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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums""Trump fucking hates DeSantis" a Trump confidant told Vanity Fair." I knew it!
Although DeSantis looks like a front-runner now, a lot can go wrong between now and the New Hampshire primary. For one thing, DeSantiss supposed success at managing COVID is being torched by the delta variant raging out of control in Florida. DeSantis also needs to win reelection in 2022 (a recent poll showed him losing to Republican turned Democrat Charlie Crist). But assuming DeSantis prevails, former staffers told me that his abrasive personality could become a liability under the pressures of a national campaign. DeSantis is known to only trust his wife, Casey, a former newscaster, and his staff has seen heavy turnover. He has zero relationships. He just doesnt speak to you, one former staffer told me. In May, Politico reported that former DeSantis staffers set up a support group to commiserate over their experiences working for him. DeSantis didnt respond to requests for comment.
DeSantiss biggest challenge, though, will be navigating his fraught relationship with Trump. Trump fucking hates DeSantis. He just resents his popularity, a second Trump confidant told me. (Ron is a good guy, Trump said.) According to a source, advisers for Pompeo have been promoting DeSantis in hopes of stoking Trumps jealousy. Pompeos people are building up DeSantis as the leader of the Republican Party to piss Trump off, the source said.
Part of Trumps irritation with DeSantis is that Trump feels that DeSantis doesnt give Trump enough credit for his rise. Trump tells people, I made Ron. Trump says that about a lot of people. But in this case, its actually true, a prominent Republican said. (He gives me good credit, Trump told me.) According to sources, then Congressman DeSantis cultivated Trumps support during the 2018 gubernatorial election by hanging out at Trumps Washington, D.C., hotel. He asked me if Id endorse him, Trump recalled. For much of the primary, DeSantis trailed Florida agriculture commissioner Adam Putnam. But after Trump backed DeSantis in June, DeSantis zoomed 12 points ahead and went on to win by nearly 20 points. The second I endorsed Ron, he blew through everybody, Trump said.
Once in office, DeSantis irked Trump further by putting his political ambitions ahead of Trumps demand for blind loyalty. According to a source, DeSantis announced publicly in the fall of 2019 that Trump would attend the Florida GOPs annual statesman dinner before the White House signed off on the invitation, which effectively forced Trump to appear. Last year, I reported that DeSantis rejected Trumps pleas to close Floridas beaches as the pandemic raged. In the wake of the Surfside condo collapse in June, DeSantis and Trump clashed over Trumps plan to hold a MAGA rally in Florida while the search for survivors continued. (Trump denied there was a dispute, but DeSantis didnt attend the rally.) On July 1, DeSantis appeared alongside Biden and praised him for the federal governments response to the tragedy. The moment recalled the greeting between New Jersey governor Chris Christie and President Barack Obama after Hurricane Sandy.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/09/the-race-to-inherit-trumps-maga-base-is-already-on
Hekate
(90,667 posts)hlthe2b
(102,236 posts)mass murder policies, probably had a big RW future.
That has to be just killing Trump...
JoanofArgh
(14,971 posts)his legacy because that's who Trump is.
FM123
(10,053 posts)Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)literally on every possible level
flying rabbit
(4,632 posts)louslobbs
(3,232 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)After the first paragraph and before looking at the link I knew it was VF and Gabe Sherman
He gets this stuff from Jared Kushner and Ivanka, I think
These people are sociopaths
tavernier
(12,383 posts)Two rats fighting over a slab of moldy disgusting GOP cheese.
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(35,454 posts)sop
(10,167 posts)DeSantis' "abrasive personality (will) become a liability under the pressures of a national campaign."
joetheman
(1,450 posts)Clash City Rocker
(3,396 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(16,784 posts)I mean, children are dying in Florida and getting infected as never before.
Trump should be happy about that. Is he not? I find that pretty deplorable. For Trump did not shed one tear for a child lost to COVID when he was still POTUS.
Mike Nelson
(9,953 posts)...two men who like nobody but themselves! I wonder if they will compare penis size like Marco and The Donald?
Casady1
(2,133 posts)He cant afford a loss.
bluestarone
(16,926 posts)Bigger piece of shit!
Bristlecone
(10,127 posts)in the trump world.
Rocknation
(44,576 posts)Last edited Mon Sep 6, 2021, 12:02 PM - Edit history (2)
They're being groomed as the front runners for the mission to turn Biden into a one-term president, not him!Rocknation
ShazzieB
(16,389 posts)They are fighting over the crown he sees as his own. No wonder he hates them both!
Xolodno
(6,390 posts)...a boss and a bunch of high ranking underlings enjoying a huge pasta dinner with plenty of wine. Next morning the underling that has been growing the fastest, walks out the front door to pick up his paper, while he's bent down a passer by shoots him in the head.
Hit ordered by the boss.
Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)and because of that he hates anybody who won't pretend to like him.
PortTack
(32,762 posts)Blue Owl
(50,355 posts)Fuck them both
mackdaddy
(1,527 posts)Although it is like which lump do you dislike more at the bottom of the scum bucket with these people...
Aviation Pro
(12,164 posts)....the Russian words maskirovka and dezinformatsiya come to mind and I have a sneaking suspicion that this is all bullshit.
Both scumbags are threats and probably working together.
dlk
(11,561 posts)n/t
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)when he get's voted out , people will spit in his face ! TFG lives in a cell in florida ! has all this security , but afraid to leave because he is a coward . popularity is down to nothing , has rally's in fucking cow pasture ! ronny deathsentence is a national joke now ! go to florida & pick out tropical coffin's at discounted price 's , plus free shipping with you in it ! make's me just want to avoid the hell out of that damn state !
paleotn
(17,912 posts)and let nature take her course.
FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)Jon King
(1,910 posts)Those are the 3 states that will decide 2024, the ones that went Trump in 2016 and close in 2020. The ones with governors that blocked the voter suppression attempts.
Trump had twitter and much name recognition. Desantis does not have the slick personality and lacks charisma.
He is also from Florida and many voters will have the 'Floridah man' in their minds. That is a huge negative in many voters minds if they are on the fence.
Add Covid to the list. Ronny staked his future on dying voters, or killing them
peppertree
(21,627 posts)PatSeg
(47,419 posts)And he only trusts his wife? Sounds a lot like Trump in some ways. Nobody likes Trump and he makes enemies all the time.
Akacia
(583 posts)ex staff members needed to form a support group after working for the creep.
MichaelSoE
(1,576 posts)LisaL
(44,973 posts)Just the fact that DeSantis has a full head of hair is likely driving Trump mad.