DeSantis Campaign Stalls as He Tries to Court Trump’s GOP Fans and Foes Alike
DeSantis Campaign Stalls as He Tries to Court Trump’s GOP Fans and Foes Alike
The Florida governor’s support is flat in national and early-state polling.
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I feel like over the span of a few months , DeSantis went from the golden child to carry the torch from Trump to a one trick pony candidate of no substance focused on “wokeism” (whatever the fuck that is).
DeSantis tried doing what Trump does where he rails against something and threatens action, but rather than doing what Trump does which is talk big and then declare victory. DeSantis actually went through with the fight. The fights drag out and he takes harder and harder positions to defend. People dont want the fight, they want to talk big and declare victory without doing anything.
DeSantis is not helped by his campaign team either, as they seem to be perpetually online to where some of his ads are completely unintelligble to anyone that is not online all the time.
Finally, while petty, I think a lot of people liked DeSantis until they heard him actually speak. His voice is not what you would expect from a culture warrior strong man. He is also terrible at interacting with people too. Like really bad, those clips of him around other people are just hard to watch.
This appears to be a very accurate take. Thanks for taking the time to think through and write out this comment. I'm far too lazy to put in the effort, but agree whole-heartedly.
He Flanderized himself right out of the running.
Keen take, I totally agree.
He hasn’t been having much success expanding his base, and this article points out that it’s because he’s playing up key conservative issues to capture one audience, while also aiming for moderates. There’s just a contradiction there.
one trick pony candidate of no substance focused on “wokeism” (whatever the fuck that is).
The definition of "woke" is easy. It's a catch all term they means whatever the right decides they don't like. If tomorrow the right decides that they don't like puppies and kittens, then puppies and kittens will be "woke."
When DeSantis says he hates "woke," all he's really saying (to paraphrase Futurama) is ""I'm against those things that everybody on the right hates!"
I heard that his own lawyers gave this definition last year in a court case and I’ve actually come to respect it: woke is the recognition that there are systemic injustices in America and the need to do something about it.
It gets right to the point and includes a call to action.
I think DeSantis would be close to a front runner, but he’s too Trumpy in his appeal and Trump is already in the race
Let's pretend Trump abruptly dropped out of the race (willingly or unwillingly) before January.
Do you think DeSantis would absorb the voter base?
I have always felt Desantis wanted to campaign as the heir to Trump and hoped Trump would quietly fade away. Trump didn’t do that and Desantis has refused to change tactics . At this point his strategy seems to be hoping Trump’s legal problems catch up to him and leave Desantis as the Trump alternative.
It’s so funny to me that DeSantis loses support every time he open is mouth.
A word of caution... My definitely not woke family member said he doesn't sound that bad.
So..... While I don't support him and I feel he won't win the popular vote, many people will still vote for him and he's still very much a real candidate.
The spam text messages I’ve received this weekend are so bad I’m not sure if they are actually from DeSantis or a smear campaign by his opponents.
How is he going to grab trump's base with pudding all over his hands
He doesn't eat pudding. It has sugar, man! /s
But seriously: CLOWN SHOES!