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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy Ron DeSantis Is Limping to the Starting Line
New York TimesIn November, Representative Byron Donalds scored a coveted speaking slot: introducing Gov. Ron DeSantis after a landslide re-election turned the swing state of Florida deep red. Standing onstage at a victory party for Mr. DeSantis in Tampa, Mr. Donalds praised him as “America’s governor.”
By April, Mr. Donalds was seated at a table next to another Florida Republican: Donald J. Trump. He was at Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s private club, for a multicourse dinner with nine other House Republicans from Florida who had spurned their home-state governor to endorse the former president’s 2024 run. Red “Make America Great Again” hats decorated their place settings.
In six short months from November to May, Mr. DeSantis’s 2024 run has faltered before it has even begun.
Allies have abandoned him. Tales of his icy interpersonal touch have spread. Donors have groused. And a legislative session in Tallahassee designed to burnish his conservative credentials has instead coincided with a drop in the polls.
By April, Mr. Donalds was seated at a table next to another Florida Republican: Donald J. Trump. He was at Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s private club, for a multicourse dinner with nine other House Republicans from Florida who had spurned their home-state governor to endorse the former president’s 2024 run. Red “Make America Great Again” hats decorated their place settings.
In six short months from November to May, Mr. DeSantis’s 2024 run has faltered before it has even begun.
Allies have abandoned him. Tales of his icy interpersonal touch have spread. Donors have groused. And a legislative session in Tallahassee designed to burnish his conservative credentials has instead coincided with a drop in the polls.
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Why Ron DeSantis Is Limping to the Starting Line (Original Post)
brooklynite
May 2023
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Goonch
(5,056 posts)1. 👇👇👇👁️👁️
Cha
(319,076 posts)9. Dog! Those boots.. are they
photoshopped?
If not I didn't realize they had such a thin heel on them and were so thigh high and pointy?!!!
captain queeg
(11,780 posts)2. I think he has a faulty strategy, trying to out-trump trump himself
That’s not going to work as long as TFG is still in the field. I hate him almost as much as I hate TFG and hope they destroy each other, it’s just an observation of mine. TFG has an admit-ably kind of charisma that works with his groupies, Ron has none.
Hassin Bin Sober
(27,461 posts)3. He's counting on trump being sidelined by the DOJ.
That’s why he’s not going after trump.
brooklynite
(96,882 posts)4. As with 2016, it's "Prisoner's Dilemma"
Everyone WANTS Trump out of the way, but hopes ANOTHER candidate will go after them...
Sneederbunk
(17,491 posts)5. You'd limp too if you shot yourself in the foot.
bluesbassman
(20,384 posts)6. That's good news for the country, but the damage has been done in Florida.
It will take a lot of effort, time, and money to just get Florida back to swing state status.
Let’s your pals in the DNC have the motivation and stomach for the job.
Chainfire
(17,757 posts)7. DeSantis is hanging around just in case Trump self destructs.
FloridaBlues
(4,668 posts)8. Exactly