You talking about this Tim Scott?
Desantis is horrible, but i think he operates between a set of guardrails unlike Trump.
Reminds me of P.J. OāRourke when he endorsed Hillary in 2016.
Although, Iām not convinced desantis actually is within the parameters.
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IMO, that crowd is the Republican Party. Itās depressing how popular Trump has been.
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I think that wing of the republican party is now smaller than the āLog Cabin Republicanā wing.
Trump and DeSantis campaigns are competing on Twitter about who did a ābetterā job of ignoring COVID. āYou issued a lockdown orderā āOh yeah, well you developed a vaccine ā and took it!ā
I bet you washed your hands after going to the bathroom!
Elon Musk is heavily supporting DeSantis.
In unrelated news, SpaceX is now exempt from liability for crew member injury / death in launches from Florida.
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Chris Christie reportedly will announce his candidacy for the GOP presidential primary soon.
I donāt think he has even a remote chance. Iām not sure he could even win the NJ primary.
The more clowns jump into the primary field, the greater Trumpās chances to win the GOP nomination IMO.
There is still an opening for an anti-MAGA candidate? None of the others have really come out hard against Trump.
I donāt think youāll get hard opposition just yet, but Nikki Haley seems like the non MAGA candidate
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"Ron DeSantis has a plan ā¦ With a sales tax here and a sales tax there. Here a tax, there a tax, everywhere a sales tax. ā¦ "
Catchy āMAGA Incā ad hitting DeSantis for supporting a national sales tax (aka the āFairTaxā).
Here in Iowa, it is running every night on the local news.
Itās interesting because it is the first non-culture issue that Iāve seen connected to DeSantis.
Of course the ad is misleading by ignoring the elimination of other taxes ā¦ but thatās typical politics. I saw something that gets to the FairTax as an āeliminate the IRSā. Also misleading, of course.
And I still donāt understand why unless all they are going for is a VP pick or the chance that Trump ends up buried in legal issues that he canāt overcome. Why bother running if you canāt form a coherent statement against the front runner?
I hope he is joining to go to debates and tell Trump stories.
How so? Nikki Haley worked for MAGA and said (after the insurrection) that she wouldnāt run against Trump in 2024. Nikki Haley is MAGA.
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Well sheās certainly the least objectionable of the top 3 GOP candidates, which admittedly isnāt saying much.
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Are we talking about the same Nikki Haley?
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3862946-haley-says-desantis-didnt-go-far-enough-with-dont-say-gay/
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Did not know that, but if I had to hold my nose and pick between Trump, DeSantis, or Haley sheād still be my pick.
Which is not to say that I like her. If I got to pick the next POTUS from, say, the top 100 candidates or so, then weād be looking at President Klobuchar.
Iāve been pretty impressed with Buttigieg lately.
Sheās a Republican. Iām not saying she isnāt, and Iām not endorsing her views. And sheās not a never Trumper. But compared to DeSantis/Trump she is the non MAGA Republican option.
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