Perhaps it’s the Ron DeSantis national pretending 2024 campaign driven by a “book tour.” Perhaps it’s the international travel that distracts a sitting governor from supporting a Republican candidate in the largest geographic metropolitan area in the state. Whatever the reason, the Jacksonville Florida mayoral contest was won by a Democrat, Donna Deegan.
I have warned, against some of the most vitriolic pushback, that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is setting up the state of Florida for some major problems in the future. There are lots of granular points that I can reference, but the bigger picture they create is one that will be very damaging in the future. The class division in Florida, the distance between the haves and have-nots, is growing exponentially.
Lower and middle-income Floridians are being crushed as the ‘Instagram selfie-my-lunch’ crowd, the largest coalition of support for Ron DeSantis, ignores it.
Believe me on this, DeSantis Republicans representing the financially elite and being condescendingly dismissive of the non-elite, is not a path to future Republican electoral victory. From my perspective the backlash is visible. It only takes a few thousand voters staying home in protest to make a difference.
Those same enforcement police, newly empowered with tools against ANTIFA woke protests, will hold those same tools when it’s Joe the plumber protesting his economic status.
JACKSONVILLE – Democrat Donna Deegan won the Jacksonville mayor’s race Tuesday night, a shocking upset that hands Florida Democrats a major shot of energy less than six months after they were trounced in the 2022 midterms and considered left for dead by the national party.
Deegan came into Election Day as the decided underdog against Republican Daniel Davis, who is the head of the city’s Chamber of Commerce and had a significant fundraising advantage. He was endorsed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, but that support was lukewarm. DeSantis did not do events with Davis or put his political muscle behind his candidacy.
With all of the city’s 186 precincts reporting, Deegan had a 52% to 48% advantage over Davis, who was vying to replace current Republican Mayor Lenny Curry, who was term-limited. “Everyone said it could not be done in Jacksonville, Florida,” Deegan said, according to video of her victory speech. “We did it because we brought the people inside.” (read more)
Ron DeSantis has checked-out of his job in Florida. A tiara dreaming Casey DeSantis is measuring the drapes in the White House. The billionaire donors are pumping them both up.
The Florida middle class is being destroyed at the fastest rate in the state’s history. The lower socioeconomic group is looking for snorkel extensions, and the illegal alien workers, who support the lifestyle indulgences of the affluent class, are being targeted for removal.
The class divide in the state has grown more in the past three years than the quarter century that preceded it. Wokeism is not a priority when you are struggling paycheck to paycheck to survive.
Keep in mind, Donald Trump is a major employer in the state. President Trump, a very generous employer to all of his people, can see the struggle and pain on the face of his Trump Inc. employees. This is not some esoteric political issue for those being impacted.
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Florida still uses Dominion and subscribes to EPIC…correct? Figure it out.
Proving AGAIN … the RNC & GOP are WORTHLESS !!!
DeSantis was busy playing PattyCake with the TRUMP-hating RINO establishment in Kentucky … and now … Jacksonville will be destroyed by RATS
Sorry People have not NOT figured the RNC and GOP are worthless. When that day comes about and the Republican Party is gone AND ANY X GOP POLITICIANS ARE NOT WANTED IN A NEW PARTY of Conservatives and MAGA people then the country starts to get back on track. Until more people realize the Republican Party is useless and the major part of the UNIPARTY just Enjoy the failures because it is going to get worse.
The RINO neverTrumps are definitely working hard to totally destroy the Republican Party … if that actually happens should we re-name as the Patriot Party or Americas Party ?
I want to keep MAGA as an American idea/ideal NOT a political party.
Inflation is crushing working people. If things continue on this course and people see their kids going hungry, we will have a peasant uprising. However, I think “they” squeeze just enough money out of us to keep us on the brink.
Yes, and here’s a list of Arizona RINO RATS joining the pack of ANTI~MAGA!
The letter, entitled “Arizona Republicans Ready to Win in 2024,” was headlined by Speaker of the House Ben Toma, and former East Valley Congressman Matt Salmon. House Majority Whip Teresa Martinez, Senator Ken Bennett, Senator Frank Carroll, Senator Steve Kaiser, Senator J.D. Mesnard, Senator TJ Shope, Representative David Cook, Representative Lupe Diaz, Representative Kevin Payne, Representative Beverly Pingerelli, Representative Justin Wilmeth, City Councilwoman Vicki Gillis; and former officials Frank Riggs, Shawnna Bolick, Regina Cobb, Jeff Dial, Sandra Dowling, Nora Ellen, Eddie Farnsworth, Robert Garcia, Rick Gray, Vince Leach, Jeff Weninger, and Steve Yarbrough.
Article listing AZ RINO RATS joining ANTI-MAGA pack:
Arizona Republicans Want To Draft DeSantis Into 2024 Race – AZ FREE NEWS ~ 5/16/23 ~ https://azfreenews.com/2023/05/arizona-republicans-want-to-draft-desantis-into-2024-race/
Bring rope factories back to America. MAGA.
it already has been.
I was also noting the suspicious 52 to 48 percent win. Always seems to have those numbers.
I believe that FL is getting out of ERIC (albeit, not sure how soon).
As far as a I know, ES&S and Dominion are all over FL.
Speaking of ES&S in Florida, and the Mayoral election in Jacksonville, ponder this (published shortly before that election):
https://tomwigand.substack.com/p/backsliding-on-election-integrity
Let me post this again, I hope DeSantis doesn’t ruin Florida for the 2024 election.
RuhRoh !!!
Considering WHO the RINORATS are that are donating to the DeSantis Campaign Chest … that makes frightening sense.
We bought in 2019(Nassau County) and 2021(Marion County) got both houses at a decent price and both have appreciated but the tax and insurance increases are killing us…still cheaper than SW PA..
I think the cost of insurance is going to be the big problem for everyone in the state. Increasing like crazy and now with the flood insurance being imposed on many people who have been forced into Citizens coverage, the price will get even more. Middle class is being price down to Florida. Very sad and it’s all on Ron DeSantis’ watch.
For those who don’t know Citizens is a company that is run by the state of Florida. It is a company that is supposed to accept your property insurance if all the other companies are unavailable. The company of last resort. If all the other insurance companies leave Florida as they are doing, as fast as they can, Citizens will end up being the only option and taxpayers will be on the hook for any hurricane damage not covered by Citizens insurance company. It’s a big mess.
My homeowners association dues went from $443 per month which includes this insurance to $687. Older people on fixed incomes will be greatly impacted by this kind of big increase. Mine is not as big as many many other people.
Ron De Santis is toast.
Not sure exactly. This may have something to do with the Trump DeSantis war? Pisses me off that when we have arrows flying all around that Trump decided to start a personality war with one of our best governors.
The arrows should be reserved to take out the deep state. Not fellow strong Republican leaders.
Boo hoo. Team Ron! should have just let PDJT win the 2024 election. THEY FIRED THE FIRST SHOTS WHEN MAR-A-LAGO WAS RAIDED BY THE FBI AND RON KEPT QUIET ABOUT IT. So much for republican congeniality.
re: “AND RON KEPT QUIET ABOUT IT.”
C’mon, tell the truth. DeSantis did say he would not extradite Trump. Ya know, if you can’t be honest, I don’t trust you either …
DeSantis reminds me of that presidential candidate in the movie The Dead Zone. I get a real bad vibe from him.
I think Martin Sheen played that role in the movie.
It was not a shocking upset. This woman has been a fixture in Jacksonville for decades. She was a local TV personality, and her husband was well known as well.
She also started a big run That is very popular with women. Women put her in. It is so sickening!
Davis did not have her name recognition. Davis was endorsed by the best elected officials in the state.
She was photographed with potato head. And also with defund the police big wigs. That did not matter with these women.
Only 33% of the voters turned out to vote!
As Bongino says: “All politics are local.”
Now they will get rampant crime and flooded with illegal’s along with inflation.
America of the 1850s had the emerging Republican Party.
This new Party had a clear and compelling purpose – stop the spread of slavery to the nascent western States.
The Democrats were the Party of slavery, then segregation. This remained their purpose for a hundred years. Modern Democrats operate under the amazing self-delusion that the racists, all this time, were actually Republicans.
The Whig Party, an obscure entity to most modern Americans, was the Party of the unholy compromise. They tried to hold the country together by bargaining with the Devil.
When the end came for the Whigs, it came hard and fast.
The modern Republicans, the All Chiefs and No Indians Party, will come crashing down.
Paradoxically, the rise of Donald Trump sheltered these ivory tower leaders from their precarious situation.
They’ll learn.
The Whig party was a fusion/coalition party made up of various political groups having in common anti-jacksonian beliefs. The greater portion being Federalists who tried to control national policy (primarily economic) but had trouble getting their coalition partners on board. The result was they were only successful in running presidential candidates who could be considered WINO old soldiers. The closest they came to electing a “true Whig” was Clay v Knox in 44. (This was considered a stolen/fraudulent election by many, resulting in Congress passing a bill requiring all states to elect presidential electors on the same day in November. As an aside, November was chosen due to South Carolina legislature electing its electors so election day had to be when that legislature was in session.) The only actual Whig to serve as president was Fillmore after Taylor died (Tyler was actually a “states-rights” party man). Taylor, for his part, played around with creating a “no labels” type republican party before his death, resulting in many holdover Democrats keeping their positions. Fillmore wasn’t nominated for a full term in 52, instead Whigs once again looked to the military (Scott) . His campaign was a disaster and I think helped precipitate Kansas-Nebraska which the Whigs couldn’t survive united.
For a MAGA party to emerge I think you would need something like the Free Soil Democrats in the 1850s to form a coalition with.
Could all the people moving to Florida and bringing their voting habits with them have anything to do with it?
I’ve been watching since 2019 people move there at breakneck speed. And it wasn’t on a conservative site…saw this coming.
To paraphrase a very wise man, “Everything DeSantis turns to shit.”
It’s too bad that Florida does not have a Republican governor and a Republican legislature that could have rid the state of voting machines and passed all sorts of laws eliminating the various form of election fraud and instituting strict rules for handling elections.////
It’s hard for me to imagine voting machine ever being legal. Very fishy when we knew who won the next day with hand count voting, but with machines it takes weeks or months? I feel like I’m on crazy pills…
Out of touch and out of his mind DeSantis.
When a politician is surrounded by groupie sycophants and opportunistic billionaires doling out $Millions into your campaign, it can easily corrupt a person’s mind and lead them to self destruction. Unfortunately, others will suffer the results.
I would rather lose an election than take contributions from the traitorous slime bags that turned our country into an open border rust belt.
There is an Article on Town Hall about Desantis being in IOWA and how he has talked people into supporting him over PT and guess that he might not be as dead as some of us hoped he would be. This man is not even said he was running but yet he is going on and on about how he is the only one who can win when he does tell people he is running. so we shall see
I hope the people of IOWA knows what they are backing with him because President Trump would never lie to them
the way Desantis will and has
President Trump leads DeSantis by double digits: 44% to 26%
.https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/05/13/donald-trump-leads-iowa-caucus-field-double-digits/
President Trump is the defacto nominee. He is massively ahead of the rest of the pack, state-by-state and nationally. DeSantis has dropped like a rock and imo is no longer a contender. There are no contenders. So hope we can get back to focusing n election integrity work.
Above is a recent May 13 IOWA poll.
Thank You for posting that poll numbers Sunrei appreciate the feed back
Unfortunately the actual vote can be manipulated by cheating. As we have seen.
Iowa despised George W Bush. It voted Democrat all during his era. I’m sure they will realize that DeSantis is just a repackaged George W and Jeb Bush. The globalist/corporatists will never win in Iowa.
EZGoer, the good news is that Iowa already realizes they don’t want DeSantis—President Trump has an enormous lead over DeSantis. (44% to 26% –link upthread). Iowa loves President Trump. DeSantis, not so much.
It looks like the wheels are coming off of the DeSantis wagon, or are they? I have a bad gut feeling that some of these Republican presidential candidates know of some whisperings going on in the shadows that say President Trump will not be a part of the 2024 election and they should all throw their hats into the ring. The deceitfulness and treachery of Mitch McConnell, Ronna McDaniel, their close connections with the CCP, the Democrat Communist Party, and many others who are determined to make sure Donald Trump never makes it back into the White House are, I am sure, been plotting and planning how to take President Trump out of the Presidential race one way or the other. If that happens, then DeSantis is the nominee for Republican Presidential candidate for 2024 because none of the others are even close. Maybe Ron and Casey know something the rest of us do not, about Donald Trump`s future, and those drapes are being made right now, and that tiara is being fitted for her head because of that knowledge. Something just does not smell right about the whole thing.
If it’s DeSantis vs Kennedy, I will vote for Kennedy. If it’s DeSantis vs another candidate I will not vote
Osage, you need to do more homework on Kennedy. Take away the Vaccine issue and he is Ted Kennedy reincarnated.
stillwater67 (not to be confused with our commenter Stillwater), I get the worry, but I just don’t see the point in fretting –it’s a faux action, demoralizes and gets us nowhere. We America First patriots do have things we can do in the coming months, real actions, empowering actions –so many areas where volunteers and donations can be put to use with election integrity measures, registering voters and soon in the swing states to participate in a legal ballot harvesting campaign is being set up by Preident Trump’s campaign.
Meanwhile, the President DJT endorsed MAGA candidate in the Republican Governor’s primary in Kentucky WON!!! Her logo above looks very much like a Barry Soetoro aka Barrack Obama placard from 2008!!! 🤔
Old Ron isn’t ready for the major leagues, he is still Triple A!!!
One thing is for sure. Taxes will be going up in Jacksonville. Enjoy being abused by the leftist Democrat you fools. Coming soon — a Soros DA to massively increase crime.
Communism and free stuff always appeals to people struggling financially. Engineered inflation and recession. All of this is intentional to create utopia. Communism will make all our dreams come true. Just ask Alexsander Solzhenitsen.