DeSantis is Running [5/24/23]
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DeSantis is Running [5/24/23]
Join the team for live reactions to the DeSantis launch.
The gang went live after Ron DeSantis made (or tried to) his presidential campaign announcement…on Twitter…with Elon Musk.
Come join Charlie, Amanda, Tim, Bill, JVL, and Sarah for reactions.
To listen to an audio version, click here.
JVL, it seems like you really want Trump to have the R nomination. Maybe it is because you think he would lose, but after 2016 I would not be so confident. I want anyone, anyone other than Trump to get the nomination. And note how after Bill said you should recruit a moderate R governor on twitter all your lefty fans (I am a long term Dem, never voted for a R for pres) basically said they are all as bad as DeSantis and even Trump. Shouldn't that make you wonder about the side you are on now? I am -- as noted -- a longterm Dem but cannot stand Trump and also are getting completely disaffected from the current Dems and 80 year old Biden. Give me Tim Scott or Youngkin or (of course) Hogan or various others, including Jared Polis or Amy Klobuchar (my preferred 2020 candidate), etc., and I will vote for them. I will not vote for Biden (who has not been the moderate he pretended to be and has violated the law consistently), and I will not vote for Trump. I, as a Dem, don't like DeSantis either, and will not vote for him, but it seems weird to me that people who were and pretend to still be Rs apologize for all the worst parts of Biden seem to rejoice in DeSantis' failures when I am not even sure how he is meaningfully different from, say, GWB or even Romney in policy (which is why I am not a fan) -- that does make me think you want Trump to get the nomination and I can't understand why. Apparently you don't agree with me that Trump is uniquely damaging to this country.
DeSantis has barely announced and already he needs to shake up his staff. Of course that won’t fix what is wrong with the top of the ticket. Launching with a guy like Musk who has his own agenda…DeSantis was naive if he thought he would be the focus of this event. A man that foolish shouldn’t be President.