The Ron DeSantis and Jeff Roe strategy was pretty simple. Push all other states to lower concentration and focus extremely hard on Iowa. All resources were shifted into Iowa for Ron DeSantis and the Florida governor almost moved his entire family there to campaign heavily. DeSantis has promised to campaign in every one of the 99 counties in Iowa.
That said, a weird thing keeps happening. The more that voters are exposed to Ron DeSantis, the more they pull away from supporting him.
This is something I shared last year when I said DeSantis was going to run this year.
The issue is honesty and authenticity, DeSantis has neither. As you read this Ron DeSantis is trying out the latest control script against Trump by saying he would have done a better job in the spring of 2020 with the COVID-19 pandemic, and he would have fired all of the NIH, CDC, FDA and NIAID health advisors in U.S. government, including Anthony Fauci.
The problem with that campaign talking point is that it’s pure nonsense, and every intellectually honest person knows that. DeSantis would never have done anything any different, because no one had any concept of what this COVID-19 issue was really all about. DeSantis is using hindsight and armchair quarterbacking, and that comes out as pure fakery – because it is. DeSantis has no honesty or authenticity. That’s not going to change, and Iowa voters are seeing it up close.
The latest polling from Iowa State University shows this problem in real time. [LINK] AMES, IA — Donald Trump far outpaces other Republican presidential nominees in an Iowa State University/Civiqs poll, which surveyed 1,128 registered voters from Sept. 2-7. The results are the first in a five-part, monthly poll intended to track shifting voter perspectives before the Iowa caucuses on Jan. 15, 2024.
Among the participants, 434 said they “definitely” or “probably” will attend the Iowa Republican Caucuses and identified themselves as Republican or independent. Just over half (51%) of these likely Republican caucus-goers picked former President Trump as their top choice. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis trailed in second place with 14%, followed by former U.N. Ambassador and South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (10%) and entrepreneur and political commentator Vivek Ramaswamy (9%). (more)
Wasn’t Mike Pence the COVID point man?
The danger for Trump is that DeSanctus isn’t trying to win over the majority of voters, he’s trying to get a good enough result to allow his globalists network to force a media narrative that he’s on the rise.
His campaign will pull whatever dirty trick necessary to get the impression he’s “beat the odds,” or some such nonsense.
It’s all fake, but fake suits them and it’s all they’ve got left.
It’s a double-edged sword. As long as Meatball is in the picture, he sucks enough oxygen out of the room so that no other “fresh” face can rise.
Who exactly is running our State? Are we self governing like Liechtenstein?
Won’t be too long and even Florida won’t want Desantis back! His mistake started way back when he stabbed Trump in the back and decided to take the establishment bait…the money and put his political career and legitimacy with the people at stake! He will end up like Jeb Bush…an unlikeable establishment piece of crap that we would never vote for now! But, he sure looked good when he was governor of Florida….not so good when he went up against Trump! And the Bush’s now…well, they stink of the same rot that occupies DC at the present moment! Just the flip side of that same worthless coin in your pocket!
FYI, as Floridian refugee from the communist state of Illinois, I can report this is absolutely true. DeSantis allowed the “state of emergency” in Florida to go on entirely too long, I believe well into the summer of 2021.
Our county commissioners of our supposedly very conservative country had a mask “mandate” in place for over a year, from June 2020 into the summer of 2021. I don’t remember exactly when they finally stopped the nonsense. I never wore a mask and let the commissioners know often how stupid this was.
Anyway, it was the phony “state of emergency” that enabled them to get away with that, and DeSantis did nothing to stop it.
Maybe DeSantis should take a tip from Biden and campaign in his basement…oh wait they don’t have basements in FL. Maybe the garage.
Sundance,
Ron DeSantis isn’t authentic? I mean, how much more authentic can a guy get by parading around Iowa, in the middle of the Summer, wearing long sleeve shirts with a vest, along with jeans and high heel boots? Doesn’t every Iowa Farmer dress that way! /sarc off
And yet our greatest president goes (almost) everywhere in his blue suit/white shirt/red tie and we love him… it’s not about clothes… it’s about authenticity and genuineness and sincerity… things that all of the GOPe candidates have…said no one ever!
The vest with his name embroided on it so he doesn’t forget who he is.
If the RNC had half a brain, they would close down the charade of dwarves and push Trump. Help ensure a landslide victory and take control of all of the Federal Government and State Governments. One would think they could put enough stalking horses in positions to keep making their grift? But no, the GOPe would rather lose? You can’t fix stupid. You replace stupid.
It’s not about brains… trillions are at stake…😔
“…the GOPe would rather lose?” Yes.
The Incredible Shrinking Meatball
Haley, pro Ukraine wasr???