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DeSantis is the most popular

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I mean, it was stolen.

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This administration is a complete joke. Anyone who thinks life is better post Trump is smoking crack. Everything the lunatics accused Trump of has happened with Weekend at Bernies Biden and his band of rainbow woke warriors.

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I laugh when I read these comparisons. If Trump didn’t receive hysterically negative media coverage 24/7 from our ridiculous media and the left was accurately reported for their harmful dumpster fire policies, the margin would be 20 points.

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Alex, you don't have a clue on this political stuff. If you believe that Biden is at an almost 43% favorable rating, I have a bridge in New York that I want to sell you!! Stick to COVID statistics, PLEASE!!

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Sad part is Trump was a failure. He didn't drain the bathtub, let alone the swamp. Yes we had 4 prosperous years, but long-term he did nothing. DOJ, FBI, CIA, NSA et al still fully intact and inflicting harm. Appointed horrible people around him. His first act was to fire Mike Flynn. Literally accomplished nothing lasting. Biden overturned the Trump 4 years in a month, and fueled the surveillance state to crush everyday Americans.

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If Democrats had gone to sleep on Election Day night with Joe Biden winning, only to wake up to four states flipping in the middle of the night to make Trump the winner, they would have been totally cool about it and said, "hey, that's democracy for you." I'm almost positive.

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Alex yet again shows his political bias and how it can cause even the most skeptical mind to short circuit when it touches a topic they're emotionally invested in opposing narrative.

Alex has spent hours researching the vaccines, digging through tons of data and laying out why they're likely not working as was sold to us.

Yet when it comes to 2020 voting issues he just outright declares it's a lie without even addressing some of the most basic questions. Like how did Joe Biden, someone who failed to get elected as president twice before, who wasn't popular with a large portion of the Democratic base during the democratic primaries, never mind independents. Had absolutely pathetic turnout at his campaign events, when he actually campaigned and wasn't at home, suddenly achieve a victory with more votes than Barack Obama?! In fact more than any other president in history?! While also losing bell weather states and achieving voter turnout higher than Barack Obama with blacks in certain districts and also achieving above 100% registered voter turnout in other districts. That's without even getting into the whole mess with illegally relaxed voter signature requirements done through secret lawsuits between outside NGOs and Governors outside the legislature. Or the now ample evidence by true the vote of massive ballot drops.

Alex, pull your head out your ass, set your biases aside and actually look at the data on the election. You may find it beneficial to turn a blind eye as it was against a candidate you didn't like but it's only a matter of time before it will be used against a candidate you support. The establishment doesn't want any outsiders making it into office.

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these numbers are off. Biden is not at 42% and harris at 39%? that is crazy too high.

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CNN+ expired with a quiet soft fart whimper, rather than an explosion.

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Alex does have a total blind spot when it comes to Trump, the stolen 2020 election and the effecting HCQ and ivermectin. There are so many in-depth we’ll documented accounts of Zuckerberg dollars, ballot harvesting, drop boxes, etc that he refuses to acknowledge. Trump, with all his faults, was the best thing that happened in 2016. It woke people up. DeSantis is probably great too but doesn’t have name recognition and won’t run against Trump.

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Guess people are finally figuring out how good they had it and buyer's remorse is hard to live with.

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Berenson I am with you on a lot of issues, but it is evident that you have clearly not done any type of deep dive on the subject. There are eight states that have uncovered massive amounts of fraud, Wisconsin and Georgia being the most well documented, and Arizona continues to come out with information about the extensive false votes and non-citizen votes found in their states that were beyond the margin of victory. So you can’t have that level of discovery in a state and decry that a candidate is making false claims, his claims on specific states and issues are accurate and verified by courts/state investigations. Just go back and watch the Wisconsin Senate hearings. Go look at all of the ballot scans from Georgia, or even watch the 2000 Mule‘s documentary that proves that there were fraudulent ballot stuffing mules all over the country stopping ballot boxes with fake ballots. Especially in Wisconsin. Hillary Clinton was allowed to claim that Trump stole 2016 from her for years with the left going along and there was no evidence uncovered with the exception of one county and she lost in the one county where she was able to file a verified grievance. There are numerous lawsuits uncovering numerous irregularities, election officials being arrested, there are so many different legal things going on where there is discovery. And history will look back and see the errors in those states. And I’ll be very honest and say that as a rational, intelligent individual who does my own research, if that man was running around making fraudulent claims constantly about a stolen election with no evidence happening in any state to back it up, I would never vote for him again in a million years.

So your theory that he is stirring his base with claims of fraud is just not accurate. If anything he’s continuous talking about the fraud of 2020 is alienating his base- along with his vaccine pushing.

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Who actually thinks Trump is popular? People living under a rock the last 5 years?

The man gave us the Covid fascism that we have been dealing with for the last 2 years. He gave us runaway spending, the effects of which we are seeing everywhere.

Is Trump better than Biden? Obviously, but then Biden is better than Satan. So what?

Trump needs to just go away. He's old, he's a RINO (proven constantly by his endorsements), and he proved he's just not a very good leader. Time to move on.

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Berenson, musk, rogan-heck even tucker! The truth shall set us free!!!🇺🇸

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Elephant in the room: DeSantis. Trump needs to back away and become the elder stateman (doubt his pride will allow him to do so) and throw all of his support behind DeSantis.

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I don't believe the polls, not possible Biden is that high.

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El Hombre Naranja made me vote “red” for the first time in my life as he opened my eyes to all the BS of the left. I never followed politics until Trump but he’s turned a huge amount of us hard-working and educated Latinos into newly proud Republicans, even though most of us are still registered as Dems. We’re the secret vote that has Trump’s back.

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Never forget - Trump shut down the nation giving rise to the dictator Governors and Mayors! Trump disregarded all of Scott Atlas' advice and stuck with Fauci & Birx. If Trump was a true conservative/brilliant mind he would have stuck to principal. Trump shut down the churches, schools etc. etc. Trump blew a golden opportunity to change America.

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Don't want to bore you all with undue details, but I was initially not a Trump supporter at all! Kept supporting every other Republican candidate at the time: Dr. Carson, Ted Cruz, even Sen. Rubio. In the end, it was a No Brainer for me vis-à-vis Hillary Clinton. Now I realize how BLIND I was; if it hadn't been for Trump we would never have discovered the Indoctrination in Public schools, the CRT lies (talk about divisiveness huh! But "democrats get a pass! Why!?), the infiltration of our Public institutions, the War on Religion, the Woke Military, the methodical attack on traditional values, and the nuclear family, the Radical Transgender trolls, the Deep State, the collusion between and within government agencies, etc. etc. Think about it.

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Trump-DeSantis is the ticket. Then Trump resigns after 2 years. Loved "Doncha wish your bf was hot like me."

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I had never voted Republican before 2020- I didn’t vote in 2016. I would have crawled through broken glass to vote for Trump then. I will never vote Democrat again. I miss bad orange man and his mean tweets

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Meanwhile, Berenson gets to keep pretending he doesn't know the election was stolen. That keeps him on good terms with at least some of the "in" crowd. Just like when he pretends he doesn't know that Ivermectin and HCQ are effective antivirals for Covid.

Win-win.

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Where does Ron DeSantis fit into the favorability ratings? I hear he is also thinking of running which would explain why Trump (who green-lighted and pushed the disastrous Warp Speed agenda) is sniping at him.

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Berenson and Musk are more popular they have more than enough secured funds to take over Twitter right now today.

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They're effing appealing the TSA mask mandate! They NEVER give up

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The left needs trump. Cnn+ wants this to happen to be honest Alex. Without trump around to point to and take all of the focus away, the left has been exposed for the clown car that they are. They prefer to drive that clown car behind trumps boisterous bus so no one can see what they are up to.

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ok, but the RealClearPoint is they are alllllll underwater...

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I just wonder who can look at all that's been exposed by Durham, the IG's, the FISA Court fraud, the State Legislature's audit findings of unConstitutional election changes etc etc etc and NOT think the election was rigged. Who thinks Democrats have an ethical line they won't cross for power? Why wouldn't they use election fraud? They've done everything else to Trump. There is no logic in thinking Biden was "elected".

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Biden even at 42% favorable is horrific. It just shows there is a country full of low information voters.

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Everyone must adjust their hatred toward him because it is based on lies. The media lied about Russia, they lied about Charleston, they lied about a million little things to turn the Republican base off and repulse middle of the road Dems. The "grab 'em" talk was the only thing they ever actually got. That isn't more important than a secure border, or not engaging in useless wars, or funding infrastructure or opportunity zones, or 3% interest rates and $2.99 gas. The progressives only had his harsh personality to criticize. Frankly, now that I know the rest of Europe is captured by the NWO, I LIKE that they hate him. Most of his policies were spot on and good for Americans, which should be his only concern.

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Orange Man 'Not Doing to bad at all". Then again, look at his competition - Basement Biden or Hurtin' Harris for Godssake. I agree with Anti-Communist Guy that DeSantis is THE MAN, which is why Orange Man should thrown all his weight behind him and enjoy his golf.

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Had Trump been able to shut up just a little bit things may have been different. The media was biased against him from day 1 but he did himself no favors.

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Good stuff. Folks are in ABB (anyone but biden) mode. If he admits he was misled on the clot shots and advises a halt, with NO kids injected, I'll vote for him. I know many others who feel the same.

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Well I will vote for El Naranjo, but I am having a hard time swallowing his judgement regarding the Vax and Fauci. My take on Desantis vs. Trump. Trump has massive charisma (love him or hate him you know you can't help but watch him ). Desantis has more polish and the Florida legislature + Desantis are getting major and minor reforms passed. Such as the "no patient left alone" bill which is the right to have someone visit you in a hospital or nursing home. The fact we have to pass said bill blows my mind.

Trump needs to get the a good group around him to dismantle the administrative state. Let's take St. Fauci for example. How is the US in a position to have one person in charge for 40 years? Let's reimagine government ... How about one that is run by the people and for the people. Which means to me you have to rotate the admin positions maybe just have some heads of hospitals physicians and lay people in there, similar to jury duty. We have to be able to fire gov't workers when they are incompetent. There has to be a way to deconstruct, dismantle regulatory capture of our major institutions.

I just don't know if Trump can get a good group around him or not. Desantis would definitely get a good group around him.

I think Desantis is smart enough not to run against Trump. Trump takes a bulldozer to people and it would be hard to recover. Little Marco, Lyin Ted, Crooked Hilary just to name a few. Desantis is termed in 4 years. 2026.

How about Rick Scott for Senate Majority leader?

Thoughts?

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Not getting my vote unless he backs off on the mRNA injections and the fake covid narrative. I voted for him the last 2 times, but he needs to wake up a bit.

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Alex, you like to pretend you're the smartest guy in the room, but how much do you actually know about the 2020 election? How would you react if Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips of True the Vote proved 4.8 MILLION illegal votes in just 5 battleground/swing states: Georgia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona, & Michigan. For Americans who are just now waking up to the empirically proven FRAUD, start here with this interview Charlie Kirk conducted with True the Vote's Engelbrecht and Phillips > https://charliekirk.com/news/true-the-vote-interview

Shortly, Dinesh DeSouza's 2000 Mules, a documentary of this election steal, will show you even more convincingly HOW they cheated but more importantly how True the Vote caught them matching the "mules" to the boxes and confirming them with actual drop box video as required by jurisdictions that allowed drop boxes. This cell phone ping technology for tracking people is the SAME technology the feds used to track and pursue J6 suspects, issuing arrest warrants within 72 hours.

Next, I shake my head in disgust at the WEAK people on this thread who still have their panties in a wad over Trump's personality. YOU disgust me. Good luck debating me on Trump's policies, not his personality. You sound like these p*ssies on the Left and RINOS with hurt feelings.

My one beef with Trump is that he listened to RINO McConnell on recommendations (e.g. Romney), staff (e.g. West Wing staff), department appointments (e.g. Wray, Haskel, Sessions/Barr, et al), and SCOTUS nominees (e.g. Kavanaugh & Barrett especially).

My wife, friends, and I publicly stand with President Trump and also couldn't agree more with Steve Bannon and Boris Epshteyn. Most of you could never handle Bannon & Epshteyn before you'd cower in your safe spaces. YOU are why we're where we are today with your silly comments about Trump's lack of support today or ever. You actually believe Real Clear Politics. Why don't you look at Trump's support with Rasmussen and (even more accurate) Trefalgar.

Trump, like Elon Musk, is fighting the culture war. DeSantis, knowing WE Floridians overwhelmingly support him, is showing you what POPULISM looks like through strength just as Trump fought a deeper, wider stench circling (aka Deep State) the globe.

As a Floridian, I couldn't support Governor DeSantis more than I do. By the way, I didn't just flee to Florida. I've lived here FT for 34 years. We in Florida know and value our freedom and aren't afraid of standing up to people like many of you who get your panties in a wad over hurt feelings.

FYI - DeSantis is NOT more popular than Trump. Apparently, too many of you don't pay attention to the myriad times DeSantis has confirmed he will NOT run against Trump.

If I didn't know it before, I can tell how many people have followed Alex from the NYT, closet Democrats whose ox has been gored by the Covidiots. Once you've recovered, you'll return to your Leftist/RINO tendencies.

With your wokeness, I hope like hell you stay out of Florida.

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There’s no way 42% of Americans approve of Biden. No way.

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Correction: El Hombre ANARANJADO. The use of English is still permitted... ;)

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I won't vote for anyone who isn't saying the shots should be taken off the market and hospitals shouldn't be subsidized for every test, case, vent, remdesivir dose and death. That's the grease that keeps it going and kills lotsa people.

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Desantis 2024!

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I think the fuse on CNN+ fizzled out before the explosion could even take place.

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Oh, dear! Chris Wallace is out of a job again.

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I always liked Trump, but I could also see the left's derision. Since they focus on ad hominem attacks, and he always gave them so much opportunity to do just that! He relished giving them material to lambast him with... it was his way of baiting them into ruining their own respectability, and it definitely worked! But he ended up looking like a bully. However, I was always trying to stay out of the theater and look at the facts. Trumps domestic policy was AMAZING for all Americans. On that basis, I loved him and voted for him with GLEE. I was dubious about his foreign policy, especially with regard to getting out of Afghanistan, and with his decision to authorize the killing of General Solemeini (apologies for the spelling). I really didn't care that the rest of the western world laughed at him--he was kicking the legs out from under their stools. But now I'm seeing in hind sight and I'm beginning to be ever more impressed with his policy with regard to Russia/Ukraine, and I'm seeing that it was part of a very big picture understanding of our "interests" in Middle East oil vs Russia/China's competing interesting oil. I'm still not sure I understand the Solemeini thing, but the pieces of the puzzle are coming together and I'm falling in love with his foreign policy now, too. I wish he was less of a cartoon character. If he had the respectability of Ronald Reagan, he'd be a darling. But he's more like a very smart, very determined, totally uncaring, morally grounded, stubborn, 75 year old Alfred E. Newman. With that, I'd say if he runs for prez, he needs to make DeSantis his VP. With that combo, we will see America land back on top both domestically and with regard to our foreign policies too. I would LOVE to see that happen.

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Liberals: the president doesn't determine the price of gas. Me: so who is in charge of approving and disapproving drilling permits on federal lands? Liberals: *sour puss face, contemplating* ur racist!!!!

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Apr 21, 2022·edited Apr 21, 2022

5 States shut down the vote count at 10pm with Trump significantly ahead of Biden but magically at 5am Biden takes the lead with no questions asked ?

Possible ........Yes..........crooked happenings......you bet.

Facebook Mark spent $410 Million for Dem ops to take over voting districts to...........

But a man who can't chew gum and walk at the same time pulled in 20 Million more votes than Jesus's brother Barack Hussein Obama...........right.

Nothing to see here, move along.

Trump is using his pull to keep the deplorables engaged which is good and I love that he won't quit antagonizing the Left.

DeSantis will win in 2024.

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Instead of running on “stolen blah blah blah” maybe he could use the $250 MILLION he’s raised, to go into every state & make sure elections are fair & honest.

Nah, he’d rather whine to Piers Morgan so we have to watch him fight with the press for 4 more years.

Yay.

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The middle that swapped up for FJB have realized they would rather mean tweets over systemic corruption, five dollar gas, idiotic energy policy, and world war III. I left out inflation, uh, because that is Trumps shared responsibility too.

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While I despise social media's censorship, Trump's increase in favorability is due largely to his absence from Twitter. Don't let those polls fool you, much of the base is quietly waiting to move on. None of us wants to come out and attack Trump and many of us like much of his actual track record. But, he needs to fade away and from where I sit he is doing just that.

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..And Ratings are worth what exactly?

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