Poll: Would you vote for Ron DeSantis in the 2024 election?
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Rimshot — 3 years ago(March 14, 2023 07:56 AM)
You speak the truth.
If he gets the nomination (or even before), there will be at least 2 or 3 women who will come forward saying he sexually assaulted them in high school or college.
We've seen this movie before, but that won't stop them from trying to play it again. -
phantomparticle — 3 years ago(March 14, 2023 09:03 AM)
Trump will definitely run, even as an Independent should the Repubican Party reject him.
If DeSantis also gets in the game, the Republican ticket will be split, and a Democrat will walk into the White House in 2024.
So, Would I vote for DeSantis? Too early to make that judgment now, so I'm undecided.
And This, Too, Shall Pass Away -
planetary — 3 years ago(March 14, 2023 09:21 AM)
No.
He's an authoritarian who bans books, wants to make bloggers register with the Florida government if they write about him or his cronies, constantly wades into issues outside of his purview as a governor, made a campaign commercial calling himself "God's fighter," employs a cuckold porn creator and a literal white supremacist as part of his social media team, has no charisma, and he's not well-liked within his own party. That's probably putting it charitably, since he's managed to anger people within the party apparatus, not just potential rivals.
But most of all, his entire shtick is finding the lowest-hanging culture war fruit, the lowest common denominator nonsense, barging in, punching down and patting himself on the back for supposedly being a champion for conservatives.
He's a Twitter troll who won an office, just like AOC, Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Cori Bush, George Santos, "Anna Paulina Luna" (Ann Mayerhofer) and the rest of the new breed of "influencer politicians."
People like that don't win national elections because they appeal only to their bases, and you need independents and moderates to win. Trump was an exception for several reasons, including the fact that he was well known beforehand and he broke political rules from the very beginning.
If DeSantis does win the primary and the presidency, what's he going to do if Xi attacks Taiwan? Own the libs?
Is "owning the libs' gonna help him deal with a cornered Putin who has a finger on Russia's nuke button?
Can he "own the libs" his way into negotiating a peace deal between Israelis and Palestinians?
The fighting between Trump and DeSantis could open the door to another candidate, hopefully an adult. I know that's asking a lot, but we can hope.
Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. 