Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former Vice President Mike Pence will be skipping CPAC 2023 this year as President Donald Trump delivers the keynote speech.
DeSantis and Pence will avoid the uncomfortable results of the grassroots straw poll outcome, which – given the nature of their political interests – could potentially be embarrassing for the people who are organizing their ‘stop Trump’ campaign.
(Jax4) – CPAC, which is billed as the largest and most influential gathering of conservatives in the world, begins Wednesday.
Governor Ron DeSantis, who spoke at the event last year has other plans, and former vice president Mike Pence has turned down an invitation. (more)
After spending the weekend with billionaire donors and republicans molded purchased by the Sea Island (Big Club) influence, DeSantis will be traveling the country promoting his Rupert Murdoch funded book with stops in Texas and California. The governor is also expected in Iowa, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Georgia, according to Jacksonville News4.
The Florida governor will finish the week back in his home state as The Club for Growth is hosting DeSantis and a half-dozen presidential prospects at a closed-door retreat next weekend with GOPe top donors {Link}. Donald Trump is not invited. The meeting, organized by the multinational corporate interests of CfG, is about how to coordinate multiple candidate efforts to defeat Trump.
Additionally, details are surfacing of additional attendees at last weekend’s ritzy “influencers” event at the Four Seasons Resort in Palm Beach, hosted by DeSantis handler Christina Pushaw. According to news reports in addition to the previously recruited social media group, Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter and Chaya Raichik (Libs of TikTok) were in attendance doing panel discussions. {link}
May they all find themselves in a deep pit in hell.
It is not for nothing they are called The Inner Circle. Dante’s inferno comes to mind.
Oh yes, the ninth circle comes to mind.
Without Christ the Savior they will …
All of ‘em …
Without exception …
Thanks for putting George Soros in the Team DeSantis poster!
https://www.floridabulldog.org/2023/01/ron-desantis-accused-torture-at-guantanamo-when-he-was-navy-jag/
Is this true?
I’ve heard this.
It could be from long long ago when media thought he was MAGA.
But I thought of this allegation when I asked one of his bots why he never spoke out against DC Gitmo…
tortured political prisoners–
And I wished I knew facts about original Gitmo allegation
They are literally wearing neon signs that say
“I AM NOT CONSERVATIVE”
Laura Ingraham will carry the Rhonda DeSoros torch for FOX. She’ll begin drooling the raw raw ree for Rhonda in the following week. Not like I care, haven’t watched anything on FOX since 2020 except recording Tucker from time to time. Between her and my mother was a prison guard and I’m a martial arts fake the entire network could continue to self destruct for all I care.
🤓
Those buck teeth!! 😂🤣
Why do all the DeSoros ladies have frozen plastic surgery faces?
Pushaw, Ingraham, Loesch – they look ridiculous.
I loved Laura… “BUT MONKEY” …
She was really funny on radio.
I knew Trump would win when I heard that clip on her show…
Hilarious! And WOW how stupid media are
Well, it’s nearly perfect no Pence/DeSantis but we get James, who at this point is more important. Yes, the straw poll would not be kind to them.
When people won’t campaign it means they are going to cheat.
like biden?
When people are hiding something, it’s because they have something to hide.
So brave Navy man, Top Gov, created on the Eighth Day by God, is afraid of attending CPAC.
And happy Republicans think he will do for them what the Bush Crime Syndicate could not do.
This is beyond silly.
https://www.floridabulldog.org/2023/01/ron-desantis-accused-torture-at-guantanamo-when-he-was-navy-jag/
Is this true?
I can’t imagine it’s true. He was a bureaucrat in the Navy, not a real sailor.
I will say it a hundred times more, DeSantis will destroy his reputation if he runs against Trump.
Leftists are celebrating.
It’s a two-fer: get rid of Trump AND DeSantis in one fell swoop.
(who’s gonna tell them it won’t work 😉
I’m a Floridian. Most of my republican friends are oblivious to team DeSantis. I’m busy educating them and turning them on to the treehouse. All of us are Trumpers. Spread the word. If DeSantis wins florida primary and Trump is on the ballot I will be highly suspicious if DeSantis wins.
FrankieZee, he already has.
good
If DeSantis really saw himself as the heir to MAGA and its tens of millions of supporters why in the hell is he staffing his campaign team with Bush and Romney people and getting his funding from the wealthy RINO class? He’s exposing himself as a tool of corporate types and globalists the way Ted Cruz did back in 2016. He’ll never get my vote period. I’m done voting for the GOP establishment and all their puppets they keep dangling in front of us every four years.
because he isn’t MAGA in the first place
100% agree. But the Big Club doesn’t care if they destroy DeSantis. They are using him like a wedge.
DeSantis may be a Governor of a large and important state, but he’s a rookie compared to the Big Club guys.
If he knew better, he would not be in this race but supporting Trump.
Which leads me to believe they’ve been working on him for a long time and he’s trapped.
If he doesn’t go along to get along, he’s screwed. If he goes along to get along, he’s screwed.
Pray for DeSantis, in any case.
Yes they’ve been working on him a long time.
Harvard law school.
Navy bureaucrat.
Served in Paul Ryan’s house.
Then off to govern Jeb’s state.
Then $200 million in donations including $10 million from Ken Griffin.
Then a book financed by Murdoch.
This has Deep State operative written all over it.
Good point. It could be DeSantis is letting his presidential ambitions cloud his judgement about who he surrounds himself with. If that’s the case it makes him look like a real amateur who’s not even close to ready for prime time and the savage fight ahead to save the country. I think the Florida governor has already destroyed his chances, if he really had any, for the presidency.
Who’s the blonde over Pierre Delecto’s left shoulder?
McCain’s spawn.
Meghan McCain possibly?
Hard to recognize her because she is so fat in reality. That pic must be many years old.
mcCains daughter
It looks like Miss Piggy, but I an not sure.
Retired Magistrate here: President Trump is his own man; not someone put together by a panel!
President Trump 2024; accept no substitutes.
No More War
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TRUMP ’24
Excellent!!!
Catchy, eh? Hopefully there’ll be some stuff printed up. 🙂
Where have you been PJ? Good to see you posting again.
Thanks, littleflower. I’ll just say the past year has been particularly rough. When it rains, it pours.
Won’t be having much time to post, but am with you all in spirit. Nice to hear from you! Be well.
Or look what President Trump spit out today. UNIVERSAL TARRIFFS!!!!! Ron? Ron? Ron?
Maybe Tucker should speak.
I hope he really means it. He did authorize bombing Syria and some other moves. The US needs to stop promoting regime change and war. The deep state has to be reined in.
The longer the GOPe can keep their “main players” OFF the stage, the less time there will be for them to be torn apart in the public arena where they will be asked questions outside of tightly controlled interviews and highly scripted debates. It’s basically the same trick the DNC used during the 2020 season, when Joe was kept in the basement so that the voters couldn’t see what a disaster he really was!
Except that their strategy also allows support to solidify around PDJT for a long time. It could definitely backfire.
I think everyone has had a sufficient dose of Pence.
Just go away. Like forever.
AWWW!!! SO NICE!!!😂😂😂
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-ilDonaldoTrumpo gab
LOL!!!
ROFLOL!!!! Awesome!
Desantis was interviewed by Mark Levin yesterday and everything in the script sounded good. He even criticized Wall Street banks. I noticed that a number of interesting questions never were asked. Things like global trade agreements vs. individual agreements between countries. Foreign policy issues. Maralago raid. Policy differences from Trump. Election integrity. You know, little stuff.
I’m proud to say I don’t watch anything brought forth by anything FOX. Unless of course Sundance posts Tucker.
“Mark Levin.” Like fingernails across a chalkboard.
RINOs say good stuff – but – because they are owned by powerful interests, they betray the voters concerns/wishes – just like they did the Tea Party – !!!
Ron DeSantis is backed by the Bush/Ryan/Romney/Pence cabal and their big money donors – including Soros – and is being pushed by the cabal’s paid-for media and pollsters – which includes, sadly, Mark Levin.
Levin never met a Ukrainian or a war that he didn’t like . He was a never Trumper to begin with.
If Rush were still alive he would eat theses imposters for lunch. Laura Ingraham showed herself to the Putana when she did not divulge to her audience she was good friend with Gold Digger Karin Taylor Robson during the last Arizona Governor Rep primary.
I stopped listening to Levin when he made snarky remarks about the growing level of populism in the GOP and how it was a danger to the country. It was a shot across the bow towards Trump. Levin is a NeverTrumper. I think the only reason he voiced his support for then candidate Trump in 2016 was because a large chunk of his radio audience was about to dump him. He was a Cruz backer in 2016 and no doubt a DeSwampis supporter this time around.
Ronnie sure loves him some Ronnie…
Chickens!
In reality they are as popular as a fart in a space suit, except for their real constituency “Dominion”.
Gov. DeSantis: “Hey guys, I’m not officially running for potus. I’ll just do these other unofficially running potus things with these other people that’s more important – hint: big donors.”
Also I don’t know who this Pence person is. Mike Pence is persona non grata because he won’t stand up for the right thing to do when it counts.
Not coming to the game cause Orange man bad?
F’ing turds
They’re snowflakes.
Don’t insult turds!
Mike Pence might as well skip everything.
He needs to stand down before he gets run over.
I think the GOP Establishment is counting on the DOJ/FBI taking Trump out with a DC jury.
They probably do have a plan to make Trump ineligible and keep him off the primary ballot. But then we live in a nation of fixed elections, so if that plan fails they can deploy that option.
Damn the constitution.
Gonna go out on a limb here: Despite all the signs, I do NOT believe Ron DeSantis will run. I have a few reasons for feeling this way, not least of which is that he MUST know it would be political suicide. But in the end, assuming I’m right, it’ll be interesting to see if his handlers and donors TURN on him.
If the elected officials in Florida are smart they will not change the law and allow DeSantis to run. That will set a president that will bite them in the ass forever.
Must he? He didn’t know better than to make the Top GUV commercial.
These two do not want any video of them speaking to a crowd over the noise made by an audience filled with giant flock of Boobirds. It might be that simple.
Therefore include a virtual appearance by DeSantos, Pence AND include Mitch,
Just so they can observe how much they are hated.
Strong Booing for all three to the extent they will not appear for anything.
So be it for this event and any event anywhere that their kind speak in public.
Trump is his own worst enemy…..sad
https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/video/megyn-kelly-says-she-expects-183118175.html?guccounter=1
I no longer dislike Megyn Kelly* nearly as much as I used to. 😉
(* or Kelly Megyn… whatever her name is)
Go back to CNN and MSNBC.
Check the mirror!
DJT is not perfect. No one is. HOWEVER he at least has our best interests at heart, which is more than I can say about you. Bye!
Is that the best you can do? LOL
Are you still paid a nickel a word, or paid by the number of replies to your post? If the latter, I’m sorry to have contributed.
At least he is not a wanna be dictator and enemy of the people. Which do you prefer ?
Been meaning to say: Mike Pence is SLIME. He knows he has ZERO chance of being the nominee, so his ONLY reason for running is so he’ll have a bigger platform to attack Trump. As I say… SLIME.
That is all.
He’ll get millions in payoffs laundered as campaign contributions.
Great news! I love it when they become obvious.
Doesn’t surprise me one bit!
Makes me wish I could attend CPAC this year … anyways, can’t wait for President Trump’s keynote speech! 🙂
Has DeSantis announced he is running? It’s obvious that he is, so why not announce?
He won’t announce because it would mean having to resign as governor. They are supposedly going to pass a new law that allows him to campaign for President while still being Governor – their next session in in May. If he is foolish enough to announce it will be after May.
Sundance has explained that DeSantis will be the last one to announce.
There also are blogs here on CTH where Sundance lays out how he sees RdS plays and who owns him.
Highly recommend pulling up in your browser (I do it daily), Sundance’s twitter feed👇
https://mobile.twitter.com/TheLastRefuge2
or
Tweets by TheLastRefuge2
Under current Florida law he would have to resign as governor. Sounds like the legislature is going to change that requirement. Stay tuned.
He has to resign as governor to run for president, per Florida law. He is waiting to see if Trump is indicted or eliminated so he can step is as a savior. The big money seems to be betting on this happening!
Then he never learned the golden rule: Never bet against Trump!
Because Florida law say he has to resign the governor’s office. They are working on getting the law changed so he can wear the governor hat and run for president at the same time. Dirty to have a law changed just for your selfish ambitions.
If I lived in Florida, I might be getting a little ticked that my governor was spending all of his time selling a book and fake running for President on the state’s time.
Total Eclipse of the Trump – YouTube
We need him now more than ever!!!
I watched the Timcast episode with Ann Coulter. Whew, she sounds like Peggy Noonan with an acerbic tongue. Total upper eastside NYC condescending attitude. She needs to clean out the wax from her big ears because all she’s hearing right now is her echo chamber of upper crust drivel. She really hates the America First crowd, I mean despises us.
Coulter is off her meds. Next month she will be singing about Trump’s virtues and the month after that she will be back off her meds.
Keep shining the light on the globalists and their stealth campaign as the ‘brave new world order cuckservatives’ planning a take-down of the President of the United States (again), since their first take-down didn’t quite pan out the way they had expected.
President Trump didn’t go down, they didn’t take him out, (keep smiling Laura and talk about Trump’s policies while angling for a younger version of Trump, LOL).
Now they have to have more ‘top-secret meetings’, (that is all over the news), to manipulate the stoopid people into believing that they really love President Trump and what he did while in office but he’s old now and needs to just go away.
Well, they got him now for the 5,690th time.
Yawn.
I would like to know more about this: https://www.floridabulldog.org/2023/01/ron-desantis-accused-torture-at-guantanamo-when-he-was-navy-jag/
Did he participate in torture?
Can’t imagine a FL publication printing a false story. RonnieDeepState is vindictive.
Pinch that graphic Sundance. It’s perfect, although it’s missing Ann Coulter. You should add her.
I swear this movie has been written before. Maybe they just combined 8-9 real bad fiction movies to put this ongoing 6 year war against Americans together. It so scripted, and in-your-face cringe worthy.
BTW, did anyone in S.C get the DeSantis robocall I received yesterday? “You’re invited to a party”!!! LOLOLOL
I don’t answer numbers I don’t know. If they’re important they’ll leave a message. And all email/text requests for contributions go directly to spam.
If the stories about DeSantis participating in the torture of detainees at Guantanamo are true, you can be sure the left is holding this info in reserve to use if he gets the nomination.
These jokers like RdS and Pence are kidding themselves if they think they have a chance against President Trump.
.
Because Trump leads.
And because (particularly Pence) they might get booed.
.
So glad Pence & RdS aren’t attending. Glad they are dancing to the same tune. Glad President Trump isn’t being invited to “their” events.
President Trump is one of a kind. He doesn’t fit into anything they could/would be a part of — except the debates and those will be pure gold!
All right!!!! MAGA doesn’t want or need them there, except as punching bag practice, metaphorically speaking, of course!
Hope Rick Scott Haley and the woman who resigned from Dem tht is constantly on Fox and seeking attention will go away. She so much wants to be VP
Watched RS on Levine for 3 seconds . His girlie voice and boots just doesn’t cut it but know he will come through for the Rinos and GOP our Trump is the man and only man but he will be destroyed. Kari Lake is my hero and she and Trump are the only ones I will vote for ..ever
Confessing up front that I’m still matriculating at the Jethro Bodine School for Ciphering…
When Mr. & Mrs. Zuckerberg can donate $419M in a single check, by comparison, aren’t the Sea Island crowd just stacking sand dollars on the beach? …while mail-in ballotry raises and lowers the tide.
Seriously–if they refuse to confront the corruption of the election, what are billionaires getting in return for their donations? Does the GOP war chest pass through Ukraine, too?
The BOOS and JEERING would have been EPIC. bummer … I like to see those two men humiliated
Judas Pence would never show, he would be booed off the stage. RdS, is quite the coward not to show up.
Anyword if Ms. Linsey coming, did he ever hand over the 500K check to Trump towards his defense fund?
Hmmmm. So it means it will be a DeSantis/Pence ticket?
Omg. Mr TPP/coward ticket I mean. Lol.
The dudes are going pure cringe now.
Not transparent at all.
Nope.
Shame on Fox. They are not fair and balanced.
They are behind DeSantis book but shunning Trump.
Isn’t that foreign interference from a bunch of Australia’s Murdochs? Lol.
There you have it – yet another huge red flag!
Judas Iscariot would have fit in nicely with this group. This is definitely the Grand old party that takes care of the special interest groups including lobbyists and the rest of the doner class. They have no room for America First or MAGA supporters! Their greed will be their downfall.
didn’t Judas go out and hang himself?
Well Pence is a douchebag RINO and the jury is still out on DeSantis even though he’s a rockstar in Florida. No reason for Pence to show up since nobody but nobody supports him anymore after his betrayal and exposure as the ultimate RINO insider.
DeSantis is an enigma despite the attempts to smear him. He’s clearly knocking the hell out of the leftists in Florida so What the hell?
I’m just not sure about him, yet.
I continue to ponder him, too.
Is he a deep cover plant by the Deep State? Or, could he be sincere, but being set up because the Deep State has what they need to control him after he gets in office, unlike Trump?
Why has there been so little pushback against Florida’s reforms, from the usual progressive/Antifa/woke mob? (C’mon… winter in Florida is a great time and place to protest outdoors!)
As governor, has he purposely been treated with kid gloves by the Left… or has Florida actually done things so well as to be largely invulnerable?
One thing we do know: in this phase of the global march toward reset, GOVERNORSHIPS are where the real power lies, to resist federal agencies and protect Constitutional rights. So why isn’t his ego out evangelizing his fellow conservative governors to do what Florida’s done?
All good points …
once upon a time I thought RdS was future presidential material in which case he should not bloom at such a young age. The longer we live, so wisdom increases, current WH resident excluded of course, Pres. Trump is very much at the top of his game, fighting for the country’s survival. We could help by ridding ourselves of the pernicious vote by mail, return voting to the one day set aside for it and restore paper ballots.
Yes, all of the above …
De Santis has never been attacked for his actions ,or seriously prosecuted like Trump has been . That says a lot , screams a lot! Could be it’s an act , ya think? No big federal backlash for his immigration policies and only minor complaints in the press , certainly not comparable to Trump derangement syndrome .
If DeSantis refuses to address the base at CPAC, what trickery will the RNC pull to get him the nomination?
Ron DeSantis is an agent of the Deep State. He was a lawyer for the Bush/Cheney Neocon operation and said G H W Bush was his “most admired!”
When the Tea Party wave of 2010 took power away from the RINOs, DeSantis re-invented himself as Tea Party Patriot in 2012 and eventually helped Paul Ryan wrest power back from the Tea Party and diminish it. He then called Ryan “the leader I want to be!”
When Donald Trump won in 2016 and took power away again from the RINOs, DeSantis re-invented himself as MAGA in 2018! He ran ads showing his children building The Wall with toy bricks.
He is now serving the interest of his masters to wrest power away from MAGA and back into the hands of the DC establishment.
Unlike the Tea Party, the MAGA movement has a clear national leader in President Trump. This will be a bloody war.
I am heartbroken that Judas Pence and Bush Lite (RDS) will not attend.
What sad news. 😢
How is it that Judas Pence is still showing his face in public, instead of being persona non grata for his fateful stolen election performance?
Chameleons are the rule in politics, which is why when people call a politician MAGA I cringe. I remember when everyone was a conservative in previous decades.
They will rig the nominating process, just like the Democrats did to eliminate Bernie.
“They will rig the nominating process”.
Obviously, they will try but fortunately that does not mean they will succeed.
” They” == state GOPs.
Whether “they” succeed or not depends on how successfully we infiltrate our GOP.
How?
Here’s the link President Trump shared that included an appeal for everyone to get and stay involved.
https://theprecinctstrategy.com.
Obviously, your local precinct may still be Establishment Republican controlled territory.
Consequently, rather than showing up like a MAGA I-Know-It-All tween, savvy MAGA infiltrators first learn the lay of the land and who is who.
KEY to thwarting the Establishments Destroy Trump schemes is for Trump voters to be Registered Republican voters.
Why?
Being a registered Republican gives you membership in your GOP precinct and guarantees your ability to vote for Trump in your 2024 primary election.
Remember, for 2024’s primary, state GOPs can decide to change the rules so open primaries are closed meaning ONLY registered Republicans have a say in who the Republican nominee will be.
Obviously, its better to be safe than sorry when dealing with these Establishment schemers who clearly intend “to rig the nominating process”.
Until this war is won, savvy MAGA warriors will register to get Republican voter camo and receive Republican voter perks.
I hate harping on this but it’s true… this comes down to character. A man unafraid and confident won’t be playing games, he’ll say what he means. Just like Pres. Trump – who If he says he’s going to do something, he does it.
DeSantis if he’s genuinely NOT going to run he should say it, not play these DC games, but he’s basically watching where the wind blows to cover his a$$.
He is waiting the Trump to keel over dead. Then he is prepositioned to swoop in.
He has a better chance of waiting for “Florida Man” to not be hopped up on drugs, which will never happen.
Rons waiting for “Trump to keel over dead” then Ron will “swoop in”.
An evocative and apt image.
Rons a vulture serving human vampire bats.
Slow down….there’s 2 more CPACS before the 2024 Republican National Convention. More telling will be if they shift power from Matt Schlep at CPAC or turn Charlie Kirk toward DeSantis
Twice, Matt Schlep talked about Pres. Trump having to make his case at CPAC and the ‘next generation’ of candidates on War Room. I have heard others talk about the ‘next generation’ of candidates. IMO this is code for passing up Trump for another candidate. Both Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy will be at CPAC. No mention of the fact that these candidates have to make their cases because according to the constitution they are not eligible to run for president. The shift has already started.
Con Inc’s Ron hyping, Don hating “sales pitch”:
We are in a life or death situation so voters should reject the person who has the most experience and wisdom?
Instead voters should pick someone less tested and far less experienced because they are young?
CON Incs criteria, pick someone cuz theyre young == the same reality disconnected criteria used by Wokes.
Coincidence?
Are CON Incs and Woke Dems two wings on the same bird?
And both are about as appealing as cold mashed potatoes.
Even Arkansas Gov Sarah Sanders gave a speech about the next generation of candidates. But no one even comes close to Trump except maybe Kari Lake.
When Trump announced his 2024 candidacy, Gov. Huckabee Sanders did not come out and support him. Another backstabber. Even though her father is a former governor, she would not be governor without Trump IMO.
Only thing I can think of is use super delegates like the Dems do.