This is the fifth in a row of recent polls showing the complete collapse of Ron DeSantis. Fortunately, there may be no further reason to discuss his election viability, and it may be well worth just waiting for his campaign withdrawal announcement.
As CTH suspected, DeSantis has followed a similar path as former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. Both candidates were driven by the financing of billionaire donors behind them. A campaign created around the shell of a candidate – devoid of personal intent or internal purpose for running, while being driven only by shallow self-interest and attached to the policy of the funding mechanism – is always a structure for failure.
[Daily Signal] – […] With support from 60% of Republican primary voters, Trump commands a 47-point advantage over his nearest competitor in Scott Rasmussen’s latest national survey.
The poll from RMG Research Inc. was in the field Aug. 11-14, before news of Trump’s indictment in Fulton County, Georgia. The margin of error for the full sample is +/- 3.1 percentage points.
Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who tallied 13%, made the biggest gains over the past two months, rising from 3% in Rasmussen’s June 21-22 poll. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is third in the new poll with 8%, dropping 7 percentage points since Rasmussen’s Aug. 7-8 survey. (read more)
DeSantis never had the skills to be a strong presidential candidate. Additionally, he’s not that smart, and once the facade around him started to fall away, people saw the real person, the weakness, not the carefully fabricated image his handlers tried to create over the prior 3 years.
The most unfortunate outcome is not that DeSantis is failing, it’s that speaking from a position of freedom and liberty, Florida was a better place prior to his election in 2018. While he managed the COVID-19 pandemic reasonably well, the state he governed has been messed up by DeSantis’ total control of the state legislature just to give him the illusion of social policy ‘wins’. I don’t like the thought of what comes next in the big gov takeover using the tools he created. It’s a hot mess.
Sounds like Biden nomics really working for you!!
Joe is afraid to tour the US and smile and wave, touting his economic policy because he’ll get hammered with rotten tomatoes.
Trying to go sans homeowners insurance (naked) in FL is getting very difficult.
The insurance companies are not writing policies for liability and fire damage only.
They want to have a structure policy or no dice.
The structure policy deductible is so high that they basically don’t pay crap, and belongings coverage is a joke, they want receipts for everything then depreciate the value.
So if you have old real furniture in your home it is of less value than the junk from Rooms to Went.
Since Katrina all the repair crews are under 5′ tall, speak a different language, and eat flat “bread” with their hands for lunch.
Glad I don’t have to rely on them for any of my projects. Have always had a feeling that if you don’t feed them they’ll go home.
Not working out here locally due to all the landscape companies, now they have started their own, so there are even more trucks blocking the streets 7 days a week.
Funny that you do not show Burgum in your picture – I live in Iowa and I am getting flyers daily from his campaign. It’s all platitudes, of course, and a waste of glossy paper. I remind friends of the sudden jihad syndrome attack recently in Fargo and tell them that, since they are dumping Somalis here because we have Section 8 housing, it can happen here, too. Probably will. And Burgum has encouraged them to come to North Dakota. Wouldn’t vote for the guy for dog catcher.
Ecoterrorism yet???
It’s not a word in use today, BUT it’s the perfect definition for the warehouses, farm animals, farms, manufacturing buildings, residential buildings, forests, cars (target Tesla), grids, trains, and boat fires. Really boat fires.
It’s destroying, well, like any terrorism, direct targets to produce fear, shortages, and destruction. Of Course with the intention of rebuilding better, more sustainable, earth friendly, NWO compliant……….. A world society and All it’s ‘needs’ with perfect weather.
A terroristic approach to a NWO; that’s a new one for the books, huh?? All the tactics used for submission with the world’s ‘climate’ at stake, oh horror.
Every Horror book has it’s authors, it’s bad guys, it’s destruction, and it’s ending; this book has it’s tools, too………Directed Energy…..the new ‘space’ age, almost alien like ‘guns’ for destruction of ‘targets’…….
God and guns for defense are the enemies of climate change; you can’t make this up.
Start calling it what it is; Climate Change = Ecoterrorism.
5% for CC another sign of the ignorant pig brains walking among us.
I’ve been watching everything go up in price yet when I checked on July’s inflation rate it was 3.2%. I simply don’t believe it. My $30 trips to the grocery store have turned into $50 trips.
The Meatball still serves a purpose for Trump though. He’s a honeypot for Uniparty resources. All the sheep just tuning in over the next few months will go there. He’s a useful symbol of the Uniparty to provide contrast. Lose him, and you’re left with a gaggle of nobodies, and the Uniparty puts all resources into Lawfare and election theft. Better to split their efforts. Trump should try to carry this bum for a few more rounds.
Isn’t there a residency requirement for a governor?
Don’t you have to be in-state like six months out of twelve?
Why no recall petition has started for TopGuv is beside me.
And for everyone who was saying DeSantis should just wait until 2028, I was hesitant to say that. I’m glad that it is becoming more apparent to folks that DeSantis should not even be a consideration for 2028. Things change, but at this point, after Trump’s next term, the only one that appears to be someone to consider is Kari Lake. I realize she has not governed anything (or run a business like Trump), but she is assertive, articulate, has America First convictions and appears to be pure MAGA.
Many of these political campaigns appear to be self-enrichment schemes.
Candidates do not have to repay their donors, right?
They can walk away with millions.
Good observation , but you are NOT supposed to notice that …. Plus all the “sucker fish “ that swim along with the candidate get some juicy scraps (via fees for consulting / PR / polling etc )
Feel slightly vindicated on the RDS assessment. I’d told people it looked like Scott Walker ver 2.0. – seen that movie before. Guy got elected, got recalled. Beat recall with even bigger vote total. Got re-elected with yet another bigger vote total. Then the Siren calls on the rock and, functionally, we were left without a governor. Nowadays it’s “Scott who…?” because they put in the cannula and sucked out the moral courage.
I always thought DeSantis would at least make it to Super Tuesday before dropping out, after a disappointing finish in order to avoid the embarrassment of losing his home state. Now it appears he won’t even make it to New Hampshire. Or 2024 at all.
Ron D. Listened to the ghost in Washington and believed the bullshit they fed him.
Ron D will probably make a great president one day but he took a bite of the poison apple and he listened to the powers that be instead of talking to the people.
He would have done himself and the country a huge service to align with Trump instead of running against him.
But swamp creatures will be swamp creatures.
Ron D. IS a swamp creature. The MAGA lite culture warrior act as governor of Florida was just that – an act. Publicity stunts to burnish his bona fides with the MAGA base. Re-opening Florida from COVID; smacking down Disney; all the rest … was just a series of glorious deeds performed to suck up to MAGA. RdS was Donald Trump, without the negatives. Or so the story went.
Ron doesn’t have a core. He blows with the wind, and he’ll do whatever his handlers / the big donors tell him to do. If he became President one day he would be another George W. Bush: A smashing disappointment. A red state governor who became unrecognizable once he went national.
Never Back Clown
https://truthsocial.com/@AmericanAF/posts/110866123762626927
Think its time for this site to have a Vivik Ramaswampy expose. He’s a flip flopping fraud.
He keeps talking about a Trump pardon. If I’m Trump, I tell Ramaswampy and the rest of the GOPe losers, to take your pardons and shove it. ” I don’t need no stink’n pardon because these charges are fallacious, time and the evidence will prove me innocent and all my courts fees will be reimbursed and there will counter suits and civil court fines. “
Manafort was Orange Man Pardoned.
Often imitated, never duplicated.
Indicted, gag order, solitary…
Persecuted, Prosecuted, But Not Silenced: The Paul Manafort Story
https://rumble.com/v1mvtbu-persecuted-prosecuted-but-not-silenced-the-paul-manafort-story.html
Not sure of your point. Trump doesn’t need a pardon from anyone. He is innocent, the charges are performative and bogus. Yes, I know all about Manafort. He wasn’t the President and he was abused. He was targeted for being associated with Trump. Manafort worked with Tony Podesta, lobbying in Ukraine for actions well before he became a campaign manager for Trump. Podesta wasn’t charged under FARA and shut down his firm. Talk about shady.
Trump needs to win re-re-election. We take over both houses, take out the RINOs, we know who they are and let the fun begin.
I think showing RdS sliding behind Vivek says more about Ron’s weakness than V’s strength. Both are polling about even with a dead dog.
I saw a story on how VR made his money.
Let’s just say, it was very unflattering!
Can’t speak to the origins or accuracy of the shady allegations.
“Think its time for this site to have a Vivik Ramaswampy expose. He’s a flip flopping fraud.” Have to agree with that. Something about him makes the hair on back of my neck stand up and little alarms scream “Danger Will Robinson”
It doesn’t always get picked up by conservative media, but every once in a while, he says something that doesn’t “jive” with his purported MAGA position. The rapping was pathetic & weird & to me just not presidential, especially to our foreign enemies.
Spot on. Ramaswamy’s Politico Article Comes Back to Haunt Him, Exposes Major Flip-Flop on Trump (westernjournal.com)
The rapping was weird, a methylphenidate moment.
Gotta wonder what age his base / or groupies are
Did you see this. Watch the 1st and 2nd video. If true, the should sink Vivek.
Let’s start with what is investment expertise is in biotechnology
Sorry but I love science applied science for making money is an increasingly sketchy field.
Time to look at what his hedgefund investments and his biotechnology company hold patents on who they work for and who the piggyback off of.
Just a hunch
Well said Brother!!! Thank you for saying it.
Cheers!
RamaShamWow
I have to hand it to all these turkeys who have the hutzpah to hang around looong after it’s obvious they just ain’t gonna get there. OTOH it’s just plain pathetic. Or maybe Ramaswamy’s rap has got ’em hooked.
Could be that even some demo-kratz are pulling for Trump now, as blowback from all those REEDICulous indictments. The indictments are in fact criminal, whereas Trump is no more criminal than any (or at least most) of us.
Isn’t their purpose just to leech votes away from Trump?
it’s having the opposite effect.
Demonrats have never been too smart!👨🏻🎓🥸😒🤬
Blow Back Better
Never Back Frowns
Make Indictments Great Again
Trump lawyer confronts Steve Doocy live on-air in TENSE moment
https://rumble.com/v37zi40-trump-lawyer-confronts-steve-doocy-live-on-air-in-tense-moment.html
No, Democrats WANT Trump to run because they think he’s beatable by even FJB. It is also what they’re doing in primaries in states where they can cross over, manipulating state Republican races as a well , pushing primary winners they can defeat in the general election.
You may be right that some Democrats are leaving the party but that doesn’t mean they’ve given up on their leftist ways.
No. The Democrats thought that in 2016. They know better now.
Your talking point makes no sense to anyone. If the Dems wanted President Trump to win the nomination, they wouldn’t be indicting him in 4 deep blue districts, trying to use judges to muzzle what he is allowed to say and trying to schedule trial dates for Jan 2 2024 and March 2024 and May 2024 right in the midst of the primary.
Ramaswamy Rising…
Not for long though.
His globalist economic policies (America Last TPP trade deal) —–pro transgenders in the military —-not believing the 2020 election was stolen . . to name just a few –will begin to become known and no Trump supporter will want anything to do with him.
In his own mind.
Who will be Trump VP pick? Youngkin VA
Kemp GA
Can either deliver their state?
In a phony horse-race, the only winners are those who lose the least.
Let’s Go Brandon81!
“I joined Garret Lewis to talk about election interference from “sideshow” Katie Hobbs, the political persecution of President Donald Trump, the GOP Presidential debate and to give the latest update on my lawsuit.”
https://truthsocial.com/@KariLake/posts/110903371986549144
We cannot afford another viper in the VP position undermining President Trump behind his back. Neither Younkin or Kemp care for America First policies –they play for the Uniparty team. No Pence 2.0. No more Uniparty back-stabbing saboteur that close to the Oval Office.
President Trump’s VP must be a strong MAGA as a survival barrier, an insurance policy in order to protect President Trump from impeachment or worse. For the past two years the GOP cringed at the idea of Biden impeachment because of the prospect of ending up with President Kamala. She was Biden’s insurance policy against impeachment.
We want the Uniparty to realize if they somehow remove President Trump there would still be MAGA in the Oval Office –that’s our insurance policy.
You’re joking, right? I hope so.
F Kemp and Youngkin. Both posers
Why would anyone choose either of those swamp creatures?
Travis and Buck have been talking about Governors in Virginia, Georgia, and other swing states to be the Presidential Candidate’s VP. Of course that is a terrible idea but some listeners don’t have our political knowledge and fall for garbage like this.
I think he picks the person at the convention with the most Maga gear
Who’s next up for the club? Tim Scott maybe? I ain’t buyin’ Carnival Barker Christie has 5%. Five percent of his own family maybe and that’s probably a stretch.
I had been telling people I know that were Desantis backers early on that this guy is making a huge mistake…stabbing Trump in the back is not going to go well for him. Now…he’s ruined…..maybe before he took the establishment bait…but he sure is now…after he took their bait. A total fool, and never again to be trusted by WE THE PEOPLE. They hate that by the way…We THE PEOPLE. We are an annoyance to them, we get in their way of doing what they want. And they have said this…and I’m referring to the rat traitor rhinos that are leftist supportors…and there’s A lot of these creeps!
I had been telling people I know that were Desantis backers early on that this guy is making a huge mistake…stabbing Trump in the back is not going to go well for him. Now…he’s ruined…..maybe before he took the establishment bait…but he sure is now…after he took their bait. A total fool, and never again to be trusted by WE THE PEOPLE. They hate that by the way…We THE PEOPLE. We are an annoyance to them, we get in their way of doing what they want. And they have said this…and I’m referring to the rat traitor rhinos that are leftist supportors…and there’s A lot of these creeps!
Still almost 40% of our so-called brethren don’t want trump. How could we have so many dumb people saying they are conservatives? Did I answer my own question?
MAGA don’t poll…and if they do they go IDK/Unsure… Trump owns the GOP now and that is why the RNC wants him arrested.
Draining the swamp also means the voters who vote for the swamp too.
Recall RDS for his non-resident status.
Watch, he’s going to pull a Pouty Face just like McConnell does and make sure to destroy everything and everybody in Florida on the way out the door. You heard it here first!!
Swampy’s play to the younger voters rap, rap, rapping along gave him a boost. Yet I don’t think it will keep him alive in the race. After all, you can go to a concert if you want to see a performer. Even the younger set wants a leader, not a faker anymore.
“Florida was a better place prior to his election in 2018.”
I can tell you this fact. Immigrant labor, call it what you will -legal or illegal in origin or whatever label you choose, this labor force is being driven from Florida. I am seeing this first hand in Virginia with some very qualified Spanish speaking men from Latin America who have told me they can’t work in Florida because of laws that Florida passed. Arguing immigrant labor is another discussion. Just think of the ramifications of contractors who cannot find qualified labor to do the work they have to get done there.
I know more than a couple restoration contractors down there. They ALL use this kind of labor. Think about this: who responds to and demo’s, cleans and dries out houses that are flood and hurricane damaged…? There is some English speaking guys, especially in management. But mostly its a lot of ESL guys (and gals) who are not afraid to get dirty, working long hours in the heat.
JMHO but this kind of labor policy from Florida is going to hurt Floridians in the long run.
Now that he and poor Kitty are addicted to the high life there’s no telling what this dullard will do to maintain it.
DeSantis comes off as controlled opposition. He would never say the 2020 election was stolen. This made him look weak and compromised.
Mr. DePlicity…in a span of only three months’ time….
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DeSantis bans Chinese citizens from buying land in Florida
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“Florida is taking action to stand against the United States’ greatest geopolitical threat — the Chinese Communist Party,” DeSantis said in a statement. “I’m proud to sign this legislation to stop the purchase of our farmland and land near our military bases and critical infrastructure by Chinese agents, to stop sensitive digital data from being stored in China, and to stop CCP influence in our education system from grade school to grad school. We are following through on our commitment to crack down on Communist China.”
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/desantis-bans-chinese-citizens-buying-143345948.html
Today….
“A campaign created around the shell of a candidate – devoid of personal intent or internal purpose for running, while being driven only by shallow self-interest and attached to the policy of the funding mechanism –
is always a structure for failure.“
That’s so, so…o ,right !
Time to go back to FL, and starting your de-robotification/AI programs !
Eminem with 13%? Word
Today I wrote our two North Carolina Senators, Tillis and Budd:
Dear Senator Tillis,
We are writing to call your attention to the rampant misuse of the Justice system for political reasons. But first a story. Your colleague, Senator James Lankford from Oklahoma, was interviewed today on Newsmax. He was asked pointedly why the Republicans are sitting idly by while Democrats weaponize the legal system to indict President Trump and his associates, including your friend Mark Meadows, with frivolous and minor charges. The TV commentator asked Lankford why AGs in Red States are not responding with actual and serious state level charges against Joe Biden and his associates. Lankford responded that our mothers taught us “two wrongs don’t make a right.” “We hold ourselves to a higher standard.” This is a ridiculous response! Let me remind you that about 250 years ago a ragtag bunch of farmers and shopkeepers challenged the mightiest army in the world. The British Redcoats followed principles of war that had been in place for centuries. The American Patriots used mostly guerrilla warfare tactics to overcome this opponent who had superior numbers and equipment. My point is, Republicans must use 21st Century methods instead of continuing to live in the past. Finally, this is not just about Trump. If these Lawfare tactics succeed, they will be employed against every Republican. Leftists never play fair. Never! Defend Trump because if he is taken out you and your colleagues in the GOP will certainly be next.
Sincerely,
Ron Simpson
Oak Ridge, NC
They don’t stand up to the left because the left does the heavy lifting for me.
Lankford is simply one of the creepiest senators– next to McConnell of course.
MAGA says, Ron’s Pudding Fingers To Me. Enjoy a smile, comrades.
https://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-karaoke/ron-pudding-fingers-t23711.html
not sure how this matters. If the deep state is openly making up false charges to jail Trump, and NOBODY does anything to stop it, then remind me why they wouldnt openly steal the election AGAIN knowing nobody will do anything to stop it? 60% 100%..doesnt matter, does it?
RDS is circling the drain at this point.
I have no antipathy for him, even though I would not have voted for him (even in the general Presidential election as the GOP nominee), but he’s in complete free-fall.
His abortive candidacy will go down in the books as a massive failure on the part of the absolutely wretched campaign advisors and operators he hired.
But I’m glad to see him go and I won’t miss him.
Never trust a JAG officer.
i’m concerned about that hot mess as well
How did Pence ever work his way up to 2%?
Media lies, probably.
The GOP primary is beginning to look like a rendition of a very popular old TV show called “What’s My Line?” Basically, we have 15 imposters who when asked the question, respond by saying “I’m DJT” because they are attempting to mimic DJT and strip away a portion of the MAGA base. However, there’s only one person who can say “I’m the real DJT plus 45 and you can try all you want to fragment MAGA but it’s not going anywhere.” That in my mind sort of sums up the absurdity of this whole primary process. Sort of like surrounding a real Rolex with a bunch of fake knockoffs.