DeSantis is the physical and spiritual embodiment of the worst aspects of Florida.
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2023
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I don't know, he appears to have all of his teeth...
They're all human teeth, but they aren't "his" teeth...
He's got untrustworthy teeth
I live in Democrat majority Central Florida. Last week I had reason to drive out to the Gulf Coast, through very Republican areas.
I spotted more Trump 2024 banners and flags than I cared to count, but only 1 DeSantis sign.
DeSantis can't even drum up support in his home state.
Floridians are largely pissed that he's not dealing with the ever-worsening homeowner's insurance crisis they've been living with.
The worst candidate.....SO FAR!
Ron DeSantis feels like an embodiment of a bot designed off of a far-right internet troll that was left to run on autopilot for too long.
Ron DeSantis is Scott Walker with better hair.
and prettier boots.
And loves thigh food
Oh great. So, he stands a good chance then.
Florida man begins presidential campaign by senselessly attacking largest employer in his state that also happens to be one of the most popular (bafflingly) and most successful corporations in the world. (Edit: typo)
DeSantis is trying to out-Trump Trump by proposing increasingly insane policies, but he's getting almost zero movement in the polls, even when Trump was indicted for stealing nuclear secrets. Trump may be a carnival barker, but he's a damn good one. He connects to his base on an emotional level first, then steers them wherever he feels like going on a given day. DeSantis lacks the charisma to pull off anything similar.
The road to DeSantis becoming the candidate is for Trump to get convicted and disqualified from running. Barring that, he doesn't seem to have a chance.
Convicted felons can still run for office, even from prison.
Socialist candidate Eugene V. Debs was arrested in 1918 for publicly speaking out against US involvement in WWI. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison for "sedition". He ran for US President in 1920 despite being in jail - he wasn't allowed to travel or give speeches, but he was allowed to make one statement to newspapers every week.
Despite being in jail, he still got 3.4% of the popular vote. Warren G. Harding won the election and pardoned Debs in December 1921.
The statute criminalizing the mishandling of classified documents includes in its punishment a bar to running for federal office. If Trump is convicted in the documents case, the law will forbid him from running for president. One caveat: to my knowledge the statute has not been tested in the courts on constitutional grounds, so the Roberts Court will no doubt take the case.
This guy went so far to appeal to Trump's base for the primary he fell off a cliff. I can't believe this clown graduated from Harvard.
Too many former GOP whatevers are decrying DeSantis (or Trump, for that matter). Current GOP officials need to spine up, too. DeSantis is a disaster in the making for the country.
Over time it seems like his extremist lunacy is a coordinated attempt at making Pence look like a moderate and acceptable candidate in comparison. As if they are trying to pull a Biden with Pence, even though Pence is as complicit in everything Trump did as Trump himself.
How can anyone who lived through Trump actually believe this? DeSantis isn't some kind of psy-op to make Pence look good by comparison. That's ridiculous.
Given how Republicans vote these days, DeSantis has a very real chance of winning, and you'd do well not to write him off like that. That's how we ended up with Trump in the first place.
...and if he were to run against any Democrat candidate for the Presidency, he would still get 49% of the vote.
Ontologically sauceless