Opinion: DeSantis 2024?

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(12-16-2022, 02:32 PM)hollodero Wrote: Hard to say. Just the chance to become president possibly, in a year where the liberal candidate might be pretty weak.

But sure, as far as I can tell deSantis himself hasn't done much pro-actively until now. He does not oppose Trump, he doesn't hint at running or anything, maybe this is just a media thing. Aside from being ridiculously anti-woke and not being Trump I wouldn't even know what defines the man.

Yes, Biden would be a good candidate for DeSantis to go after, but if Biden beats Trump in 2024 then DeSantis has an easy road to the white house, as the idea of this country electing a democrat after 8 years of a democrat president in addition to 16 of the past 20 years being Obama/Biden seems almost too insane to imagine.

I'll believe DeSantis is making a legit attempt at the WH when he backs off this culture war stuff and actually starts pandering to those outside his base, something Trump never did and something that cost Trump a second term.  DeSantis being anti-woke and being anti-vax after going on record promoting and encouraging vaccines isn't "national appeal" caliber politics.  He has 2 years to nip this TRUMP 2.0 stuff in the bud if he wants to run in 2024.

And maybe I'm going a little too old-school on this one but DeSantis running against Trump has a factor I don't think others have brought up.  Ron DeSantis is a catholic, and even less politically acceptable, an Italian-American catholic and even though it is totally insane, Trump is seen as being very much in line and accepted as part of the ultra-popular white-bread prosperity branch of evangelical christianity.  Republicans will back DeSantis over a democrat, but against an evangelically-backed republican?  Ida know...could be a tough road to hoe.