{"id":1450117,"date":"2024-01-11T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1450117"},"modified":"2024-01-11T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T22:25:00","slug":"amid-dueling-debates-vivek-warns-the-system-will-force-haley-desantis-ticket-to-bring-down-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/amid-dueling-debates-vivek-warns-the-system-will-force-haley-desantis-ticket-to-bring-down-trump\/1450117\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid &#8216;Dueling Debates&#8217;, Vivek Warns &#8216;The System&#8217; Will Force Haley-DeSantis Ticket To Bring Down Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Amid &#8216;Dueling Debates&#8217;, Vivek Warns &#8216;The System&#8217; Will Force Haley-DeSantis Ticket To Bring Down Trump<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Given Donald Trump&#8217;s absolute dominance over the current 2024 GOP field, Vivek Ramaswamy has a prediction:<\/p>\n<p>Nikki Haley will become the establishment&#8217;s &#8216;puppet&#8217; candidate, and Ron DeSantis will be forced to join her ticket as VP.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/AP24011134849512-1704945203_80.jpg?itok=9tdmCNSw\"><em>Ron DeSantis, Nimrata &#8220;Nikki&#8221; Haley<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here\u2019s the plot: 1. Narrow this to a 2-horse race between Trump &amp; a puppet they can control. 2. Eliminate Trump. 3. <strong>Trot their puppet into the White House<\/strong>. Prediction: next up, Ron <strong>DeSantis joins Nikki Haley\u2019s ticket as VP<\/strong>. Ron may not know it yet, but he won\u2019t have a say in the matter,&#8221; Ramaswamy posted on X.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the plot:<br \/>\n1. Narrow this to a 2-horse race between Trump &amp; a puppet they can control.<br \/>\n2. Eliminate Trump.<br \/>\n3. Trot their puppet into the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Prediction: next up, Ron DeSantis joins Nikki Haley\u2019s ticket as VP. Ron may not know it yet, but he won\u2019t have a say in the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EZzWn4WVya\">pic.twitter.com\/EZzWn4WVya<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VivekGRamaswamy\/status\/1745225605753217326?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, Chris Christie thinks Haley is &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/haley-gonna-get-smoked-christie-caught-hot-mic-quitting-gop-race\">gonna get smoked<\/a>&#8216; because &#8216;she&#8217;s not up to this,&#8217; but we digress.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Haley and DeSantis take shots at Trump<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, and we don&#8217;t blame you if you missed it, Haley and DeSantis took shots at the former president (and each other) at a debate hosted by CNN in Des Moines, Iowa &#8211; after two other contenders, Gov. Asa Hutchinson and Vivek Ramaswamy, failed to meet the heightened requirements to participate.<\/p>\n<p><em>At the start of the debate, Mr. <strong>DeSantis said\u2014as he often has\u2014that the former president is \u201crunning to pursue his issues.\u201d<\/strong> Ms. <strong>Haley soon said that she doesn\u2019t think the 45th president \u201cis the right president to go forward,\u201d<\/strong> touting herself as \u201ca new generational leader.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mr. Tapper, one of CNN\u2019s moderators, noted that President Trump had not accepted their invitation to take part in the pre-caucus debate. The former leader of the United States instead held a town hall elsewhere in Des Moines that aired on Fox News.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>DeSantis tried to capitalize on his comments via X following the debate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump is running to pursue his issues.<\/p>\n<p>Nikki Haley is running to pursue her donors\u2019 issues.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m running to pursue your issues, your family\u2019s issues, and to turn this country around. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/srace9EkPL\">pic.twitter.com\/srace9EkPL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonDeSantis\/status\/1745266509654413385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Haley, meanwhile, is right on course to piss off the more than <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/more-3rd-us-adults-say-bidens-election-was-illegitimate-poll\">1\/3 of US adults<\/a> who say the 2020 election was illegitimate<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That election\u2014Trump lost it [and] Biden won that election,&#8221; said Haley, adding that Trump would &#8220;have to answer&#8221; for Jan. 6, without specifying what she meant.<\/p>\n<p>HALEY: &#8220;That election \u2014 Trump lost it \u2014 Biden won that election.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0zyftLEJhs\">pic.twitter.com\/0zyftLEJhs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breaking911 (@Breaking911) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Breaking911\/status\/1745289165011394578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Haley and DeSantis also slammed Trump&#8217;s claim of presidential immunity in a DC federal appeals court considering his 2020 election case, with DeSantis saying: &#8220;I think the D.C. circuit is going to rule against Trump on that issue,&#8221; and that &#8220;a stacked, left-wing D.C. jury of all Democrats&#8221; is going to give Trump the business.<\/p>\n<p>Haley suggested Trump&#8217;s immunity argument is &#8220;absolutely ridiculous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What has President Trump done? You look at the last few years, and our country is completely divided,&#8221; Haley said, apparently unaware that Trump hasn&#8217;t been president &#8216;the last few years.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>For a deeper dive into the Haley &#8211; DeSantis slap fight, the <em>Daily Caller<\/em> has a good writeup <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2024\/01\/11\/nikki-haley-ron-desantis-debate-iowa-cnn-republican-primary-caucus\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump, meanwhile&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While Haley and DeSantis traded barbs, Trump sat down with <em>Fox News<\/em> hosts Bret Baier and Martha MacCalllum for a live town hall event, also in Iowa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/trump%20iowa.JPG?itok=8qXcUjjs\"><em>Joe Raedle\/Getty Images <\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When asked by Baier about his plans for &#8220;retribution and looking backwards&#8221; during a second term, Trump said: &#8220;Well, first of all, a lot of people would say that\u2019s not so bad,&#8221; adding &#8220;Look, what they did: Russia, Russia, Russia hoax; the FBI\/Twitter hoax; the 51 intelligence agents hoax \u2013 all of these different hoaxes that they did. You know, a lot of people would say that\u2019s probably quite normal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>I\u2019m not going to have time for retribution,<\/strong>&#8221; the former president continued. &#8220;We\u2019re going to make this country so successful again, I\u2019m not going to have time for retribution. And remember this:<strong> our ultimate retribution is success.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>HOST: \u201cHow much of a Donald Trump presidency\u2026would be about RETRIBUTION\u2026and how much would be about looking forward?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>TRUMP: \u201cI\u2019m not going to have time for retribution. We\u2019re going to make this country so successful again, I\u2019m not going to have time for it.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NFMODtKyru\">pic.twitter.com\/NFMODtKyru<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1745276031165161581?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump has taken flack for March comments at CPAC, in which he told the crowd: &#8220;In 2016, I declared, \u2018I am your voice.\u2019 Today I add: I am your warrior, I am your justice, and for those that have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution. I am your retribution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Thu, 01\/11\/2024 &#8211; 12:25<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/amid-dueling-debates-vivek-warns-system-will-force-haley-desantis-ticket-bring-down-trump\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid &#8216;Dueling Debates&#8217;, Vivek Warns &#8216;The System&#8217; Will Force Haley-DeSantis Ticket To Bring Down Trump Given Donald Trump&#8217;s absolute dominance over the current 2024 GOP&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1450117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}