Florida Gov. DeSantis will run for President in 2028

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This article will take a few minutes to read because it's really long, but it's worth it because it's a complete burial of DeSantis and how his campaign was run.


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At 45 years old, DeSantis had no close senior advisers older than he, and he had a reputation for disregarding advice and data that conflicted with his opinions (on abortion, for instance). Known for demanding loyalty he doesn’t frequently reciprocate, DeSantis established a top-down campaign structure designed to give him information he wanted to hear.

Critical voices didn’t last in the campaign.

“The DeSantis campaign was too much of a DeSantis fan club,” said one disillusioned consultant who worked to elect DeSantis.

Said another: “Ron is the smartest guy in the room. Everyone else is an idiot. No one tells him he’s wrong. So it didn’t happen that often.”

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DeSantis was told by advisers that interactions with voters were crucial, that he needed to seem more relatable to voters. The advice was dismissed.

“People don’t care about that stuff,” he told one Republican.

Story after story then rolled in about how awkward DeSantis is. How he once ate pudding with his fingers for utensils. How his laugh is strange. How security with “menacing glares” kept him bubble-wrapped. How he snapped at a reporter asking him why he doesn’t talk to voters more. How his staff kicked a 15-year-old out of a New Hampshire town hall because he didn’t like his line of questioning. How he talks about Florida too much. How he should take more questions from voters.

“He should talk less on the stage and interact more with the voters,” New Hampshire House Majority Leader Jason Osborne, a top DeSantis backer in the state, told The Messenger in July.

DeSantis privately fumed about the petty negative coverage of the “corporate media” and “phony narratives.”
 
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Given how much money he pissed away, I’d be shocked if he can get donors. The only thing he had going for him was that he was inevitable. And now he’s gotta deal with the fallout from all the dumb shyt he did in Florida that he didn’t think he’d have to deal with.
 

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This article will take a few minutes to read because it's really long, but it's worth it because it's a complete burial of DeSantis and how his campaign was run.


Some quotes:

At 45 years old, DeSantis had no close senior advisers older than he, and he had a reputation for disregarding advice and data that conflicted with his opinions (on abortion, for instance). Known for demanding loyalty he doesn’t frequently reciprocate, DeSantis established a top-down campaign structure designed to give him information he wanted to hear.

Critical voices didn’t last in the campaign.

“The DeSantis campaign was too much of a DeSantis fan club,” said one disillusioned consultant who worked to elect DeSantis.

Said another: “Ron is the smartest guy in the room. Everyone else is an idiot. No one tells him he’s wrong. So it didn’t happen that often.”

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DeSantis was told by advisers that interactions with voters were crucial, that he needed to seem more relatable to voters. The advice was dismissed.

“People don’t care about that stuff,” he told one Republican.

Story after story then rolled in about how awkward DeSantis is. How he once ate pudding with his fingers for utensils. How his laugh is strange. How security with “menacing glares” kept him bubble-wrapped. How he snapped at a reporter asking him why he doesn’t talk to voters more. How his staff kicked a 15-year-old out of a New Hampshire town hall because he didn’t like his line of questioning. How he talks about Florida too much. How he should take more questions from voters.

“He should talk less on the stage and interact more with the voters,” New Hampshire House Majority Leader Jason Osborne, a top DeSantis backer in the state, told The Messenger in July.

DeSantis privately fumed about the petty negative coverage of the “corporate media” and “phony narratives.”

For all of his awfulness why that ass clown waited until May to run and launch instead of Jan- March when he was at his peak and Trump was at his lowest shows you how dumb this man is, was and always will be.

Couldn't have happened to a better prick.
 

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DeSantis, Once a Darling of Conservative News Media, Now Rails Against It​

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida appears to have turned on many of the news outlets that once promoted his candidacy for the G.O.P. nomination for being unfair in their coverage.

A person wearing a headset and speaking into a smartphone stands near a television stage with a sign that reads, “Fox News. Democracy ’24.”

Former President Donald J. Trump’s town hall on Wednesday on Fox News was broadcast live at the same time that his two main rivals for the Republican nomination, Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley, debated on CNN.Credit...Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

A person wearing a headset and speaking into a smartphone stands near a television stage with a sign that reads, “Fox News. Democracy ’24.”


By Maggie Haberman
  • Jan. 12, 2024

As the Iowa caucuses draw near, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida has increasingly focused on a peculiar target as he looks to win the Republican nomination: the conservative news media ecosystem that supports former President Donald J. Trump.

Desperate to make his case that he is a better candidate than Mr. Trump — while trailing by wide margins in recent polls — Mr. DeSantis seems to have turned on many of the news outlets that once promoted his candidacy, for being unfair in their coverage.

“He’s got basically a Praetorian Guard of the conservative media — Fox News, the websites, all this stuff,” Mr. DeSantis told reporters outside his campaign headquarters in Urbandale, Iowa. “They just don’t hold him accountable because they’re worried about losing viewers. And they don’t want to have the ratings go down.”

He added: “That’s just the reality. That’s just the truth, and I’m not complaining about it. I’d rather that not be the case. But that’s just, I think, an objective reality.”

It was the most animated version of a message that Mr. DeSantis, despite saying he is not complaining, has delivered repeatedly over the last several days. While the Florida governor’s own criticisms of Mr. Trump are relatively muted, he has urged conservative news media to be more critical.

Calling on the conservative news media to hold Mr. Trump more to account allows Mr. DeSantis to appear to be doing so himself, if not directly. But he and his team have also taken to attacking Fox News, which was glowing in its coverage of Mr. DeSantis until it circled the wagons for Mr. Trump once the former president was first indicted in March 2023.

When Mr. DeSantis was a House member, he became a star among conservatives through appearances on Fox News. He soon built a supportive network with other conservative news outlets.

The New York Post, which, like Fox News, is owned by Rupert Murdoch, declared him “DeFuture” after his successful re-election effort in 2022, making him a target for some Trump allies who portrayed him as the conservative news media’s establishment pick. He had grown used to being defended by conservative news media in his culture war fights, and by an army of online allies who would defend him on social media.

But that was then. Mr. DeSantis’s standing in the race for the Republican nomination eroded over many months. Fox News hosted Mr. Trump just this week for a live town hall from Iowa.

Mr. DeSantis, who once constantly criticized the mainstream news media, has shifted gears and gives interviews to mainstream outlets like CNN and even left-leaning networks like MSNBC.

He now finds himself floating attack lines against onetime allies as he fights for second place in the caucuses before bringing them on the trail. To that end, Mr. DeSantis used his line about Mr. Trump’s Praetorian Guard during an interview with MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” before deploying it again on Friday.

But for all the attacks, Mr. DeSantis has continued to spend a fair amount of time on the Fox News airwaves, including in a town hall-style interview earlier this week and two appearances on Friday after he lobbed shots at the network. As for other conservative media outlets, Newsmax — often friendly to Mr. Trump — aired a Christmas special about Mr. DeSantis and his family late last year.

Maggie Haberman is a senior political correspondent reporting on the 2024 presidential campaign, down ballot races across the country and the investigations into former President Donald J. Trump. More about Maggie Haberman
 
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