DeSantis is term limited and can’t run for Governor again. He could try to primary Marco Rubio but he just got re-elected for six years. |
If he loses this WH gambit - PLEASE GD - he'll go for Rick Scott's Senate seat, for sure. Those two hate each other. |
The timing doesn’t work for that because Scott is up for reelection next year. I don’t think DeSantis will learn his lesson in time to pivot to that. |
| It doesn't matter who the Rs nominate, the 2024 election is shaping up to be a complete disastrous embarrassment for the American people, just like 2020. We have to do better. |
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Kemp, maybe?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/georgia-governor-brian-kemp-considers-what-he-really-wants-out-of-2024-presidential-race
He seems like the candidate DeSantis thought he was going to be - super conservative without the crazy. Using myself as a focus group of one - I know he would push for policies I hate, on issues I care about, and he still doesn't terrify me in an existential way - or repulse me in a visceral way - the way Trump and DeSantis do. That seems good for the health of our country - and bad for our prospects of beating him, were he to be the nominee. |
He signed a 6 week abortion ban. That is definitely part of the crazy and probably disqualifying to be competitive in a national election. |
He doesn't seem lunatic crazy, though - like I can't imagine him releasing that bizarre video DeSantis just put out, or issuing a deranged July 4 message on social media like Trump did yesterday. I will grant that my standards are exceptionally low for Republicans at the moment - if they aren't sh**ing themselves in public while wearing white heeled boots and screaming that they're king of the world, I'm like, hm, that guy seems sort of normal. And I hope you're right that he'd end up losing because of the 6 week abortion ban. But I actually don't feel so confident about it. And at the same time I'd rather Kemp be the nominee because I think the stakes are much lower if he actually wins. (I don't think a national abortion ban would go through?) Not low - there's the Sup Ct, there's a million things - but lower. |
| What swing states are going to elect these forced birthers? Even red states like Ohio have had enough and are going to dispense with the nonsense by a referendum to the voters. |
MAGAs won't support Kemp. |