As team Ron DeSantis prepares for the national launch of a 2024 presidential bid, one of the campaign’s primary areas of concern is the need to create optics representing support and momentum.
As noted by comments delivered to the Washington Post by DeSantis PAC organizers:
[…] DeSantis allies are acutely aware of Trump’s still-strong influence and appeal in the Republican Party. A senior member of Never Back Down has said the group will be heavily involved in building crowds for DeSantis, in part because of Trump’s fixation on crowd size and the expectation that a front-runner candidate draws big audiences, according to a person familiar with the comments.
“If you’re DeSantis, you have to desperately avoid the small room with Jeb Bush asking attendees to please clap,” the person said, referencing a viral moment from Bush’s unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2016. (read more)
The last several weeks have been very rough for team DeSantis as noted by Politico:
[…] On the same day Trump was indicted in an alleged hush money scheme, the Florida governor was posing with puppies at a pet adoption event as his aides instructed reporters to leave.
“This is deja vu all over again,” said Terry Sullivan, who ran Marco Rubio’s 2016 campaign for president. “Trump dominates media coverage, making it impossible for his competitors to get any coverage or forward traction.”
The Republican presidential primary was always expected to revolve around Trump. But post-indictment, as Republicans rally to his defense — including, crucially, conservative talkers on Fox News — Trump’s opponents are confronting an even more damaging dynamic in race: Their inability to break through at all.
“It feels like fucking 2016,” said a Republican strategist who supports DeSantis and was granted anonymity to speak freely about the dynamics of the race. “Is there anything that can suck up as much political oxygen in the American political landscape as Trump? I don’t think so.” (read more)
FLORIDA – Former president Donald Trump is now leading Florida governor Ron DeSantis in a hypothetical 2024 head-to-head matchup among likely Republican voters in the Sunshine State, according to a new poll from Victory Insights.
The survey shows Trump winning support from 46.6 percent of likely voters, while DeSantis notched support from 31.8 percent of voters. Another 21.6 percent of likely voters said they are undecided. The results mean Trump has enjoyed a 25.7 point swing in his favor since Victory Insights conducted a similar poll in November, when Trump formally announced his campaign and DeSantis was riding high from a landslide reelection win. At the time, polling showed DeSantis with a 10.9-point lead over Trump in Florida.
“Five months later, things have changed substantially,” Victory Insights senior pollster Ben Galbraith said in a statement. “Several other candidates have announced their candidacies, and Trump has been indicted and arrested in a highly politicized move by the Manhattan DA. DeSantis still hasn’t officially announced his candidacy, but his messaging, book tour, and PAC activity certainly point to a presidential run in the coming months.” (more)
primary areas of concern is the need to create optics representing support and momentum? maybe he should hold his powder til 2028
Damn the substance, Henry…Get on with the perception!
DeSwampis should make something of himself in the real world, learn what it is like to deal with bureaucrats when you’re trying to build a business, make a couple of billion dollars, then with some life experience outside of the political theater, and without being a beach to the uniparty donor class, then he can tell me how he’s going to make America great again.
Some say Ron does have some life experience.
And the NYT is supposed to have photos of him partying with under-age students when he was teaching?
Those aren’t the optics his team are hoping for?
DeSantis is a globalist Trojan Horse and they hope to use him to take Trump out during the primaries -he doesn’t even have to win – it only has to look like he could win and they will rig it for him. Check out his pre-governorship record… and see how Jeb Bush’s big donors and the Bush family support him. He also attended Yale and I’ve read he was part of Knights of Malta but he could be Skull & Bones too… the Bush Sr and Jr were.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1620052007427121152.html
His powder was already all wet when he decided to show HIMSELF by endorsing Joe O’Dea out of Colorado, Spring & Summer of ’22during a PRIMARY, against a Constitutionalist GOP opponent. But Joe O’Dea is just too much of DeSanctimonious’ kind of big man!!!
Cultural MAGA virtue signals around wedge social issues like abortion, trans kids and punches soft targets like big tech censorship or CRT.
But Cultural MAGA NEVER addresses the STRUCTURAL ECONOMIC DEFICIT which is the Core of MAGA.
Trump MAGA successfully turned Globalism on its head and the USA Main Street had a Structural Economic Surplus (via Tariffs, Deals, onshoring, new factories etc). Trumps New Deal tilted economics back from Wall Street TO Main Street.
Now, the Globalists have invented Cultural MAGA.
This process is equivalent to how Obama-era Globalists coopted the anti-globalization networks of the early 2000s. Now those groups are literally left fascist globalist militia and mercenaries for rent. The antiglobalization anarchists networks of the 2000s are dedicated globalist left fascists now.
The Globalists seek to capture Trump MAGA networks, remove Trump, and insert Cultural MAGA leaders friendly to Globalism, i.e. DeSantis and Younkin.
Cultural MAGA is a pathway away from Trump MAGA to RINO Maga. Cultural Marxism is a pathway towards Globalist Oligarchial Socialism, as we see in Europe and China today.
DeSantis and Youngkin represent Cultural MAGA.
Get the MAGA networks focussed on cultural issues and AWAY from economic issues
Make MAGA Social Justice warriors completely distracted by social and cultural issues and never organized around ECONOMIC MAGA.
https://www.culturalmaga.com/p/135-full-spectrum-maga-vs-cultural-maga
The Governor should stay in Florida and keep working at his current job.
heckuva job, brownie!
For which he was elected for FOUR FULL YEARS
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Hmmm,… maybe team Desantimonous will use Oh Bahm Ah’s tactic of running Craig’s List ads to pay attendees to show up at his staged events??? Bammy got caught doing this in his ’08 campaign’s Miami rally. What say, Ron?
I love when they try to create the illusion, like Ann Coulter, that Florida is purple.
Florida has not elected a Democrat governor since DeSantis was in high school. The legislature has been Republican longer.
Forgive me if I’m not impressed that a guy governs conservative in a state that has been red for three plus decades.
It is ‘purple’ because of all of the idiots from the left coast escaping Socialism. They weren’t bright enough to figure out THEY were the cause.
I have no desire to vote for DeSantis because I believe he’s thrown in with the big-money people who expect to get a nice return on that investment. In other words, they want to continue sucking on the public boob.
Ron is the Bud Lite of politics?
His team is focusing on superficial optics, rather than making the product better, to attract more people?
BEST way to say it I’ve seen so far! Hands Down.
It is not Trump hogging the limelight. It’s their message that we don’t want. They always have to blame Trump for their shortcomings.
If Ron D wants coverage, why did staffers ask press to leave the puppy patting?
Why did they ask for people who came to his book signing parties to be escorted out BY POLICE!!!???
He didn’t want no MAGA GRAVY on his dinner plate at all – wanted NONE of his “help” to come from folks who love Trump and our American Constitution.
Terry Sullivan is Prevaricating.. Most Trump Supporters would give a LOT to know there was a Broad band of SUPPORT from “Professional” politicians for the Trump MAGA MOVEMENT looking to Restore CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER to Govt Structure and Procedures.
They would be GLAD to support the Politicians who support TRUMP and HIS LEADERSHIP with True Alacrity and Relish.
UNLEASHING a THRIVING EXUBERANCE among the Peoples of This Nation, across the board.
There is no room for DeSantis because he takes up ALL the room with HIS OWN EGO.
And in spite of and Contrary to the SLANDEROUS tirades that some Politicians lavish all over Trump and the MAGA MOVEMENT, TRUMP IS NOT filling the Room with his own EGO.
He simply is NOT doing it.
HIS SUPPORTERS would smell it if THAT was happening.
But Some folks for PERSONAL REASONS are Desperate to bring Trump back down to the status of a Usual downtrodden Patriot Supporter of the USA CONSTITUTION, who could be easily trampled asunder….
By egotistical swamp rats.
Funny, the way the religious treated Jesus and the Apostles is the same way that the “politically religious’ treat Trump and his supporters, too. All them religious and pious self-important nincompoops are all of the same nature.