A.G. Gancarski
The Iowa caucuses are not the end of Ron DeSantis’ campaign for President, but they’re the beginning.
That’s the claim of spokesman Andrew Romeo, in an email to media Saturday as the Governor traverses the Hawkeye State ahead of Monday’s vote.
“This campaign is built for the long-haul. We intend to compete for every single available delegate in New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina and then into March. That begins on Monday’s Iowa Caucus, and the next day we will kick our campaign into overdrive in both South Carolina and New Hampshire. We hope Donald Trump is ready for a long, scrappy campaign as we work to share Ron DeSantis’ vision across America,” he said.
The assertion of an ongoing strategy comes as opposing camps have raised doubt about what happens after Iowa, including that of Nikki Haley, who Romeo notes hasn’t committed to a debate against the Governor in New Hampshire.
“Here’s the truth: Nikki Haley wants no part of Ron DeSantis on the debate stage. She got clobbered this past week in Des Moines because she had no answer for her failed record of caving to the left and her Wall Street donors. While Haley plans on snubbing Granite Staters, Ron DeSantis will be at the WMUR debate no matter what, continuing to prove his is the hardest working candidate in this race,” Romeo says.
The confident statement comes as New Hampshire polls point to disappointment for DeSantis.
The Saint Anselm College Survey Center survey taken Jan. 8-9 finds the Governor and Vivek Ramaswamy tied with 6% support each, 25 points behind Haley and nearly 40 behind Trump.
This poll is actually worse for DeSantis than an Emerson College survey that came out earlier Thursday, in which the Governor had 7% support.
A Suffolk University survey released Tuesday found DeSantis at 8%, good for fourth place at the time.
The Suffolk survey is more positive for DeSantis than the University of New Hampshire poll also released on Tuesday. That survey had him in fifth place with 5% support.
23 comments
PeterH
January 13, 2024 at 3:47 pm
DeSantis will need a lot of campaign contributions to remain on the 2024 Republican Primary Klown Bus!
The Villages
January 13, 2024 at 3:51 pm
Ron flies a G7…bus, indeed. 🛩️
The Villages
January 13, 2024 at 3:50 pm
wat?
👀
The Dude
January 13, 2024 at 4:25 pm
There they are the howler monkeys responding to their latest message from the anti-DeSantis pied piper.
The Dude
January 13, 2024 at 4:25 pm
Gancarski
MH/Duuuval
January 13, 2024 at 5:53 pm
Here’s the thing: Dee scorned mainstream media as long as he got what he wanted from MAGA media. But, once MAGA media turned on him, he has sought out mainstream media.
AG has been on Dee’s case the whole time, regardless of what the candidate was soliciting.
Michael K
January 13, 2024 at 10:01 pm
Ron abused his power and taxpayer funds to pull stunts that did great harm and mostly failed. Joutnakustscare right to follow the money and track the consequences of eliminating “resign to run” and other measures (like attacking the states largest employer). Ron’s gamble is failing – it’s not AJs fault, it’s Ron and his wife.
Dont Say FLA
January 15, 2024 at 10:23 am
My message is to folks who believe everything they believe:
Take a minute and evaluate your beliefs. Make certain you’re correct.
Should you evaluate the stuff you absolutely believe and already know to be true without question?
Yes, most of all, above all else, evaluate that stuff.
My Take
January 13, 2024 at 5:08 pm
What does it matter if he stays in ?
He doesn’t improve.
He appeals over and over to his dumb bigoted redneck base.
But he already has them.
Impeach Biden
January 13, 2024 at 7:23 pm
So who is “Dementia” Joe’s base? That stumbling, fumbling, mumbling, shuffling his feet dude is soooooo far gone. Yet you cultists continue to support him while the rest of the world laughs. Meanwhile at the Southern Border.
MH/Duuuval
January 13, 2024 at 8:13 pm
Meanwhile at the southern border … folks are fleeing from chaos and violence, seeking asylum for their families and themselves.
“Despite the focus on the border, drug trafficking experts and agencies say most illicit drug substances are primarily brought into the United States through legal ports of entry.”
These are desperate people, not drug smugglers. This is a FACT.
What is being smuggled overland is heading from Houston and Miami to points south: firearms. This is another FACT.
Impeach Biden
January 13, 2024 at 8:55 pm
You are out of your mind. How many are you and your community willing to take in? Now ask Demo Hank Johnson what will happen to the earth’s rotation if you and the rest of the liberal Demo’s allow everyone that wants to come to the US to enter. We already know what Hank thinks what would happen to Guam.
Trump’s Howler 🙈
January 14, 2024 at 5:24 am
No apostrophe in Demos, love.
MH/Duuuval
January 14, 2024 at 1:08 pm
My Florida community has been taking in and integrating asylum seekers for decades. These folks are working crappy jobs, for the most part, until they can do better. Their children are in our public schools where many excel.
Other communities should do the same, but the MAGAmites in Congress prefer to jaw rather than get together with Ds to properly fund border security and asylum-seekers’ resettlement.
This is a worldwide phenomenon, partially in response to the rise of autocrats and partially to climate alterations. So, unless you intend to stand at the US border and shoot po folks — as Greg Abbott would like — it’s time to palaver.
Tom
January 14, 2024 at 8:27 am
Biden’s base are independents who can’t stand trump. If you haven’t figured that out yet, you’re not really trying too hard. As an aside, the same people who can’t stand trump probably can’t stand desantis either.
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Buh-bye, Rhonda
January 13, 2024 at 9:20 pm
He’ll be out by Thursday.
Trump’s Howler 🙈
January 14, 2024 at 5:24 am
I’ll take Wednesday for $5
Buh-bye, Rhonda!
January 14, 2024 at 6:13 am
You may be right, TH! Here’s what the Times of London reports: ““He’s not gaining any traction with Trump because he is not really connecting with voters,” she [an Iowa voter] said. “Trump is very difficult to beat, and the media wants to see him against Biden again, but DeSantis isn’t really exciting people here.”
The governor’s problem is perhaps best explained by what happened when Fox News cut to the three advertising breaks during the event.
During the first, DeSantis managed some small talk with the audience about the weather, and admitted he had not brought his winter coat from Florida. The second was spent chatting about American football, then, when the conversation ran out, he brought his four-year-old son, Mason, onto the stage.
At the third ad break, he asked whether any of the audience members had been to Florida over the Christmas holidays, about 1,400 miles away. None had, and DeSantis had nothing more to say to the people he hopes will propel him to the nomination.
There was no small talk, no jokes and no folksy story about what he had seen as he toured their state. It is hard to imagine Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton or George W Bush would have walked around the stage in silence with their hands in their pockets, as DeSantis did.”
Interestingly Rhonda drew less than 100 to the same venue as Trump, who drew hundreds during worse weather a day later!
My Take
January 14, 2024 at 4:37 am
It’s been more a crappy campaign up to now.
Dont Say FLA
January 15, 2024 at 10:20 am
Aww man.. You beat me to my joke. Do you ever feel like the title writer here is baiting us commenters? I do, but I always take the bait!
MH/Duuuval
January 14, 2024 at 12:59 pm
Dee won’t quit until the fools who support him and their money have finally parted ways.
Trump is no spring chicken and part of his staying above the fray — except for running his mouth online — is to conserve his diminishing physical strength. Mentally: DJT is increasingly unhinged with his comments.
Dee is also unhinged, but he has more physical stamina and has to be hoping that the grim reaper takes out DJT, leaving Dee a path to making the US like Florida.
Dont Say FLA
January 15, 2024 at 10:18 am
Rhonda’s campaign will be adding an S to become a long, [S]crappy campaign? I will believe it when I [S]ee it.
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