Ron DeSantis has dropped out of the 2024 Republican primary.
The career diminished Florida Governor is trying to save face and has endorsed Donald Trump. The announcement comes at 02:20 of the video below. WATCH:
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The next few days will be fraught with demands to unite the clans. However, please remember the proven and demonstrably accurate axiom: Never Trust a Never Trumper.
The Ron DeSantis campaign was built upon a foundation of fraud. Long planned as an effort to destroy the threat that MAGA represents to the Republican apparatus, nothing about the DeSantis campaign was grassroots, authentic, natural or real. The Sea Island organized campaign was a specific and detailed approach driven by the professional political class. Ron DeSantis was a vessel, a willing vessel, for the deliberate schemes and Machiavellian intents of the worst elements in USA Republican politics.
WE CANNOT UNITE with that group. Think about it.
Supporters of Ron DeSantis either knew of the Never Trump intents, or they were not smart enough to see the supernova flares of manipulation that were triggered from the outset. Either way, cunning or stupid, I do not want to camp with them. It is what it is.
Take the endorsement and carry on.
Ron and Casey will be divorced within two years.
💥🇺🇸GODZILLA TRUMP 2024🇺🇸💥
TRUMPZILLA NUMBER ONE KAIJU!!
HE STOMP YOU LONG TIME!!
Never trust a Yalie or a Haley!
Or a man from Hahvahd…
At the centre of every disaster, one from that institution of “higher learning” is…so says Dr Thomas Sowell.
Since it will take a while and a LOT of eating for Nimarata to turn into a singing fat lady,
we can accept her swan song as a twiggy type,
with some Ice-Witch persona thrown in ’cause she’s a natural at the skinny-Ice-Witch kinda thing.
Betsy love your comments
You are so kind, Marcia. Thank you.
This IS a Trump love fest. MAGA
Isn’t it GREAT,Tom????
I think I can see everybody here smiling 😁👍🏻
Freedom is a force of nature that won’t be stopped. Our President Donald J. Trump is a political force of nature, and the Uniparty won’t stop him from being #47.
We have your back, Mr. President. God bless you!
I’m frustrated with the lack of MAGA candidates down ballot. I live in a ruby red state and none of my elected rep or senators are MAGA. They are sold out or compromised by the uniparty.
We need choices in the GOP primary or we’re going to get more of the same crap from them.
Try being from SC. Sheesh.
Must have found his fat lady to sing. Is that Bill Mitchell or Rhona Mcdainels voice I hear ?
Bill is too busy crying to be able to sing. 🤷♀️
Clearly he’s running in 2028 and he wants to attract Trump supporters.
NO! I won’t vote for him in 2028 or ever.
NOT.NOW.NOT.EVER.
Just like lyin’ Ted.
Not now. Not ever.
No one’s going to donate to him after this debacle. The donor class knows how badly of a campaign was run, how much of their money and time wasted. Expect the damning weather report to come out in short order.
That’s a great point. Guys like him depend on the big donors. He has leprosy now
I will vote for whomever Trump chooses as his successor…and it ain’t gonna be DeSanctimonious.
I don’t like political dynasties, but I do like Don, Jr.
If you’re going to be foolish enough to support another Trump, at least pick the correct son.
Yes. Eric is the true heir to the throne.
We fought a war to abolish thrones, but I get your gist and agree.
And would much rather have Lara as Melania’s successor than skanky Kimmy G.
That’s rude. Don Jr is awesome.
He has double the ego of his father and half his skill. He’d be my least favorite of all the president’s kids if it wasn’t for his horrible sister.
Beyond all that, he’s not the right person to lead this country, which is all that should really matter.
This is rude -> If you’re going to be foolish enough to support another Trump
Junior is the showman, Eric has the business acumen.
Eric is much more the executive and grounded.
Plus, he has stability at home.
How about this son…one day…
Ha! That would blow Democrats’ minds. 🙂
He’s smarter at this precise moment than they will ever be.
Cool!
A 2028 campaign will never get off the ground. Who’s going to put money behind him after this?
And now he has a problem. His Florida Governor campaign fund was apparently closed out and renamed. He can’t run for Governor again right away, so he can’t open a new campaign fund. The big $$$ anti-Trump donors may have moved on so perhaps it doesn’t matter.
Term limited anyway.
Gonna be a rough two years for him.
Flattered and funded by those who see President Trump as an existential threat (which he is) to “their” trillions and their psychotic appetite for inhuman control, DeSantis bet it all…
And he has lost.
Perhaps in the wee dark hours to come he will contemplate on what that price of treachery and vanity (“Vanity, vanity, all is vanity.”) has cost him.
And maybe the words of John Greenleaf Whittier written so long ago might creep in.
“For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.'”
“Mommas for Meatball” will have the sadz…
(hat tip: Ad rem 😉👍🏻)
I’m impressed with your ability to switch from references to high quality literature to “mommas for meatball” lol
No telling what will pop into my head or when, MAGA.
As you can see clearly 😉😎
Betsy Jones is the finest.
As Marlon Brando said “I coudda been a contender”
LOL!!!!
“Clearly he’s running in 2028……….”
I’m left with the impression that he was trying to channel his inner Ronald Reagan with that “time for choosing” reference. Next up we’ll hear comparisons of DeSantis/Trump ’24 is just like Reagan/Ford ’76 and in four more years we’ll be ready for another Ron in the White House.
He’ll need President Trump’s endorsement.
He won’t get it.
I believe that Team Trump now understands how bigly important personnel is.
They will do a “great replacement” of the old guard inside the D.C. beltway, with MAGA-new-blood people from fly-over country and even the coasts.
From that MAGA-new-blood, Team Trump will cultivate “farm teams” to develop as candidates in 2026 and 2028 and beyond. To continue the restoration of America.
I think they understood, Reglar.
I do believe, however, they had no understanding of the very deep psychopathies of those they considered trustworthy.
They are older and wiser now.
Trump can give DeSantis the same kind of pathetic faux endorsement DeSantis just gave Trump
Ron chose wrong.
I’m with you! NEVER RON! He’s blown up his whole career!
i hope he’s not divorced within two years
those kids deserve both parents in their lives full time
It is not hoping, it’s simply seeing.
I’m sure Ron and Casey are despondent.
But I suspect God sees three little ones whose needs are much greater than the ambitions of their parents.
I pray they’ll see it as well.
Me too.
🙏🏻 🙏🏻 🙏🏻
Those kids don’t deserve either parent, but perhaps separate they can focus on their children instead of themselves.
Retired Magistrate here: From my experience as a Common Pleas Court Magistrate who handled approximately 7,000 cases during my tenure, I agree with Sundance; Ron and Casey will be divorced within two years and the custody battle will be horrific.
Casey really had her hopes set on being First Lady and she was willing to sacrifice everything to make that come true. Unfortunately, Ron and Casey will blame each other. They will both slink back to Florida to voters who feel betrayed, and rightfully so, about all subterfuge that DeSantis used with the people of Florida. Also with all the changes DeSantis and the Florida legislature have made to Florida’s laws, it is going to make it easier for a Democrat to become governor again.
DeSantis had a bright future; however, he and Casey got greedy and blew it. The bright side is many people see DeSantis for who he really is: a greedy, arrogant, self centered little man who has no business anywhere near the White House.
it was an abusive act using their young children, like they both did, as props to further the parents’ political ambitions
neither of these two should ever be allowed anywhere near a lever of power now or in the future
these are power hungry, deceitful and loathsome individuals
screw them both, pray for the children
Amen. The only thing worse than a having a narcissist parent is having two.
I’ve been voting since 1980 and I’ve NEVER seen a Republican Candidate & Wife use their children as campaign props like Ron & Casey did. In all fairness, it was probably her call.
“Ron and Casey will be divorced within two years.”
Yup.
What DeSantis and Haley did do is…. exhaust a whole lot of establishment money.
Which could have been, and still could be better spent on electing Senators and Representatives.
Don’t need any more Senators or Representatives bought with establishment money, thanks.
Here! Here! …says the one applauding.
I’m fine with that.
And, bddeing grifters, they made sure they got a 10% kick back, of every dime of that $ spent.
10% of $200 million is plenty enough to sock away in an offshore account.
You mean our laundered taxpayer money.
Never had a chance. Now he is all used up. Who will the next governor of Florida be?
matt gaetz
If Matt has any long term ideas about the White House, then spending a few terms as Governor would certainly help provide him with much needed executive responsibilities experience.
Byron Donalds
Hopefully not a 3rd-world warlord with an entourage.
A Democrat. Sundance has extensively detailed that Ron’s lack of focus on Florida’s problems (home insurance rate hikes up to 50%) have turned the state blue.
Homeowners insurance is up nationally double digits because of Bidenomics according to an insurance broker I deal with. Add to that Florida’s frequent hurricane destruction of varying magnitudes, and Floridia homeowners get the big boost in premiums from those companies that will still underwrite HO policies.
To some extent, insurance fraud (roofing scams) also factored into Florida rates.
Home insurance has been a mess since Andrew in 92, I don’t think it has turned the state blue, but sure has pizzed off a lot of Americans who are still trying to live here.
Floridians were betrayed by Desantis. He’s lost his own state. He’s a lousy politician to begin with.
It will only go democrat if another clown like that idiot woman who ran against desantis is not their candidate. Yes Desantis’ implosion has put Florida up for grabs now.
Have no clue, but I’d bet if they are endorsed by President Trump, they’ll win.
Yah, for a conservative to win FL governor’s race coming up will take PDJT intervention. Good thing he has broad shoulders. The rest of us need to do more to help.
duhminion is in full control in the state of florida
duhminion allowed desanctus to win his governorship by the great landslide he did as a psyop to create false momentum prior to ron entering the presidential campaign season
this nation will have become unrecognizable by the time the next fl govs race rolls around as the sht will be hitting the fan hard in ’24 and ’25
prepare and buckle-up treepers, things are about to get wild
I respect this decision to endorse PRESIDENT Trump. And the timing.
WELCOME to The Trump Train-EV RY BODY ON
“I fought MAGA and all I got to show for it is this stupid tiara.”
😝
Unfortunately, he misunderstood the big boots he had to fill.
Don’t forget he also got a participation trophy 🏆.
But he didn’t accept it.
Regrets, he’ll have a few . . .
YOUR SINATRA IS SHOWING MAQUIS!😂🤣😂
Exactly! “Take the endorsement and carry on”. We don’t need or want this group…we’ll get it done without them. 💥🇺🇸TRUMP2024🇺🇸💥
Florida will now be back on the menu for election rigging. Brian Kemp told me.
“Ron and Casey will be divorced within two years.”
Sad. But they brought it on themselves.
It is a bit tragic that he was sucked into a role he clearly wasn’t ready for or I think really wanted. He seems to me to be a very miserable man, I hope he finds some peace. That said, See YA! I don’t think his wife will stand by her man anymore!
He wasn’t sucked into anything,. He tho’t he was greater than MAGA. He was wrong.
This is a picture of a Brow Beat man. The wanna be first Lady was the driving force behind this fiasco…
Puh-lease. I’m, sure he shoved her down on his sprint to the starting line. I’ve seen couples like them and usually one ends up in the hospital. It teaches them nothing.
What you are seeing is the picture of a pissed off man because he tho’t he knew better than everyone else and tho’t his sh1t didn’t stink. Well, guess what. It does. YUGELY!
And we smelled it from coast to coast.
Desantis is a grown man. If he could not stand up for himself within his own family then he sure wasn’t ready to run the country, nor will he ever be ready!
I do believe a lot of these “candidates” are “sucked into” roles they themselves had no thought for originally, but when they were wooed and courted and then wooed and courted some more, they started believing the lies of Satan’s minions telling them how only they can save our country.
That’s how we end up with a long line of candidates who may be wonderful people, but have no chance of being President, with Dr. Ben Carson being an example. Fabulous man of God, but one whom the swamp selected to run only to take out when the time came because he is a man of God. Throw out to the lying media a few of Ben’s truly Biblical stands, and the leftists, both great and small, will leave him in shreds.
The deep-state-swamp-uniparty-demons go around looking for whom they can devour — just like Satan, because that’s their boss. They find out everything about each person, good and bad, and keep it in their special pouch of, ‘We’ll use this dirt against them when we decide it is time for them to leave,’ and that’s exactly what they do.
When I heard lil’ Ron dropped out all I could think was he had played his part and the demons were done with him.
Bingo.
They seduced him into running but never told him they only meant for him to be a spoiler candidate. He got dazzled by the prospect that he might actually win.
So DeSantis is double butt-hurt now. Used by his anti-Trump anti-MAGA donors, and then had to end his bid and grovel to Trump. lol
DeSantis will be lucky to remain governor, he doesn’t need to think about 2028.
If he wants to campaign for 2028, he should start finding ways to do his job, and lower our astronomical insurance costs here in FL. Among several other key problems our state faces, including addressing ballot fraud.
if he fails at that, then he fails at the role of Governor — and disqualifies himself, further, from the office of President.
Too bad he’s not a democrat…failure is ALWAYS a resume enhancer for them. Just look at our governor, Grusome Newsom. 🤮
With tail firmly tucked, another servile puppy dog returns to the kennel.
Old virtue: Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
New virtue: Always beat a dying horse.
More like a listless vessel.
In the flying game it is called, “Out of airspeed, altitude and ideas”. The end result is usually “crash and burn”.
And DeSantis doesn’t even know “if you realize you’re going to crash, fly it as far into the crash as possible”. They’re going to hit hard.
I believe the new Never DeSantis movement may rival the Never Trumper’s – Ron ruined his career himself, he let non-MAGAs lure him away with talk of fame and fortune. Sad ending, due to poor decisions.
The Never Trumper cannot articulate the rationales of their position. The Never DeSantis group, aka MAGA, can do their with ease and flair. The cold anger flows from it.
Maybe there is a seat available on the Bored at Boeing.
There will never be a comeback for this kid.
“Take the endorsement and carry on.”
Rear view mirror approach.
He can finally take off his high heels.
My poor meatball rolled out the door
He found his Fat Lady.
Hubris. Schadenfreude. Comeuppance. 😉
You forgot popcorn!
😁
The global uniparty tried to destroy Trump. After the Iowa Trump blowout they have shifted to having one of the decipticons sidle up to Trump. DeSantis’ breath fog was all over the windows when the feds raided Mar a Lago.
Rob still has to pay for that.
“Ron and Casey will be divorced within two years.”
Probably true. I suspect that she was a primary reason Ronny listened to the sirens of the Establishment to run this cycle, instead of waiting until 2028. Now that her Jackie O dreams are dead, she’ll unload this guy.
“…sirens of the Establishment…”
Excellent description of what takes place and who “they” are.
Elise Stefanik for Vice President! MAGA to the max ….
Thanks, but no thanks.
1) She remains valuable to the people of NY that she represents.
2) Her MAGA badge is a bit tarnished at times. She needs more time to polish her positions.
3) To young to be jumping into the VP position.
I agree.
Agreed.
I choose Dr. Carson!
NO! Stefanik is a RINO. Just no
Doctor…BEN CARSON. He has the 🔥 fire. You can’t be a Neurosurgeon and be a whimp…
This is a Sundance prophecy I am fully behind.
Sure, we want a pugilist to follow him, but now he needs a steady faithful man at his side to do all that needs done in this term.
I agree.
The only one I’m SURE has the brain capacity to handle the job, like the Boss. He just has a different personality, which I also like. They would make great bookends.
NOPE. No woman. I’m tired of how it looks.
I agree. Also, I don’t see Stefanik pulling in any voters that Trump doesn’t already have. I think Ben Carson will, and maybe there are some others. Carson was nothing but class in the 2016 cycle and after Trump appointed him to head HUD.
Casey will divorce Ron as soon as his term as governor is over.
She has met the billionaires who are the real decision makers and now Ron is expendable in her lust for power.
I bet Ron now realizes just how dearly a cost one has to pay to become a pawn of the ruling class.
Bless his heart
There were two tell tale signs that DeSantis was two faced: 1) Cozying up to the Bush Ryan Rove bunch and 2) reversing his Ukraine stance when a donor gave him the what for.
Your dog catcher job awaits you when your term is done
Wallet sufficiently plumped, moving on. 🙂
I see him as a Disney lobbyist.
Wearing the ears!
Or the skirt.
After he called ’18 MAGA clip “satiric”, “Rob” in his farewell speech:
“We can’t go back to the old Republican guard of yesteryear — a repackaged form of warmed-over corporatism — that Nikki Haley represents. The days of putting Americans last, of kowtowing to large corporations, of caving to woke ideology, are over.”
I hope this drop out didn’t come with a price tag for President Trump!
Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.
– Benito Mussolini (the world’s greatest expert on fascism – until he died)
A price for Trump?
Not bloody likely.
If President Trump regain WH, time will tell how many “globalists” will serve in his cabinet. Someone must first be promoted into a position in order to be a backstabber.
BTW: Where did Steve Bannon work before he entered politics?
How Goldman Sachs Took Over the U.S. Economy (theintercept.com)
BANNON was once CIA
Steve Bannon was a M & Banker at Goldman Sachs.
Gary Cohn was president & COO of Goldman Sachs.
Anthonio Scaramucci worked in investment division of Goldman Sachs.
Steven Mnuchin worked 17 years for Goldman Sachs where his father was also employed.
Dina Powell joined Goldman Sachs as Managing Director.
Jay Clayton represented prominent Wall Street firms including Goldman Sachs.
It is a pity that with such diverse expertise, it was not possible to identify the foreign transfers to the Bidens.
NeverBack Down Ron didn’t even have the respect to call him PRESIDENT Trump. Some of his references in his farewell adresss were even only “Trump”, ie he despises Trump. MAGA support hopeful, without genuine appreciation for all the man has done for him and the people of the US. Good luck with that.We both know what President Trump’s endorsement meant to “Rob” in ’18 and which MAGA grassroots worked hard to bring him into governors mansion. And all those who want to know smelled it long before the re-election ’22 that he will also enter the line of DJT’s backstabber.
MAGA!!
Can’t wait to read Ace tomorrow. Will he do the right thing and throw his support to Trump? Well, he did last time.
Also can’t wait to read Coulter for the next few months at Takimag.
As they say, though: shiff just got real. 😆
Rob picking today is seriously impeding my football 👀 watching. I will add this to my bad Rob list..
What a waste of time and money.
ALL of ‘this’ is. Every year.
It was a lot of time. Starting in 2017 when he was running for Florida Governor the first time. All to become President eventually. Wah wah waaaaaah.
Respectfully, DeSantis was never in the running to be the nominee.
Agreed. He could, however, have become a superstar in the wings, had he checked his ego, worked for Trump 2024, and governed FL as a full-on MAGA.
Sadly, he chose his path, and took the ticket instead.
Everyone who takes that ticket has to pay for it eventually.
Selling one’s soul is never a good idea.
DeSantis destroyed his political capital, in my opinion.
His career track to the presidency is dead ended.
He’ll have to rethink his future.
I think Mrs. DeSantis was his best asset. I wonder if she
ever advised him not to run against Trump for 2024?
Wut?
You’re kidding, right?
The Tiara Terror was into this deeper than he was.
BZAZ didn’t get the memo. Check will bounce…
😄
I think she was drawn to the odor of big anti-Trump campaign contributions just as much as he was.
The Swamp says it does’nt really matter. They have their insurance policy – a pen. That’s all it takes to hack a Dominion voting machine. I’m sure they’re sharpening up on their cheating skills as we speak.
Woah, that’s a heck of a thing to say. I know Sundance has a good track record when it comes to predictions, but where is this one coming from?
Casey was considered the driving force behind his campaign, and is far more ambitious. With his political career all but over in a spectacularly humiliating way, it makes sense she would bail.
Yup. On to greener ($$$$$) pastures.
Kinda reminds me of Talladega Nights when the wife dumps Ricky Bobby for his best friend the new #1 driver. Besides Frenchie, who already had a husband, that is.
It’s not as bad as saying he will have cancer in 2 years.
This caught me off guard as well, however having re-read that line several times in the context of the article, I believe the statement is an indictment of how shallow a human being Casey is. Also that this campaign has probably illustrated a number of weaknesses & unattractive traits in her man that will be difficult for her to unsee going forward.
thought the same thing.
Rank dishonesty. Still lying about his own support of Fauci, falsely blaming President Trump for Fauci’s policies. No honor among thieves. While complaining about Lawfare and the deep state, no mention of the Globalist donors who lured him in and then abandoned him for Haley. No mention of Trump’s achievements and his innocence in all these indictments, just that Trump’s the voter’s choice.
Exactly.
He’s belatedly stepping off the Trump Train tracks.
Nothing more.
Agreed. I had a bad taste in my mouth after one minute of listening.
Also, no mention of the Steal. Of the coup which succeeded.
Funny stuff
I read a comment that Haley will drop out and endorse Biden
She’s that crazy. Very birdbrained.
I think it’s possible that the DementoRat party will dump Biden and back Haley (in deed) while running Karenamala (in word).
They don’t care a fig which puppet is dancing to their tune as long as the dance continues.
I guess it is a two-person race. The only question is, “Does President Trump cross the finish line on Super Tuesday or before?”
The South Carolina primary is Feb 24th. When Nikki loses in her home state it will be effectively over then.
What if she insists on hanging on until enough delegates secured?
Come on South Carolina!
We’re cheering for you!!!
I’m in SC. She is loathed here.
If Trump wins New Hampshire and South Carolina, it’s pointless for Haley to continue. If she can’t win what was her own state she’s a goner, but we knew that anyway.
For the sake of their kids, I hope you are wrong.
I’m sure Sundance feels the same.
Most of us do.
But there are unhealthy dynamics at play in that not so powerful duo and it’s not hard to see trouble in their future.
Dead meat stinks.
I believe Ron DeSantis is probably a decent man underneath it all. He’s done some good things for the state of Florida. But he let himself be swayed by the Sea Island crowd who promised him riches beyond his dreams. He should have waited four more years and run in 2028. I will not wish ill on the man or on his family; hopefully he learns from this experience and will move on successfully as Florida governor and then something new.
Please inform yourself: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/06/22/everyone-is-going-to-think-im-nuts-but-im-not-nuts/#more-248039
It means Ron DeSantis was a Big Club operation put into play in 2018. Republicans are very good at creating the illusion of choice. They are doing it again, only this time they are failing. “This is important because if people don’t understand this, recognize they were “conned” and understand HOW they were manipulated, they will keep falling for it, every time.”
In that thread is a comment referring to a tweet from Laura Loomer. Interesting. I’m not sure of the date of the video but it’s no later than June 2018. Jill “Casey” DeSantis is holding up a Club for Growth mug. She said she got it in DC, probably when Ron was still a US Representative. And for some reason she decided to pose with it and talk about it on the Florida TV show she co-hosted. Interesting.
https://www.clubforgrowth.org/casey-black-desantis-shows-off-her-club-for-growth-coffee-mug/
“Casey” showed off the mug in 2013, so this was after she and Ron were married (2009) but before he ran for FL Gov (2017).
Question: Did DeSantis make this decision to suspend his campaign, or did the “investors” who pull his strings make the decision for him?
The investors. They want their 1980 money back.
The well ran dry. Ron took one too many expensive jet ride and tapped out his not unlimited expense account. He and Casey liked being pampered in luxury while the serfs hit the ground running. Tho’t he should be above the whole boarding and deboarding thing that the rest of us must endure, unless you are an illegal alien. Now it’s time for peanut butter and crackers in the Governor’s mansion.
There have been rumors that Wal-mart Camo Barbie Jill Casey will run for Governor next. It will never happen.
And we will never be ready for these two in the White House.