Thursday, April 13, 2023

DeSantis's racist, anti-immigrant stunt on Martha's Vineyard, September 2022

Because we should remember it:


One reason why they did it:


How they "justify" it:


December 2023 update on the DeSantis presidential campaign

Hmm:

"A year after Ron DeSantis led Donald Trump in some 2024 presidential primary polls, and with just weeks to go before the first ballots are cast, the Florida governor is already explaining how Democrats conspired to stop him: by repeatedly charging the coup-attempting former president with breaking the law.

DeSantis’ campaign and super PAC have spent more than $160 million to boost him, and he spent the better part of 2023 on the road. But, he now says, it may not have been enough to overcome the advantage he believes Trump received from getting indicted four times."

— "DeSantis’ 2023: More Than $160 Million Spent To Buy A Collapse In The Polls": The Florida governor has already started blaming Democrats for indicting Donald Trump too much and thereby boosting his campaign. S.V. Date, HuffPost, Dec 29, 2023

early 2000s US Homeland Security rainbow chart for terrorism threat level

January 2024 update on the DeSantis presidential campaign

Trump has 60%. DeSantis is in a distant second at 12%. Why does he continue to campaign? Why does he continue to talk about anything he would want to do as president? He won't win the primary.

Well, as Melissa Gira Grant says on Bluesky today (Jan 11): "the goal here isn’t to create DeSantis voters, it's to keep using the platform he has (and that he’s clinging to despite losing) to make the lives of trans people a debatable point". DeSantis knows he won't be president, so he isn't really trying to win voters. He really just wants to destroy trans people. His political talk is for that purpose. That's all.

Abortion isn't a winning 2024 strategy either, yet Republicans go hard on that too.

chart showing Trump 60%, DeSantis 12%
FiveThirtyEight, Jan 11, 2024

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