{"id":1272281,"date":"2023-05-05T18:10:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T22:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/will-ron-desantis-actually-run-for-president-in-2024\/1272281\/"},"modified":"2023-05-05T18:10:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T22:10:22","slug":"will-ron-desantis-actually-run-for-president-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/will-ron-desantis-actually-run-for-president-in-2024\/1272281\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Ron DeSantis Actually Run For President In 2024?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Will Ron DeSantis Actually Run For President In 2024?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Roger L. Simon via The Epoch Times<\/a> (emphasis ours),<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s likely that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will announce a 2024 presidential campaign. <\/strong>Les jeux sont fait, the bets are placed, as the French say at Monte Carlo and elsewhere\u2014not to mention the ability the rest of us have to place them on the ever-escalating number of political betting sites<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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DeSantis is forming or is said to be forming an exploratory committee this month that allows substantial contributions to his campaign.<\/p>\n

But in truth, it\u2019s looking at this moment like he may have made a mistake and that biding his time, remaining Florida\u2019s governor and waiting for 2028, might be a smarter strategy. In fact, this early attempt might prove self-destructive in the long run, tarnishing his image and giving him the whiff of the loser.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not too late to say no.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A new CBS\u2013YouGov<\/a> poll released May 1 shows the Florida governor trailing former President Donald Trump by a yawning gap of 36 percentage points: 58 to 22. This continues a blowout trend that has been going on for some time.<\/p>\n

This undoubtedly discourages financial backers, several of whom DeSantis already seems to be hemorrhaging<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Making things yet more difficult for the governor is that many now believe he\u2019s the chosen candidate of Fox News, a network that seemingly has lost its soul (and much of its audience) due to its cancellation of Tucker Carlson.<\/p>\n

Does this mean that Trump has the Republican nomination \u201cin the bag\u201d? As of now, I would have to say yes, even though 27 percent of GOP voters, according to this poll, have yet to be convinced, a percentage of those deeming him \u201ctoo controversial.\u201d<\/p>\n

What about the supposed also-rans in this poll?<\/strong><\/p>\n

In order, they are former Vice President Mike Pence and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, tied at 5 percent, and former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley at 4 percent. \u00a0The rest\u2014talk show host Larry Elder, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson\u2014weren\u2019t even able to register a full 1 percent.<\/p>\n

The one who\u2019s interesting here, obviously, is Ramaswamy. He has come literally from out of nowhere to tie for the lead in the second tier with Pence, who isn\u2019t yet declared and\u2014his appeal static\u2014possibly is having second thoughts.<\/p>\n

On May 2, Byron York<\/a>, in his Washington Examiner column that\u2019s known for a middle-of-the-road conventional Republican approach, looks askance on Haley\u2019s contention that she should deserve the nomination because she constitutes a \u201cnew generation.\u201d<\/p>\n

York quotes from her February announcement speech in Charleston: \u201cWe\u2019re ready to move past\u00a0the stale ideas and faded names of the past, and we are more than ready for a new generation to lead us into the future. I come here today with a vision of that future.\u201d<\/p>\n

She called for \u201cmandatory mental competency for politicians over 75 years old.\u201d (Trump has already taken such a test and passed. Biden, as far as we know, hasn\u2019t done so.)<\/p>\n

The problem for the 51-year-old Haley is that her \u201cvision of that future\u201d isn\u2019t especially unique, nor does it differ substantially in any serious way from her supposedly geriatric rival, the former president.<\/p>\n

What York overlooks, at least in this column, is that Ramaswamy, at 37, isn\u2019t only considerably younger than Haley, but also has a more original vision and takes things further by advocating for such things as the complete destruction of the FBI and our intelligence agencies as we know them, and their replacement from the ground up.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He also has far more Silicon Valley-type technical expertise as the founder and CEO of a biotech company than anybody running for president on either side. In a field dominated by the left, this makes him a tremendous, arguably crucial, asset to the right as artificial intelligence continues to take over our world.<\/p>\n

People are beginning to realize that, and given his high level of articulateness, it makes it less surprising that\u00a0Ramaswamy has risen so rapidly to the top of that second tier.<\/p>\n

Where will he go from here? Defeating Trump is a big chew when he is still 17 points behind DeSantis, although it\u2019s interesting he is substantially closer to the Florida governor in polling than the 36 points that DeSantis trails the 45th president.<\/p>\n

Read more here…<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nFri, 05\/05\/2023 – 21:00<\/span><\/p>\n

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