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LOL. That is supposed to mean DeSantis isn't honest? That has to be one of the most insane things I've ever heard.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis, a man Trump believes he put on the map, has been acting far less like an acolyte and more like a future competitor, Trump complains. With his stock rising fast in the party, the governor has conspicuously refrained from saying he would stand aside if Trump runs for the Republican nomination for president in 2024--“The magic words,” Trump has said to several associates and advisers.

“I wonder why the guy won’t say he won’t run against me,” Trump has said to several associates and advisers, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe private conversations. The source with direct knowledge recounted that in one private conversation earlier this month, Trump sounded “confused” about why DeSantis wasn’t simply coming out and saying that the 2024 GOP nomination is Trump’s, if he wants it. This source added that the former president, who remains staggeringly popular among Republican voters, rhetorically asked if DeSantis “remember[ed] what happened” in the 2016 primary, during which Trump humiliated and steamrolled over his prominent conservative rivals like Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio.

The ballooning animosity toward DeSantis, which Trump’s lieutenants have tried to keep from spilling into public view, is yet another example of how the former president has been working to maintain his iron grip on the Republican Party, and seeking to weed out non-Trump-sycophants from the party’s upper ranks.

That long-stewing resentment burst into public view recently in a dispute over a seemingly unrelated topic: COVID-19 policies. After DeSantis did not reveal whether he had received a COVID booster, the former president publicly acknowledged he had. Last week, he seemed to swipe at DeSantis by blasting as “gutless” politicians who dodge the question out of fear of blowback from vaccine skeptics.

Just last week, in a veiled jab at DeSantis and other “gutless” Republicans who get vaccinated and boosted but refuse, as Florida’s governor has done, to disclose that status. “The answer is ‘Yes,’ but they don’t want to say it, because they’re gutless,” Trump said in a television interview with OAN this month, referring only to “politicians” but clearly alluding to DeSantis. “You got to say it — whether you had it or not, say it.”

DeSantis’s response came on Friday in an interview on the conservative podcast “Ruthless.” The governor said one of his biggest regrets was not forcefully opposing Trump’s calls for lockdowns when the coronavirus first began to spread in spring 2020. “Knowing now what I know then, if that was a threat earlier, I would have been much louder,” DeSantis said.

Numerous Trump pals and informal advisers have already stated that the ex-president has privately assured them that he plans to run against his successor Joe Biden in the next presidential election. When publicly pressed on the topic over the past year, Trump has consistently remained cagey.

Instead, the former president has instructed, the Trump allies should stress that the ex-president is the “undisputed” leader of the Republican Party, and that if Trump runs to reclaim power in 2024, there is nobody else in the party who could come close to beating him. Indeed, when behind closed doors, the former president is fond of saying he would easily “destroy” DeSantis in a hypothetical intra-party race.

Recent polling from the University of Massachusetts paints DeSantis as the second most popular potential 2024 candidate among Republicans but one who trails the frontrunner, former President Trump, by a hefty 35 points.

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Rift erupts between DeSantis and his mentor Trump

WASHINGTON — For months, former President Donald J. Trump has been grumbling quietly to friends and visitors to his Palm Beach mansion about a rival Republican power center in another Florida…
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Trump Spent Weekend Stewing That ‘Wiseguy’ DeSantis Won’t Kiss His Ring

In recent weeks, Trump has gossiped with certain confidants about DeSantis’ political vulnerabilities and “weaknesses,” according to the two sources familiar with the situation.
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marke said:
Leftists still hate Trump for taking their candy away in 2016.
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That's cute. Now try addressing the substance of what Trump actually said about the Capitol riot on the day after it occurred, if you dare.
 
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That's cute. Now try addressing the substance of what Trump actually said about the Capitol riot on the day after it occurred, if you dare.
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What does it matter what Trump said about the demonstrations against voter fraud on Jan 6 that lying leftists falsely claim were an insurrection?
 
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McConnell obviously did not care whether democrats committed mass voter fraud or not. His position was secure no matter who won.
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You missed the point completely, as usual. If McConnel's position is secure no matter who won, then why is McConnel now choosing to break with Trump over the election insurrection? Obviously, he is doing so because he knows that the Jan 6 committee has explosive evidence and testimony, and the smart folks are taking cover. "Part of the gossip has likely come from Mike Pence and his circle — with his staffers testifying and producing documents recently (Pence is still very well connected and liked among DC Republicans) and part from Cheney and Kinzinger, warning their friends to get ready."
 
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You missed the point completely, as usual. If McConnel's position is secure no matter who won, then why is McConnel now choosing to break with Trump over the election insurrection? Obviously, he is doing so because he knows that the Jan 6 committee has explosive evidence and testimony, and the smart folks are taking cover. "Part of the gossip has likely come from Mike Pence and his circle — with his staffers testifying and producing documents recently (Pence is still very well connected and liked among DC Republicans) and part from Cheney and Kinzinger, warning their friends to get ready."
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The stacked, vengeful, Trump-despising, democrat mob of selected lftist gangsters posing as non-biased investigators are not interested in the facts. As in the unjust impeachment fiascos, this democrat attack committee is only out to gather mountains of evidence through which to select tidbits and pieces with which to weave their unjust case for blaming Trump for the lawful Jan 6 protest against democrat voter fraud.
 
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Riots are lawful?
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Peaceful protests are legitimate. Violent riots are not. An assortment of violent actors on Jan 6, some leftists and some right-wingers, were not justified in their violence on Jan 6, but probably 90% or more of Trump supporters at the Capitol were not violent. Democrats, on the other hand, had been advocating, supporting, funding, and inciting violent rioting across America for more than a year before Jan 6, so they have no room to criticize Trump who never supported violence.

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Democrats are now the riot party

Liberal cities have become the center of violence and extremism.
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President Trump has rightly sent in federal reinforcements to Portland, while many Democrats have circled the wagons on behalf of anarchism. Speaker Nancy Pelosi referred to federal agents deployed to Portland as storm troopers. Other members of her party have spoken of federal law enforcement officers as some sort of invading army unwelcome in urban centers. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, deep into his campaign to utterly ruin that city, declared that he would take Trump to court if any federal officers were deployed to address the surging violence there.
 
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ok doser said:
While I supported Trump in 2020, I will not support him in 2024. I hope he has the good sense not to run.
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According to a column from U.S. News and World Report, Donald Trump's star is quickly setting as more and more of his most rabid fans begin to move on and GOP lawmakers are starting to question whether he helps or hinders their election prospects.

Using a combination of current polling numbers -- that show voters increasingly don't want the former president to make a third presidential run -- and comments from GOP campaign consultants, U.S. News writer Susan Milligan suggested Trump is rapidly becoming yesterday's news.

"White male voters without a college degree overwhelmingly supported Trump in 2020, with exit polls showing the Republicans taking that voter group by a 70% to 28% margin. But YouGov's poll found that half of that group see Trump in a favorable light now, with 46% of them disapproving of Trump," the report states before adding, "Further, rank-and-file Republicans are moving away from a more direct identification with Trump himself. An NBC poll found that 56% of GOPers describe themselves as supporters of the Republican Party, with 36% saying they are supporters of Trump. That's a reversal from late 2020, when 54% described themselves as supporters of Trump and 38% supporters of the GOP."

"He doesn't get to speak ex cathedra anymore, where everyone just drops to their knees and believes in him," explained Mac Stipanovich. "He gets booed by his audience. [Florida Republican Gov. Ron] DeSantis did everything but moon him, and he's going to get away with it."

Stipanovich added that the midterm election -- and how Trump-endorsed candidates do -- will be a good indicator of how much power the former president wields.

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'No nostalgia for the Trump years' as fans abandon him and his influence wanes: analysis

According to a column from U.S. News and World Report, Donald Trump's star is quickly setting as more and more of his most rabid fans begin to move on and GOP lawmakers are starting to question whether he helps or hinders their election prospects.Using a combination of current polling numbers --...
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