This IS a BIGGEST secret in the room ……
The REPUBLICAN Room….
This dog HAS been saying the above for a while….
Of course Ron DeSantis IS saying the same thing….
He’s praying for that….
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) “has joined the anyone-but-Trump caucus, becoming the most prominent Texas Republican to shun the former president’s 2024 comeback bid,” the Dallas Morning News reports.
Said Cornyn: “We need to come up with an alternative. I think President Trump’s time has passed him by and what’s the most important thing to me is we have a candidate who can actually win.”
He added: “I don’t think President Trump understands that when you run in a general election, you have to appeal to voters beyond your base. There’s no question that President Trump has some enthusiastic supporters as part of his base. That works well for him in a Republican primary, but not well when you need to expand your appeal in a general election.”
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Gov. Ron DeSantis “all but declared his presidential candidacy on Thursday afternoon, telling donors and supporters on a call that only three ‘credible’ candidates were in the race and that only he would be able to win both the Republican primary and the general election,” the New York Times reports.
Said DeSantis: “You have basically three people at this point that are credible in this whole thing. Biden, Trump and me.”
He added: “And I think of those three, two have a chance to get elected president — Biden and me, based on all the data in the swing states, which is not great for the former president and probably insurmountable because people aren’t going to change their view of him.”
The Messenger reports DeSantis has sent invitations for a Wednesday kick off of his campaign.
It’s what they’re saying now. Wait til he is on his way to getting the nomination. Which is still the most likely outcome of the GOP primaries
Trump is the only Republican who can get the nomination, my other noises about Ramaswamy, Tim Scott, and even Christie notwithstanding. By contrast, any of the other Republicans would have a marginally better shot against Biden or, should something unforseen transpire, JB Pritzker.
Still tilts Democratic due to both the sheer preponderance of engaged Gen Z voters and demographic shifts that are working to turn the Suburbs and once non-competitive Metro areas into Blue tilting battlegrounds.
You failed to mention DeSantis?
Not worth taking seriously, that one.