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Larry Schweikart's avatar

We are a LONG way out.

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Larry Schweikart's avatar

Yep

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Larry Schweikart's avatar

Yep. Disturbing.

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Larry Schweikart's avatar

RDS was late to the vax. He won't win points for that.

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Josefina Vidal's avatar

This is a great analysis of Trump voters. In my opinion Trump needs to stay on message and highlight his accomplishments. The are you better off now that you were four years ago will resonate with discontent Americans from both parties. His attacks on DeSantis when the guy hasn’t even declared a bid for the presidency come off as childish and petulant. His Marriage Equality Act Celebration with Drag Queen performers at Mar A Lago would not win conservative voters. I would vote for Trump again but he needs to bring in more voters from Dem’s and Indi’s while retaining his conservative base by keeping his message positive and professional.

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Janice R DiDonato's avatar

You are describing me. I only ever voted for Trump and I despise the corrupt Uni-Party. I know plenty of people just like me.

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Rachel Mills's avatar

We have enough votes. Our candidates are good enough. The problem is all the ballots out there flooding the map. The dead, the moved, the apathetic, the ineligible and the imaginary are getting ballots and the Dems have locked up how to keep the voter rolls filthy and how to harvest all of those ballots out there. AND how to get away with it in court.

We need to take our lessons from our losses and play the actual game. Its not just that the rules have changed. It's that we're still trying to play checkers on a Chutes and Ladders board.

All those illegals flooding the border are going to be balloted somehow. That's going to be the next play and we better anticipate that. It's not good enough to figure out how to mitigate yesterday's fraud and harvesting strategies. We have to figure out tomorrow's as well.

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VASSAR BUSHMILLS's avatar

As you say, a long way out, but time to gather sheaves. If we want to win and stay won, we will have to plan on casualties.

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Mike g's avatar

Ron is right on vax and freedom

He isn’t abrasive narcissist like djt

He is far better than pierre delecto

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Janice R DiDonato's avatar

RDS is my governor. He is FOS. He advocated for the vaccine and even videoed his wife getting the jab. He also only opened up Florida when public opinion went against him after he had a pastor arrested. RDS commercial “DeSantis is God” was extremely abrasive. And the Tbilisi NGO termagant he employs is just as abrasive as him.

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Ragnar's avatar

That commercial was awful..as was his pretending to be a pilot ad.

Desantis does little of substance…it’s all PR and messaging in prep for his presidential run. Things like sending immigrants from Texas to Mass, using our money…too many stunts to try to capture a dumbed-down vote.

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Deb Hill's avatar

Peek around the curtains and see who’s backing DeSantis.

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Ragnar's avatar

I’m not a fan of either Trump or Desantis., I align more with the Massie’s of the world.

But what you wrote is just wrong and a revaluation of history. Desatnis began the process of shutting us down with only two positive cases of Covid. He extended the shut down of our schools. We had to sneak around just to get a dang haircut. We had to have papers in our trucks to prove we were ‘essential’, otherwise break his EO. He told us all how the vaccines were saving lives.

Additionally, Florida ranks 30th in gun rights..other than empty words, Desatnis hasn’t helped in that regard at all. He also hasn’t done anything about having the most liberal abortion laws in the south..women are flocking here to get abortions, nearly 6,000 ytd. He also signed our biggest tax increase in history, $1B a year for online sales taxes . He also signed our largest per capita budget in history.

If you think this equates to freedom, you need to reconsider the definition of free.

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Mike g's avatar

You have no state income tax

Hundreds of thousands have moved there and logically the budget rises

Trump got my vote twice but gave us Fauxci and the clot shot

Trump can’t win. Next man in

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Ragnar's avatar

Our Cost of Living is in the bottom half of the nation.

Apparently you have no idea what per capita means…I can’t help you.

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