A.G. Gancarski
Ron DeSantis is telling Iowans that his vice presidential nominee wouldn’t be a “DEI sweepstakes” selection if he is the 2024 Republican presidential nominee.
“But I can tell you this: I don’t think you play any type of funny business with the VP selection. I don’t think it’s about, you know, trying to satisfy the DEI sweepstakes or to do this or that,” DeSantis told supporters in Ankeny.
The Governor was asked about whether he might select Iowa’s Governor, Kim Reynolds, as a Vice Presidential nominee when he offered that insight to his process, which includes a preference for “people that have been governors” and “someone who shares your values” over someone like his frequent rhetorical target, Vice President Kamala Harris.
“You know, I think when you get it wrong, like Biden did with Harris, it can bite you. Although I’ll tell you this, you know, I was like, when he picked her, I was like, I was like, ‘Give me a break.’”
“But when you think about it, Biden obviously was the oldest President ever inaugurated in January of 2021. And having Harris, there was insurance against the 25th Amendment being invoked against him for impeachment because as bad as Biden is, nobody wants Harris for anything,” DeSantis quipped, using lines he’s used many times before.
Ironically, given that “nobody wants Harris for anything,” bettors on presidential markets rank her higher than DeSantis.
Per the Election Betting Odds website, which aggregates the Betfair, Smarkets, PredictIt and Polymarket platforms, DeSantis is given a 1.4% chance of winning the White House next November. Harris, meanwhile, is seen as a slightly better bet, with a 1.6% chance of becoming President next year.
The Florida Governor has been predicting Biden may not run and said Harris is the person most likely to replace the President on the 2024 ticket. Just as he did with Gavin Newsom, he seems to want to work a sparring match so people can see how he’d perform in a potential future General Election.
10 comments
Michael K
December 19, 2023 at 11:49 pm
Tiny Ds’s dog whistle is bullhorn subtle.
Florida GOP. Adopts Nazi ideology
December 20, 2023 at 6:50 am
Who thinks desantis is a racist and bigot?
Bill
December 20, 2023 at 7:41 am
“Although I’ll tell you this, you know, I was like, when he picked her, I was like, I was like, ‘Give me a break.’””
He speaks like he failed to graduate from trump university.
Joe
December 20, 2023 at 9:34 am
Wink wink, he means no LGBTQueers or colored folks, Rubepublican voters!
MH/Duuuval
December 20, 2023 at 10:38 am
Dee got all his eggs in one basket w/ Iowa Gov. Reynolds. Why not take her to the prom?
Reynolds’ record is nearly a mirror of Dee’s, so no one can say she is an Affirmative Action babe.
Yarvard and Hale
December 20, 2023 at 10:54 am
Our esteemed Ivy League grad says, “I’ll tell you this, you know, I was like, when he picked her, I was like, I was like, Give me a break.”
We regret awarding Ron his baseball scholarships. He makes our universities look extremely foolish. Ron devalues the degrees our real students work hard to earn.
Every sportsball scholarship sourced degree will heretofore be designated with an asterisk denoting the graduate’s sportsball scholarship, same as honors designations work, but the opposite meaning.
MH/Duuuval
December 20, 2023 at 11:04 am
Cut out the scholarships for athletes and legacies and open up space for the deserving hoi polloi.
Yarvard and Hale
December 20, 2023 at 11:40 am
Now that college athletes can get paid, why pay them via scholarships? Why devalue degrees by giving them to people who are effectively just employees? Hire them. Pay them. Don’t give them degrees unless they earn them.
Narrow Scope
December 20, 2023 at 2:02 pm
Ron doesn’t believe in picking a VP that could benefit his candidacy in every state.
Ron is old fashioned and will employ the outdated, data-agnostic strategy of picking a VP that will benefit his candidacy in his VP pick’s home state ONLY.
You want a candidate that makes this strategic choice? Your VP can boost you in all 50 states or in just one state. You mix up your culture war nonsense with strategy and you pick the “one state” option just so you’re not seen as diverse in any way shape or form.
What a Mo this guy, Florida’s Ron DeSantis, turned out to be. Praise the Lord he will disappear after his Gubernatorial term expires. Too bad Florida’s G0P exempted him from Florida State law. He could’ve disappeared tomorrow without any period of angry, limp, lame duck “governing.”
Dont Say FLA
December 21, 2023 at 8:09 am
Picking a VP for a boost in the VP’s home state is, itself, a game.
It’s just more checkers.
Picking a VP who might boost your campaign in all 50 states?
Chess.
Checkmate, Rhonda. You lose.
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