A.G. Gancarski
Florida’s Governor says he doesn’t regret his decision to launch his presidential campaign until after Sine Die.
But he also says it would have been better, perhaps, if he hadn’t felt the obligation to see the Legislative Session through.
“I had a responsibility to see all that through before I started worrying about running for anything else,” DeSantis said before presenting a counterfactual.
“Now, had I not had that opinion? Had I just turned around right after November of ’22 and started building, you know, perhaps that would have been advantageous for me with the presidential, but that’s just not the way I roll,” DeSantis claimed. “I had a job I had to do. I had promises I needed to keep, and I wasn’t going to turn my eye to a presidential race until I followed through on all those promises.”
The Governor made the comments on NewsRadio 1110 on Tuesday.
DeSantis traveled often during the Legislative Session under the auspices of a book tour, which appeared to be a soft launch for a presidential campaign at the time. But before he launched, supporters were restive, urging him to get in the race before the Session ended, which included a law that was changed to clarify statutory ambiguity about whether his running was legal.
“I would prefer him to be in the race right now,” U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky said in April. “In fact, I encouraged him to get in the race right now.”
Massie also said it “looks and feels a little odd for him to act like a candidate with the trips and the speaking tours without actually being a candidate,” comments made while DeSantis was in Japan, declaring he was “not a candidate” when asked about his slump in polls against Trump.
12 comments
Michael K
December 19, 2023 at 11:35 pm
It sounds like the post-mortem has begun. Woulda, coulda, shoulda.
Poor Tiny D: it’s not the timing or the message. It’s the candidate and his policies.
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December 20, 2023 at 6:22 am
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Dont Say FLA
December 20, 2023 at 9:44 am
The post-mortem already happened for the important people who have things to do. Never Back Down PACs big names all backed down already, some of them quite a while back. The writing was on the wall the minute Rhonda opened his mouth on national TV.
Josh Green
December 20, 2023 at 10:55 am
“The writing was on the wall the minute Rhonda opened his mouth on national TV.”
And rest of the country got to hear him speak in his grating “P*ssed Off Kermit the Frog” voice”
Dont Say FLA
December 20, 2023 at 11:14 am
Agree! Kermit and his chief political advisor, Miss Piggy.
Jay Smif
December 20, 2023 at 10:56 am
There was also the tiny problem of Florida state law that required him to resign to run, which the corrupt legislature removed for him, along with any “sunshine laws” that apply to everyone in the state, other than Queen Fascist Ronny and his Walmart Melania corpse-bride.
Sonja Fitch
December 20, 2023 at 4:15 am
Cry baby! Desantis there is NOT enough time in the world for you to be competent! Desantis you are so INCOMPETENT! Desantis you are down and out. No matter how to try to lie about your campaign, Americans and Floridians see the RACIST and SEXIST looser that you are Desantis
Ocean Joe
December 20, 2023 at 5:17 am
Would have been “advantageous” to not be so creepy and weird.
Covering for all of Trump’s misdeeds was not a great idea either.
Florida GOP. Adopts Nazi ideology
December 20, 2023 at 6:39 am
Oh yes we can’t forget Ron and his Sycophant legislature to pass Nazi rooted legislation prior to running for a dictatorship .
Dont Say FLA
December 20, 2023 at 9:43 am
Earlier? Only if they had a different candidate.
The Rhonda Campaign would have done better had Rhonda laid low and allowed folks to continue thinking he was as advertised 4 years ago, “Trump but smart and without the baggage.”
Turns out, and everybody knows, Rhonda is dumb stick in the mud whom everybody hates, and Rhonda worked tirelessly the last three years saddling himself with culture war baggage. Now he has more baggage that can be borne.
Rhonda’s Campaign has been one of miserable, middle school cheerleader mean girl girl wannabee level strategery. (Real mean girls have better strategery. Rhonda’s just a wannabee mean girl)
Had Rhonda won the Presidency, their job performance have been as disastrous as his campaign has actually been. What a nightmare that would have been for the USA.
Adios Rhonda. Best of luck to ya’ with your next job, Floribama Community College President.
Rudolf Hepp
December 20, 2023 at 1:39 pm
And if frogs had wings they would bump their ass.
Ron Forrest Ron
December 20, 2023 at 1:56 pm
Trump found it advantageous to declare his candidacy earlier. That way he was able to claim that all prosecutions of his alleged actions that has been indicted as nearly a hundred felony counts, those could be said to be “politically motivated”
That law that prevents murderers from profiting off their stories of murder, it needs to be applied to politicians and their fundraising.
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