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I neither love nor loathe Trump. I hold him accountable for his horrendous handprint of Covid, and choosing Fauci over freedom. I tune out the noise politically and vote based on actual outcomes. With that standard, DeSantis has my support. He far outperformed Trump on understanding Covid and responding according to actual facts. Even when I have disagreed with DeSantis, which isn’t often, I respect him being effective and competent. Trump won’t be getting my vote in the primaries. I fear another Trump presidency, but I fear another tyrannical leftist presidency more. I’ll make a general election decision when the time comes, but I’m still hoping we have better choices than 2 old arrogant jerks in their 80’s who are ineffective and both decided to throw out a generation of kids like trash.

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Yeah I never quite understood how Trump gets a pass on Covid. Nearly everything that is going wrong now has its start in what he did. The rampant inflation, the sky high debt and all the policies that Biden put in place had its start from what he did.

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he also should not get a pass for blowing the Senate special election in Georgia right after the 2020 general.... he was so distracted with his own anger that he didn't do what was right for the country. we couldn't be in the mess we're in now if we had won in Georgia.

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I agree ☝️. Plus what part of BUILD THAT WALL! did he not understand was going to just be forgotten. Trump let McConnell and Paul Ryan sucker him and humiliate him. It was why he basically won the election. And now just to rub it in, the Democrats have let in millions more so we have less and less affordable housing stock, ie,all the homeless on the streets. And that doesn’t even touch the drug problems. Pretty soon we will look like a third world country with shanty towns all over the place.

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There are over 50 million illegal immigrants in this country.

Geez, I wonder why almost every household has to have two earners?

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Two earner households started in the 1960’s. The reason was for the acquisition of material wealth.

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I would say it's a combination of what we're both saying, plus society accepted a female's career aspirations could substitute for raising children.

I hope you don't view that as chauvinistic. But I think there's ample data to back that up.

Plus there's this:

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

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Please be gold standard please be gold standard please be gold standard..........

It's gold standard!

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“I don’t believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government, that is, we can’t take it violently out of the hands of government, all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something that they can’t stop.” – F.A. Hayek 1984

Two guesses what this is............

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I was talking to a hard working guy who like me works more than 8 hrs a day and more than 5 days a week. He had a friend who lived in a travel trailer with his wife and kids, was unemployed and was happy. His wife and kids where happy with what little income they got. The hard working guy was divorced, worked too hard to enjoy life, and had debts to be repaid. Who had the better life?

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A life without work is not fulfilling. Ever.

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Trump is totally guilty of not knowing the power of the swamp. Several of his 'staff' selections were suicidal. We got to learn more about the depth and corruption of the swamp as well.

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Agree but how was he to know? All of us were fooled, especially by all the uniparty rinos. If it wasn’t for Trump, we’d still be believing all their BS.

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You were fooled by John Bolton before Trump hired him????? You didn’t know Bolton was a raging war monger despite his decades of being a very loud very public raging war monger for decades?? Trump couldn’t be bothered to listen to a single thing the man had said before hiring him? Please. Trump’s bad hires were known disasters. Trump isn’t competent on who he hires because he is too busy watching Fox and playing on Twitter/ Truth to put in the work.

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Maybe don't take every statement so literal. I agree, he trusted too many people who were shown to be deep state swamp creatures, however, he wasn't afraid to fire them and make changes (something he also took a lot of heat for). He admitted that himself, that DC is full of these people and it was going to take time to get rid of them and call them out. The problem is with voters such as yourselves, you are fixated on certain things and can't look at anything else. I am not expecting perfection from any candidate, however you cannot deny the fact that our country was safer and more economically sound with him in office.

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The country was safer, the world was safer, for his first 3 years. The economic reforms he made are likely the only reason we aren’t yet in an all-out depression. Trump was a better option than Brandon in 2020, which is why I voted for Trump and even ended up on a mapped hit list for sending campaign donations to Trump.

Maybe you should stop excusing his enormous mistakes his 4th year and see the bigger picture. On March 16, 2020 the “leader of the free world” called for a national shut down. This pressured the UK into the same. It created a domino effect across the developed world China had been unsuccessful at causing. Trump was the straw that broke freedom’s back. More like the giant brick. Trump then drove up the deficit by trillions by paying people to sit at home, since he is the one who said to stay home. Trump never had metrics, rarely sighted actual data, and never once pointed out the “models” were off by a factor of 10 by day 3, and 100 by day 6.

Two weeks to flatten the curve” turned into years of shutdowns, started on Trump’s watch, that flattened a generation. He whined about opening schools in the fall, and early treatments, but he funded - to the tune of hundreds of billions of future taxpayer dollars - closed schools and big pharma clot shots. I’m sorry but I am the one looking at the whole picture which you seem intent on ignoring.

Trump chose Fauci over Atlas. Trump chose to fund schools staying closed. Trump chose to fund a long shot vaccine over treatments. Trump chose to fund masking school children over funding indoor air filtration that actually helps. Trump chose to fund teacher union demands that everyone knew would harm poor and middle class kids.

Sure, Trump stood up enough so my kids could go to school full time in person without a mask on time in mid August 2020 - but most people can’t afford the top ranked conservative private Christian school we send our kids to. I’m not impressed with politicians who make it possible for my husband and I to to save our own kids from the worst of the harm, while trashing the generation they will be living with in the same society. Trump was a weakling when leadership mattered most. Trump isn’t owed another bite at the Apple just because he got screwed the last time, partially of his own doing.

The swamp is deep and it will take time for several administrations to weed out. Trump is not competent at actually getting the job done. My vote goes to the guy who is effective and competent and that’s DeSantis.

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He does now.

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Oh Donna, It’s already here! Parts of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle already have shanty towns all over the place.

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If this next election was only about Covid, I could understand that position. But to define DJT's presidency on that one issue seems narrow and leaves out A LOT. Besides the huge improvements in our economy, he also made unbelievable advances internationally - Abraham Accords, walking away from the Paris Treaty, etc, etc, etc. Don't get me wrong, I like DeSantis (I think), but come on!

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Umm....... I have kids and Covid was the single biggest test of his presidency. If he had admitted his rather huge mistakes by now I’d think more of it, but to screw up that bad, for that long, and then pat yourself on the back about how “great” you handled it doesn’t sit well with me no matter who you are.

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I have a school age child and the lock-downs profoundly affected her - worst year of my motherhood - watching my otherwise happy A student flounder - academically, mentally, and socially.

I agree that the over-reaction to Covid was huge (across the board!). But we shouldn't forget that DJT was being told that America was facing 2 million deaths and he listened to what we all thought was a legitimate authority - the CDC.

Most of the country was fooled by the groups we thought we could trust: doctors/scientists (thank god I did not allow my child to get vaxed). I don't hold DJT blameless, but I certainly don't place all of the blame on him.

Bottom line, Covid is neither here nor there at this point. And if he were to 'admit anything,' his opponents would just use it against him.

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There is no excuse for him being so fooled by Fauci & the other idiots. I wasn't. My friends weren't. It was his job. I don't give him a pass on this.

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Those models were evidently 💩. Within days they were off by factors of 10-100. My kids were barely 6 and 8. I taught them about line graphs by graphing the data from the March 27th models. Trump shut down March 16 - before them. The ones that claimed the 2 million deaths by August were still pumping even with the shutdowns. In NC that model said 30,000-40,000 would be in NC hospitals with Covid at the April 17th, 2020 “peak.” These people were supposedly already exposed and the April 1 NC shutdown, called by Cooper on March 25, wouldn’t matter they told us. This was even with the shutdown.

The reality I plotted with my kids directly from the NC state dashboard was around 800 people in the whole state were in the hospital with Covid April 17th. We didn’t flatten the curve, we flattened the healthcare system, a generation, and the economy. The model was off by a factor of 10 literally by day 3. I’m sorry, but if I could see that, there is ZERO excuse for the president of the United States to ignore the actual outcomes. There was zero excuse for an open-ended shutdown without actual metrics. Yet in late April/ May Trump was criticizing Kemp and DeSantis for opening “too soon.”

Atlas was there. In the White House. Trump ignored Atlas. He chose Fauci. The average age of death was slightly higher than the average life expectancy and still Trump funded, with billions of our dollars, to keep public schools closed.

My kids were in person full time on time no masks mid August 2020. The 1,250 kids at their top ranked conservative private Christian school are thriving compared to their public school peers in our area - and our public schools at least opened by early 2021. I’m sorry, but I don’t want my kids to grow up into a society where the only undamaged peers of theirs is the minority of kids raised in conservative private schools or conservative states that actually cared about them. That’s a lot of harm for a few people to carry. Trump doesn’t get a pass. Not on the decisions, not on the spending, not on the taxpayer reallocations, not on the debt. This is on Trump. His refusal to even own it a little is outright offensive.

There was no excuse to play these games for months. Anyone who bothered to simply check the public data on the dashboard knew very early this whole hide in your basement thing was causing lots of harm and doing nothing to protect the elderly from very very early on. The data was literally right there for anyone and everyone to see. Lazy isn’t an excuse. Mislead isn’t an excuse. Fear isn’t an excuse. If Trump is so gullible, or stupid, he couldn’t read a line graph my 6 year old could grasp, it doesn’t speak highly of his ability to judge challenges appropriately, or in a way based in reality.

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Just wow

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SNAP

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But who cares what he accomplished the first part of his term. When covid came, he derailed everything - our economy , our children's education, our personal freedom. And within months of Biden's reign anything Trump accomplished was gone. Except for Fauci and faux vaccines and a totally f-ed up economy.

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Donna, you and NCmom should go have a cup of coffee together. Clearly you both have anger issues. I pity your husbands because (good lord!) neither of you can get over your anger issues. You both seem to be able to know everything too and can not only predict the future, but also can rewrite the past.

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Trump supporters are the ones rewriting the past. Trump supported lockdowns. He criticized Kemp and DeSantis for opening up “too soon”. He refused to fire Fauci, he brought Scott Atlas onto the covid task force then ignored everything Atlas recommended and chose to follow Fauci. He refuses to apologize or even acknowledge any mistakes about covid. He still claims the jabs are safe and saved tens of millions of lives (which is totally absurd). He also passed the first step act which dumped violent criminals on the streets. Every single budget bill he passed had more democrat support than republican support.

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Really?!? 'Who cares' what he accomplished overall, vs Covid? Perhaps all those 'little people' (particularly minorities and women) who felt an economic wind at their back - many for the first time in their lives!?!

Made them believe that the USA was the land of opportunity that our forefathers laid the groundwork for.

DJT's improvement in our economy (after Obama said we are in an inevitable down-spiral) provided a real-life, tangible juxtaposition against the Socialist indoctrination (and more recently, overt screeching), which has been trying to undermine faith in our country and its capitalist system for decades.

And that's just the economy - let alone what he did internationally.

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RC, it's Covid buddy. There is nothing bigger than that. Look at the fallout from how it was handled. Nothing in history has come close to it. We have a generation of Kids who will never recover from having no school for almost 2 1/2 years. We have business and livelihoods that people will never get back. It's not one issue or a narrow issue. it's Covid. Tha fact that Americans have the short term memory of a gnat does not dispute how terrible it was handled and it should never be forgotten. How we dealt with it started 100% with Trump. He was horrendous.

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Agree 100% as a Floridian who watched DeSantis in action through the Covid fiasco.

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Its amazing how Trump is not speaking up on what we all KNOW and have known about the injections and intentionality of the planned plandemic. I have heard it ALL from those who think Trump is GOD, but he bleeds red like us all. The realty IS though whoever comes out of primary, has to have your vote because you get what you deserve if you don't the next 4 years too

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Alex's first article motivated me to write my own article on DeSantis. My take is he needs to double down on his messages against woke companies and our increasingly woke culture.

If powerful people hate and fear his messages, he's over a great and important target.

https://billricejr.substack.com/p/powerful-people-and-organizations

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DeSantis had the benefit of seeing what happen in New York first. So a DeSantis Trump comparison on that front is not correct. I'm still disappointed he didn't see the scam.

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I voted for Trump in 2020 and I'll vote for whoever the Republican nominee is in 2024, because the Democrats are legitimately insane. Not just their leadership, but many of their voters (covid proved that beyond a doubt).

I don't like the cult of personality this primary is taking on. Both Trump and DeSantis are infinitely better on just about every issue than the modern Left (which, did I mention is insane)?

Let the primary play out without destroying one another and go from there.

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Sadly it won’t happen. Republican political duels always end with two dead bodies.

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The comments have a firmer grasp on reality than you do. No shame in that, you are still the dude from the NYT deep down inside.

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Alex - Which books does DeSantis want to ban or has banned?

You're a reporter - one of the last who is actually doing his job. So why don't you research this and get back to us about it. As I understand it, no books are banned in Florida. Books that are completely inappropriate for children have been removed from school libraries. That's not what banning books means, though.

Maybe your kids are too young still, but the culture war that the left has brought with the Trans cult has affected my kids' peers horribly. Teenagers mutilating themselves (having healthy organs removed, such as breasts, etc.) is far worse than getting a tattoo, yet lunatics are advocating for this very thing, and propaganda is pushed on our kids at early ages.

The teen fads of the past, of cramming into phone booths or eating goldfish or collecting pogs, do not compare with the transgender fad. Girls being told they're really boys and encouraged to get top surgery because they're uncomfortable in their bodies is heinous evil.

I think you're wrong in your beliefs about the culture war. I suspect it's due to naïveté. Please, look into these things. You cannot rely upon the mainstream media.

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Trump and his promotion of the vaccine is a huge swing and a miss. Pass

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But he never mandated the vaccine!

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Great, he never mandated the vaccine. So what? He did nothing but bloviate about Operation Warp Speed and the "beautiful" vaccine, and he STILL cannot see what a deadly, horrible mistake that was. That entire fall of 2020 leading up to the rollout of the mRNA jabs, I had a sense of foreboding about a pharmaceutical product that was rushed to market so quickly. "Warp Speed" and "vaccine" are two words that should never be used in combination.

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The Covid time was a time of great uncertainty and fear largely stoked by the media and incompetents in the Federal Health agencies. In hind sight Trump made his share of mistakes in the period of significant uncertainty. However when push comes to shove, there is a major difference between Trump and Biden. Trump said it is your choice. Biden mandated that everyone take it well beyond his authority to do so. My entire family chose to ignore Biden and stay unvaccinated. We are still alive and kicking. Only two caught the virus while many others did not. Most took the FLCCC protocol supplements and precautions and IVM. Gotta give credit where credit is due.

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There’s also a major difference between Trump and DeSantis. DeSantis wants to prosecute Pfizer for fraud. Trump STILL praises the jabs and says they saved tens of millions of lives (which is laughably absurd.)

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JTF Please, We continue to hear what you say quite often these days.."the covid time was a time of great uncertainty". No it was not. Not at all. Everything was very clear by May 1, 2020. Very clear. We were playing in sport tournaments by the second week of June in Indiana. Between June 2020 and Dec 2020, while some people were operating in a world of great uncertainty and while there were scared to death and following clear cut nonsense, we were playing in no less than 15 tournaments. Why, b/c is was clear that this was all nonsense for younger healthy people. There was no uncertainty by then.

We can talk mandates all we want but worse than mandates was the fact that kids were kept out of school and that started and continued with Trump. Trump and his people supported closing down schools, businesses, parks, walking trails, concerts and anything else they could. They promoted useless mask wearing, when they 100% knew in Jan of 2020 that there were ineffective against a virus but still championed them. They promoted isolation, bad health, depression, social distancing and numerous other tactics that were horrible. There were hundreds of prominent doctors and scientists in May of 2020 that were calling out all of this but they were deplatformed under Trump. All of that happened under Trump. And if this guy is so great, so smart and the best negotiator ever, then how in the world did he get swindled by the likes of Faucci and D Birx? He must not be all that bright, he must be gullible and his critical thinking skills must be off. Is he better than Biden? Absolutely, by a long shot but that still is not saying much.

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He didn’t mandate public schools stay closed in August 2020 either, but he sure as 💩 used billions in taxpayer reallocation schemes to fund it.

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If Trump had won in 2020, there would have been no vaccine mandates because the left would have reflexively rejected them.

There's a few billion reasons to rig an election.

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True. Wonder what would have happened if Trump told the Left to not attempt to take a boat aover Niagara Falls.

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FACT CHECKERS CONFIRM GOING OVER FALLS IN BARREL IS PERFECTLY SAFE!

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Then we should put all fact checkers in barrels send them over the Falls!

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I doubt that is true. I believe the leftist cult love vaccines more than they hate Trump.

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https://rumble.com/v1zr3wo-nojabs.html

This is how they were talking when Trump was president..........

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Fair enough, but I still disagree with you. I think every single democrat in that video was only saying that because they hated Trump so badly and they wanted to score cheap political points. They all rushed out and got jabbed, and if Trump had been re-elected I’m convinced they would have been jabbed just as quickly. Most democrats are fanatically pro vaccine. That was true before Trump, during Trump and ever since.

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They all rushed out and got jabbed because Biden won and suddenly the vaccine was the savior of mankind. If Trump was the one pushing them, they would have refused any sort of mandate. (They would have suddenly remembered "my body, my choice".)

Before covid, the "antivaxxers" were firmly on the left.

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I was never on the shots, it was rushed, the propaganda was stifling, and I got fired for refusing it. This isn’t a right or left issue, it’s a right or wrong issue. Trump was wrong, Biden was worse than wrong, and all critical thought went out the window.

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DAL-E

Love ya man, but I'm old enough to remember the average age of death of the Italians in 3/20 was 85 and to tell the still shot's and videos out of China were staged.

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I was clearly against the vaccine from the start. I was saddened when Trump pushed them thru warp speed and said at the time that it was a mistake because as bad as masks are you can at least take them off. You can't really undo a shot of genetic material.

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True

But the masks were everything. there would've been no mandates whatsoever if only 10% refused mask mandates.

The masks made cowards of virtually everyone.

That was by design.

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Nice link. How about the one to Trump criticizing him for reopening too soon? There are dozens of those

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It’s going to be an interesting few months. I voted for Trump and DeSantis is my Governor. I supported DeSantis and even went to his first inauguration. I really had hoped he would sit this one out. He really needs to do something about the Home Owners Insurance issue that should be getting ALL his attention. Trump I was not ready to vote for again, however given all the fresh dirt that’s come out showing he was railroaded by the Liberals and even some from his own party, I believe he should get a second chance to clean house.

I’m not naive enough to think that both of these men in the race, will just provide more fodder for the liberals to use against them when the winner finally rises. It’s going to be sad to watch the spectacle.

We have to unseat Joe & his puppeteers or our country’s demise will just quicken.

Trump does need to read the tea leaves and admit he was duped by the likes of Fauci and the entire media narrative on COVID or he’s toast.

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Between January of 2020 and December 2020, DJT likely spent every waking moment being briefed/bombarded/brainwashed by the “professionals” who were already a part of this deep state pandemic game and Event 201. What the hell else could he have done?? He was made to believe the nation needed to be vaccinated against this killer pandemic that would take millions of lives. He felt the vaccine was the only way to save lives and the only thing slowing the vaccine was too many regulations. He did what he felt was needed in order to save lives BASED ON THE INFORMATION he was being provided by PROFESSIONALS. He had no other motivation. Imagine the pressure campaign we all experienced to get the damn jab!!! He was living the pandemic fear mongering 24/7 by those in the top of their respective fields. Holy cow…give him a fricken break!!! Recall the military ship he sent to NYC that was never used? Recall the ventilators he had put into production? Everything he did was in the name of saving lives. How the fuck was he supposed to know he was being LIED to? Mistakes were made. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. I don’t need him to apologize. I need him to keep fighting to keep America from falling further into the hands of these soulless cretins. DJT cannot be controlled. That is a GOOD thing. Why do you think these people all hate him so much?? The powers that be do not have any dirt on this man as they do nearly all the other politicians who were all probably blackmailed by CIA operative, Jeffrey Epstein. You know it’s true when they cower and cave. Trump never backs down. That’s a GOOD thing. We are a corrupt nation and we need a president that represents the people, not the government.

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The reality. If you refuse to vote in the general election because the Republican nominee was not your choice, you have essentially voted for the Democrat.

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Neither Trump or DeSantis can win the presidency if the Republican Party is split. What is happening is exactly what the Dems want to happen.

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Nailed it!

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We won't be split at game time.

A lot of this banter is a good thing. People are energized.

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Which is why the Dems were more than happy to allow DeSantis to be built up about Covid. (And don't get me wrong, I like DeS, just wonder why he can't wait 4 years?)

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Because politics doesn’t work like that. Why can’t Trump emulate Washington and step back?

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Because we know already, mathematically, Trump can probably win the nomination, but he cannot and will not will the POTUS. You underestimate how many people vote personality over issues, and he's not overcoming that. (Sorry, but you have to be realistic)

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I agree in part, but not sure where you read that DJT is not 'mathematically' possible - he got MORE votes the 2nd time around - even with his KNOWN brash personality. DJT got the largest number in election history (except LGB - and NO WAY the walking puppet got more (legitimate) votes than Obama).

The left has finally cracked one of the major fraud protections in our voting system -the Electoral College. They knew exactly what places and how much they needed to cheat.

And not sure why you think they won't trash DeSantis when the time comes... even if he were a saint (which I doubt), they will make up crap (think Kavanaugh). It will be a storm.

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DJT has too high of a negative to gain enough votes for the general election. Forget the Democrats for a minute, he cannot win enough unregistered and independents to get across the finish line, and he's pissing off more people with every word out of his mouth at the moment. Yes, he can win the nomination, but he cannot win the wider vote with those not hard commits.

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We will have to agree to disagree. DJT did before... and now with some level of disclosure about LGB's nefarious business ties with China and Russia (the true Manchurian candidate) many independents are seeing what's going on.

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It's only my theory and fear. It's also very feasible that Biden does not win the nomination due to health concerns. (There's no way this DOJ will look into his shady ties to China and Russia!! - Again, that's my theory.) I'd rather go with the best chance to win, because we're screwed if we lose the next POTUS.

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Trump accomplished more than any other president in my lifetime, even my fav Reagan. Is DJT perfect, no. But I don't need or want a saint. Politics is a blood-sport and I am shocked how easily so many are fooled by the media. So DJT can take a crap on live TV and I will still vote for him.

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Trump was the best thing that happened for this country, since Reagan.

He put his foot in the door of a downhill runaway to socialism.

But we have to win this time, or it was all for nothing.

That's a legit concern. Results is what I want.

Whoever comes out of the primary is my man.

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After Trump or DeSantis wins the general. Where will we be? The machine is so strong they come back, relentless.

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They will indeed. Make no bones about it; if this country has a shot at a "comeback" you and I will be long dead.

But it's got to start somewhere, right?

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I voted for Trump twice and loved him. I also lived in Florida during Covid and experienced what DeSantis pulled off there that no other state could. I truly admire them both for wildly different reasons. I am just going to sit back and watch and listen. I would love them both on the ticket. A girl can dream...

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Hi Alex,

I think I am uniquely positioned on this among your readers. I voted for Trump for President in 2016 and 2020, and voted for DeSantis for Governor in 2018 (Primary and General). Would have voted for him in 2022, but sadly had to move out of the State.

Ron DeSantis is strong on policy and from my perception a very stand up guy. He is a great Governor and I would say the one vote that I am most proud of in my forty years of voting. However, as many have mentioned in your comments, he lacks two things; 1) real charisma and 2) real money. He has improved vastly since the first time I saw him at a Lincoln Day dinner in Davie, Florida back in 2018. But he's not got the chops of a National candidate and he still relies on big donors. That makes him beholden to the Chamber of Commerce and Military Industrial Complex types. Trump has both charisma and money, and is therefore the stronger candidate.

You and others say that Trump's abrasive style makes him unelectable. I think he got something like 76 million votes in 2020. And, truth be told, it was a few urban precincts with over 100% turnout that got Biden in the White House. That doesn't sound unelectable to me. "But Biden got 81 million votes" you may retort. Biden would have gotten 81 million votes no matter who he was facing. California anyone? More importantly, Biden would have gotten however many votes he needed in Philadelphia, Detroit, Atlanta, Milwaukee and Phoenix, if you know what I mean.

2024 is going to be a tough slog for whoever gets the GOP nod. That is simply because the other side cheats. Just wait and see what they do to RFK Jr. We need the strongest candidate we can find, and that remains Trump. Ron DeSantis is probably the best Governor I've ever lived under. But 2024 is not his time. He can only damage his brand by running against Trump.

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May the best man win.

Results will dictate whether the Republicans have a chance. Meaning how impressive the candidate is in pulling the team together.

I think the fact they're going up against each other is exactly what we need.

Let swords sharpen each other.

And if Trump wins he should take DeSantis as his VP.

That's our best chance of winning. Trump needs to decide that soon. I think if he doesn't, he does hurt his chances and DeSantis's short term political opportunities.

And if DeSantis beats Trump...well then, he beat one of the best campaign politicians ever.

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This whole "not his time" thing - sounds a little too monarchical to me. Whoever's time it is is determined by the electorate. And I, for one, am sick to death of the gerontocracy that runs our country.

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Trump will always be inacapable of executing a plan. He is incapable of doing detailed work himself, and also incapable of letting his ego hire competent people to execute such plans out of fear they will get the credit.

Therefore a DeSantis may be our only option. Or Youngkin. Some compromise on some things, but you also get a better chance of progress on Conservative issues as they flow through.

Disney quagmire aside, DeSantis is a thorough Middle Class guy who got Yale and Harvard.

God help up if a Democrat not named RFK wins.

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President Trump did a spectacular job considering that the FBI, CIA, NSA and military all sabotaged him. I think I can say that now without much fear of contradiction by reasonable people. And Trump was not sabotaged because he was a threat to America. He was sabotaged because he was a threat to their power. I think Eisenhower put it most excellently in 1961 in his exit speech. The relevant part is below:

https://rumble.com/v2r1a6s-excerpt-of-dwight-eisenhower-exit-speech-1961-industrial-military-complex.html

If Trump were to win the presidency in 2024, I hope he learned the lesson of how to move corrupt and evil people out of America's way, and not the lesson of how to work with them to maintain the putrified organs of state we have now in most Western countries.

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Agree. When Trump threaded the needle through the GOP primary process, instead of Jeb, it left the rinos/dems shocked and scrambling - their process didn't unfold as usual! And as much as they tried, they couldn't derail the DJT phenomena - until 2020 when they went full bore tactically.

(The primary process is a clever way to split (and eliminate) conservative candidates after Iowa. Generally speaking, the 2 top conservatives split the conservative vote in Iowa and the next in line comes through. Funny how that keeps happening.)

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Without Trump we might have been in WWlll with Hillary. Thank the lord for that alone. Additionally, Trump is not perfect but, he created the best of everything for our nation in the last 60 years. He exposed the SWAMP and boy is it murky with alligators.

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They write like they think their vote makes a difference. Republicans caved in the deft limit. How are they any better. Besides, the elections are rigged by the deep state with the cooperation of the media

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And yet here we all sit fighting. They truly have succeeded. RIP America!

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