The Primary is Over: It’s Time for Republicans to Unite Behind Trump › American Greatness
DeSantis was supposed to be the alternative to Trump
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When Ron DeSantis got into a car crash last week, many couldn’t help seeing a morbid irony. The governor’s botched campaign launch set the tone for a spectacular fall from grace. DeSantis was supposed to be the alternative to Trump, the more “electable,” disciplined version who would rescue the country from Joe Biden. DeSantis is now barely scraping by in the double digits and struggling to reassure the wealthy donors who believed he was the key to taking the party back from Trump. On the campaign trail, DeSantis is awkward and unable to connect with voters. The “extremely online” messaging of his operation, a failed effort to replicate the viral energy of Trump’s historic 2016 campaign, is strange and off-putting.
DeSantis is not experiencing the vicissitudes of campaigning. When a candidate has to “reboot” this early, it’s a sign that it’s over. DeSantis, as they say, just doesn’t have it.
To belabor the point further, and pile shame on a man who failed to meet the sky-high expectations set upon him, is hardly necessary. What matters is this: DeSantis’ collapse has eliminated any serious chance that Trump will lose the Republican nomination, or rather, it has shown the whole notion of moving on from Trump to be a premature fantasy of the GOP, which has conspired time and time again to get Trump out of its hair, only to be thwarted by the base.
So deluded are the Never Trumpers that they insist Trump is only winning the primary through the machinations of the Democrats. See, Democrats secretly view Trump as an asset, compared to the formidable DeSantis, who is being denied what is rightfully his by the conniving Deep State and its cynical campaign to make Republican voters feel sorry for Trump, a man who has sacrificed wealth, reputation, and now, possibly his liberty for the sake of putting America first.
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