If you have followed the management and branding efforts of the team around Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, the protestations today by campaign official and registered foreign agent Christina Pushaw are quite bizarre.
The Daily Beast wrote an article [SEE HERE] about how Ms. Pushaw organized an astroturf campaign of support for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, which included the recruitment of several conservative influencers. The substance of the article is generally well known.
In late 2021, early 2022, Ms. Pushaw invited a group of “influencers” to spend time with Governor DeSantis. It’s not a debatable event. Factually, the collective group took gleeful pictures of their first visit on January 6, 2022, and continued to post frequent pictures on their social media of events throughout last year. The group went to the reelection celebration and inauguration of DeSantis earlier this month.
However, for some odd reason, likely more concerned about people realizing the ‘organized‘ nature of the creation, in a bizarre turn of events, Ms Christina Pushaw is now denying she ever organized the assembly and stating that without any documentary evidence, saying she organized the group is just a conspiracy theory. [Tweet Link]
If Ms. Pushaw is to be believed, the random group of Florida conservative “influencers” just happened to show up at the Governor’s office on January 6, 2022, without any invitation, organization or coordination on her part.
Even lacking the invitation details, hanging your defense on the absence of a paper trail under these circumstances, seems like a very odd position to take.
Why does the DeSantis team fear sunlight on the origin of how this outreach and subsequent meetings took place? Very odd.
I sincerely doubt this group just randomly showed up at Ron DeSantis office on January 6, 2022, without an invitation or organizing.
The same group then continued meeting throughout the year….
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Nothing about their recruitment, continued meet-ups and aggressive promotion of Ron DeSantis for the GOP nomination in 2024 would be that interesting or even noteworthy if Ms. Christina Pushaw didn’t paint them all into a box by denying she ever organized their first assembly.
And there’s the rub… Why is Christina Pushaw denying that she first organized them on behalf of the political aspirations of her boss, Ron DeSantis?
The only logical reason to make such an outlandish and transparently false claim, is if that original assembly was intended as seed material to use the “influencers” for another purpose, like a 2024 presidential bid. Yet, Ron DeSantis hasn’t announced a 2024 presidential bid…. so that issue is a nonstarter, unless that announcement is eventually going to come forth.
If Ron DeSantis is going to announce his candidacy for the GOP nomination, then suddenly all these background moves look like proactive steps on behalf of the management team. The January 6, 2022, meeting would then infer the presidential aspirations as far back as December 2021.
In combination with the $200+ million in Wall Street money assembled by DeSantis, perhaps that 2024 plan is the risk necessitating the absurd denial.
[Daily Beast Article Here]
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They all just randomly showed up to hang out with DeSantis. Yep, that’s the story and Pushaw is sticking to it.
For those interested, central planning and organization is the difference between “organic” support and “astroturf.”
Slava Ukraine!
This is all backfiring before RdS even officially announces. The more I read of him, I am disliking him. It’s backfiring.
He’s not going to announce. He will lose his constituents in FLA
Why would you re-elect a Governor by a huge margin and then gleefully send him to another constituency. But then there are low info voters. Rove will have it all planned on his whiteboard.
Waiting to be “drafted” at the convention to save the party?
Exactly what the Republicans tried to do with Cruz against Trump
didn’t work too well!
Unfortunately that may not be the case. We have had ongoing discussions with Florida friends and relatives who are certain the sun shines out of his arse. I liked him pretty well until all this. The only positive way to spin it would be just in case something happened to President Trump. Otherwise, he’s just another well disguised swamp creature like Abbott.
I feel the same way. At this point i cant srand him.
He’ll ruin a very promising political career if he throws Floridians under the bus.
Its not “if” its “when”, the ink is already long dry, on the contract.
Or, perhaps he signed in blood, in sny case the coarse is already set, he’s bought and paid for.
THEY want it to be Gavin vs Ron, and THEY do not want it to be Don or Joe.
Thing is, THEY don’t always get what they WANT, and lately they ain’t getting what they NEED.
THEY are NOT winning, and in fact have been steadily losing ground, for some time.
We are almost at our “battle of Midway” or Yorktown moment,..
Agree, Dutch, but for the “general” public he hasn’t ‘announced”. BUT, for his handlers, it’s a done deal. He can’t win and they ruined his career, but, he’ll be rich and can just hang out in Davos.
Politics is not easy or nice. It isn’t, awww shucks. They’re not just doing the right thing with the utmost integrity. It is mostly lies, manipulation and compromises. When it comes to my preferred liars and manipulators, I would side with those that have the legalese to navigate those waters. Also someone that has some help inside the beltway. RDS fits the bill.
I often find that liars lie about the most stupid things and often prove themselves liars by the lies they have to tell to support the lies they told. The truth doesn’t need further explanation. The truth doesn’t change over time.
What would be wrong with saying, yes, we got a group of influencers together for support for DeSantis for governor or whatever he wanted to pursue in the future.
the best advice my dad ever gave me was: Tell the truth and then you don’t have to remember what you’ve said”
That’s no lie !
“I didn’t do it, and you can’t prove I did!” is not what I would expect an innocent person to say.
And, by describing the potential papertrail, in such detail, what she is saying is “you won’t FIND them, because we SCRUBBED all of the emails, text, voicemails saying “Come meet with Gov. DeSantis, to discuss his potential POTUS campaign.”
And, they didn’t think, at the time, to create a parrallel email thread, saying “Come meet the Gov. to dicuss his upcoming GUBERNATORIAL campaign.” complete with date/time stamps.
Thats just sloppy staff work!
In spite of what they think, they are not yet ready for prime time, and they may never be at this rate.
Exactly
Desantis, aka DeXX, the Edsel of the political world, 2023.
“If you were to ask most Ford fans what the biggest flop in the company’s history was, the answer would almost always remain the same: Edsel.
A task force, dubbed the Whiz Kids was established to fill a gap in their product line, and the resulting mid-tier brand was named after Henry Ford’s son, Edsel. The new marque debuted in 1957 amid a huge marketing push from Ford, but the hype quickly died down, and sales numbers plummeted….. it was a HUGE failure!
New information for me. Very interesting.
I remember it well. The vehicle looked like a big open fish mouth coming down the road- very ugly for it’s time. Might have been a great vehicle but I couldn’t get past the horrible look of it.
And yet people lap the Ron hype up like it’s milk.
Repubs got issues upon issues with their false prophets.
IMHO, I believe people lap up the hype because at this point – with all the BAD news in the headlines nonstop – people very much need the success that DeSantis represents. Can’t fault folks for that.
omg – our standards are so low
I’ve noticed that it’s mostly young and middle aged men who are pushing for him, and they are using age as an excuse. While I do think slow Joe should be put out to pasture I don’t feel the same about DJT, who has a very sharp mind.
Dang, Christine has a problem. The eyes.
And she’s quite pushy.
Pushy Pushaw
Sounds like a Bond character
I’m going to make a prediction: When DeSantis announces he’s running for President, one of the things he’ll say is that Biden is not giving Ukraine enough money and weapons.
LOL I think not
Then why do the neocons want him to run?
And that supports your original statement, how?
It wasn’t support. It was a question.
Which had nothing to do with our initial exchange….kinda like “when did you quit beating your wife”
anyone but Trump, that’s why
I kind of agree – they could try to outspend on the Ukeraine front. Sort of a virtue signaling thing – plus they could keeping nudging and making the corrupt pool of money even bigger for all the swamp creatures to partake of?
It’s a neocon thing. I believe it’s fair to say that the true demonic “Powers and Principalities” at war against humanity, and quite obviously, Americans included, is represented by the NEOCON cabal of viscious, demon like socio/psychopaths most folks call ‘politicians, bureaucrats, cia directors, philanthropist, or journalist’.
That is precisely why we spent 4 years observing what these deranged and literally wicked ‘people’ did while our democratically elected President was in office. We observed it again with a SCAMDEMIC, the effects of which apparently included death and permanent disability amongst so many other nasty and life changing negative consequences (just think about the magnitude of just this ‘one’ crime).
Now it’s WW3 and Russia understands this fact. Russian citizens are well and truly informed of this FACT and the entire society has been preparing for these last 8 or so years for just this time.
The neocons have done this INTENTIONALLY.
The best estimates I’ve seen indicate over 200,000 dead Ukrainians with likely less than 30,000 ‘Russsian’ dead, and in truth it is FAR fewer than that in total number of actual Russian citizen deaths.
NATO (the neocon army) cannot defeat Russia.
Period. Full stop. Can’t happen.
Unless they take a gamble on nukes…
So why is this happening?
To take Russia and America out of Armageddon via Mutually-Assured-Destruction, leaving Europe in an orphaned position.
Nope, THAT ain’t it.
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There are no emails or text messages…
I guess people don’t just talk on the phone anymore. I guess one or two of the group couldn’t have floated the first meeting to a few others, then got it okay’d in a few phone calls.
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Signal. Telegram. I think that Rubin guy owns a social media platform?
Ham radio. Yeah, that’s it lol
Ms. Pushaw has an attitude and is very rude in her Tweet response. She sounds like an elite snot.
Been watching the obfuscation by all involved to your tweets for a few weeks. Glorious example
Of sand in gears. Sunlight is indeed the best disinfectant!
SKOL, SD!
Sorta forceful, which is not attractive.
The Carlyle Group connection is fascinating from my perspective. Because the Carlyle Group seems to be at the center of the mRNA research and the ownership of the Voting Machines. Less we forget, the Carlyle Group founder has been having Thanksgiving with the Biden’s.
So what was their former CEO of the Carlyle Group doing. Was the Carlyle Group turning into a humanitarian by making text books or supporting Ron DeSantis run for President or controlling his intent to investigate mRNA. You judge.
A viral Twitter thread is alleging collusion between Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) over textbooks.
Accelerate Learning, according to the article, was acquired by private equity firm the Carlyle Group in 2018. Gov. Youngkin was co-CEO of the Carlyle Group from 2018 until 2020, when he left to run for office. Youngkin was with Carlyle Group for almost 25 years, joining the firm in 1995.
Since taking office, Youngkin has pushed legislation that mimics Florida’s almost to the letter,” the thread states. “Meaning, the company that he was affiliated with until running for government, would benefit from legislation he’s pushing through.”
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/desantis-youngkin-textbook-conspiracy/
This is really concerning. Evidence of Uniparty (supporting Democrats and republicans) and corporate drivers with agendas as well as nefarious activity (voting cheating)() vaccines
Was Rubio throwing a bubble bath party
Let’s say this happened…and…?
What was the Honey Pot doing in the Ukraine for two years and why is she kissing Zelensky on the lips ?
I believe she helped get Zelensky elected….or worked for him….
Jeez…what a resume she has!
Any articles to back this up?
Check her Twitter……..
Wow! Very concerning.
Eew. Vomit loading…..
Is that the buck on the tray and buck show replacing rush. They are both huge desantis supporters. I cant stand them anymore although tne trey person is smarter. The buck person is dumber than a rock.
Buck Sexton, exCIA agent. Hmmm
If we bought Buck for how much he thinks he’s worth, and sold him for what he’s actually worth, you would have the textbook definition of a FTX scam victim.
They were both a huge letdown after Rush.
Showdown Ahead: How Will Trump ‘Handle’ DeSantis?
“Friends and allies can quickly turn into enemies and rivals with the presidency on the line.”
https://www.libertynation.com/showdown-ahead-how-will-trump-handle-desantis/
I don’t anticipate PDJT having much difficulty “handling” DeSantis.
His handlers INTEND for RDS to be the arrow, that takes out “Trump”; the “splitter candidate” but they intended Cruz, the Marco to be the same, in 2016.
It didn’t work then, and it won’t work this time around, either.
That picture in Sexton’s tweet shows multiple official looking name tags….they must have each just picked up randomly.
As for why she is denying it…would it have anything to do with campaign finance laws, PAC money and when a candidate declares?
There might be some podcast or YT clip out there, maybe even a tweet, that completely disproves Pushaw. I don’t consume any of their content regularly, but they all seem fairly disciplined.
Even if DeSantis wins the primary he will lose to whoever the Democrats nominate in ’24. Or are we still believing the fantasy that the states that cheated Trump in 2020 will run their elections on the up and up?
There IS progress, on the Election Integrity front and we both have a battle of attrition we are winning, and an impending point of “critical mass” we are fast approaching.
To ignore this, is to wrap yourself in the blanket of scepticism, as a defence against more disappointment.
Comforting, yes. Practical?
Productive?,…uh, not so much.
MI fixed nothing, actually 2022 passed no voter ID needed. 9 days of in person voting. **Only election officials can perform audits. ** & stripped canvas bds abilities.
Besides the mass amount of MAGA who will not vote for this puppet.
I wonder who would be better at picking the next FBlie, CI A and DoJ directors Desantis or Trump.
Trump was forced to choose whoever Mitch McConnell told him to. Trump could not even get his pick for Ambassador to Germany through because Mitch did not approve of him.
you should know by now that the president doesn’t choose
Jeb! + Cruz = DeSantis
The shine may be coming off DeSantis. Today I saw a clip of Sununu complaining to Cavuto that Desantis shouldn’t have gone as hard as he did with Disney. He said that Governors are supposed to try to work with and explain thing to the various businesses in your state.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
Is DeSantis’ plan to eventually act like he is being compelled to run because the throngs are crying out for it–
falling apart?
Their fake polls that elevate DeSantis #’s; their influencers underming President Trump on SM; and all the serpentine moves like dressing DeSantis’ wife like Melania for the inauguration–
are so obvious.
As Sundance indicates: NOT ORGANIC.
MAGA is getting infuriated.
There is only one Melania.
that Jackie O imitation was creepy
If anyone ever needed a voice coach to come off sounding less wimpy and passive Ron DeSantis is among the number and high on the list. HST had a very high pitched voice but certainly made the case for the German Marshall Plan (along with many other programs in his administration) through radio explanations where the tone of his voice didn’t leave his audience thinking that he was weak, undecided or placating in his remarks. DeSantis is no HST and needs help. Unless something changes DeSantis can’t get elected to higher office without stealing the election.
Its because SOMEBODY has his Cajones; either in a tight grip, or in a jar somewhere.
All of his “ballsy” moves are scripted, and plannee by others.
RDS is as much of a performer as Zalenski, Joe, Karmala or any of the rest if them.
He “speaks MAGA” instead of word salad, especially on “cultural issues”, but he is a phoney, and it shows.
Shhh….that annoying wimpiness is what might help save 45!
I know that all signs point to DeSantis running in 2024. But I desperately hope he decides not to. That is the ONLY good outcome.
Pushaw is a sleazeball, and so is DeSantis for employing her.
Another annoying milenial……..
The real question is: is Floridans’ tax dollars being used to pay for this? If so this is (arguably) an impeachable offense and DeSantis shouldn’t even be governor, much less President.
Sundance
I am curious. 2024 is a ways off. Trump is not a Spring Chicken. He is also viewed as an existential threat from the other side.
I would give him a 50/50 chance of becoming the GOP candidate for the above reasons.
My question….?
If Trump is not the 2024 nominee for whatever reason, who would you support?
Respectfully, your reasoning in your intro, gives you away.
Really? Just WHAT does that mean? LOL?????? WOW
EDIT do you honestly believe bt his age and his opponents he is a given 18 or so months out?
Over-react much?
LOL. I assume your question was for the Dutchman?
President Trump could take you to the mat
Seems to me that if the MAGA voters wanted a ‘chicken’ of any season they would pick RDS.
RDS will go after DJT on the vax. By 2024 it will be a foregone conclusion that it is unsafe and killing people, and that Warp Speed rushed it to market and bypassed proper FDA testing at DJTs request. Unless the truth comes out that the vax, as well as Operation warp speed were already planned beforehand.
RDS was all in on the lockdowns and the vax initially. There is video of him bragging about how many Floridians got the jabs. It will come back to haunt him.
Not to mention that whomever his Dim opponent is has also pushed the jab, mandates, masks, lockdowns, social distancing etc.
It’s not a winning position for any candidate and all possibilities have acquiesced to it for at least some time.
why were Florida beaches on lockdown and people arrested?
Methinks the lady doth protest too much….
What are the odds of organizing a tour to meet at the governor’s office and getting a group photo op with the governor without an appointment? How often does the governor surprise visitors with random photo opportunities? It doesn’t pass the smell test.
Why deny it? It’s a free country- if Biden can be a President, why not DeSantis? What is he so afraid of? Trump has announced! Be the man in the arena, and let the voters decide if they even want to vote for DeSantis as Governor the next time. But he might make a fine addition to the Trump cabinet.
a faux MAGA who voted for TPP in President Trump’s cabinet? Please, not.
Oh, her Ukraine sentiment means she worked closely with the singing disinformation chic Nina Jankowits.
Well, another OUN-B exposed. This makes Pushaw a Fascist. These people are everywhere within Western Governments.
Thanks Sundance, this is a VERY important post.
I need to add, In my opinion based upon conclusions made upon information within the public view.
I’d appreciate an acronym spellout.
I do agree she’s most likely a fascist. Scratch a leftist, find a fascist.
Organization of Ukrainian Nationals-Bandera
She is a Fascist. I am going to do research about her background today. The photos from 2022 in her post, feature the giveaway.
I remember Trump did so much rally for Ron Desantis dragging him over by slim margin even with cheating. Ron Desantis did not win by a large margin. The margin was already there, he just clean up the cheating. I remember Trump drag Doug Decey of AZ and Brain Kemp of GA over the finish line also but they betray him. Will Ron Desantis do the same?
he already has betrayed President Trump
I voted for him, am very happy he won and attended the inauguration earlier this month. I attended to see and hear the governor and his plans for his next 4 years as governor of Florida. I would not vote for him if he ran in 2024 but I would vote for him in 2028. I would just leave that space blank on the 2024 ballot.
I won’t vote for DeSanctimonious in ‘28 either. He has outed himself as an Establishment stooge and yes man.
I will never vote for anyone who favored the TPP.
She’s a self absorbed idiot. So this is what RNC money can buy?
Can someone please ask Ron to his face where he stands on US aid to Country 404?
DeSantis is a nice guy with plenty of skeletons in the closet. He’s been bought and paid for by the Uniparty-R folks so he will not be getting my vote. All of these people are scum.
I was suspicious when I received the first of many “Ready for Ron” emails in my inbox. I like the guy, and think he’s doing a great job as governor. He should concentrate in the post he was elected to.
Is anyone in politics or associated with politics not a liar?
Well then, that settles it. Like most conspiracy theories, it’s only a matter of time and research until it’s proven true.
Obvious grifters spewing subtle anti Trump pro-Desantis propaganda 24/7 on Twitter. A little too obvious.
Desantis, another GOP liar
Uhuge Unstory to me
Hearing the RNC is avoiding talk about Trump. Guess they want to be eliminated, cause if They try to push RDS…they will go down in flames. Trump 2024.
… registered foreign agent…
I have said it several times in Sundances comments section, but he could end up being more like Scott Walker in early 2016 than Ted Cruz!!! 🤔
I’m from Florida. It doesn’t look like I will be voting for him anytime in the future. The dirt is coming out.
Well I recognize several people in that group that I follow on social media. I guess my next step is to stop following them.