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Trump Shreds DeSantis: He ‘Can’t Win the General Election’ Because of Record on Entitlement Programs
Maj. Bill Martin:
--- Quote ---Trump Shreds DeSantis: He ‘Can’t Win the General Election’ Because of Record on Entitlement Programs
Former President Donald Trump blasted Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) ahead of his presidential campaign launch on Wednesday, asserting he would be doomed to fail in the general election after voting to overhaul entitlement programs when he was a congressman.
Trump, the leading Republican presidential candidate, took to Truth Social to hit DeSantis’s support of legislation that took aim at Social Security and Medicare during his time in Congress :
Ron DeSanctus can’t win the General Election (or get the Nomination) because he VOTED TO OBLITERATE SOCIAL SECURITY, EVEN WANTING TO RAISE THE MINIMUM AGE TO 70 (or more!), VOTED TO BADLY WOUND MEDICARE, AND FOUGHT HARD AND VOTED FOR A 23% “TAX ON EVERYTHING” SALES TAX.
He wrote that DeSantis “was, and is, a disciple of horrible RINO Paul Ryan, and others too many to mention.” Trump added, “he desperately needs a personality transplant and, to the best of my knowledge, they are not medically available yet.”
MAGA Inc, a Trump-aligned super PAC, has been critical of DeSantis regarding votes on entitlement programs. One ad from the super PAC suggests DeSantis has “pudding fingers,” which are “all over senior entitlement,” and notes he “voted to cut Social Security 3 times.”
https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2023/05/24/trump-trashes-desantis-he-cant-win-the-general-election/
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Really glad that Trump is choosing to make this an issue because it draws a very hard line between the two of them not just on this policy, but upon their entire approach to governing. Do you do things because they seem to be popular/unpopular in the short term, or do you do what you think is actually the right thing to do?
Trump is against any kind of entitlement reform because he thinks it won't be popular. Which, not coincidentally, was exactly why he handed the reins to Fauci during Covid. Because standing up to him would have been too unpopular with the press, and he supposedly would have gotten hammered.
From May 2020 on, DeSantis went against the recommendations of Trump's federal government on Covid, and got blasted in the media, by Democrats, and by Fauci himself. He did it anyway. Here are a few sample articles from the summer of 2021 about how DeSantis wasn't buying Fauci's bullshit.
https://www.local10.com/news/politics/2021/06/04/desantis-criticizes-fauci-after-e-mail-release-florida-chose-freedom-over-faucism/
https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/fauci-desantis-covid-florida/67-de0a6713-6410-44a2-9070-cde5a8c9b9b5
https://www.newsweek.com/anthony-fauci-criticizes-ron-desantis-over-dont-fauci-my-florida-merchandise-1624094
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/09/07/1034794180/fauci-desantis-vaccine
DeSantis did what he thought was right. Trump did whatever he thought would cause him the fewest political problems.
So now, same issue with entitlements. And I think the current state of entitlements running out of money is so bad that this is actually a winning issue for DeSantis. Let Trump stake out the demagogic leftist position of pushing granny off the cliff in the wheelchair, and let DeSantis make the argument that granny is heading for that cliff already unless we do something fast. Maybe Trump still wins, but at least we have an actual issue of substance/policy where a clear distinction can be drawn between the two candidates.
bigheadfred:
It is funny that Trump thinks DeSantis needs a personality transplant. And Trump's campaign is an entitlement program.
LMAO:
Medicare and Social Security are going to have to be dealt with in someway whether Trump likes it or not
When you’re 31 trillion in the hole and rising, everything needs to be on the table.
Maj. Bill Martin:
--- Quote from: bigheadfred on May 24, 2023, 12:38:12 pm ---It is funny that Trump thinks DeSantis needs a personality transplant. And Trump's campaign is an entitlement program.
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I would agree that DeSsntis is not the most charismatic speaker in the world. But that's not the basis on which I'm casting my vote anyway.
bigheadfred:
--- Quote from: Maj. Bill Martin on May 24, 2023, 12:49:08 pm ---I would agree that DeSsntis is not the most charismatic speaker in the world. But that's not the basis on which I'm casting my vote anyway.
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I meant that it is Trump that needs a transplant. I would like to see fire from DeSantis. If I wanted a nice guy there is still Jimmy Carter.
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