When the republican Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives publicly supports a legislative change that would permit the republican Governor to run for the GOP nomination, it doesn’t happen without prior discussion.
FLORIDA – Top Republicans in the Florida legislature said Tuesday that they’d be willing to change state election law so that Gov. Ron DeSantis could run for president without resigning from his current job.
“I think that’s a great idea,” Florida House Speaker Paul Renner said in a press conference with reporters at the state capitol, when asked about potential changes to the state’s so-called “resign to run” election law in the forthcoming legislative session. “I think we’ll look at that.”
Senate President Kathleen Passidomo echoed Renner’s comments, saying it would be an “honor” to have someone from Florida running for president. She agreed with Renner it would be a “good idea” to change the law. “I think he should be allowed to do it,” she said.
Under current Florida law, if DeSantis were to run for president then he would have to resign his post as governor — even if he eventually lost the presidency. Candidates have 10 days to resign after they qualify for federal office, but how exactly that is defined when it comes to the presidency isn’t clear and has been open to different interpretations, according to The Miami Herald.
[…] DeSantis hasn’t tried to tamp down speculation that he might seek a White House bid, and hasn’t committed to serving out all four years as governor. (read more)
Governor for a mere 2 weeks into 2nd term before this? Think RDS supporters will catch on? Geez..truly have to be deaf, dumb and blind.
Wanna bet?
That is how DeSantis and the Republicrook Legislature treat Citizen’s concerns. Deaf dumb and blind.
I am pleased with Desantis as Governor.
But i WILL NOT vote for him as president.
HE KNOWS HE CANNOT WIN AGAINST TRUMP.
His entire purpose is to TAKE AWAY ENOUGH VOTES FROM TRUMP TO GET “BIDEN” RE-ELECTED.
Desantis is deliberately sabotaging the Republican party in 2024, and the RINO Republican DEEP STATE SWAMP CREATURES are helping him.
So far the only statement made by DeSantis about him running for President is months ago when asked about it he said he would never primary against Donald J. Trump because his support got DeSantis elected Governor and he loved the job and was forever grateful for the support. Lately, the only people talking about the possibility are the press. After all, the ‘fake news’ hates Trump😊
The decision is not his to make. When he accepted their money, he ceded control to them. They want him in so he will be in.
How do we know he accepted their money? Just wondering.
the person who paid him said so ! lol
Sundance posted a screenshot of this site:
Transparency USA
Ron DeSantis
Governor of Florida
$201,921,600
TOTAL DONATIONS
$129,719,734
https://www.transparencyusa.org/fl/candidate/ron-desantis-can
Ken Griffin (donor to DeSantis) said so clearly .. if Ron deSantis runs for president
“Would I support him? The bigger question is, is he going to run? That bridge has to be crossed,” he said.
He’s ready to back RDS
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/06/gop-megadonor-desantis-24-ken-griffin-00065274
we don’t listen to what RinoRon says
we just follow his actions or lack of them …
But the press are talking to prominent Republicans when they talk about it.
Opinion piece but quite interesting read from a guest
https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2022/11/17/why-gov-desantis-won-landslide-i-think-hurricane-handshake-helped-column/
Oh he’s running
He’ll be a good LOSER they say.
Those two POS, McShame and Romney, were also good losers also…… just like the Uniparty GOPe wanted.
But he won’t have to lose his governor job. Even though he won’t be able to devote much time to it for a couple of years. Since he has no respect for Floridians, why should we respect him.? He’s not all that special.
His running will remove Florida’s votes from the electoral college. Is that the plan?
This refers to him losing the General Election for President. Meaning he won’t be an “election denier” as they so frequently label President TRUMP and all of us. They mean he will lose, go quietly, and let the fraudsters win.
As to their plan, YES. That is exactly what they want.
Yes. He’ll carry on that tradition left by manner…Romney, McStain, list goes on and on.
??????if RDS runs as a Republican and PDJT runs as a Republican, how does he “take votes away?”…..some secret that only you know about?
ha ha .. PDJT runs as independant
Yes Kroesus:
The secret that you don’t know about is that, as multiple people, not just Ron and Don, fight for the Republican Nomination, if Ron steals enough votes to “cancel out” Don, some other “lesser” candidate would end up with the nomination.
That other “lesser” candidate would then lose to Biden.
That is the current RINO plan.
It is called a Trojan Horse.
I don’t think you’ll have to worry about voting for DeSantis for President. In our current ballot manufacturing environment, no republican can win a national election. Not even Trump.
DeSantis will be glad to let Trump run and lose. Suits him just fine.
What people don’t realize with midterms stolen (2nd one) there is NEVER going to be another Republican President.
DeSantis is being used as controlled opposition against President Trump.
Yes Dee. Most prescient comment on this thread
DeSantis is being used…………..
Sums it up right there. And, if per chance something untoward should happen with Trump’s election prospects, DeSantis will be all primed and ready to go as the bought and paid for (read: controlled and controllable) sure-fire shoe in for the GOPe.
We’re already past having another real Republican president. That ship sailed years ago. We’ll have presidents with an R in front of their name in the future. They will come from the R side of the democrat coin, a wooden nickel.
Dee, you need to read (or re-read) this article:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/11/18/knock-it-off-get-up-get-back-on-your-feet-you-are-the-one-they-cant-beat-and-you-know-it/
This really ticks me off! We Floridians HIRED HIM TO RUN THE STATE for us!
We aren’t just disposable stairs on the way to something better for him, to abandon us shortly after his re-election to the governors office.
If he does that, a lot of us will walk away.
We are NOT his stepping stone.
Another opportunity for Charlie to try again
Don’t tell us, tell your legislature, PLEASE.
They don’t give a toss what we think.
RDS should be asked straight away about this change to allow him to run for president without resigning. Based on this change .. will he, won’t he? If not,why not? To Crist’s direct question in the debate “”Why don’t you look in the eyes of the people of Florida and say to them, if you’re reelected, you will serve a full four-year term as governor. Yes or no? “Yes or no, Ron?”
Answer? The only thing RDS emphasized as as not just ‘very clear’, but (very very) clear was “I just want to make things very, very clear: The only worn-out old donkey I’m looking to put out to pasture is Charlie Crist”
Can we expect to get more ‘very clears’? Hold him to his swipe at President Trump, when asked about Trump’s criticism of him. RDS skirted around it by lumping President Trump’s comment in with criticism from major media outlets, defined as “corporate media” “Effective Leaders ‘Take Incoming Fire .. “When you’re leading, when you’re getting things done, you take incoming fire, that’s just the nature of it.”
Tricky dude, that.
Well yeah, RDS this may be your foretaste of incoming fire all presidents should expect.
DeSantis “DeFuture”
DeSantis smugness “Go check the scoreboard”
In Ron’s book, ye you are
It’s the betrayal we Rs have experienced repeatedly but now are not willing to accept. 45 is the first and last one who will always stand with us and for us. Others are coming up though but can’t replace him.
I see the same supporters for DeSantis as was for Ted Cruz
Yes — for those with eyes to see and not pretend to know. I feel like I’m now watching a rerun.
He wants to be Governor of the Unites State I guess?
LOL!!!
they are more the quasi-religious type like the Cruzbots….they will never admit they were duped……easier to keep singing his missing merits
Shaking my Head .
Is there anything else we can do to make this More Convenient for you , Ron ?
Just Say the Word , we’ll take care of it and you can focus on your campaign .
🙄 😬 🧐
Legislation to have Florida taxpayers fund DeSantis’ presidential run? 🙂
GOPe’s gotta GOPe….
How prescient #DeSanctimonious ….. it marked his political end and it will hang around Ron’s neck forever more.
Won’t ever get my vote.
Nor will I vote for anyone that backs him that is running.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/wth-arizona-state-mine-inspector-state-treasurers-race-saw-huge-turnout-republicans-gov-ag-senate-sos-stolen-democrats/
Difficult to discuss voting when our newest plan includes ballot harvesting that appears to be far from a cure.
A lot more going on here.
Seminole tribe of Florida? Good Grief!
Big heap gambling money.
Yep. The Governor of any state with tribal gaming can shut them down in a heart beat. Which puts to the lie that they are truly sovereign nations. The day I see a tribe tell the state governor to shove it where the sun doesn’t shine with regards to gaming will be a real red letter day on my calendar.
<The Governor of any state with tribal gaming can shut them down in a heart beat.>
Yes…
Their contribution may prove to be the Seminole moment in the campaign 🙂
I recall in the 60’s and 70’s, they just wrestled alligators.
My uncle was one of those
He is so slimy. Laws don’t apply to him – DeSanctimonious sucks.
isn’t that an ipso facto law that would not legitimately apply to RDS?
Doesn’t this mean they think there’s a chance he’ll lose?
And under the same “nothing happens without a plan” logic, doesn’t that mean they’re planning for him to lose? (They are.)
This election is only good for laughing at everyone involved.
That’s what I’ve been saying, too.
MarcoPolo, try it-you’ll like it- share it.
So He can live off the FL taxes payers dime.
Remember whoever runs from thr right will likely lose. WEF and Uniparty arent done with America.
Trump could do it hence the attacks from all sides.
Right….I agree with YOU…
Well, FL voters…feeling second best yet? Never fear, you can have him back.
I’ve never liked him, Ma’am. I wasn’t going to vote for the Socialist in ’18, nor the Burnt Sienna Bootlicker in ’22.
The fix is in. I am so sick of these people and their glaringly obvious duplicity. I want The Great MAGA King to blow them all out of the Primary water!
Just because someone does well as a High School athlete, it doesn’t mean they will be an Olympic star.
The desperation is out in the open.
And isn’t it deceptive to the Florida voters who expected focus on issues from a state perspective?
Very disrespectful.
You actually think the Florida voters elected him?
Lectioneering are controlled by demonrats no rinos can win this game. PDJT will finish what he started. Drain the swamp.
Time for the De Saintis peeps here to come to his defense.
waiting to hear what Bannon has to say…
the FL legislature is doing this without RDS’ approval or knowledge /s
but,but Ron never said he was running yet !
LMAO
And now we know why, because if he announces then he won’t be Governor any more. 🙂
If the Florida legislature does not pass the “Average Ron Can Remain Governor” bill then he will announce after they destroy, arrest, imprison PDJT and it will be only after the RINOs “beg” him to run if only to save the party. The people NEED you now, Ron. Please, do it. They have to make him the hero who has been called to a higher job.
All this stuff cascading out AFTER midterms, just an amazing thing to see ! And changing Fla law , who knew THAT , everybody here assumed he would just be like an absentee governor like Christy or others if he ran . NOBODY EVER mentioned this technical clich – if Ron for Gov supporters knew about it I thought they would have mentioned it here “The current law says he can’t do both blah blah ” – but so much for current law I guess , easily changed by that RINO legislature that some posters said he was forced to work with …. The hits just keep on coming ..
Right…hits keep coming…
I thought he said he would not run if Trump ran; of course that did not include the disclaimer, that if Trump was arrested and jailed then that is different. He is a snake.
President Trump was put in this position as Gods messenger. I do not think that we’ll see him arrested and jailed. Indicted perhaps but he can still run if indicted.
Hes gonna win. Winners don’t lose when they have Gods protection.
he can still run if in prison…..only 3 constitutional requirements are 35 years old, 14 years of residency, and a natural born citizen….he has them all covered
…and if they throw him in prison…he becomes a martyr against the government…yugely bigger than could have been imagined. Throwing him in prison would be a bad choice.
it is questionable if he can pardon himself but he could sure try after being sworn in IN prison by the CJ of SCOTUS
And the jail has to provide for his SS security also.
That oughta be a hoot!!
If I were Ron DeSantis, I would stay far, far away from the Carlyle Group.
Partners Group backs Carlyle china spin-out’s $1.2bn debut deal- Exclusive 13.
March 2019 Arshiya Khullar
https://www.perenews.com/partners-group-backs-carlyle-china-spin-outs-1-2bn-debut-deal-exclusive/
Governor Youngkin in Virginia worked for the Carlyle Group.
That’s why President Trump mentions Youngkin sounds Chinese.
All rinos are dogs for corp. they cannot issue a simple legislationwithout grifting
I think he was CEO.
And we thought we knew him….
As near, as I can determine. He has been planning this for over a year.
We did, he was always GOPe/uniparty. Who did you think he was?
Sure you did.
Meteoric rise…….to DeSanturation……fade to black.
At what point does Regan’s 11th commandment come into play here Sundance? Is it going to be this Black Pill B.S. for the next two years around here? Yes I know there is trillions at stake but I also know that the whole world doesn’t revolve around the executive branch of our dysfunctional federal government. The next POTUS is not going to fix the country… doesn’t matter who it is. Quite frankly I don’t know how many more of these posts I can take.
Sincerely,
LuvntheBIGsites
PDJT with FEW allies sure made a VALIANT attempt to start at righting a wrong course ship….it is one thing to speak ill of a patriot….it is quite ANOTHER to speak ill or speak the TRUTH about someone who has LITTLE regard for the best of this nation
if you can’t handle the truth
you can always go to MSNBC !
MSNBC=MightSometimesNotBeCredible?
you conservative pundits still don’t get it:
trump isn’t just our candidate. he’s our murder weapon, and the GOP is our victim.
..we good. now?
blogosphere talking head
Pro tip: That sentiment means we don’t give a rats a* about the GOP.
LuvntheBIGsites, President Trump can fix this, when he gets back into office. Chin-up
I Agree. He has my Vote. But I will not forward or promote websites that participate in constant Friendly Fire. I also don’t want CTH to turn into MSNBC either. 😉
/Salute
DeSantis is a bought-and-paid-for GOPe now. He faked MAGA to get elected to his first term as Florida Governor. He’s a snake. We will not allow him to be President.
It is only considered friendly fire if both individuals are playing for the same team. Our gracious host is on Team USA (PDJT), not Team Globalism (RDS)
Average Ron is not “friendly”. He is part of the plan to destroy MAGA and PDJT. Why is it okay for the RINOs to destroy their “republican” competition but the MAGA side cannot attack the RINO faction of the party?
The country is bankrupt – just what Ross warned us about when it was only 4 trillion. Anyone in office is not gonna fix the hole the current administration put us in – You can’t un-dig 33+ trillion with billions still going to the Ukraine clearning house for wayward Democrats. The swamp will eat this country up and that includes all us “Mericans” 401k’s and anything of value you currently have. That train left the station and it’s headed for a cliff.
Current Administration?… This hole started digging when the 17th amendment was ratified lol
/Salute
You are free to leave anytime. Please don’t let us stop you.
I’m not allowed to protest the constant GOP bashing Twolane? Do you want me to leave?
I will bash the GOP till the day I die!
nothing but TRAITORS !
stand up for them and you are my target!
Oh… so your a Democrat. My bad sorry to bother ya. lol
your totally ignorant
I would rather becalled a Democrat then that…
It’s GOPe bashing. The establishment Republicans who don’t give a crap about us citizens.
I’ve never seen you here before. I’m just saying if you don’t like what we talk about here maybe this isn’t for you. I am merely repeating back what you said.
If you don’t believe a President can fix stuff, then I guess we didn’t have energy independence under President TRUMP or pass The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act or Right To Try. Nor did we build a wall.
With that kind of attitude permeating this site we will never win. Some of us get very tired of whiners.
This whole post is based on the Republican Legislature in Florida wants their governor to be president… The Horror Of it All! Jesus.
no
this is the Florida legislators supporting the WEF over its OWN state!
WAKE UP !
keep him around
I need the entertainment !
Then pour me a glass of whine please. 😉
The “Republican” Party of today is full of greedy, self serving, corrupt, career politicians. Even during President Reagan’s term, the Uniparty Vultures AKA Conmunist Quisling Republicons, were working in the background to sabotage him.
What is your specific complain, Luvn? Do you want DeSantis to be President or something?
I want this website to stop bashing people who call themselves republicans and love this country. Regan had a point with the 11th commandment. This is especially true 2 flipping years out from the next national election.
people who are republicans
DO NOT LOVE THIS COUNTRY
THEY LOVE THE WEF MONEY MORE !
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Republicans who don’t want to be “bashed” need to get 100% behind Trump and MAGA, and unify the party.
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Keep on luvn the BIG sites
You can’t always get what you want.
Sometimes, you might get what you need.
he is a Republican and wants nothing less! LMAO
I guess we Floridians are supposed to suck mud if Jerky makes a run. Most of us did not vote for him to throw us to the wolves.
lol @ Jerky
All this just to have Desantis lose?
Win/win for DeSantis.
Lose/lose for us
It wouldn’t be a win for RDS.
He’d lose. BigLeague.
And gain the wrath of many FL. voters who elected him as Gov. and would have happily voted for him as Prez in 2028.
When you start to change laws so one person benefits , as a country, you are a Banana Republic. Bumbles writes EOs for his privileged few all the time.
EXACTLY!
You nailed it!
Good Grief.
Is the uniparty/GOP that tone deaf? Do they really think the people are that stupid? More importantly, are we?
Or are they just that sure of election fraud…? But then if to not have Trump win is the objective…. Are they just flailing and have thrown risk and public perception to the wind? What a bunch of snakes….
Why on earth does Paul Ryan decry those who cause someone to lose an election? Ryan lost HIS own election and helped give us a second term of Obama. Does he not see how ironic he is?
who of right mind legitimately LOSES a debate to Slo Joe…..Ryan threw that and Mittens threw the entire election
I wonder if DeSanctimonious has even considered – in between moments of personal rapture over his future propects- that he is the patsy.
He probably has. And also factors in the $ associated with playing the role.
He’s a millionaire now. He doesn’t care any more. The smell of big money got to him.
When did that happen? I thought he was still paying student debt?
Laws are nothing more than the language of deceit. honest language would suffice if the purpose was to inform. We all know it is not.
Stop feeding their machines. Starve them and you will see progress. Feed them even a little and the advantage fades.
How many of McConnell’s merry men lost? Didn’t DeSantis Zeldin and the guy from Colorado? All these guys do is lie.
That’s how you describe rinos.Shortsighted and pure evil.
I am not from Florida, but I surmise that the bulk of the people who voted for DeSantis for Gov. was for him to remain as Gov. I am not so sure that he is going to get the response from Floridians that he thinks if he decides to up and start running for POTUS. Come to think of it, if my memory serves me correctly, he left his House seat early to run for Gov. I thought that was odd then that he just up and left it vacant.
I didn’t know that but it fits with de Santis being a sleeper for the deep state
Would that be a permanent
change? Or, just for DeSantis?
Legislature can change at will; just depends who is sitting there to make the call.
And if this legislature were representing those who elected them, the very last thing they would do is pass such a law at this juncture in history
That may be but that is not necessarily reality in the political moment.
Yeah well it’s Florida, the dick of the country. Full of yankee carpetbaggers & scallywags. What a dump.
Hey eat it bobby. I live here as do many MAGA patriots.
You can go punch yourself, I will tell you when to stop.
That’s pretty funny!…
When I came to S. FL to take a job, I was appalled at the general culture here…Crass, crude, low class, ill-mannered, with a kind of latent criminality suffused into everything.
The labor pool is awful…Lazy, dumb, unprofessional.
Scammers all over the place, cheating the elderly. Just kind of the moral laxity that comes with transient populations. Ugh.
Where are you from?
“Please … bloom where you are planted.”
In the original concept of the US Constitution, as expressed in the Tenth Amendment, the states were always far more important than the Federal.
The Governor of Florida has easily demonstrated to the other forty-nine Governors “what a State Governor could and should be.” This role is, in fact, far more important than “President.”
Ugh. He’s not that great. Any reasonably-talented person could do what he has done. He has a GOP-controlled legislature to work with.
Kari’s gonna show us what a true MAGA Federalism loving Governor looks like!
Governor cannot win against president trump 2024,
I will Not vote for him as president,
Trump 2024,
The days of the UNI party are numbered. No we won’t return to the old NORMAL of we the people IGNORANCE . We are fast catching on. Once you know, you cannot UNKNOW.
Wait…you mean a state can forbid a sitting gov to run for another office?
He can run, if he resigns.
this is why i will no longer participate in rigged ‘elections’
keep thinking they’re your way out of this, to your own peril
There was a time when “term limits” was the ballot box! Don’t give up now—let’s bring back that truism!!!! We can do it!
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What’s your alternative plan? And… would it somehow be stymied if you vote anyway?
(Or are you just here to depress, suppress, and subvert?)
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If DeSantis isn’t in on the whole keep President Trump Out again Club. He would speak out for President Trump or he is in on the POLITICAL SCAM #2. DeSantis is a RINO.
This change in the law will allow Ronny D. to mount a modern non-campaign because he will still have so many pressing duties in Florida.
It’s won’t exactly be the basement campaign, but the modern idea is to avoid any significant, controversial bumps in the road on the way to an arranged/fixed marriage between the candidate and the citizens.
How long has this law been in place?
How many other times have they tried to change it and for whom?
Kari Lake committed to not only one full term as AZ Governor, but two.
Has Gov. “Redrum Deathsanguination” done the same?
Works for me.
He’ll be out in the primary.
Then he can get back to business here.
What if Trump gets the nomination in 2024 and a butt hurt DeSantis looks the other way while the Democrats and never Trumpers pull a fast one to hurt Trump in Florida?
If RDS does this, he’s an effing idiot.
What a way to absolutely TRASH a “Political Career” that could have been one for the books.
Ditto for any FL. Legislators who approve of this BS.
He has no say in this. King makers are too, king breakers.
Everyone has a say in what happens in/to their own life.
Choices. We make choices.
Best to choose wisely and have no regrets.
If you don’t like the law, just change it.
Nothing wrong with that. It shows intuitive.
Let me see now? Which laws would I like to be able to change?
DeSancti will lose to Fetterman. Then we will have another re-tard for 2024 president.
The transformation of the branding of DeSantis all within one year:
~ “America’s Governor” (not declared by America, just by DeSantis’ puppeteers)
~ “Top Gov” fake Navy pilot (he was a JAG)
~ God’s gift to the world created on the 8th day
What’s next? What can top God’s gift? 🙂
Styrofoam Greek columns? Fainting crowds? Declaring that He is the One He has been waiting for?
I think you have it! Fainting and crying adoring fans! Like KJU’s father had.
Zero had his share too. Beurk!
Teh One 2.0 (TM)
Don’t forget the earthquake effect, where the styrofoam columns come crashing down.
How about the geoengineered hurricane, Ian?
Florida is a SWAMP
Floridians need to make him serve the position he campaigned for and won…
or make it very painful…
Sundance…shine some light on the dirt….
That donor list includes an IL governor who actually so far, has not gone to jail…Rauner was no good either…he is responsible for ol’ JB
This Floridian agrees whole heartedly.
The anti-DJT ( my opinion) Washington Examiner just ran a piece touting the “shock” poll that Iowans prefer DeSantis over Trump. the “stars” are being re-aligned as we speak.
The reality is that he is Jeb 2.0. That is the brand that will stick. What a waste of the governorship of Florida, because that’s where Ron could actually be effective.