A group of former officials who served in the Trump administration are planning to support Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.
This from survivethenews.com.
According to Fox News, saying they want a candidate who can serve for eight years, which would be two terms in office:
The group of at least 100 people calls itself The Eight-Year Alliance.
The group said it wants to avoid:
“President Trump immediately becoming a lame-duck president.”
A source connected with the group told Fox News:
DeSantis is a proven winner and a leader who does what he says.
Fox News said it does not have the roster of the group, but said it includes former Acting Associate Attorney General Jesse Panuccio, former Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense Will Bushman, former Counselor to the Secretary and White House Liaison at the Department of Labor Pedro Allende, former Senior Counsel and Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Commerce James Uthmeier and former Principal Deputy General Counsel at the Department of Commerce David Dewhirst.
The sources told Fox News:
[T]hey were proud to serve with Trump when he tried to shake things up but have now moved on to DeSantis.
According to Forbes:
Republicans opposing Trump is nothing new. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign saw the rise of a ‘never Trump’ movement led by Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah. In 2020, multiple Republicans who were affiliated with the Trump administration endorsed President Joe Biden.
According to The Washington Post:
DeSantis focused on what a two-term president could accomplish in terms of the Supreme Court during a speech to the National Religious Broadcasters Convention.
He said:
I think if you look over the next two presidential terms, there is a good chance that you could be called upon to seek replacements for Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito and the issue with that is, you can’t really do better than those two.
Criticizing Chief Justice John Roberts, he added:
If you replace a Clarence Thomas with somebody like a Roberts or somebody like that, then you’re going to actually see the court move to the left, and you can’t do that.
DeSantis further teased the possibility that two members of the court’s liberal wing—Obama appointees Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Justice Elena Kagan might retire in the court of the next two terms.
He explained:
So it is possible that in those eight years, we have the opportunity to fortify justices … Alito and Thomas as well as actually make improvements with those others, and if you were able to do that, you would have a 7-2 conservative majority on the supreme court that would last a quarter-century.
According to Reuters:
Fissures within the GOP will complicate the DeSantis campaign.
Chris Stirewalt, a Republican analyst with the American Enterprise Institute, said:
“You can’t court MAGA while courting the rest of the party.
That’s a difficult decision he is going to have to make.”
Noting that the field has multiple candidates, which to date include former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, radio host Larry Elder and businessman Perry Johnson, campaign veteran Sarah Isgur, said:
“With so many options, DeSantis has to target Trump supporters to win.”
She explained:
He can’t win the nomination with only non-Trump votes. He has to peel voters away from Trump.
Republican pollster Whit Ayres—perhaps more appropriately ‘Whitless’ Ayers for his failure to grasp the breadth of the Trump MAGA movement—said:
[T]he Republican Party is between 30 percent and 35 percent solidly behind Trump, about 10 percent of the party is solidly against him, and the rest is a group he called ‘maybe-Trumpers.’
Ayres said:
It looks to me like DeSantis is going after the always-Trumpers rather than the maybe-Trumpers.
He concluded:
Instead, DeSantis should try to connect with voters looking for an alternative to Trump that he’s the right guy.
Final thoughts: Whitless, indeed. He talks as if he hasn’t taken any time to explore the MAGA movement. At this point of disgust with the communist/globalist crime syndicate, no one is a ‘maybe-Trumper.’ At least sixty percent of Republican voters are pro-Trump and nearly forty percent of communists/globalists would vote for Trump if the election were tomorrow.
Further, if the communists/globalists are successful in pulling our beloved country further into the abyss, politics in America will be split between MAGA and uni-party. Poverty, hardship, and near-death experiences will have magically cured the mental illness of millions of liberals.
