I disagree. Just as there are huge blocks of “anybody but Trump” voters on the left / Dem side , there are as well , many many voters in the middle on and right who know the Dems have jumped the commie shark and will vote for the Republican nominee no matter what.
thats fine but the math doesnt add up. Those voters are either staying at home or voting Left regardless.
You can look at the data analytics and see Trump actually does well with these "independent women" that might fit a majority of your sentiment. He also captures the rural whites/ the hispanics/ ect ect ect.
Here's three hours of math as to why....
Dude, why should DeSantis endorse Trump? Do you understand why parties even have primary elections to begin with and don't just simply coronate a candidate? The entire purpose to to allow the voters to express their judgment in regards to whom the superior candidate would be, which is a process that often takes time to figure out, as the candidates are forced to reveal more about their character, their personal history and their political views on the campaign trail.
You seem to be operating under the guiding principle that Donald Trump is OWED the Republican nomination for President. But this is not the case, and should never be the case under our system of government. If Trump can defeat DeSantis in the primary, then he has EARNED the nomination by EARNING the confidence of the majority of GOP primary voters. The same goes for DeSantis if he should win. Neither man is OWED the nomination. Trump is NOT an incumbent President at this point, so he should have to compete for the nomination the same as every other contender.
Dude, spare me the rhetorical "do you even understand" garbage... It's not persuasive and only serves to alienate someone from meeting in the middle...which isn't really your point since you like to win over convincing people.
You've rushed to mischaracterize my comments. I personally WANT Ronald to run against Donald. been saying that 20 + pages ago.
Youre mischaracterizing what I've said... you should apologize if you're being intellectually honest. But no matter...
I'll reiterate my point, since I'm clearly very dense....:
You're championing a guy who doesn't have the convefe to announce, bobbles his head in Japan, gets yawned out of UK, and singes hate speech bills in Israel affecting Floridians. I get it, he's a great gov... one day he will be a great president. But he's not earned my vote yet. I need multiple assurances he isn't gonna pull a w and champion isolationism only to wind up in a war. He doesn't have the record of denouncing foreign intervention such that I'm willing to pounce on that.
You seem to not have read any of the times I said, going back like 20 pages or so ago. or in the last page or above in this post....I welcome Ron getting in. Lets not distill our conversations into inaccurate caricatures of past comments. I think we are both too acerbic for that to be the approach. Please spare me the commentary like I dont understand what a primary is or how this works. I watched it in 2015/2016 also in 2012/2008/2000 and am not clueless.... I'm not saying the following to pull the life experience or veteran card on you... but I will say I was overseas fighting in a war in 2016 when Donald was elected and I happen to be particularly aware of the difference between a president who's pro-war vs a non-interventionist president. RDS does nothing for that for me. I've said this in multiple posts and you brush by it. Of course thats the common sense thing to do... but it doesnt change that RDS is part of that establishment and many veterans like myself have that view of him accordingly (there are other well established veterans posting on this forum who have said as much.... )
Re RDS entering the race. I hope he does, it only pushes Donald further to the right and I am all about it. I've said it repeatedly. I HOPE HE GETS IN. No one is owed anything. I just don't see YOUR guy being the one to be the mantle barer. The fact remains that RDS doest turn out non-participant voters like I get that seems foreign to you because you've divested yourself of Trump and anyone who continues to back him is a cultist... but honestly that doesnt HAVE to be the case.
One could just simply be skeptical of a Governor who buckled on immigration after making a PR stunt and sending them to Kamala's house after having threats of investigation and conveniently pivoting to a hurricane in his state (for which he uses the wailing wall prayer as a reason for it getting him through) AND having a career in the ivy leagues and a .mil background. Compare that to crippled fascist Abbot who's sending illegals to Chicago daily and has been doing so for months. OR has Ken Paxton (one of the top gov officials in ALL us gov) getting things done for the state.
I'm sure youre much smarter than me.... so make sense of it for me: You've got a guy whos a money raising behemoth, who's gotten 75 million votes in a general election, and is a proven leader, whom avoided getting us into additional foreign wars and make efforts in rebuilding our economy/infastructure/military/ et all. To the point they had to use bioweapons to destroy him after multiple deep state coup attempts.
Why would I walk away from that guy, who still is pissing vinegar to support a governor that I have doubts about? Again... he is welcome to enter the debate. I hope he does. If he goes far isolationist...I'm listening. I honestly hope he runs because I will, and go back many pages ago to reaffirm my point, enjoy the heck out of watching him getting Jebbed. Bigly...