Fox News is running an hour-long campaign infomercial to support Florida Governor Ron DeSantis winning the 2024 GOP primary nomination. Inside the political messaging, Jeb Bush gives his full-throated endorsement. {Direct Rumble Link} WATCH:
Based on current available evidence, the announcement of a 2024 presidential bid is a mere formality, likely to surface later in 2023, as all the background datapoints reflect the strategic and financial team behind Ron DeSantis have been positioning an announcement since late 2021. One visible datapoint has been his campaign office, specifically his then spokesperson Christina Pushaw, reaching out to a group of Florida influencers and organizing a meeting on January 6, 2022.
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By the late spring of 2022 the branding and management of the pending Ron DeSantis presidential bid was strongly underway, and by early August 2022, not coincidentally timed with the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, after an unusual five days in a bunker, a new national campaign team was announced and launched. Everything from that national image launch has been carefully managed, organized and constructed.
With the Florida legislature set to change the law permitting DeSantis to run and remain as governor; and with the intentionally elevated profile and controlled national branding in place; the office of the Florida governor has transformed from a state executive focus to a launch vehicle for higher office. State policies and office advocacy now run through the priority prism of national politics, as the announcement of the DeSantis book launch is simultaneously positioned.
All of the datapoints flow in one direction, Desantis seeking the 2024 GOP nomination. None of the carefully managed policy points are contradictory to a national intention. However, the original question about who is controlling Ron DeSantis remains unanswered. It is with this specific outlook in mind that we can now find Governor Ron DeSantis’s perspective on donor money influencing politics by looking at how he answered this exact question in March 2014.
In March 2014 a young man asked exactly this question. During a Q&A session at Embry-Riddle University, then U.S.Congressman Ron DeSantis, representing Florida’s 6th District, was asked about money influencing politics. Within his answer we can gain an understanding of why 94% of Ron DeSantis donations are coming from the billionaire influence class.
Video prompted to 00:49:11 of the session, where Ron DeSantis says he feels limited campaign contributions are a problem. Congressman DeSantis says that billionaires should be permitted to fully fund political candidates, without limits, as long as the donations are fully transparent.
Beyond the view of billionaires being permitted to fund candidates for office, pay particular attention to the example that DeSantis uses regarding online sales taxes and his opposition to it. Within that specific answer you are about to see a major contradiction, that tells us something significant. WATCH:
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The K-Street lobbyists and campaign donors DeSantis is describing in the online tax example, are the Club for Growth types who wanted states to deliver national equality on the issue of state collection of online sales taxes.
Apparently, in 2014 Congressman DeSantis was willing to take the C4G donor money and yet not support the online sales tax that would hurt Florida consumers.
However, very quietly in April of 2021, Florida Governor DeSantis signed a law requiring all online businesses outside Florida to charge Florida sales taxes on products ordered by Florida residents. The online tax for Florida residents was projected to net an additional $1 billion in revenue for the state.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis very quietly and without much fanfare signed a new online sales tax bill into law Monday, requiring out-of-state retailers to collect and remit sales taxes.
[…] Under the law, “marketplace providers” that aren’t located in Florida will be required to remit sales taxes “when delivering tangible personal property” to consumers. (read more)
As you can see from the bigger picture issue of billionaires purchasing politicians, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis felt massive wealthy interests should be permitted to fund politicians. This is in line with his 2022 position of massive donations from billionaires, hedge fund managers, multinational corporations and Wall Street flowing into his campaign and Political Action Committee coffers.
Simultaneous with this 2022 increase in billionaire funding, DeSantis reversed his 2014 position on online sales tax collection for Florida residents, putting himself in direct alignment with Club 4 Growth and other K-Street lobbying groups he said would not influence his policy. DeSantis received $2,000,000.00 from Club 4 Growth.
Add in the endorsement of Paul Ryan (link), and Jeb Bush (link), and Wall Street republicanism reemerges as the DeSantis platform.
Well that about does it. Now I won’t vote for DeSantis in 2024 under any circumstances. Having said that, if he stays in Florida and finishes out his second term as governor and does right by Floridians, we can talk about it in 2028, assuming I’m still here.
It will be very interesting to watch. Does the GOP power brokers risk having their golden boy filleted up by Trump or do they see he can’t win and hold him back for 2028. My guess is they put all their chips on the table and make all the same mistakes they did in 2016 and DeSantis won’t ever be President.
My only interest moving forward is to stop as much cheating as possible. You cut the cheating in half and we win everything.
Well they are certainly dumb enough to do that. Hopefully, DeSantis is smart enough and cares about our country enough to decline their offer.
Fat freaking chance.
Good Lord, I sure hope so.
The GOP lives in a bubble. Everyone in their bubble thinks DeSantis can beat Trump, so that is all they hear.
I agree with you, they’ll shove him in in the hopes of two outcomes.
I think #2 is their goal. Get him out of Florida and out of the public eye. Anybody beating anybody is irrelevant unless we get the cheating under control.
If the GOP in charge of FL doesn’t fix the massively increased property insurance problem, the state will turn blue in the very near future. People are being destroyed by the out of control premiums and are fed up.
FL is a very hi-risk state, and the 1992 ins changes/Citizens didn’t help. Gov’t/ taxpayers should not insure that which is inherently uninsurable, as coastal FL is.
FL policyholders also had huge reinsurance costs tacked on to the already-high costs… reality check. FL is becoming uninhabitable to some degree.
That’s BS, Missy, and you know it. Nothing major happened in FL for many years until Ian. However, premiums started to skyrocket in 2022, prior to Ian. Now they’re out of control because the insurance companies are price gouging and getting away with it. Counteracting and punishing price gouging is well within the government’s legitimate power.
The Republicans did nothing about this in the special legislative session this past December, while the Democrats had solutions drawn up, which they are now presenting to people and saying, “See! We’re trying to help you!”
The FL GOP had better be very careful, or else they’re going to lose control of the state in 2024. People ARE NOT happy.
The Republicans and Democrats will work together to stop Trump from running. See Arizona as a good example. Trump running is their worst nightmare.
The bottom line is we don’t have a party/team. We’re highjacking the Rs for their infrastructure and it’s going to bite us in the a$$. You can’t reform what doesn’t want reform.
Well said.
DeSantis wins…. and one of “their guys” is in the White House. But maybe they’re hoping to force Trump into taking him as VP………..
Bush scenario redux Reagan was forced to take Papa Bush as VP. Reagan shortly after being elected survived an assassination attempt. (interesting that the Bush family was related to the Hinkley family) If that attempt had been successful, Bush (former CIA among other things) would have been president. Not being successful, Bush nonetheless was there to push for globalism and thwart Reagan’s hope of making government smaller. (eg. he wanted to eliminate or greatly reduce the size of the Department of Education)
The globalists win either way……………..
Hmmmmmmmmmmm Pence?????
He, RDS, is their “guy”.
He’ll still be a globalist in 2028. Hold him back for what?
They’ve used the narrative they want people to see; and hidden the other, to promote his governorship.
This has all been planned to prepare for him to run for president.
Put him in higher office and you can kiss America First goodbye. RDS money assures that he’ll be a globalist through and through. He’ll finish off what the Bushes advanced.. along with the Clintons and Obama’s.
2028 needs to be reserved for a MAGA president and RDS isn’t it.
The corrupt Bush Mafia are WORSE then the Democrats because the Bush Mafia alone have allowed the Left to advance.
I NEVER will vote to give the party back to the Bush Mafia.
Trump only won because he strategically ran against the corrupt Bush Machine that everybody despises.
DeSantis is a Poison Ivy League brat legend in his own mind.
He’s my governor and my money says his corrupt Dominion machines provided him with the large margin of victory to secure his 2nd term.
DeSantis is a rat that stabbed the MAGA movement in the back.
May he rot in hell.
Fixing cheating is the only thing that matters. Otherwise, all else is lost.
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Well I don’t know you, but I hope you are still here.
LOL. Thanks. I hope we’re all still here and have a better country by then.
Fixing cheating is the only thing matters. Otherwise, all else is lost. Oops wrong comment replied to.
It doesn’t matter. Your point stands on it’s own. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like most Republicans are the slightest bit interested in fixing our elections or even admitting that they need fixing. That’s just one of the many reason why I’m an independent now.
You nailed it. We have to accept the hard facts that we are unrepresented. We have no party home, we have very little media power and a presidential hopeful who already showed he can be defeated. They did it once and can do it twice.
Everything is going as strategically planned by the evil geniuses working behind the scenes. Removing Newsmax from the airwaves’s main stream, in order to keep the people’s voices from being heard, is all part of it.
Sorry, but if you think they’re geniuses, I think you’re watching too much Pravda-Media.
Evil and ruthless and utterly without compunction – that I will give you!
This entire event is soooo gamed out already. There’s more contingency plans in place already than anyone working man can imagine. I’ll bet all they work on now is October suprise issue – real or fake from now until the election – that oh by the way is already fixed.
I almost forgot – FJB
Well none of their contingency plans will keep me from voting for Trump and rejecting their hand picked candidates and I’m sure there are a few million American citizens who feel the same way that I do. So, in the end, they are only hurting their own party.
Not just a few.
Go ahead and vote, I mean why not? Better yet, learn prayer power and work for that which cannot be taken from you. Secular governments have always failed and so will ours.
I agree to a point. However don’t you think that October surprise will be more like another boy who cried wolf moment? I mean for 7+ years now they’ve been muddying Trump with this crap and they have gotten zilch on him. I really think a lot of people will laugh and give a ho hum to another “surprise”. And I’m sure they already have it ready to go. LOL
This grand jury foreperson, another brain damaged TDS candidate was so brilliant (sarc) in her TV performance that she stuck it to any possible chance they had to railroad Trump with a conviction. The media and some on twitter went as far as to say Trump paid her to do this. Laughable to say the least.
Exactly. Nobody is falling for another BS accusation against Trump who doesn’t already want to fall for it anyway. What they really want is to keep him off the ballot altogether because they know damn well we’re not gonna cave. They’re dumber than dirt, if they don’t.
“The ballot” in this case is not a monolithic thing.
It is 50 separate ones for all the states.
If any one of us is fearful of a plan to keep PDJT off the primary ballot, best look to our own states.
They could do great damage by forcing him off it in any swing state, so those residents especially need to be watching for it.
And it’s not something one calls a Congress or Senate Critter about – it’s, as everything election-related is, an issue for state legislatures….
Man proposes, God disposes.
FJB works on two people. Versatility is a strength.
Yep. But they still have to get the voters to do what they want. I believe this is why election reform has been sidelined, again!
speaking of Jeb!, a week or so ago, Faux News’ own response to ‘The View’, ie ‘Outnumbered’, had on “the former Texas railroad commissioner.” Good thing they told us as the vast majority of citizens and noncitizens could not have possibly been aware of this ‘newsmaker’s’ former title and could never have picked him out of a lineup. Who’s next on Faux’ anti-Trump circuit?
I’m curious as to why Jeb would make such a public endorsement of DeSantis. They have to know this will hurt DeSantis more than actually help him.
I mean this is Jeb Bush and its 2023, not 2014. The world has awakened to these corporate Wall Street tools, and Donald Trump remains as popular as he was in 2016.
Go figure, maybe I’m missing something but I can see Donald Trump smiling whenever a Bush or a Ryan endorses another candidate.
They want to provoke Trump into making mean tweets about it so they can provide grist for this week’s hate session.
Possibly to hurt DeSantis knowing we won’t vote for him. They are stupid enough to believe that Trump can’t win due to the fact of rigged elections. They’ve ticked off even people on their own side. So who’s to say a kot of them won’t vote for Trump knowing how good it was when he was President opposed to th dim bulb they selected to be president.
Agreed. Plus, I expect Trump to adjust. I wonder if this has been keeping Jeb! up at night for the last seven years.
Agreed. Nobody cares what Jeb! says. And Ryan is a weenie. Not a good look. And DeSantis should never allow himself to be shot sitting down.
Watching Robert Barnes the other day and he made a statement that has merit in my view: Team DeSantis is endorsed wholeheartedly by his and Trump’s opponents. The strategy is to pit DeSantis against Trump, thereby destroying both while splitting the vote ala Ross Perot and leading the democrat actor into the white house for more rule by oligarch. Jeb!’s endorsement fits that plan.
In my view Charles the only thing that would thwart that plan would be for DeSantis not to run, OR have Trump pick him as his VP. If that were the case impeaching Trump for removal would give DeSantis the reins.
Obama had Biden as his insurance policy, Biden has Harris. Nough said.
Does anyone here know- is a Trump/ DeSantis ticket even being considered?
PDJT is making it pretty clear – not by him…
You know my big turning point on Noem was when she stomped with Howdy Doody, alias Dusty Johnson. He is not only a huge RINO, but quite dim-witted. Then on top of that, I was turned onto her many executive orders which illustrated how she not only took credit for no Lockdowns, but was actually trying to make South Dakota lock down in 2020( there is more)
With DeSantis, my turning point is this. Anyone that has support from anyone in the Bush family means that they are Globalist RINO Traitors just like the Bush family has been for far too many decades.
Amen Kin…..she is not to be trusted……Noem is a YUGE Big Pharma stooge and Sanford Health is in her back pocket…..they give her plenty of cash….while us peons get the shaft on yearly raises.
I am only still working for the Evil Empire as I am so close to retiring and need insurance….albeit shitty insurance
If I get your drift that was me. I worked for the state of Oregon until I moved in 2021. Damn ifs so neat to be free & know I can speak my piece without the fear of going $$ broke.
I felt Noem was a pretender when she did the photo op bird hunting thing. SOP Karl Rove shotgun photo op, LOL. Someone handed her the wrong type of shotgun, so it looked really funny.
I am pretty sure you can bird hunt with any 12 or 20 gauge shotgun. I prefer a pump action, but that is just me. What kind of shotgun did they give her?
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We used to call something like this the kiss of death. Hope it’s still true.
I had a very strong favor of DeSantis. But recently his being backed by the swamp, Soros, and now Jeb “clap” Bush? Trump 2024!
Not that I wasn’t for Trump before, just that DeSantis caught my eyes with all of the good things he’s done for Florida.
It’s always been Trump!
It similar to the reasons I moved to South Dakota…Damn it was so hard watching Noem being unwrapped as the fraud she really is…
If you don’t mind answering are you East River or West River?
West River- Just outside of the City Limits of Rapid City…
Love love it it here, even with almost 2 ft. of snow with temps in the negative 20 & about 2 ft of snow.
Are you west or east river…For only people who live or have lived in the state call it that. LOL. Hey it took me about 4 or so months to figure out what they meant…
Jeb Bush is probably the sorriest politician you would ever want to endorse you for any job, much less, President of the USA. Hopefully, this means that DeSantis has no intention of declaring for 2024. If he decides to run, he should tell Jeb Bush to pound sand, and I am pretty sure he knows it. If he doesn’t blow off this preposterous endorsement, he will end up losing a lot of Primary voters. This would be like a Demcommie getting an endorsement from Kamala Harris. Having a lot of doubts about Ron DeSantis, by now.
Ooooh, the coveted ¡JEBurrito! endorsement. That’ll put Doughboy Ron DeSantis over the top for sure. /sarc
I would include in that photo Limbaugh replacements Travis and Sexton, Elon Musk, and Matt Tyrmand, Project Veritas board member who was instrumental in removing James O’Keefe. Remember, Jeb! + Cruz = DeSantis!
Low energy Bush and his CORRUPT FAMILY are PURE GLOBALISTS. America would have been so much better off without them.
And then America voted in Barack Hussein Obama, which should help to confirm Winston Churchill’s opinion that ‘Americans usually get things right, but not before exhausting all of the alternatives.’ Not sure that was actually said by Churchill, but I like it.
I believe the Florida “Resign to Run” law excludes candidates running for Federal Office, i.e. Congress or President. Thus DeSantis can keep his Governor job while running for the White House.
A Jeb Bush endorsement is the kiss of death. DeSantis is the poster boy for “bought and paid for”
Thank you for the endorsement fox and bush. That sealed my vote for Trump.
If I ever got the endorsement of Jeb Bush, I would thank him for it and then try to forget that it happened. No point in trying to convert it into additional votes.
With no state income tax — the state constitution forbids it — Florida’s state government generates the bulk of general revenue (75% to 80% depending on the year) from sales tax collections. It gets the rest from a variety of sources, including documentary stamp taxes, insurance taxes and a flat income tax on ALL businesses/Corporations. At the local level, the biggest two chunks of funding come from ad valorem/property taxes and charges for services (such as electricity, gas, garbage collections and building inspections). Counties can also levy up to 12 cents of local option fuel taxes.
won’t vote for DeSantis period. The GOP is heading towards another huge loss if they think we are going to support him. The Jeb Bush and Paul Ryan endorsements are the kiss of death. It will be interesting to see how the Fox hosts play this.
I thought I read that Soros endorsed DeSantis too.
Extreme need for a third party but it will never get off the ground-gad gopers (team desantis) is vomit inducing.
Trump was the only one who had a chance to make a third party viable. I can understand why he’s running as a Republican though. He has built an army of Republican office holders who owe him for endorsing them and campaigning for them and I’m sure it’s a thousand times easier to attach yourself to one of the two major parties financially. Still though. I would be awesome if he were to start his own party.
Imagine how cool it would be if he switched after becoming POTUS again, assuming that’s even possible.
They just gave him the death endorsement.
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I expect that the biden doj and fbi, along with the gop rinos, will be needed to try to get Trump removed from the election in order to get Desantis into the gop nomination.
DeSantis is getting the full support of the socialists, too (albeit quietly) because they know that the Republican primary between President Trump and DeSantis will be savage and destructive.
Whomever wins will not get a lot of the support from the other side, which will make the general election victory by the socialist candidate (my money is on Mooch O) much easier to engineer.
There are a lot of people who will not support DeSantis if he wins the primary, and there are a lot of people who will not support President Trump if he wins the primary.
I am not one of those people. But you are right, there are a lot of those people. I see all choices as between Collectivist clap trap and Freedom of speech. It makes it easier to keep my hopes up after taking a loss in the primary.
I can see the RNC Inc colluding with DNC Inc. to make DeSantis happen.
We are watching them rig elections. Arizona and Alaska come to mind.
I can also envision a massive switch in party affiliation from Democrat to Republican in order to vote for DeSantis in the primary.
If I am thinking like this you can bet the America Last Party is too.
DeSantis, according to Florida law, will have to resign as Governor if he announces his run for the WH, going to tick off allot of people who moved to Florida just to vote for Desantis
The legislature is going to change the law to allow him to run for prez while he’s still the gov.
Hannity, Ingraham and now Levin are using deceit, to make belief that they are Trump supporters, while disingenuously pretending to support Trump. Mark has DeSantis on his show tonight. Keep this in mind if you are going to watch it.
Jeb Bush and brother can never over the beating he took at the hands of President Donald Trump for speaking the truth. The Bush folks will never get over that but the thinking American people were thrilled.
Please clap..
Now there’s an endorsement that should make one question supporting a RINO who’s put on a pretty good show. I’d argue DeSantis has put on a better show than George W Bush did… and we all know how that turned out.
If he should somehow manage to win the primary I think there will be a significant drop off in support from MAGA in the general election. Too many strings.
Poor Ron. His candidacy is dead before he even gets to announce.
These are two endorsements I most certainly would not want.
This just keeps getting better and better. What coveted endorsement is DeSantis getting next – the COVID virus? A dead dog? Vladimir Putin? Rachel Maddow?
How about FauxChi?
This should be comparable to a mafia Don giving some schmuck the “Kiss of Death”.
What bothers me is the willingness of the people to believe that government is necessary, and then to debate about which person gets Godlike powers over us – powers that the people don’t possess so no one has the right to bestow these powers on another. And why should we? Government is giving flawed people authority to use force against us to obey their arbitrary “laws”. One day an act is perfectly legal, the next day you are a criminal depending on the whims of the ruling class.
A must read: The Most Dangerous Superstition by Larken Rose.
No there is not a huge group in the base.
There is nothing but a small group in the GOP establishment and their tame media with huge big mouths.
The fact that the Bush dynasty is behind DeSantis is a big red flashing warning sign.
Does anyone else ponder the fact that G.W. Bush is friend to the Clintons, Obamaos, and other nefarious indidivuals? Birds of a feather flock together.
Danger, Will Robinson! Globalist, globalist, globalist!
A positive hallmark of my life is that I can proudly say that Jeb Bush has never endorsed me for anything.
I’m also willing to bet that Karl Rove wouldn’t give you the time of day… 😉
Does anyone see a Fox and Bush (of any kind) endorsement as a good thing for Ron? Hoping Ron will not accept the endorsement. I like the guy, maybe one day, but first he needs to prove to me he is not in bed with the Deep State. Have to go with Trump in 2024. He will win the nomination, and they will continue to try and destroy him/family. Funny, how afraid of him they are!
Jeb -can I be VP- bush
“Stay outa the bushes!” – – Rev. Jesse Jackson, c.1999
That makes me nervous about Eon.
The greatest delusion of the DeSantis fan base, especially the ones who now spit on Trump is that DeSantis will not be as ” divisive” ( a progressive hit word ) and will not provoke the kind of psychotic media response Trump has
Thus DeSantis will be able to win what Trump will always be prevented from.
The media already called DS a Nazi, Klansmann, a science denier and mass murderer and recently the Huffington Post compared a death row inmate DS is probably sending to Hell soon favorably to the governor
The deep state wants DeSantis out of Florida .
It was Jebbie that brought Common Core to Florida schools and it was Jebbie that wanted open borders.
As the Fish Faced Admiral in Star Wars says
It’s a trap!
Isn’t Paul D Ryan on the Fox News Board of Directors? Just wondering
Well that was all I needed to hear.
“Generation change”. There it is.Again.
I think old Ron must be using the Jeb communications team that he had in 2016 because they are TERRIBLE! A month ago you have this spokeswoman Christine Pershaw??? running around like a Zelensky fan girl praising everything going towards Ukrainian support, which indicated Ron was all in on Ukrainian funding and support and then Desantis sees his falling Poll numbers and comes out against supporting Ukraine last week giving him the John Kerry effect of being for it before he was against it, NOT GOOD RON! 🤔
This may be DeSantis’s swan song . . . by aligning himself with the Bush gang, never Trumpers & other GOP RINOs . . . he may be sealing his future. By 2028 there are a number of potential Presidential candidates that would steal his thunder like Noam, Yongkin, Cruse & likely a few more.
By aligning himself with this Gaggle of Losers DeSantis demonstrates blind ambition not intellect!
Jeb’s coattails are non-existent and the Bushes have been exposed. Bush and the GOPe will fund DeSantis. I expect the primary will be fixed. Trump will need to kick all the little dogs to the curb to once again, expose the corruption.
RINOs, RINOs everywhere but not a conservative thought to think…!