Pretty soon DeSantis will have consolidated all of them. And they all get a vote, no matter how crazy, NPC.
DeSantis 2024
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Pretty soon DeSantis will have consolidated all of them. And they all get a vote, no matter how crazy, NPC.
Jones is bigger than people give him credit for. All of that deep state, fake news, anti vax, voter fraud conspiracies run through him. He’s a huge megaphone for the lies that have sustained Trump.
Wow. Liz Cheney forms her anti-trump organization one day. And the next day Alex Jones flips. See what I'm sayin?
Another feather in her cap.
DeSantis reelection campaign in Florida could prove central to GOP future
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/desantis-reelection-campaign-central
The Florida governor’s race might not be the most competitive in the country, but for the Republican Party, it might be the most important.
Former Gov. Charlie Crist won the Democratic primary on Tuesday night, defeating state Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried by a comfortable margin. The onetime Republican governor, who now serves as a Democrat representing Florida’s 13th Congressional District, is now running to be the next Democratic governor.
It’s a revenge tour against his former party as it now sets up a race against the Republican incumbent, Gov. Ron DeSantis.
DeSantis is not only vying for a second term as governor in an important battleground state that has increasingly been trending Republican in competitive races. He is second only to former President Donald Trump as the likeliest GOP presidential nominee in 2024 and the hottest commodity in the party.
If DeSantis somehow loses, or even wins reelection by an unimpressive margin, it could leave Trump as the last Florida man standing in the 2024 Republican White House sweepstakes.
Either way, DeSantis is testing the theory that you can govern on a populist conservative platform in a swing state — former President Barack Obama carried Florida twice — with the same gusto as if it were a safe red state. He is already predicting "the biggest Republican turnout this state has ever seen" in November.
DeSantis only won his first term by 0.4 percentage points. That was in 2018, a wave election year for the Democrats. He also outperformed his poll numbers, as the RealClearPolitics polling average projected Democrat Andrew Gillum to be in the lead by 3.6 points. Of the last five polls included in the aggregation, DeSantis led only in the estimable Trafalgar survey.
None of this is to say that DeSantis should not be favored in what figures to be a much more favorable climate for Republicans than 2018, even with recent Democratic gains. But DeSantis is governing much more like Trump than Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan in a state he only narrowly won, taking on woke capitalism even when practiced by Disney World and taking sides on social issues from abortion to gay rights, in a state he just barely won last time around.
It is not a risk-free proposition.
Crist will appear on the statewide ballot a dozen years after Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) chased him out of the Republican Party. The ex-governor was the GOP establishment’s favorite to run for Senate in 2010 as Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL) prepared to retire after a close race six years earlier. Rubio ran as the Tea Party candidate, targeting Crist’s support for Obama’s nearly $1 trillion stimulus plan.
In a year when conservative primary challengers fared well, Crist was doomed. A Quinnipiac University poll that April showed Rubio beating him 56% to 33% in the Republican primary. In March, the Florida Times-Union had Rubio trouncing Crist 60% to 26%.
Crist opted against staying in the Republican primary, believing that he could not win. Instead he bolted the party, ran as an independent, and sparked a three-way race between Rubio and the eventual Democratic nominee, Kendrick Meek. It was the first political transformation of Crist en route to his reincarnation as a liberal Democrat.
This time, Crist was a centrist. "If you want somebody on the far Right, you get Marco Rubio,” he said. “If you want someone on the far Left, you have Kendrick Meek. If you want someone who will fight for you and apply common sense, you have me."
That’s not how it worked out in the general election. Crist did come in second, and some Democrats had urged Meek to drop out to give him a cleaner shot at Rubio. But in the end, it was Rubio with 48.9% of the vote, Crist with 29.7%, and Meek with 20.2%.
Rubio will be up for reelection this year, seeking his third term in a race against Rep. Val Demings (D-FL). That’s a separate race. But Crist will have an opportunity to once again redefine his old party, possibly even by keeping the race close. DeSantis, at present, is the only Republican who appears to have a real shot of beating Trump and would become the front-runner if the 45th president does not decide to try to also be the 47th.
Most polls show DeSantis ahead by about 8 points and hovering around 50% of the vote, usually a threshold of safety for incumbents. The RealClearPolitics polling average has him ahead by 6.2 points.
Two polls show a close race. Clarity Campaign Labs in July, in a survey sponsored by progressive groups Florida Watch and Progress Florida, showed DeSantis up 3 points with 47% of the vote to Crist’s 44%. A Susquehanna poll from a year ago also shows DeSantis up by just 3 points.
That’s not much for Democrats to hang their hats on, though Florida polling hasn’t always been reliable in recent years. Then again, the issues have largely come at the expense of Republicans rather than Democrats.
Nevertheless, the hanging chads state that has defined our national politics since the hard-fought 2000 presidential race between George W. Bush and Al Gore could once again play a large role. As Florida goes, so goes the nation?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/desantis-reelection-campaign-central
The Florida governor’s race might not be the most competitive in the country, but for the Republican Party, it might be the most important.
Former Gov. Charlie Crist won the Democratic primary on Tuesday night, defeating state Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried by a comfortable margin. The onetime Republican governor, who now serves as a Democrat representing Florida’s 13th Congressional District, is now running to be the next Democratic governor.
It’s a revenge tour against his former party as it now sets up a race against the Republican incumbent, Gov. Ron DeSantis.
DeSantis is not only vying for a second term as governor in an important battleground state that has increasingly been trending Republican in competitive races. He is second only to former President Donald Trump as the likeliest GOP presidential nominee in 2024 and the hottest commodity in the party.
If DeSantis somehow loses, or even wins reelection by an unimpressive margin, it could leave Trump as the last Florida man standing in the 2024 Republican White House sweepstakes.
Either way, DeSantis is testing the theory that you can govern on a populist conservative platform in a swing state — former President Barack Obama carried Florida twice — with the same gusto as if it were a safe red state. He is already predicting "the biggest Republican turnout this state has ever seen" in November.
DeSantis only won his first term by 0.4 percentage points. That was in 2018, a wave election year for the Democrats. He also outperformed his poll numbers, as the RealClearPolitics polling average projected Democrat Andrew Gillum to be in the lead by 3.6 points. Of the last five polls included in the aggregation, DeSantis led only in the estimable Trafalgar survey.
None of this is to say that DeSantis should not be favored in what figures to be a much more favorable climate for Republicans than 2018, even with recent Democratic gains. But DeSantis is governing much more like Trump than Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan in a state he only narrowly won, taking on woke capitalism even when practiced by Disney World and taking sides on social issues from abortion to gay rights, in a state he just barely won last time around.
It is not a risk-free proposition.
Crist will appear on the statewide ballot a dozen years after Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) chased him out of the Republican Party. The ex-governor was the GOP establishment’s favorite to run for Senate in 2010 as Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL) prepared to retire after a close race six years earlier. Rubio ran as the Tea Party candidate, targeting Crist’s support for Obama’s nearly $1 trillion stimulus plan.
In a year when conservative primary challengers fared well, Crist was doomed. A Quinnipiac University poll that April showed Rubio beating him 56% to 33% in the Republican primary. In March, the Florida Times-Union had Rubio trouncing Crist 60% to 26%.
Crist opted against staying in the Republican primary, believing that he could not win. Instead he bolted the party, ran as an independent, and sparked a three-way race between Rubio and the eventual Democratic nominee, Kendrick Meek. It was the first political transformation of Crist en route to his reincarnation as a liberal Democrat.
This time, Crist was a centrist. "If you want somebody on the far Right, you get Marco Rubio,” he said. “If you want someone on the far Left, you have Kendrick Meek. If you want someone who will fight for you and apply common sense, you have me."
That’s not how it worked out in the general election. Crist did come in second, and some Democrats had urged Meek to drop out to give him a cleaner shot at Rubio. But in the end, it was Rubio with 48.9% of the vote, Crist with 29.7%, and Meek with 20.2%.
Rubio will be up for reelection this year, seeking his third term in a race against Rep. Val Demings (D-FL). That’s a separate race. But Crist will have an opportunity to once again redefine his old party, possibly even by keeping the race close. DeSantis, at present, is the only Republican who appears to have a real shot of beating Trump and would become the front-runner if the 45th president does not decide to try to also be the 47th.
Most polls show DeSantis ahead by about 8 points and hovering around 50% of the vote, usually a threshold of safety for incumbents. The RealClearPolitics polling average has him ahead by 6.2 points.
Two polls show a close race. Clarity Campaign Labs in July, in a survey sponsored by progressive groups Florida Watch and Progress Florida, showed DeSantis up 3 points with 47% of the vote to Crist’s 44%. A Susquehanna poll from a year ago also shows DeSantis up by just 3 points.
That’s not much for Democrats to hang their hats on, though Florida polling hasn’t always been reliable in recent years. Then again, the issues have largely come at the expense of Republicans rather than Democrats.
Nevertheless, the hanging chads state that has defined our national politics since the hard-fought 2000 presidential race between George W. Bush and Al Gore could once again play a large role. As Florida goes, so goes the nation?
Windsock Charlie is back. As some know they used to call Crist "Windsock Charlie" because he checked the political winds every day and adjusted his views as needed."
As I have said many times before some of these clowns are like that fly on your potato salad at the picnic that you think you nailed for good, then later BZZZZ.......he's baaaaack. Windsock Charlie being Exhibit A.
Whatever. If DeSantis can't square that clown away then the hell with him. Having Windsock Charlie as an opponent is a gift from the gods.
Rubio and Val Demmings or something. More problematic.
Well Charlie has a harsh message for DeSantis supporters...
Charlie Crist Says He Doesn’t Want DeSantis Fans to Vote For Him: ‘If You Have That Hate In Your Heart, Keep It There’
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/c...u-have-that-hate-in-your-heart-keep-it-there/
Charlie Crist, the Democratic nominee for Florida governor, made an odd request of Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) voters this week, telling them that instead of flipping their vote, they should just stick with DeSantis.
Speaking to reports this week, Crist said he had no interest in wooing DeSantis supporters, accusing them of having “hate” in their hearts.
“Those who support the governor should stay with him and vote for him. I don’t want your vote. If you have that hate in your heart, keep it there,” Crist said.
Crist previously served as Florida’s governor from 2007-2011, and despite his words about DeSantis voters, he said he wants Floridians to “unify” around his ticket.
“I want the vote of the people of Florida who care about our state. Good Democrats. Good Independents. Good Republicans. Unify with this ticket,” he said.
Crist has offered sharp criticism of his Republican opponent. In a Monday interview on Morning Joe, Crist accused DeSantis of “tearing” Florida apart, and he’s accused DeSantis of being more interested in running for president.
“He’s running for president of the United States, and if we defeat him, which I believe we will on November the 8th, that show ends right here in Florida,” Crist said.
Crist’s fight against DeSantis has been described as a longshot by some. NBC News Marc Caputo published a report after Crist’s primary victory on Democrats feeling “fatalistic” about the chances of actually unseating DeSantis.
One advisor to Crist described the election as the “Powerball election” in the report.
“It’s the Powerball election. There’s still a chance!” the advisor said.
According to a poll from the University of North Florida released last week, DeSantis led Crist by eight points, with 50 percent support, while Crist scored 42 percent.
Charlie's terms are acceptable. We'll see how that works out for him.
lol, rightwing populism. Like Franco, Pinochet, Putin, Erdogan, Modi, Bolsanaro, Mussolini, Hitler? Show me a "right wing populist" that isn't a fascist? You can't. Washington examiner can't call a spade a spade.