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Title: Ex-Trump campaign adviser Steve Cortes endorses DeSantis for 2024: ‘Best possible option to win the
Post by: libertybele on May 09, 2023, 09:55:53 pm
Ok ... still waiting for DeSantis to make a formal announcement.

Ex-Trump campaign adviser Steve Cortes endorses DeSantis for 2024: ‘Best possible option to win the presidency’

A former adviser to Donald Trump’s 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns backed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Tuesday, saying the 44-year-old “represents the best possible option to win the presidency in 2024 and to govern as a highly capable, patriotic populist leader.”

“I have worked as a dedicated spokesman and advocate for Donald Trump for much of the last seven years, so I do not arrive at that conclusion flippantly,” Steve Cortes wrote in a Newsweek op-ed announcing his endorsement.

“But our America First movement has always been bigger and more important than any one individual, and heading into this crucial election, our activism and our votes must be guided by a clear-eyed assessment of recent failures and potential future successes.”

Cortes, now an adviser to the pro-DeSantis super PAC Never Back Down, said voters should opt out of a Biden-Trump rematch next year.

“The country is miserable,” Cortes said. “That’s not some biased or uninformed right-wing opinion, but the harsh reality revealed by data and evidence.”.................

https://nypost.com/2023/05/09/ex-trump-campaign-adviser-cortes-endorses-desantis-for-2024/
Title: Re: Ex-Trump campaign adviser Steve Cortes endorses DeSantis for 2024: ‘Best possible option to win
Post by: mountaineer on May 14, 2023, 12:33:39 pm
Why he moved from Team Trump to DeSantis:
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Ron DeSantis for President | Opinion
Steve Cortes
On 5/9/23 at 10:00 AM EDT

Governor Ron DeSantis represents the best possible option to win the presidency in 2024 and to govern as a highly capable, patriotic populist leader.

I have worked as a dedicated spokesman and advocate for Donald Trump for much of the last seven years, so I do not arrive at that conclusion flippantly. But our America First movement has always been bigger and more important than any one individual, and heading into this crucial election, our activism and our votes must be guided by a clear-eyed assessment of recent failures and potential future successes.

Here are the three most compelling reasons to support Governor DeSantis: ...
Read more at Newsweek (https://www.newsweek.com/ron-desantis-president-opinion-1798976)
Title: Re: Ex-Trump campaign adviser Steve Cortes endorses DeSantis for 2024: ‘Best possible option to win
Post by: Free Vulcan on May 14, 2023, 01:01:37 pm
The bleeding from the Trump campaign continues.
Title: Re: Ex-Trump campaign adviser Steve Cortes endorses DeSantis for 2024: ‘Best possible option to win
Post by: GtHawk on May 14, 2023, 03:07:52 pm
Trump ridiculing Cortes and calling him an ungrateful loser in 3...2...1
Title: Re: Ex-Trump campaign adviser Steve Cortes endorses DeSantis for 2024: ‘Best possible option to win
Post by: Maj. Bill Martin on May 14, 2023, 05:39:55 pm
Trump may well win the nomination anyway.  But him running essentially unopposed in the GOP primary would have been a disgrace.

DeSantis should run and take his best shot, win or lose, to give the rest of us Republicans a real choice.
Title: Re: Ex-Trump campaign adviser Steve Cortes endorses DeSantis for 2024: ‘Best possible option to win
Post by: LMAO on May 14, 2023, 07:03:06 pm
Trump may well win the nomination anyway.  But him running essentially unopposed in the GOP primary would have been a disgrace.

DeSantis should run and take his best shot, win or lose, to give the rest of us Republicans a real choice.

I would say, as of now, it looks like Trump will be the nominee. But a lots gonna happen, and the primary season has yet to begin. At this time in 2007, I would’ve bet everything that Hillary Clinton was going to be the nominee for the Democrats in 2008.
Title: Re: Ex-Trump campaign adviser Steve Cortes endorses DeSantis for 2024: ‘Best possible option to win
Post by: Wingnut on May 14, 2023, 08:52:39 pm
Trump ridiculing Cortes and calling him an ungrateful loser in 3...2...1

RiV is over at TS gathering the insulting talking points.
Title: Re: Ex-Trump campaign adviser Steve Cortes endorses DeSantis for 2024: ‘Best possible option to win
Post by: catfish1957 on May 14, 2023, 09:08:21 pm
RiV is over at TS gathering the insulting talking points.

Tumpy's gone FDR populist. and the more those right of center understand that, the quicker his fall will be.
Title: Re: Ex-Trump campaign adviser Steve Cortes endorses DeSantis for 2024: ‘Best possible option to win
Post by: roamer_1 on May 14, 2023, 09:24:33 pm
Tumpy's gone always been an FDR populist. and the more those right of center understand that, the quicker his fall will be.

Fixed.  :beer: :seeya:
Title: Re: Ex-Trump campaign adviser Steve Cortes endorses DeSantis for 2024: ‘Best possible option to win
Post by: corbe on May 14, 2023, 10:11:49 pm
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