{"id":52206,"date":"2021-02-12T13:45:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T17:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=52206"},"modified":"2021-02-12T13:45:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T17:45:21","slug":"please-gov-desantis-dont-run-for-potus-the-democrats-will-steal-2024-and-then-florida-will-see-a-soros-puppet-like-andrew-gillum-installed-in-tallahassee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=52206","title":{"rendered":"Please, Gov. DeSantis, Don’t Run for POTUS, the Democrats will steal 2024 and then Florida will see a Soros puppet like Andrew Gillum installed in Tallahassee!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for President in 2024?<\/h1>\n

Although DeSantis rejected the presidential conjecture, he did receive an invitation to the Republican National Committee\u2019s January meeting.<\/p>\n

by Rachel Bucchino<\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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While\u00a0President Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0has\u00a0teased the idea of running<\/a> for a second White House term in 2024, other notable GOP candidates have started to flood into the mix\u2014including Florida\u2019s Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2014carving a crowded path towards the next presidential primaries.<\/p>\n

DeSantis, an ardent loyalist to the president, has been rumored to be interested in running for the commander-in-chief spot, despite\u00a0earlier quells<\/a> insisting that the speculation is \u201ctotal garbage\u201d and that \u201cit\u2019s not coming from me.\u201d Instead, DeSantis told POLITICO in August that it\u2019s \u201ca safe assumption\u201d that he\u2019d run for a second term as governor of the Sunshine State.<\/p>\n

Although DeSantis rejected the presidential conjecture, he did receive an invitation to the Republican National Committee\u2019s January meeting in Amelia Island, Fla.\u2014a time when the committee assesses, analyzes and reviews the party\u2019s presidential prospects.<\/p>\n

RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel reached out to a mass of GOP notables about speaking at the meeting and noted in an email to the committee\u2019s 168 members last month that she will \u201cwork to ensure that all Republican candidates can be successful\u201d\u2014McDaniel\u2019s most striking act of independence from Trump yet, though the president, too, received an invitation.<\/p>\n

The list of Republicans invited to speak at the event include Sens. Tim Scott (S.C.),\u00a0Tom Cotton (Ark.)<\/a>,\u00a0Ted Cruz (Texas)<\/a>\u00a0and Josh Hawley (Miss.), along with\u00a0South Dakota\u2019s Gov. Kristi Noem<\/a>, DeSantis and\u00a0Texas Gov. Greg Abbott<\/a>. Other members of the GOP that were also invited to the meeting are former United Nations ambassador\u00a0Nikki Haley<\/a>\u00a0and Vice President\u00a0Mike Pence<\/a>, both of which have been rumored to be interested in running.<\/p>\n

As Trump sees his final days in office, Republicans are confronted with whether to continue boasting \u201cTrumpism\u201d ideals or to start distancing themselves from the president.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Biden governs competently over the next year and half, it likely boosts democratic congressional numbers and undercuts pro-Trump loyalty. However, the opposite is true as well, that is, a Biden failure favors a Trump revival,\u201d\u00a0Dr. Ken E. Mitchell<\/a>, professor and chair of the political science and sociology department at Monmouth University, said in an email interview, noting that the decision \u201cdepends on the performance of the Biden administration.\u201d<\/p>\n

DeSantis, however, has been a staunch supporter of the president, defending his baseless claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election. The Florida governor told Fox News in November that he\u00a0\u201cwould exhaust every option to make sure we have a fair count,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0pushing voters to contact GOP state lawmakers who could offer \u201cremedies.\u201d<\/p>\n

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DeSantis has also barely acknowledged President-elect\u00a0Joe Biden\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0victory against Trump, as he\u00a0told reporters last month<\/a> when asked if he accepted Biden\u2019s win, \u201cIt\u2019s not for me to do. But here\u2019s what I would say: Obviously we did our thing in Florida. The college voted. What\u2019s going to happen is going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean Hillary [Clinton] the last week of the election was saying [Russian President Vladimir] Putin stole it,\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cAnd I just think that\u2019s left a lot of people really frustrated with how it\u2019s going to go. But we\u2019re going to do the job for Florida. We\u2019re going to push ahead. We\u2019ll work with whoever we need to be able to do right by the state of Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n

But if DeSantis does decide to run for president in 2024, he can position himself as the governor who squashed the beliefs that Florida was a swing state since Trump won its support by nearly four percentage points, the widest margin since former President\u00a0George W. Bush<\/a> in 2004.<\/p>\n

\u201cDeSantis could be a strong GOP candidate in 2024 as the governor of a critical battleground state,\u201d Mitchell said. \u201cFlorida is essential to a successful GOP executive campaign. Democrats demonstrated in 2020 they no longer need Florida as Biden secured a comfortable Electoral College win without it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other experts, however, noted that there are significant hurdles that will barricade other hopeful GOP candidates from entering the presidential playing field in a post-Trump era.<\/p>\n

\u201cDeSantis, along with Cruz, Hawley\u2026 are all trying to capture the base of voters that support President Trump. They\u2019re hoping this will help them in the 2024 primaries,\u201d\u00a0Scott de Marchi<\/a>, political science professor at Duke University, said in an email interview. \u201cThis seems short-sighted though, on a number of dimensions,\u201d noting that Trump or a family member may decide to run and that DeSantis, along with other candidates \u201cdo not have the charisma of Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUp through yesterday\u2019s Georgia Senate elections, it helped DeSantis and other Republicans to treat Trump\u2019s phony claims of massive vote fraud as credible,\u201d\u00a0Rogers Smith<\/a>, political science professor at the University of Pennsylvania, said, when asked whether Trump\u2019s claims of voter fraud could help DeSantis\u2019s 2024 White House bid. \u201cNow they look like they contributed to further GOP defeats. So while DeSantis and other Republicans will continue to champion efforts to protect election \u2018integrity,\u2019 they are not likely to embrace Trump\u2019s massively debunked fabrications.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although Trump might be propped as the leading contender heading into the 2024 primaries if he decides to run, he did lose the 2020 presidential election, after the Democrats seized control of the House just two years before. With a razor-thin margin in the Georgia runoffs will determine control of the Senate, the Democratic wave has shown that there is more resistance than support of the president, perhaps revealing an underlying need for a new face of the Republican party.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Republican party has a mess on its hands and a lot of this is outside the control of the grownups in the party,\u201d de Marchi said. \u201cTrump likely won\u2019t go away and as [Georgia] demonstrates, he\u2019s doing damage to the party. A lot of voters feel (rightly) disenfranchised and Trump is playing off of that. Unfortunately, instead of pushing for policies that would help these voters, Trump is engaging in grievance politics.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rachel Bucchino is a reporter at the National Interest. Her work has appeared in\u00a0<\/em>The Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report\u00a0and<\/em>\u00a0The Hill.<\/p>\n

Image: Reuters.<\/em><\/p>\n

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