DeSantis 2024

If he wants to win he needs to be more like Ronald Reagan and less like Bernie Sanders.
Be positive, smile. Quit with "woke" BS. Don't take the bait from the MSM.
 
Ron DeSantis does not handle these situations very well. As governor of Florida, DeSantis only invited friendly media to his press conferences and locked everyone else out so he did not have to take hard questions. He cannot do this as president (noting it is a long-shot for him to get elected) -- there will be tough questions from individuals and media both in his campaign and when in federal office. Also how would Ron handle foreign leaders pressing back on him if he blows up continuously as the slightest provocation.

Getting unhinged like Ron did here simply demonstrates he is not up to the task. I don't necessarily believe the question of the individual regarding the Jacksonville shooting in Florida was appropriate to the press conference topic of not allowing Covid vaccine mandates -- but people will ask off-topic questions in most of these forums.

DeSantis should have listened to the question and responded with sympathy and set the table to make a follow-up statement about himself as the protector & leader of all people, etc. Instead he blew up on the questioner who is a veteran.

Not POTUS behavior: Ron DeSantis loses his cool on vet, gets absolutely shredded
https://meaww.com/that-is-such-nonsense-ron-de-santis-loses-his-cool-on-vet-gets-absolutely-shredded
 
Things are going poorly for Ron. He is now down to single digits in the polls. Even right-wing media sources such as "Just The News" are citing this as bad news for Ron DeSantis.

DeSantis hits single digits in key primary state: poll
Despite Trump's clear status as the favorite candidate in South Carolina, the state's voters view Tim Scott more favorably overall.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/desantis-hits-single-digits-key-primary-state-poll

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is in fourth place for South Carolina's Republican primary, earning single digit support in the state and losing out to not just former President Donald Trump, but the Palmetto State's two homegrown Republican candidates.

DeSantis took 9% support in the latest Monmouth University survey, compared to 46% for Trump. Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott earned 18% and 10%, respectively.

Despite Trump's clear status as the favorite candidate in South Carolina, the state's voters view Scott more favorably overall. The senator earned a 62% favorability rating while Trump earned a 60% and Haley reached 59%.

Conducted Sept. 6-11, the survey questioned 506 South Carolina Republican primary voters.

The survey results are bad news for DeSantis, who has seen his political stock tumble since declaring his campaign earlier this year. Though he remains the second place candidate in most polls, his position in key primary states appears to be weakening. While he remains second place in Iowa, DeSantis trails Trump by 30.2% on average, per RealClearPolitics. In New Hampshire, he trails by 31.0%. He places third behind Haley on average in South Carolina and is 35.3% behind Trump there.

Trump maintains a 43.6% lead nationwide.
 
Lil' Ron, what a LOSER!

GOP megadonor drops support for DeSantis' presidential bid, saying his 'ongoing battle with Disney' is 'pointless'
https://www.businessinsider.com/bil...drops-desantis-pointless-battle-disney-2023-9
  • DeSantis has officially lost the support of the biggest donor to his 2022 re-election.
  • Ken Griffin, a GOP billionaire megadonor, cited DeSantis "ongoing battle with Disney."
  • "It's not clear to me what voter base he is intending to appeal to," said Griffin.
Ron DeSantis has officially lost the support of Ken Griffin, the Republican billionaire who was the biggest donor to the Florida governor's 2022 re-election campaign.

"I don't know his strategy," Griffin said in an interview with CNBC. "It's not clear to me what voter base he is intending to appeal to."

Griffin, the CEO of the multinational hedge fund Citadel, gave $5 million to DeSantis' re-election effort. And he told POLITICO in an interview last November that he was ready to support the governor's presidential campaign, saying that "our country would be well-served by him as president."

But Griffin has been apparently dissatisfied with way DeSantis' campaign has been run, and his comments in the CNBC interview are his most definitive to date.

"First-term governor -- just a phenomenal job," said Griffin. "But that hasn't been how this last few months has played out."

"The ongoing battle with Disney I think is pointless," Griffin continued. "In fact, it doesn't reflect well on the ethos of Florida."

Griffin, who's been public about his antipathy towards former President Donald Trump, also said he would sit out the primary altogether.

The DeSantis campaign did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

The governor has been waging a battle against the entertainment giant for well over a year, revoking the company's self-governing status in Disney World in April 2022 over the company's opposition to Florida's Parental Rights in Education Law — dubbed "Don't Say Gay" by critics.

Disney has since sued the State of Florida, alleging that DeSantis has tried to "weaponize government power" over the company.

DeSantis later told CNBC that he has "basically moved on" from the feud.

The Florida governor has since struggled to break through as a presidential candidate, with former President Donald Trump leading the field by a substantial margin.

According to recent polling averages, DeSantis currently has the support of somewhere between 12 to 15% of Republican primary voters nationwide.
 
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