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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday that Donald Trump’s commanding victory in Iowa should be “a huge warning sign” for Republicans, comments critical of the former president’s influence on the party that come just days after DeSantis dropped out of the race and endorsed Trump.

Speaking on the “Steve Deace Show,” DeSantis warned that the low turnout for the Iowa caucuses was reflective of conservatives who are expressing their discontent with Trump by staying away from the polls. He said his team found Iowa Republicans who caucused in 2016 but who were refusing to do so again in 2024

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As evidence, DeSantis cited the turnout at the caucuses. “To have 110,000 people show up, when in 2016 you had 186,000 show up — when Iowa has more Republicans this year than they did in 2016 — that shows you there’s a lot of our voters who have checked out,” he said, without addressing the record-low temperatures on that day.

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In a result tallied after DeSantis’s comments, Trump won the New Hampshire primary Tuesday with a decisive victory over former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, with voter turnout projected to be at a record high.

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A day later, he appeared ready to veto a proposal that could help pay Trump’s mounting legal fees. The bill proposing financial support for Florida residents who run for president was put forth by Jimmy Patronis, Florida’s chief financial officer and a member of DeSantis’s gubernatorial Cabinet.

DeSantis sounded a note of caution in his comments Tuesday: “When I have people come up to me who voted for Reagan and … have been conservative their whole life, [who] say that they don’t want to vote for Trump again, that’s a problem. So he’s got to figure out a way to solve that. I think there’s an enthusiasm problem overall.”

malchior wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 12:28 pm DeSantis appears to be floating a test balloon as leader of an anti-Trump "resistance" in the Republican Party

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 1:12 pm Too bad he's not actually an anti-Trump. He's an Uber-Trump.

Trump is declaring war on America right now.

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 9:35 am Apparently this dropped last night? I'm looking for a transcript.

Trump is declaring war on America right now.

Dogstar wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 11:09 am Not alarming at all. Everything is fine here.

hepcat wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 11:18 am It's professional wrestling for many of them. As long as Trump throws chairs and threatens to beat up the Iron Sheik on their favorite channels, they'll keep buying tickets for his shows.

Alefroth wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 2:32 pm If only the deep state would neutralize the threat.

Trump has repeatedly insisted that the test is very hard, and earlier this month claimed it contains advanced math such as “multiply 3,293 times 4, divide by 3.”

It does not, as can be seen on a sample test here.

If you think a dementia screening test is very difficult, you may have early dementia.

hepcat wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2024 1:07 pm I think you meant to write "tomato".

<and that, ladies and gentlemen, is how an ongoing joke begins. Unagi and I will be riding this one out for a while on OO, so be prepared>

hepcat wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2024 11:13 am It's more likely that he passed a test that anyone WITHOUT early onset dementia would pass and he's crowing about it. It's like me suddenly holding a rally to celebrate the fact that I can pronounce "cat".

Long before Donald J. Trump threatened over the weekend that he was willing to let Russia “do whatever the hell they want” against NATO allies that do not contribute sufficiently to collective defense, European leaders were quietly discussing how they might prepare for a world in which America removes itself as the centerpiece of the 75-year-old alliance . . . the larger implication of his statement is that he might invite President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to pick off a NATO nation, as a warning and a lesson to the 30 or so others about heeding Mr. Trump’s demands.

In Berlin, Norbert Röttgen, a member of the German Parliament’s foreign affairs committee, wrote on the social media platform X, “Everyone should watch this video of #Trump to understand that Europe may soon have no choice but to defend itself.” He added, “Anything else would be capitulation and giving up on ourselves.”

Germany’s defense minister, Boris Pistorius, has begun talking about how Germany must prepare for the possibility of decades of confrontation with Russia. The departing secretary general of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, said last week that the alliance had to prepare for a “decades-long confrontation” with Russia.

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 5:00 pm Yeah, you'd think the media would be covering this a bit more urgently considering it would likely kick off WW3, but it is Superbowl Sunday - priorities.

Dogstar wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 5:04 pm

It takes an idiot who just can’t stop touching a hot stove to reinvigorate what had been mostly a media narrative and a liberal dream of him picking a fight with Taylor Swift right before the superbowl.

P.S. not trying to distract from the horror of Trump inviting Russia to attack NATO members who haven’t “paid up.” It might have even been a good move on his part to get people to not talk about NATO.


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waitingtoconnect wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 5:15 pm

Dogstar wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 5:04 pm

It takes an idiot who just can’t stop touching a hot stove to reinvigorate what had been mostly a media narrative and a liberal dream of him picking a fight with Taylor Swift right before the superbowl.

P.S. not trying to distract from the horror of Trump inviting Russia to attack NATO members who haven’t “paid up.” It might have even been a good move on his part to get people to not talk about NATO.


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For most of his supporters it seems it doesn’t actually matter. We’ve got a degenerate madman running for president and half the country wants him back.

He’s bullying her simply. Obey me and endorse me else I will legislate against you - certainly within this congress because I am the actual president (in my mind) and i run the house.

At a rally on Saturday, the former president announced he would tell the Russians “to do whatever the hell they want” to states delinquent in their bills.

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 5:00 pm Yeah, you'd think the media would be covering this a bit more urgently considering it would likely kick off WW3, but it is Superbowl Sunday - priorities.

LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 11:28 am A friend made an observation last night. Trump getting elected is probably the end of the republic but it will usher in several decades of empire. Crumbling empire mostly, but we'll probably be dead by the time it ultimately fails. I just have to figure out where my kids can live.