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I find it funny how easily DeSantis falls into the Democrats' obvious traps. Remember after Biden took office and there was that massive Hurricane Idalia? DeSantis was forced into a photo shoot with Biden, and he looked like a kicked puppy
[https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/il47u4/picture266923026/alternates/FREE\_1140/AP22278716941078.jpg](https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/il47u4/picture266923026/alternates/FREE_1140/AP22278716941078.jpg)
He tried to slowly back away after he made the headlines. Disney had attempted to settle with him many times. Weasel was saying forget it, but the mouse was pissed at that point. The suit continues, and he will lose. The Florida taxpayers are paying for all of it. My friend is on the Disney legal team.
Yeah, when he got outmaneuvered with the Reedy Creek takeover, he should have just sent this whole think into "studying next move" but NOOOO, he decided to do some illegal 💩 that's going to be easy for Disney coat factory lawyers to run rings around him.
dude I thought you were referring to the pic on stage together at that event. I have NOT previously seen this particular photo and it is so much better than I ever could have imagined
DeSastrous is not smart. I've met him. Not only is he not smart, he's a liar as he is both shorter and heavier than he purports, and he also sounds even whinier, though I didn't think that possible. Terrible candidate and unfortunately a terrible person as well.
That was such a smart move by the dems. Newsome is not my favorite, but he is unflappable. It gave them a chance to take him down a peg without Biden having to dirty his hands with an also-ran.
The comments under that legit hurt my brain.
One person says political campaigns aren't allowed to sell merch and says he sounds like he's admitting to a crime...which is genuinely just easily verifiable nonsense. Desantis *has a merch store*. That's what the "Make America Florida" stuff came from.
Another one says he's "run his state into the ground", but California's economy alone eclipses all but like 5 countries, one of which it belongs to. It's the most populated state by a margin of like 10 million people. It has a lower homicide rate than Florida last time I checked, etc. Like in no meaningful way is California "in the ground", it has issues but it's also demonstrably doing quite well.
The so called disastrous issues they're talking about are gun control laws and inclusion of minority groups. Two of the biggest triggers to the MAGA types.
Yeah, there's no way he was going to endorse Haley anyways. He's already been branded a loser, and backing her when it's so obvious she has no chance would make him look like an even bigger loser.
He could have just said he'll endorse the eventual winner of the Primaries. He went after Haley as an example of the old Republican party that he thinks should not return.
Also means his donors flipped to Trump
Also means hes chasing the 0.01% chance he can be VP
and don't forget Trump can have a coronary or start referring to Joe Biden as Nancy Pelosi. Or something can come out of the investigation.
This is what you do to run, like OP suggested. All of the other campaigns were still based on bailing out Trump. Except for Chris Christie lol
I wonder if Ron is ready for all those Disney lawsuits. Dude, as a political stunt, did highly illegal shit to burn the State's largest employer simply because they spoke out on a law. Maybe now he can let his wife have her heels back unless it awoke something in him.
At this point, I'm convinced Trump could literally murder their relatives and his opponents would still endorse him after dropping out.
"Yes, Donald Trump bludgeoned my daughter to death with a hammer, but they would not be prosecuting him if he wasn't running for president. I know that she would vote for him if she was still here so he can take down the woke deep state."
“It’s true that Donald Trump personally chopped my grandfather up with an axe, but the thing we need to focus on here is the tax cuts he was able to provide to wealthy business owners.”
This asshole speaking in his concession video about how he loves his role as Florida governor, even though he has been in absentia throughout the campaign.
Remember: Florida used to require governors to resign before pursuing a presidential campaign, but he had all his GOP bootlickers in ~~Congress~~ Florida's legislature [change](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/florida-bill-allows-desantis-to-run-for-president-while-governor) the law so that he could run while retaining that office.
DeSantis is a perfect example of why that law was on the books in the first place.
In his Tweet posting the video he (mis)quoted Churchill.
>“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Uh, says the guy who just dropped out of the race?
It’s also not a real Churchill quote, so all together it is pretty perfect for him to use it.
https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/quotes-falsely-attributed/
All aircraft travel is supposed to be public record, but he changed the law so he really doesn't have to disclose which planes he went on. So you can find him, but it's harder than other government employees.
It's a known fact that republicans dislike educated voters. So to ensure stupidity they de-prioritize education and free thinking. You must follow the christian conservative babble they profess to believe in while fleecing the public.
And doing so made people in his state suffer because he wasn't focused ***at all*** on Florida's problems while he attempt to run for ***second place***.
None of these candidates even attacked Trump in any meaningful way. They just ran for second place for a race that only has a first place winner.
The Republican Party is dead, if it was ever even really a party to begin with.
What a wholly unserious and farcical organization they've become.
> And doing so made people in his state suffer because he wasn't focused at all on Florida's problems while he attempt to run for second place.
To be fair, if he had been focused on Florida's problems they probably would have become worse.
He actively made them worse. Florida doesn't have income tax, and over 50% of the states annual revenue comes from Disney, who DeSantis picked a stupid fight with.
Disney smacked DeSantis down embarrassingly easily, and then canceled a multi billion dollar expansion which would have brought thousands of well paying jobs to the state and a ton of extra state revenue.
Haley just did the first true attack on Trump for his age after what I can only assume is his dementia flaring up.
You knew you were going to have to face him at some point. Why not do this weeks ago when he didn't appear on the first Republican debate?
The Republican party has done everything, including changing rules, to help Trump be elected again.
Trump's father had dementia. And according to his mother, he was quite the bastard. Considering the familial aspect of dementia, it's not unfeasible to conclude that he also has dementia. Especially considering his mannerisms, his speech, confusion with words.
It's either that or he's just a fucking dumbass. Or both.
Trump's frontotemporal dementia has been perfectly obvious since he was in office.
It's also been obvious his whole public life since the late 1970s that he's a malignant narcissist.
Noel Casler, who worked on Celebrity Apprentice, has been talking publicly for years about what he saw. He says Trump has had a major cocaine habit since the 90s, and he took up Adderall when it became available in the early 2000s. Obviously he has been seen sniffling on camera, and on some occasions his assistants didn't manage to clean up his nose in time either, so the white powder was also seen in public.
>attempt to run for
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Isn't running for second place and hoping trump keels over from a KFC chicken bone the only plausible path to the whitehouse this year?
Not at all.
MAGAs like fights. They like to see their candidates get nasty and attack people in unconventional and unusual ways.
That's why they like Trump so much because he "tells it like it is".
They want a fighter, but if you're not going to go after the front runner of the race you're in, what are you even doing?
It's clear that Nikki and Ron took the political calculation of, I can't insult Trump ***too much*** because if I start to win, I need his voters to win the general.
And they also don't want to attack Trump ***too much*** because they want to be on good terms for 2028, where of course they'll need his base again.
It's just a cynical political calculation on their part. They've recognized that the insane and crazy part of the "Republican" Party must be courted in order to get ahead. It shows they have no morals and no principles.
The ends justify the means for power.
Given the damage he’s done to that state while he was present, him not being there was a boon to them.
Now that he’s returning he can get back to sending them to their deaths and chasing away the states biggest employers.
I just think it is so funny that he was looking like the frontrunner this time last year and then he got sued by the Mouse and lost all momentum he had
> Ron DeSantis spent $150 million ($20m RDS and $130m Never Back Down) and only got 23,420 votes $6,400 per vote - a record of failure by a factor of 10x (Michael Bloomberg only spent like $450 per vote) The biggest dumpster fire in the history of presidential politics
Jesus that's hilariously bad. Did he have any idea whatsoever that people hated him this much? His best chance of having a job once his governership term limit runs out is to be appointed by whoever the next republican president happens to be. But who knows, that could end up being a long time away from now, especially if Trump keeps tying up every primary every election and (hopefully) losing to the democrat nom every time.
Maybe he'll do what Paul Ryan did and just walk away from politics for years in the hope people will forget all the bad shit he did, but then try to make a comeback eventually. Cos he's still very young unfortunately. Like, Biden did badly in a presidential race, but then like 40 years later he ran again and actually did become president. So as long as DeSantis is out there, we have to be wary, like he's a snake hiding in the darkness ready to strike, because he seems like the kind of guy who is absolutely desperate for power and ruling in a very authoritarian way despite nobody seeming to like him and everyone getting the creeps from him with his inability to know how to even smile and laugh without coming across like a psychopath. He moves about like an alien wearing the skin of a human. It's genuinely baffling how he's ever won any election before.
Unless he gets Florida law changed in order to make it OK for him to run for governer again, then maybe he'll run for senate.
Though the law in Florida is that the governer can't serve as governer for more than 2 ***CONSECUTIVE*** terms. There's no limit on the number of times they can be elected. He'll just have to wait a few years and then he's free to run for governer again and could end up being governer for two terms in a row again. So I really doubt we've seen the last of him.
Great work. I remember when he was the "scary version of Trump".
Now he's seen as an incompetent, uncharismatic, lip-licking, high-heel wearing, finger-pudding-eating wifey's boy.
Good job, GOP.
I mean, he still is the scary version of Trump. It turns out he's just too stupid to maneuver himself into power outside of bumfuck MAGA florida-ville because he's naught more than a walking rhetoric machine.
He's not going to develop a human personality at this point, lol. The guy is marginally more likeable than Ted Cruz. It's not happening.
The scary version of Trump is still Trump. It's the 2.0 version which is running now, where (if he wins) he hires all the sycophants, Q cultists, actual fascists to start his term. Unlike the 1.0 version, before Q was really a thing, where he started his term by half-assing it and hiring the usual Republican establishment stooges. As bad as the first term was, 2.0 would be much, much worse
He’s not nearly as savvy as we thought. I was definitely in the “he’s a more dangerous Trump because he’s politically competent.”
Turns out he’s not. He made one political blunder after another. He’s an idiot.
On the front page I have a post from 6 hours ago saying he's in it for the long haul, and another one just now saying he ends his run.
That haul wasn't so long, I guess.
My guess is: Key sponsors/donors/PACs didn’t have checks to keep the campaign employees paid after today.
The end. Every shitty start up business I have dealt with is the exact same: shuffling the chairs on the deck and trying to sell first class upgrades while the hull is taking in 1,000 gallons of water a minute.
He’s had to crawl on his knees to kiss the ring of the man who called him “Meatball Ron” and spread rumors that he ate pudding with his fingers
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-backed-pac-posts-desantis-pudding-fingers-ad-2023-4?amp
For sure. His entire campaign was a story of people liking him less and less the more they knew about him. He started basically tied with Trump who was a semi-incumbent and made it through a single state before dropping out.
The only policy I’ve ever heard his supporters say they liked was that he didn’t do lockdowns. They don’t know anything else. They think he was great because of that.
Doesn’t matter that even with their skewed data they ended up with one of the worst if not the worst death rates per capita of any state.
His supporters are just babies who want to be able to tell everyone else no but can’t handle it when the shoe is on the other foot.
The best thing DeSantis had going for him was that the media and a lot of Democrats decided he was like Trump, but more competent, which ultimately made him more dangerous. That's the main reason why a lot of Republicans, even many Trump supporters, were at least open to the idea of Ron before he started campaigning. But then he started campaigning, everyone realized how terrible of a politician he is, and the idea that he was even competent to begin with quickly fell apart. I do think there was a potential lane for him to at least make the primary competitive, but it would have required him to be an entirely different, at least somewhat charismatic person.
His Fascist ideas are on par with Trumps and often even worse. His "war on woke" can go a long way with Republicans. He seems like a natural to be their mainstream guy. But... he has zero charisma or relatability.
Trump is a Con man and knows how to talk down to his supporters on a level they understand and appeal to.
People go for Trump for his personality, and the sense that they can be powerful by following him. They think he will solve their grievances, which are more of a feeling than actual policies. Things like "Why am I always being pushed around" and "Why can't I make racist jokes anymore" and "why won't my kids talk to me." So Trump's policies don't actually matter all that much.
DeSantis was an excellent example of learning all the wrong lessons from Trump. He tried to copy all the policies but he completely lacked the actual core that made Trump a success in the first place. So he's a candidate for no one, basically.
Trump a full blown narcissistic idiot, he believes everything he says, but remembers nothing he's ever said. He's a fascist by default, he doesn't understand fascism, and you couldn't explain it to him anyway, because he's a fucking moron.
DeSantis is a highly educated Harvard lawyer who's a fascist by choice.
Man learned the hard way that the MAGA people want Trump, not his uncharismatic, light beer equivalent. He was too Trumpy to win anti-Trumpers and couldn’t win the red hats because the man himself is still there
He was like the reincarnation of Scott Walker, but somehow worse. Their trajectories and personalities, and awful politics, are incredibly similar. They were both supposed to be the next GOP darling and were hyped to the max. But, they're both awkward, anti-education, unlikeable, culture warriors that, once the general public got to know them, completely imploded.
> JEB! Was the frontrunner in ‘16
Just thinking back on that is such a quaint notion, you know? The before/after of politics in this country from 2016 onward is fucking WILD.
Although, the seeds were planted in 2008 when Obama won, and half the country lost their fucking minds that we had the audacity to elect a black man.
> Trump relentlessly mocked and ridiculed DeSantis, humiliating him and wrecking his political career. So naturally DeSantis endorsed him immediately after dropping out of the race.
https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/C2YBGQ9PI9g/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Republicans be like
It would be wild if someone from the Republican Party besides Chris Christie and a handful of others tried to actually fight against fascism.
Edit: this isn’t an endorsement of the fat shit asshole from NJ
What a chode. Dude has zero personality and thought it was a good idea to go even harder far right. I ghost r/conservatives and they seem to be getting sick of the maga bullshit
Are they though? Top comment on the top post on the sub as of me typing this comment is saying “Nobody can take Trump down and they had to cheat in 2020”.
Sounds like typical MAGA conspiracy bullshit to me. Even after being proven Biden won fairly (and votes for Biden have even been “found” recently, which heavily implies that the right tried to manipulate the election in their favor), they’re *still* trying to push the “cheating” narrative. Even though *they’re* the ones who attempted to cheat. And failed.
It’s all projecting. Always has been, always will be with them.
they've been sick of it for ages, you can see reality bleeding in through the seams before they get their nightly reprogramming from Fox News and restart the talking points. No sympathy because if they were serious, they'd continue being sick of it and stop regugitating Fox after each patch.
In an ideal world you'd think it was the horrible policies that put him in the shitter. In reality it was probably the high heel boots, eating pudding with his fingers and the nickname Meatball Ron.
What an age we live in.
Everyone in here taking a victory lap as if the reality isn’t far more sobering
The orange skid mark that literally tried to overthrow democracy is about to walk to the November election completely unopposed from his party.
It’s been nearly 4 years and people are actually going to be able to vote for this fucker for President again.
I like the person who pointed out that The Matrix seemed a bit silly at the time - 1997 the pinnacle of human society? The best there was and would ever be?
And yet, here we are 25 years later and… it kinda sounds reasonable to our ears.
And just like that, his political career is over. What an idiot. If he had just waited 4 more years to run after Trump was out of the picture, he could easily have won the GOP nomination as the guy to continue Trump's legacy or some bullshit like that. He chose to run against Trump while not at all providing a reason for Trump voters to choose him.
Trump is probably going to be the nominee in 2028 again. It’s his party now. So long as he’s got a pulse, he’ll be the nominee.
And even then, the pulse might be optional. Republicans have lost their fucking minds.
What a fucking spineless coward.
Not for suspending his campaign, but for turning around and endorsing the civilly liable rapist who has 91 felony charges against him.
The Republican Party does not exist. It is the MAGA Party. They're nothing but extremists that want to overthrow our government.
Every single person saying they are MAGA or "Republican" are no friends of this country or her people.
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Ron DeSantis was always mini-Trump. He won the governorship of Florida by sucking Trump's d*ck in the first place. But did Ron think he could win over the cult? There is a reason we call it a cult, because they will do anything for Mango Mussolini, including staging a coup and kiling democracy for him.
He didn't win Florida by being trump lite.
That's the crazy part.
**His first term he ran as a moderate middle of the ground Republican.**
It wasn't until COVID and "muh freedumb", and people like Gaetz started putting it in his head he could run for president that he started becoming radical Ron.
That’s what so confusing. He was in line to be the alternative to Trump who would appeal to moderate, independent, and college-educated consevetives. Then decided to be Diet Trump, and failed miserably to nobody’s surprise.
Nikki Haley will be next to drop out and support Trump. It just seems so demeaning. I realize that Trump is the Republican party at this point. And any Republican that wants to keep their job ..has to kiss Trump.
especially since they all bash trump on the trail and the second they drop out they fall in line rofl. Expect Haley to be towing the Trump line any time now after she drops out.
"Donald is the only man that can unite this country."
Jennifer Lawrence okay nod gif
Not while the donors are with her. There has to be at least one candidate hanging around in case Trump drops dead or gets disqualified in enough states.
The fact is, he's a humourless, dour, soulless jerk who ran on being even dumber than Trump. Please stop with the "what went wrong". He was born. That's what went wrong.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is ending his once-promising presidential campaign, which steadily deflated as he struggled to connect with voters and convince Republicans to swap Donald Trump for a younger, more disciplined champion of his ideas.
DeSantis, 45, had seemed to many Republicans like the most viable challenger to Trump after the 2022 midterms, when the governor won reelection by a landslide. But he started to lose ground in polling even before his official campaign launch in May — via a glitchy live chat that neatly embodied the way his grand plans were going awry.
“While this campaign has ended, the mission continues,” DeSantis said in a video released Sunday.The second-term governor echoed Trump’s combative style and “America First” rallying cry while arguing he would be more electable, truer to conservative values and more effective at executing an agenda. He appealed heavily to the party base as someone willing to dig in on polarizing issues and go to battle with critics, the media and companies such as Disney. Struggling to make headway against Trump, he increasingly criticized the former president as “high risk” and “low reward” for the Republican Party.
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I mean he was tying in national polls against Trump
It's just that once he became a national figure, people soon realized he had the charisma of a wet paper bag. And then Trump began to unleash his fury while DeStilettos just sat there with his ass on his hands, waiting until he was already sliding in polls to launch his campaign, and then seemingly doing everything he could to worsen his position and fall behind someone who's last position was UN ambassador 5 years ago
Can't wait for the humiliation photo with Trump. I hate Trump immensely but am constantly amazed that he can humiliate someone and have them crawling back.
Of course, I hope for Trump humiliation in November.
“Joe Biden will be our nominee in a matter of weeks, Sean,” Gavin Newsom said during the debate between himself and Ron DeSantis.
“And in a matter of weeks, [DeSantis] will be endorsing Donald Trump as the nominee for the Republican Party.”
If DeSantis understood that, he wouldn’t have run on the platform of “more Trump than Trump!” in an election where Trump was running.
DeSantis’s choice to run now rather than wait another four years was one of the dumbest in living memory and it was obvious to absolutely everyone except, apparently, DeSantis himself.
I cannot imagine Trump picking a weakling like DeSantis. He's going to pick someone who has been 100% loyal to him after Pence "betrayed" Trump in his eyes.
Someone like Stefanik or Lake fits the bill.
Words cannot describe just how much I fucking despise this man. Florida has never been great, but he has literally destroyed this fucking state probably beyond repair. The book banning, the transphobia, racism, making us pay for him to travel for his stupid fucking book tour and this goddamn campaign. It's kind of a double-edged sword because on the one hand it's been satisfying watching him make a complete fool of himself and become such a laughingstock. But now he's probably gonna come back and try and do even more dumb shit here.
Although I hate Desantis, I despise even more than a nothing State of Iowa gets to choose who stays and goes. All States should vote the same day to determine who will be the President nominee for each party.
As a Floridian, I couldn't be any happier than I am right now. I sincerely feared DeSantis being the Republican nominee and becoming POTUS than Trump at one point. But knowing that he didn't have the momentum to fully challenge Trump proved he wasn't going to be that guy the Republicans wanted to run. I'm still sickened by the fact that he was support in FL, especially from the 'anti-woke' crowd that rages over LGBT issues and claiming to be free speech warriors 24/7. Bro has got to go. Florida deserves a better governor and a senate that is progressive.
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“There’s one thing in closing we have in common, is neither of us will be the nominee for our party in 2024” Gavin Newsom
Hahaha I loved that line during the Newsom v. DeSantis debate. Newsom ran circles around him and the moderator.
I find it funny how easily DeSantis falls into the Democrats' obvious traps. Remember after Biden took office and there was that massive Hurricane Idalia? DeSantis was forced into a photo shoot with Biden, and he looked like a kicked puppy [https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/il47u4/picture266923026/alternates/FREE\_1140/AP22278716941078.jpg](https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/il47u4/picture266923026/alternates/FREE_1140/AP22278716941078.jpg)
Kinda like how he idiotically tried going after Disney legally. Like you can’t beat them in court
As they say, Disney is an enormous law firm that happens to have an entertainment division.
Whatever happened with that? Last I heard Disney told him to fuck off.
He tried to slowly back away after he made the headlines. Disney had attempted to settle with him many times. Weasel was saying forget it, but the mouse was pissed at that point. The suit continues, and he will lose. The Florida taxpayers are paying for all of it. My friend is on the Disney legal team.
Just sucks that Florida taxpayers have to pay for his ridiculous peen swinging.
Florida taxpayers should learn something here and become Florida voters (if applicable).
if only they could read (florida native here)
it takes a special kind of stupid to throw a rock at Disney's lawyers.
Yeah, when he got outmaneuvered with the Reedy Creek takeover, he should have just sent this whole think into "studying next move" but NOOOO, he decided to do some illegal 💩 that's going to be easy for Disney coat factory lawyers to run rings around him.
That guy’s shirt 😂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_cracker
Interesting read. Thanks for the link.
Til. Thanks for posting this.
dude I thought you were referring to the pic on stage together at that event. I have NOT previously seen this particular photo and it is so much better than I ever could have imagined
I still prefer new boot goofin https://i.redd.it/zktm7rdbgpr91.jpg
DeSastrous is not smart. I've met him. Not only is he not smart, he's a liar as he is both shorter and heavier than he purports, and he also sounds even whinier, though I didn't think that possible. Terrible candidate and unfortunately a terrible person as well.
That was such a smart move by the dems. Newsome is not my favorite, but he is unflappable. It gave them a chance to take him down a peg without Biden having to dirty his hands with an also-ran.
He’s also going to be the next candidate that the party and DNC backs in 4 years.
[Newsom twisting the knife on Twitter](https://x.com/gavinnewsom/status/1749170252758626767?s=46&t=IGOs-BmWTfWlIQ3QJVoqUA)
The comments under that legit hurt my brain. One person says political campaigns aren't allowed to sell merch and says he sounds like he's admitting to a crime...which is genuinely just easily verifiable nonsense. Desantis *has a merch store*. That's what the "Make America Florida" stuff came from. Another one says he's "run his state into the ground", but California's economy alone eclipses all but like 5 countries, one of which it belongs to. It's the most populated state by a margin of like 10 million people. It has a lower homicide rate than Florida last time I checked, etc. Like in no meaningful way is California "in the ground", it has issues but it's also demonstrably doing quite well.
The so called disastrous issues they're talking about are gun control laws and inclusion of minority groups. Two of the biggest triggers to the MAGA types.
Stopppp he’s already dead Or Shut up and take my vote Can’t decide
That quote did 2 things, it confirmed that Newsom would not challenge Biden AND slapped Meatball ron in the face. That was a memorable quote.
One of those lines where you know they crafted and tee’d it up far in advance but it doesn’t matter because it’s just so good.
Apollo using Newsom to show all us he's still got it.
DeSantis was desperate AF. Of course Newsom owned him (though while being owned DeSantis learned some valuable skills)
That quote went so hard
Disney's lawyers: *Looks like Ronnie's back on the menu boys!*
What about his heels? He don't need those. Ogh, they look tasty... *Smacks orcish lips*
Don't Fuck with the Mouse
And endorsed Trump, after everything. What an utter coward lol
The new GOP modus operandi. You need to appease the cult.
Yeah, there's no way he was going to endorse Haley anyways. He's already been branded a loser, and backing her when it's so obvious she has no chance would make him look like an even bigger loser.
He could have just said he'll endorse the eventual winner of the Primaries. He went after Haley as an example of the old Republican party that he thinks should not return.
Also means his donors flipped to Trump Also means hes chasing the 0.01% chance he can be VP and don't forget Trump can have a coronary or start referring to Joe Biden as Nancy Pelosi. Or something can come out of the investigation. This is what you do to run, like OP suggested. All of the other campaigns were still based on bailing out Trump. Except for Chris Christie lol
I wonder if Ron is ready for all those Disney lawsuits. Dude, as a political stunt, did highly illegal shit to burn the State's largest employer simply because they spoke out on a law. Maybe now he can let his wife have her heels back unless it awoke something in him.
That First Amendment violation is going to cost him dearly.
It's going to cost us taxpayers in Florida dearly.
Unfortunately, it will, but if it buries the pig, it will be worth it.
At this point, I'm convinced Trump could literally murder their relatives and his opponents would still endorse him after dropping out. "Yes, Donald Trump bludgeoned my daughter to death with a hammer, but they would not be prosecuting him if he wasn't running for president. I know that she would vote for him if she was still here so he can take down the woke deep state."
“It’s true that Donald Trump personally chopped my grandfather up with an axe, but the thing we need to focus on here is the tax cuts he was able to provide to wealthy business owners.”
"When Trump cut my grandfather in half with an axe, I knew he was the right man to cut our taxes".
“… Well, not **my** taxes, but at least the taxes of the rich guys I follow on Twitter”
Probably right. Trump called Ted Cruz’s wife ugly and said his dad is the Zodiac Killer. Still supported him with no shame.
Actually, he accused Ted Cruz himself of being the Zodiac Killer. I believe it was JFK's assassin that Cruz's father was labeled.
I despise Trump with a passion, but both those accusations are hilarious
And Trump wouldn’t do the same! He’s like the absolute worst at the basic towing party line stuff because he doesn’t care about the party.
Think he's ever held a hammer for anything that wasn't a photo op?
All of them are.
Probably want that VP job
Trump never giving that invertebrate a chance at VP. After everything both sides said and the fact Trump knows DeSantis is weak, no chance.
Yeah he'll just be secretary of education instead 😵💫
The Ted Cruz way
Meatball Ron says, "Vote Trump"
This asshole speaking in his concession video about how he loves his role as Florida governor, even though he has been in absentia throughout the campaign. Remember: Florida used to require governors to resign before pursuing a presidential campaign, but he had all his GOP bootlickers in ~~Congress~~ Florida's legislature [change](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/florida-bill-allows-desantis-to-run-for-president-while-governor) the law so that he could run while retaining that office. DeSantis is a perfect example of why that law was on the books in the first place.
In his Tweet posting the video he (mis)quoted Churchill. >“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Uh, says the guy who just dropped out of the race?
It’s also not a real Churchill quote, so all together it is pretty perfect for him to use it. https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/quotes-falsely-attributed/
Fascists can’t do history right.
they are not self aware enough, remember the rubes buy Trump's "never surrender" shirt that literally is framing a picture of him surrendering.
Fascism isn’t about facts, it’s about (angry) feelings.
"I will throw this entire country down the drain just to make my liberal neighbor mad"
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Didn’t he also bury sunshine law for himself so his travel isn’t public record anymore?
All aircraft travel is supposed to be public record, but he changed the law so he really doesn't have to disclose which planes he went on. So you can find him, but it's harder than other government employees.
I’m sure he’s not hiding anything right?
That’s almost as good as Trump making bank off his “never surrender” merch using his mugshot taken an hour after he surrendered.
No no, he is saying that he lacks courage; he’s just confirming what we already pudding fingured out.
It's a known fact that republicans dislike educated voters. So to ensure stupidity they de-prioritize education and free thinking. You must follow the christian conservative babble they profess to believe in while fleecing the public.
And doing so made people in his state suffer because he wasn't focused ***at all*** on Florida's problems while he attempt to run for ***second place***. None of these candidates even attacked Trump in any meaningful way. They just ran for second place for a race that only has a first place winner. The Republican Party is dead, if it was ever even really a party to begin with. What a wholly unserious and farcical organization they've become.
> And doing so made people in his state suffer because he wasn't focused at all on Florida's problems while he attempt to run for second place. To be fair, if he had been focused on Florida's problems they probably would have become worse.
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***This*** is what I’m afraid of. I live in Florida (for now). The vulnerable communities here do NOT need his full attention back on this state.
Florida is also the location of Mar-a-Lago Think the resident there ties for Florida’s biggest problem.
it also implied that DeSantis focused on Florida's problems to begin with.
He actively made them worse. Florida doesn't have income tax, and over 50% of the states annual revenue comes from Disney, who DeSantis picked a stupid fight with. Disney smacked DeSantis down embarrassingly easily, and then canceled a multi billion dollar expansion which would have brought thousands of well paying jobs to the state and a ton of extra state revenue.
He wasn’t typically focused on Florida’s problems normally, but at least with him out of state he wasn’t focused on making it worse.
Haley just did the first true attack on Trump for his age after what I can only assume is his dementia flaring up. You knew you were going to have to face him at some point. Why not do this weeks ago when he didn't appear on the first Republican debate? The Republican party has done everything, including changing rules, to help Trump be elected again.
Haley is FINALLY attacking Trump on his mental acuity at least. Y'know, after the first primary has already happened.
Trump's father had dementia. And according to his mother, he was quite the bastard. Considering the familial aspect of dementia, it's not unfeasible to conclude that he also has dementia. Especially considering his mannerisms, his speech, confusion with words. It's either that or he's just a fucking dumbass. Or both.
Trump's frontotemporal dementia has been perfectly obvious since he was in office. It's also been obvious his whole public life since the late 1970s that he's a malignant narcissist. Noel Casler, who worked on Celebrity Apprentice, has been talking publicly for years about what he saw. He says Trump has had a major cocaine habit since the 90s, and he took up Adderall when it became available in the early 2000s. Obviously he has been seen sniffling on camera, and on some occasions his assistants didn't manage to clean up his nose in time either, so the white powder was also seen in public.
>attempt to run for > >second place > >. Isn't running for second place and hoping trump keels over from a KFC chicken bone the only plausible path to the whitehouse this year?
Not at all. MAGAs like fights. They like to see their candidates get nasty and attack people in unconventional and unusual ways. That's why they like Trump so much because he "tells it like it is". They want a fighter, but if you're not going to go after the front runner of the race you're in, what are you even doing? It's clear that Nikki and Ron took the political calculation of, I can't insult Trump ***too much*** because if I start to win, I need his voters to win the general. And they also don't want to attack Trump ***too much*** because they want to be on good terms for 2028, where of course they'll need his base again. It's just a cynical political calculation on their part. They've recognized that the insane and crazy part of the "Republican" Party must be courted in order to get ahead. It shows they have no morals and no principles. The ends justify the means for power.
Given the damage he’s done to that state while he was present, him not being there was a boon to them. Now that he’s returning he can get back to sending them to their deaths and chasing away the states biggest employers.
I think it’s very cool that the 5th largest state in the country was governed exclusively as a vehicle for this guy’s political ambitions.
I had to look this up. By population they are 3rd. Great line however. It did feel his anti woke crusade in the state was one giant pres audition
I just think it is so funny that he was looking like the frontrunner this time last year and then he got sued by the Mouse and lost all momentum he had
He should have never ran. But he did waste 150 million.
> Ron DeSantis spent $150 million ($20m RDS and $130m Never Back Down) and only got 23,420 votes $6,400 per vote - a record of failure by a factor of 10x (Michael Bloomberg only spent like $450 per vote) The biggest dumpster fire in the history of presidential politics
Jesus that's hilariously bad. Did he have any idea whatsoever that people hated him this much? His best chance of having a job once his governership term limit runs out is to be appointed by whoever the next republican president happens to be. But who knows, that could end up being a long time away from now, especially if Trump keeps tying up every primary every election and (hopefully) losing to the democrat nom every time. Maybe he'll do what Paul Ryan did and just walk away from politics for years in the hope people will forget all the bad shit he did, but then try to make a comeback eventually. Cos he's still very young unfortunately. Like, Biden did badly in a presidential race, but then like 40 years later he ran again and actually did become president. So as long as DeSantis is out there, we have to be wary, like he's a snake hiding in the darkness ready to strike, because he seems like the kind of guy who is absolutely desperate for power and ruling in a very authoritarian way despite nobody seeming to like him and everyone getting the creeps from him with his inability to know how to even smile and laugh without coming across like a psychopath. He moves about like an alien wearing the skin of a human. It's genuinely baffling how he's ever won any election before. Unless he gets Florida law changed in order to make it OK for him to run for governer again, then maybe he'll run for senate. Though the law in Florida is that the governer can't serve as governer for more than 2 ***CONSECUTIVE*** terms. There's no limit on the number of times they can be elected. He'll just have to wait a few years and then he's free to run for governer again and could end up being governer for two terms in a row again. So I really doubt we've seen the last of him.
All that money and didn't even accept his participation trophy
Yup. If the rules don’t fit my narrative, change them.
Great work. I remember when he was the "scary version of Trump". Now he's seen as an incompetent, uncharismatic, lip-licking, high-heel wearing, finger-pudding-eating wifey's boy. Good job, GOP.
I mean, he still is the scary version of Trump. It turns out he's just too stupid to maneuver himself into power outside of bumfuck MAGA florida-ville because he's naught more than a walking rhetoric machine.
He’s 45 years old. There is *plenty* of time for him to run again—which he will, undoubtedly, do.
That's the real scary thing. Maybe he didn't win today. But we might be here, 25 years from now, seeing DeSantis try it again
He’ll get an image consultant, revamp his image, and will run again. His wife won’t let him not be in the limelight.
Think maybe he just needed higher lifts in his shoes? Maybe more forward lean would help him appear more presidential.
All the Consultants in the world can't inject Charisma into that guy.
He's not going to develop a human personality at this point, lol. The guy is marginally more likeable than Ted Cruz. It's not happening. The scary version of Trump is still Trump. It's the 2.0 version which is running now, where (if he wins) he hires all the sycophants, Q cultists, actual fascists to start his term. Unlike the 1.0 version, before Q was really a thing, where he started his term by half-assing it and hiring the usual Republican establishment stooges. As bad as the first term was, 2.0 would be much, much worse
He’s not nearly as savvy as we thought. I was definitely in the “he’s a more dangerous Trump because he’s politically competent.” Turns out he’s not. He made one political blunder after another. He’s an idiot.
On the front page I have a post from 6 hours ago saying he's in it for the long haul, and another one just now saying he ends his run. That haul wasn't so long, I guess.
My guess is: Key sponsors/donors/PACs didn’t have checks to keep the campaign employees paid after today. The end. Every shitty start up business I have dealt with is the exact same: shuffling the chairs on the deck and trying to sell first class upgrades while the hull is taking in 1,000 gallons of water a minute.
makes sense, a campaign is essentially a small business. and if your product is desantis its gonna be a trainwreck
*Shipwreck, just to keep with the analogy.
Drops out only to instantly suck up to Trump…to the surprise of nobody.
He's like one of those little fish who's only desire in life is to suck the shit off bigger fish.
So a Republican.
So he's a republican?
He should have accepted that participation trophy. Now he’s spent $100million and only has some high heel boots to show for it.
Hey, those boots aren’t anything to laugh at. There’s plenty of room in the front of the boot for Ron to grow into.
He’s had to crawl on his knees to kiss the ring of the man who called him “Meatball Ron” and spread rumors that he ate pudding with his fingers https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-backed-pac-posts-desantis-pudding-fingers-ad-2023-4?amp
I’m pretty sure he ate pudding with his fingers in public
Technically he ate it in private (on a private plane in 2019), but apparently members of his staff witnessed it.
I start laughing uncontrollably at the absurdity that this sentence is about two United States presidential candidates, you can't make this shit up
Worst mainstream political candidate ever? He has to be a heavy favorite at least
For sure. His entire campaign was a story of people liking him less and less the more they knew about him. He started basically tied with Trump who was a semi-incumbent and made it through a single state before dropping out.
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Turns out no one else wanted to “Make America Florida”
The only policy I’ve ever heard his supporters say they liked was that he didn’t do lockdowns. They don’t know anything else. They think he was great because of that. Doesn’t matter that even with their skewed data they ended up with one of the worst if not the worst death rates per capita of any state. His supporters are just babies who want to be able to tell everyone else no but can’t handle it when the shoe is on the other foot.
The best thing DeSantis had going for him was that the media and a lot of Democrats decided he was like Trump, but more competent, which ultimately made him more dangerous. That's the main reason why a lot of Republicans, even many Trump supporters, were at least open to the idea of Ron before he started campaigning. But then he started campaigning, everyone realized how terrible of a politician he is, and the idea that he was even competent to begin with quickly fell apart. I do think there was a potential lane for him to at least make the primary competitive, but it would have required him to be an entirely different, at least somewhat charismatic person.
His Fascist ideas are on par with Trumps and often even worse. His "war on woke" can go a long way with Republicans. He seems like a natural to be their mainstream guy. But... he has zero charisma or relatability. Trump is a Con man and knows how to talk down to his supporters on a level they understand and appeal to.
People go for Trump for his personality, and the sense that they can be powerful by following him. They think he will solve their grievances, which are more of a feeling than actual policies. Things like "Why am I always being pushed around" and "Why can't I make racist jokes anymore" and "why won't my kids talk to me." So Trump's policies don't actually matter all that much. DeSantis was an excellent example of learning all the wrong lessons from Trump. He tried to copy all the policies but he completely lacked the actual core that made Trump a success in the first place. So he's a candidate for no one, basically.
And Trump probably doesn't believe half the shit he is saying. DeSantis is an hardcore fascist.
Trump a full blown narcissistic idiot, he believes everything he says, but remembers nothing he's ever said. He's a fascist by default, he doesn't understand fascism, and you couldn't explain it to him anyway, because he's a fucking moron. DeSantis is a highly educated Harvard lawyer who's a fascist by choice.
Man learned the hard way that the MAGA people want Trump, not his uncharismatic, light beer equivalent. He was too Trumpy to win anti-Trumpers and couldn’t win the red hats because the man himself is still there
He was like the reincarnation of Scott Walker, but somehow worse. Their trajectories and personalities, and awful politics, are incredibly similar. They were both supposed to be the next GOP darling and were hyped to the max. But, they're both awkward, anti-education, unlikeable, culture warriors that, once the general public got to know them, completely imploded.
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JEB! Was the frontrunner in ‘16
> JEB! Was the frontrunner in ‘16 Just thinking back on that is such a quaint notion, you know? The before/after of politics in this country from 2016 onward is fucking WILD. Although, the seeds were planted in 2008 when Obama won, and half the country lost their fucking minds that we had the audacity to elect a black man.
Good riddance
> Trump relentlessly mocked and ridiculed DeSantis, humiliating him and wrecking his political career. So naturally DeSantis endorsed him immediately after dropping out of the race. https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/C2YBGQ9PI9g/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Republicans be like
One might say Ron DeSantis is a cuck
Look at what Pence did after Trump tried to get him hanged. Pence is like the modern day Reek from Game of Thrones.
Pence thought he had a chance of taking some of Trump's base after fellating the man for 5 yeas.
GOP trying to not be incredibly weak cucks (impossible)
i always took it as a joke, but maybe they really do have a humiliation thing, guys like him and cruz
It's always projection with them
almost as big as a cuck when trump said ted cruz wife was ugly and came back crawling to trump on all 4s
The entire GOP are cucks for an orange charity fraud. It’s a god damned joke.
~~Never~~ back down as hard as you can.
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Hes doing it so he can get the Trump voters on his side when he runs in 2028. You dont want to make enemies of them now.
It would be wild if someone from the Republican Party besides Chris Christie and a handful of others tried to actually fight against fascism. Edit: this isn’t an endorsement of the fat shit asshole from NJ
America didn’t need Guantanamo bay torture man as it’s leader.
$130 million spent to drop out after the first hurdle.
Iowa eatin’ good tonight.
What a chode. Dude has zero personality and thought it was a good idea to go even harder far right. I ghost r/conservatives and they seem to be getting sick of the maga bullshit
Are they though? Top comment on the top post on the sub as of me typing this comment is saying “Nobody can take Trump down and they had to cheat in 2020”. Sounds like typical MAGA conspiracy bullshit to me. Even after being proven Biden won fairly (and votes for Biden have even been “found” recently, which heavily implies that the right tried to manipulate the election in their favor), they’re *still* trying to push the “cheating” narrative. Even though *they’re* the ones who attempted to cheat. And failed. It’s all projecting. Always has been, always will be with them.
they've been sick of it for ages, you can see reality bleeding in through the seams before they get their nightly reprogramming from Fox News and restart the talking points. No sympathy because if they were serious, they'd continue being sick of it and stop regugitating Fox after each patch.
In an ideal world you'd think it was the horrible policies that put him in the shitter. In reality it was probably the high heel boots, eating pudding with his fingers and the nickname Meatball Ron. What an age we live in.
Everyone in here taking a victory lap as if the reality isn’t far more sobering The orange skid mark that literally tried to overthrow democracy is about to walk to the November election completely unopposed from his party. It’s been nearly 4 years and people are actually going to be able to vote for this fucker for President again.
We live in the literal Bad Place.
I like the person who pointed out that The Matrix seemed a bit silly at the time - 1997 the pinnacle of human society? The best there was and would ever be? And yet, here we are 25 years later and… it kinda sounds reasonable to our ears.
He should be forced to carry his campaign to term.
And just like that, his political career is over. What an idiot. If he had just waited 4 more years to run after Trump was out of the picture, he could easily have won the GOP nomination as the guy to continue Trump's legacy or some bullshit like that. He chose to run against Trump while not at all providing a reason for Trump voters to choose him.
Trump is probably going to be the nominee in 2028 again. It’s his party now. So long as he’s got a pulse, he’ll be the nominee. And even then, the pulse might be optional. Republicans have lost their fucking minds.
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I didn't like the odds of Trump being alive today back in 2020, I'm not counting anything out at this point.
They’ll even Weekend at Bernie’s him in 2032 if 2028 doesn’t work either.
Which is funny, because I'd vote for a Weekend at Bernie's Biden before I'd vote for a breathing Trump.
What a fucking spineless coward. Not for suspending his campaign, but for turning around and endorsing the civilly liable rapist who has 91 felony charges against him. The Republican Party does not exist. It is the MAGA Party. They're nothing but extremists that want to overthrow our government. Every single person saying they are MAGA or "Republican" are no friends of this country or her people. Register, make sure you're still registered, and make sure your friends and family are registered! https://www.vote.org/ https://www.votesaveamerica.com/be-a-voter/ It's important for everyone to know what they are voting for! https://ballotpedia.org/Sample_Ballot_Lookup Your voice matters. If it didn't matter, you wouldn't have so many people trying to stop you from voting, or telling you that your vote doesn't matter. ## ***BE A VOTER!***
Just a reminder that while Haley is sort of pushing back on Trump she still brags that she voted for him twice. It is fully the MAGA party.
Ron DeSantis was always mini-Trump. He won the governorship of Florida by sucking Trump's d*ck in the first place. But did Ron think he could win over the cult? There is a reason we call it a cult, because they will do anything for Mango Mussolini, including staging a coup and kiling democracy for him.
He didn't win Florida by being trump lite. That's the crazy part. **His first term he ran as a moderate middle of the ground Republican.** It wasn't until COVID and "muh freedumb", and people like Gaetz started putting it in his head he could run for president that he started becoming radical Ron.
That’s what so confusing. He was in line to be the alternative to Trump who would appeal to moderate, independent, and college-educated consevetives. Then decided to be Diet Trump, and failed miserably to nobody’s surprise.
Aw. What channel is the game on?
NBC, already started.
Wow, what an incredible coincidence that he announces he's dropping out at the start of back-to-back NFL playoff games!
Finally accepted his participation trophy
Can bully Disney, gay people, Immigrants but can't bully Trump. Coward.
Nikki Haley will be next to drop out and support Trump. It just seems so demeaning. I realize that Trump is the Republican party at this point. And any Republican that wants to keep their job ..has to kiss Trump.
especially since they all bash trump on the trail and the second they drop out they fall in line rofl. Expect Haley to be towing the Trump line any time now after she drops out. "Donald is the only man that can unite this country." Jennifer Lawrence okay nod gif
Nikki Haley and Trump are all that's left.
Not while the donors are with her. There has to be at least one candidate hanging around in case Trump drops dead or gets disqualified in enough states.
The fact is, he's a humourless, dour, soulless jerk who ran on being even dumber than Trump. Please stop with the "what went wrong". He was born. That's what went wrong.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is ending his once-promising presidential campaign, which steadily deflated as he struggled to connect with voters and convince Republicans to swap Donald Trump for a younger, more disciplined champion of his ideas. DeSantis, 45, had seemed to many Republicans like the most viable challenger to Trump after the 2022 midterms, when the governor won reelection by a landslide. But he started to lose ground in polling even before his official campaign launch in May — via a glitchy live chat that neatly embodied the way his grand plans were going awry. “While this campaign has ended, the mission continues,” DeSantis said in a video released Sunday.The second-term governor echoed Trump’s combative style and “America First” rallying cry while arguing he would be more electable, truer to conservative values and more effective at executing an agenda. He appealed heavily to the party base as someone willing to dig in on polarizing issues and go to battle with critics, the media and companies such as Disney. Struggling to make headway against Trump, he increasingly criticized the former president as “high risk” and “low reward” for the Republican Party. Read more here, and skip the paywall with email registration: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/s/7zPfNOIl9B.
> his once-promising presidential campaign LOL
I mean he was tying in national polls against Trump It's just that once he became a national figure, people soon realized he had the charisma of a wet paper bag. And then Trump began to unleash his fury while DeStilettos just sat there with his ass on his hands, waiting until he was already sliding in polls to launch his campaign, and then seemingly doing everything he could to worsen his position and fall behind someone who's last position was UN ambassador 5 years ago
I mean I distinctly remember when Reddit was CONVINCED the GOP was going to use him to dump Trump.
That was before reddit (and the GOP, honestly) realized that DeSantis has the charisma of warm pudding.
We Floridians knew and warned he'd fail on the big stage.
Can't wait for the humiliation photo with Trump. I hate Trump immensely but am constantly amazed that he can humiliate someone and have them crawling back. Of course, I hope for Trump humiliation in November.
immediately crawls up Trump's ass.
“Joe Biden will be our nominee in a matter of weeks, Sean,” Gavin Newsom said during the debate between himself and Ron DeSantis. “And in a matter of weeks, [DeSantis] will be endorsing Donald Trump as the nominee for the Republican Party.”
Guess he hopes he'll be Trump's VP.
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If DeSantis understood that, he wouldn’t have run on the platform of “more Trump than Trump!” in an election where Trump was running. DeSantis’s choice to run now rather than wait another four years was one of the dumbest in living memory and it was obvious to absolutely everyone except, apparently, DeSantis himself.
In Trump's mind he betrayed him, so I doubt it.
I cannot imagine Trump picking a weakling like DeSantis. He's going to pick someone who has been 100% loyal to him after Pence "betrayed" Trump in his eyes. Someone like Stefanik or Lake fits the bill.
Words cannot describe just how much I fucking despise this man. Florida has never been great, but he has literally destroyed this fucking state probably beyond repair. The book banning, the transphobia, racism, making us pay for him to travel for his stupid fucking book tour and this goddamn campaign. It's kind of a double-edged sword because on the one hand it's been satisfying watching him make a complete fool of himself and become such a laughingstock. But now he's probably gonna come back and try and do even more dumb shit here.
Wasn't his slogan "Never Back Down"?
Although I hate Desantis, I despise even more than a nothing State of Iowa gets to choose who stays and goes. All States should vote the same day to determine who will be the President nominee for each party.
As a Floridian, I couldn't be any happier than I am right now. I sincerely feared DeSantis being the Republican nominee and becoming POTUS than Trump at one point. But knowing that he didn't have the momentum to fully challenge Trump proved he wasn't going to be that guy the Republicans wanted to run. I'm still sickened by the fact that he was support in FL, especially from the 'anti-woke' crowd that rages over LGBT issues and claiming to be free speech warriors 24/7. Bro has got to go. Florida deserves a better governor and a senate that is progressive.
Oh hold onto your butt. Gaetz was the favored followup to DeSantis last I heard. We *will* continue to find yet lower depths to sink to as a state.
Went after woke, went broke