Could there be a price ticket for Trump-DeSantis entirely in Florida in 2024?
While former President Donald Trump made it clear Sunday that he would remain very concerned about Republican politics from his new port home in Florida, his supporters made it clear that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis would be Trump’s alleged heir.
About an hour before Trump spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, the organization issued an informal ballot of participants that revealed that 55% had said they would help Trump for some other term, with Gov. Ron DeSantis at just 21 percent. registered applicants in singles figures.
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Trump, however, stopped before pointing to a presidential crusade back, as was widely assumed before his CPAC speech, his first public comments since his departure on January 20.
After mocking a potential candidate saying, “I need you to know that I will continue to fight you,” Trump referred to his 2016 election victory and unfounded claims that he won the 2020 election by adding, “Who knows?even to beat them a third time. “
Without Trump as a candidate in 2024, DeSantis crowned the CPAC ballot 43%, followed by South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem with 11% and Donald Trump Jr. , with 8%.
In his speech, Trump refuted reports that he could create a new party. Beyond that, the former CPAC president’s speech a review of previous crusade speeches, criticizing “stupid” agreements, saying Democrats are “radical” and “communist” and promoting a border wall while claiming independence from U. S. power as an administrative success.
There have also been some new twists, such as advocating for the reopening of all schools, criticizing the “culture of cancellation,” opposing transgender participation in women’s sports, and asking for electoral reform. struggle that marked Trump’s 202 election rallies.
Despite CPAC’s appearances for potential 2024 presidential candidates, such as U. S. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, it is transparent that CPAC participants select Trump.
“President Trump is the leader of the conservative movement. He is the leader of America First. I is the leader of the Republican Party,” Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan shouted at “America!”
“And I hope that january 20, 2025 will once again be the leader of our country,” Jordan said.
Democrats welcomed Trump’s comeback proposal and saw it as an opportunity for them, both for right-wing Conservatives and Republicans.
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They noted that Trump lost the popular vote in his 2016 career as opposed to his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. Then, with Trump making the 2018 mid-term congressional election a referendum on his administration, Republicans lost the U. S. House of Representatives with a cumulative vote deficit of nearly 10 million votes.
In November, Trump lost the popular vote to Joe Biden by 7 million votes and an unbalanced electoral school defeat. Then, in January, the Republican Party left the United States Senate by wasting two second-round elections in Georgia.
“It’s more of a murder-suicide pact than a political strategy. They are murdering democracy through political suicide,” said former Obama presidential crusade adviser and Democratic communications representative Spencer Critchley. Their party is wasting members and is shrinking at an alarming rate for them. “
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That sentiment echoed through a now independent political strata that advises Democrats to warn their former Republican colleagues that they said last week that Trump’s GOP approval had only led to defeats, adding President Biden’s victory in November.
“Biden won by being Trump,” said Atiba Madyun, a Washington-based political strata who founded party politics in the United States.
Indeed, as Critchley noted, Republicans saw a loss of voter registration following the January 6 uprising at the U. S. Capitol in the country. This trend has also emerged in Florida, heavily pro-Trump Republican.
An investigation into Florida voter registrations through the Palm Beach Post found that 24,266 Republicans left the party between January 12 and February 9, losses were offset by a gain of another 19,494 people joining the party. Florida Republican Party with 4772 fewer voters.
By comparison, 6,432 Democrats left the party while 17,052 voters joined, leaving Democrats with 10,620 more voters, according to analysis.
The total number is small, a net loss of just under 5,000 voters, but that interrupts, at least for now, a multi-year trend in which Republican voter registrations have surpassed those of rival Democrats.
From 2016 to last fall’s election, Florida Republicans garnered about 600,000 new voters, making 5. 1 million in the state. Democrats collected just over 430,000 to 5. 3 million, which gave an advantage of 183,596 votes over Republicans among registered voters, according to the most recent state. Electoral Division Report.
However, outdoors at the Orlando Hyatt Regency where Trump spoke on the CPAC stage, many Trump enthusiasts left to show his support.
“We have to decide on all three: the House, the Presidency and the Senate. I love them all, and it was obviously a smart deal,” said Kathy Norton, who supported Trump for the president, as well as Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. . Congress.
Norton said he went to the scene in what he said, a caravan of 200 cars and limousines from Tampa.
Others defended key issues.
“If you don’t respect life, what’s up? That’s the only explanation for why I’m voting for a candidate,” said Theresa Cibotti of Orlando.
Although the country marked a bleak milestone – 500,000 lives lost by COVID-19 – the CPAC ballot found that the top 3 problems were electoral integrity, constitutional rights and the structure of a border wall.
An immigration advocate said Sunday that radical immigration policies, however, are popular among a representative pattern of Americans, adding evangelical and denominational voters.
Joel Tooley, senior pastor of the Nazarene Church in Melbourne, said the vast majority of the evangelical electorate in the United States bipartisan immigration reform provides “a path to legalization for many other people in the country like Dreamers and TPS (temporary protection status). “
Tooley said he understood that segments of the American population had reservations about immigration reform efforts.
“Humanity as a total is conditioned to protect ourselves and our interests at the expense of others,” Tooley said. “While it’s not an American ideal, for whatever reason, it’s anything that, especially for those who are very afraid of wasting their comfort, wasting their personal tastes and wasting their lifestyle, it’s very difficult for them to think of others outdoors like other people who can bring something healthy to their lives. “
But he said that most of the people he talks to, from other people of religion to business, other people and other segments of society, that immigration strengthens entrepreneurship and creativity that improves the country.
“I think we can lose sight of it through the wall and what a tool of concern it is, but I don’t need to get lost in that,” he said. “I’m in what we see as the perspective of this. “the nation’s long term and the perspective that comes from immigrants. “
Trump’s approval of CPAC participants is no surprise, but DeSantis won such an unexpected embrace.
Florida Republican Vice President Christian Ziegler said, “President Trump is in charge,” but added that “it’s rocket science” to see why DeSantis is making noise among base Republicans. He said DeSantis delivered “freedom” in Florida and that the country took e.
“President Trump’s record in the fight against conservatives is unparalleled. If Trump were to take part in a race in 2024, it is very transparent that the Republican Party has a large bank of leaders and candidates, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis leading the way. “He said.
But Democrat Nikki Fried, Florida’s agriculture and customer services commissioner, said Trump “deserved” the country’s attention.
“Our country has retired, banished, and moved away from the former insurrectional president, twice as deposed,” said Fried, who could challenge DeSantis in 2022. “He doesn’t deserve anyone’s attention yet. President Biden puts Americans first. “
Critchley, the Democratic strata agreed.
“The existing Republican Party has just tried to overthrow our democracy. They participated in an attempted coup opposed to our democracy. They tried necessarily to end American democracy,” critchley said of “Patriots of Two Nations: Why Trump Was Inevitable and What Happens. “Next: “They deserve to be, in a global of ethical clarity, deserve to be an absolute spectacle. They deserve to be nothing else to talk about with this game. “
Critchley, however, said GoP’s continued embrace of GoP Trump opened an opportunity for Democrats.
“This is an exciting opportunity if Democrats can,” he said.
Critchley said Democrats want to rely less on political arguments and “return to the developing inspiration of an Obama or a JFK or FDR” by mixing “spiritual and emotional discourse with rationality and technocratic political discourse. “
He also said Democrats will also appeal to disgruntled Republicans, saying republicans and status quo extremists seem to “speak other languages and refer to other realities that are explained differently. “
“We can claim other people in the intelligent religion through a pleasing look at their hearts and souls, not just their intellect,” Critchley added.
Editor Chris Persaud contributed to this story