It all begins. Or more accurately, so it continues.There are many stakes at stake in the midterm elections of 2022. Make no mistake. The race to win the Republican nomination for president in 2024 is well underway and moving in multiple directions.
Let’s just hope those wheels don’t fall off before it’s over.
Although Donald Trump has been the focus of all attention since his 2020 election catastrophe and the subsequent even more devastating aftermath, growing numbers of eyes also have their sights on Ron DeSantis (famous Florida governor), who, rather than Mike Pompeo, is a secretary to the State Department under Trump. The former president, however, is said to maintain a close relationship.
So, the question: Regardless of whether any other Republicans enter the race, if both Trump and “Ron,” as Trump recently referred to DeSantis do run, what will their relationship look like in the end — not to mention the state of the entire Republican Party?
A New Yorker Op-Ed entitled, Can Ron DeSantis Displace Donald Trump as the GOP’s Combatant in Chief?, columnist Dexter Filkin observed of DeSantis: “a fervent opponent of mask mandates and ‘woke’ ideology, the Florida governor channels the same rage as the former president, but with greater discipline.” I cannot disagree with Filkin’s assessment — except for the “rage” part — but more importantly, it appears that neither can a growing number of Republican voters. A gross mistake would be to think that Trump’s inner circle is not aware of this reality. What does Trump actually think? It is really think?
Trump not only told The New Yorker he’s not worried in the least about DeSantis jumping into the race; he also said he hasn’t even discussed it with the governor.
I don’t know if Ron is running, and I don’t ask him. It’s his prerogative. I believe I’d win.
Very friendly. Trump was also very brief. Surprisingly. But color me Be skeptical. Before the 2016 Republican Party primaries were over, Trump had burned nearly every other candidate to the ground with personal attacks, from “Low Energy Jeb” Bush, to “Little Marco” Rubio, to “Lyin’ Ted” Cruz. To believe it would be any different if other candidates join Trump in the 2024 race would be a fool’s game.
The New Yorker reports that Trump’s close associates already want to end the DeSantis bid.
Here’s more, via The New York Post:
Trump and DeSantis are widely viewed as the leading contenders for the Republican nomination in 2024, and the report said that the former president claimed to have a “very good relationship” with the governor and added that “I’m proud of Ron.”
However, [The New Yorker] claimed that Trump has become increasingly resentful of DeSantis as the Floridian’s popularity grows in Republican circles.
“He won’t kiss the ring,” the magazine quoted a political leader who talks to DeSantis as saying.
The main source of tension between the two appears to be DeSantis’s drift away from Trump’s influence — as shown by the governor’s dwindling number of visits to Mar-a-Lago since the 2020 presidential election.
A lawyer who has a relationship with both Trump and DeSantis told The New Yorker: “Ron will tell you he’s doing everything he can for the president, and he’ll sound believable.” But apparently, Trump felt DeSantis was trying to distance himself after Trump lost the 2020 election to Biden. The New York Post noted that Trump still invited DeSantis onto his stage at a Sarasota rally in July 2021. He would show. The New Yorker heard from a former Republican congressman:
There were alarm bells ringing — will DeSantis appear? Ron didn’t want to be onstage with Trump.
According to The New Yorker Trump also was annoyed that DeSantis didn’t immediately rule out a presidential run despite the fact that he was planning on another White House bid. Or arrogant? Both. Both. Any potential presidential candidate “immediately rule out a run” based solely on whether another candidate enters a race — or not? “Loyalty”?
It was not to create (rekindle), a firestorm. no oneMore loyal to Donald Trump than Vice President Mike Pence throughout his presidency. Yet, when Pence correctly decided to reject Trump’s pressure to attempt an Inconstitutional action (I know what I’m talking about: see Electoral Count Act of 1887) and “send it back to the states: (no mechanism exists by which to do That) how did thatWhat’s the deal with Pence? Hell, “Hang Mike Pence” trended on Twitter on January 6 within 90 minutes of Trump telling the gathered crowd: “Mike let us down, today.”
Why shouldn’t they? If Mike Pompeo (as I said at the top), or Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton who strongly considers a run for governor, they believe they offer something that Republican voters don’t get. It is not run?
The exception, in my view, which I have predicted, and may very well be proved wrong — I hope I will be — in 2024 would be other candidates backing away if (when) Donald Trump finally makes his announcement, because of concern that the slash-and-burn tactics of Trump and his loyalists would reduce or eliminate their respective possibilities of future successful runs. This is understandable given Trump’s 2016 strategy and 2020’s disaster. You just hope it doesn’t happen.
I do hope constitutional conservatives — not to be confused with “RINOs” — kick this thing into high gear and let the chips fall where they may.
Oh, my bad! I nearly forgot to mention that Ron DeSantis was going to run for the second-slot after Donald Trump. It is unlikely. Period.
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