at 9:17 am
Watch how uncomfortable Ron will be on stage.
Ron never faced real opposition. He is about to find out what it’s like. Christie will slap him around and eat his lunch!
My Take
August 22, 2023 at 11:16 am
Ron, grab the limelight. Use more flashy unforgetable terms like USEESS VASSALS for the milquetoasts in MAGA.
CLUELESS VEGETABLES !
Close kin to turnips. (Being also the truck they fell off of.)
My Take
August 22, 2023 at 11:18 am
USELESS VASSALS
Serfs
My Take
August 22, 2023 at 12:33 pm
DeSSlantis — “Tell the truth”
Trùmpski — “Truth Social”
Bolsheviks — Pravda: “truth” in Russian
See some similarities?
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