Anonymous wrote:Kemp, maybe?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/georgia-governor-brian-kemp-considers-what-he-really-wants-out-of-2024-presidential-race

As the field of GOP presidential candidates grows, while struggling to gain ground on Donald Trump, Republicans and Democrats have increasingly noticed that one of the figures best-positioned to take on the former president remains on the sidelines.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, one of the only high-profile Republicans to have ever come out stronger from a battle with Trump, has conspicuously stiff-armed buzz about his own presidential prospects.

But insiders have noted Kemp’s gradual cracking of the door as the presidential Trump challengers have foundered.

In recent interviews, Kemp has publicly not ruled out a run for president, and plugged-in Republicans say that he hasn’t taken the option off the table.

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.

MAGAs won't support Kemp.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Kemp, maybe?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/georgia-governor-brian-kemp-considers-what-he-really-wants-out-of-2024-presidential-race

As the field of GOP presidential candidates grows, while struggling to gain ground on Donald Trump, Republicans and Democrats have increasingly noticed that one of the figures best-positioned to take on the former president remains on the sidelines.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, one of the only high-profile Republicans to have ever come out stronger from a battle with Trump, has conspicuously stiff-armed buzz about his own presidential prospects.

But insiders have noted Kemp’s gradual cracking of the door as the presidential Trump challengers have foundered.

In recent interviews, Kemp has publicly not ruled out a run for president, and plugged-in Republicans say that he hasn’t taken the option off the table.

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.

Anonymous wrote:Kemp, maybe?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/georgia-governor-brian-kemp-considers-what-he-really-wants-out-of-2024-presidential-race

As the field of GOP presidential candidates grows, while struggling to gain ground on Donald Trump, Republicans and Democrats have increasingly noticed that one of the figures best-positioned to take on the former president remains on the sidelines.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, one of the only high-profile Republicans to have ever come out stronger from a battle with Trump, has conspicuously stiff-armed buzz about his own presidential prospects.

But insiders have noted Kemp’s gradual cracking of the door as the presidential Trump challengers have foundered.

In recent interviews, Kemp has publicly not ruled out a run for president, and plugged-in Republicans say that he hasn’t taken the option off the table.

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.

Kemp, maybe?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/georgia-governor-brian-kemp-considers-what-he-really-wants-out-of-2024-presidential-race

As the field of GOP presidential candidates grows, while struggling to gain ground on Donald Trump, Republicans and Democrats have increasingly noticed that one of the figures best-positioned to take on the former president remains on the sidelines.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, one of the only high-profile Republicans to have ever come out stronger from a battle with Trump, has conspicuously stiff-armed buzz about his own presidential prospects.

But insiders have noted Kemp’s gradual cracking of the door as the presidential Trump challengers have foundered.

In recent interviews, Kemp has publicly not ruled out a run for president, and plugged-in Republicans say that he hasn’t taken the option off the table.

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.

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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Anonymous wrote:Narrator: In fact he did know the answer, despite being really dim.

PATHETIC

Spineless, but that describes the GQP, doesn’t it?

Anonymous wrote:Narrator: In fact he did know the answer, despite being really dim.

PATHETIC

Narrator: In fact he did know the answer, despite being really dim.

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Anonymous wrote:This might be the saddest campaign video I've ever seen

Is DeSantis so done that we don't even bother talking about how weird and bad he is anymore?

DeSantis remains a plague on Florida. Maybe Suarez should run for governor instead and block that future for DeSantis as well.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This might be the saddest campaign video I've ever seen

Is DeSantis so done that we don't even bother talking about how weird and bad he is anymore?

DeSantis remains a plague on Florida. Maybe Suarez should run for governor instead and block that future for DeSantis as well.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:This might be the saddest campaign video I've ever seen

Is DeSantis so done that we don't even bother talking about how weird and bad he is anymore?

DeSantis remains a plague on Florida. Maybe Suarez should run for governor instead and block that future for DeSantis as well.

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.

Anonymous wrote:This might be the saddest campaign video I've ever seen

Is DeSantis so done that we don't even bother talking about how weird and bad he is anymore?

DeSantis remains a plague on Florida. Maybe Suarez should run for governor instead and block that future for DeSantis as well.

This might be the saddest campaign video I've ever seen

Is DeSantis so done that we don't even bother talking about how weird and bad he is anymore?

They’re going to put so many people in the clown car - AGAIN - that it won’t matter that the majority of Republicans don’t want Trump as their nominee.