Peter Meijer is doing this for his own political gain. He is clearly not as dumb as the Cheneys or Kinzingers of the party.
Meijer is very young and it is obvious that he wants to run again as a Michigan House Rep or even take a shot at running for Senator in Michigan.
A competent national party needs a wide tent.
There should be a place for Meijer in that tent as long as he doesn't go full Cheney.
Meijer even endorsed Gibbs who beat him in the primary last year. He can at least act as a team player unlike Cheney.
I personally am not against Meijer running again in Michigan and winning some other political office.
The article said "according to four people with knowledge of the matter"
It looked originally like anonymous sources but I guess it is actually real after seeing other reports come in.
I admit I was wrong on this take.
If DeSantis wins both the primary and general, I hope he actually fights Congress to get the wall.
This sadly also removes covering free cancer screenings.
This one part is a big mistake.
The Dems will get to paint the Republicans as pro-cancer.
Coming from a new account with zero posting history and this is the only comment you posted.
Trump won't win a general election and then Biden gets 4 more years with no checks and balances since Trump 2024 also tanks the key down ballot races. In this scenario we don't flip the Senate and we also lose the House.
You give the game away with your statement you are for Trump because it pisses off people you don't like including me.
You are an unserious individual. You don't see that America is at the precipice of total ruin.
Losing all three of the Presidency, Senate and House in 2024 means it is all over.
Say goodbye to the filibuster and hello to a packed Supreme Court, the addition of D.C. and Puerto as new states and say hello to federal gun control.
Nominating DeSantis ensures that we have a shot at the Presidency and it prevents us from losing all three branches at the same time.
Even if DeSantis does loses the general to Biden, he is not toxic to the key downballot races. The Dems can be prevented from getting a trifecta.
People like you who are willing to risk the fate of the nation just to nominate Trump as a fuck you once again in 2024 are beyond any logic and reason.
I pray most of the primary voters are not as shortsighted as you.
DeSantis is not a mainstream Republican by any sense of that word.
You are grasping at straws to justify your devotion to Trump by comparing DeSantis to George H.W. Bush.
The important question to me is what do most of the GOP primary voters want?
Do they want to actually beat Biden or do they want to prop Trump up again as some kind of misguided revenge?
The winner of the primary will be decided on which of these two statements matters more?
I cannot believe you think Dr. Ladapo is not impressive as the Surgeon General of Florida.
I am certain you cannot name a better Surgeon General of any state who calls out the COVID vaxxes as shitty.
There is no other Republican governor who is even doing half of what DeSantis is doing.
DeSantis is willing to admit he made a mistake during the very start of COVID. I respect the fact that he is capable of learning from his mistakes
Trump is not capable of learning from his mistakes.
Nominating Trump again in 2024 is the most suicidal thing that the GOP primary voters ever could do.
I will not tone down my rhetoric on this topic because I actually want to atleast try to win 2024 and I am sick of individuals insisting that Trump must be the nominee and that he is a better candidate. Trump is a weaker candidate on both electability and policy. Trump still is not capable of admitting the lockdowns were a mistake.
Preferring Trump 2024 over DeSantis 2024 signifies that the individual prefers loud buffoonery over calm competence.
You are insane if you think he is a mainstream Republican.
You are repeating blatant lies pushed by Trump 2024 cocksucker Alex Bruesewitz who is a top shill for the Trump 2024 campaign.
DeSantis has constantly said he is against U.S. intervention in Ukraine. He voted against U.S. intervention in Syria. He is a realist on foreign policy and not a neo-con.
He actually has made Disney subservient to a board of individuals he appointed. If that is kid gloves on Disney, you are delusional.
He is the only governor to fire a Soros prosecutor, Andrew Warren who wasn't enforcing the laws.
He is the only governor to go after Pfizer and investigate their shitty vax.
He is the only governor to appoint a Surgeon General who says the MRNA vaxes are not safe and not needed for healthy people.
What fucking Republican from 30 years would ever do this?
Calling him just like Bush the first demonstrates your level of delusion.
DeSantis acknowledged he made a mistake even locking down temporarily.
He is a man capable of growth and learning from his mistakes.
He is absolutely better than the old asshole who refuses to even admit he ever made a mistake.
We had Trump defending hiring Christopher Wray just recently by saying time will tell on that hire. I wonder how time has been to Trump's most ardent supporters who got their lives ruined on J6.
Trump 2024 is a dogshit campaign focused more on attacking DeSantis instead of presenting a positive vision for the country and attacking the Dems and Biden.
Anyone who prefers Trump 2024 at this point to DeSantis 2024 is someone who values propping the narcissistic individual Trump up more than picking the candidate who can actually win a general.
Trump has not demonstrated that he has learned ANYTHING from his mistakes.
This is a man who is incapable of any self-improvement.
He will undoubtedly lose in the general election in 2024 if God forbid he becomes the nominee since he has spent the last few years alienating even more people and accruing unnecessary baggage such as J6 and spreading nasty lies about people like DeSantis. Trump might even lose Florida in the general election in 2024 if he is the nominee and he keeps shitting on the state of Florida as a dig on DeSantis.
God forbid if Trump becomes the nominee again after all this nonsense, it will cement that GOP primary voters are even more unintelligent than even the most extreme of the wokies.
Look at how Trump always goes to Maggie Haberman at the NYT for interviews instead of just going to conservative outlets like Breitbart or Fox. NYT is the newspaper of record for the educated elites.
Trump yearns for acceptance from these people but he will sadly never receive it.
The truth of the matter is that Trump's temperament is seen as low class and lowbrow by the educated. Even though Trump is a billionaire, other billionaires find him too crass and vulgar.
What I said here is not contradictory or "all over the place" at all.
Trump wants the love of the educated and the elite but his personality and his entire style of communication completely repels the people he wants to win over.
DeSantis is nowhere near as wealthy as Trump but he is able to effectively communicate a conservative message to the educated elite audience because his personality and communication style doesn't immediately repulse them.
The entire southern region of the U.S. is a part of "Tornado Alley".
You think everyone in AL, AR, GA, FL, LA, MS, NC, SC, TX, TN and OK deserve natural disasters just because they happen to live in a region plagued by natural disasters.
This is one of most heartless takes I have seen here.
DeSantis fired his surgeon general in 2020 and replaced him with Ladapo. That demonstrates he is honestly just better at not caring what the globalists think of him. He even started a commission to investigate the shitty COVID vaccines. Someone who buckles down to external globalist pressure would never do something so bold.
Remember Trump is the man who said he cannot fire Fauci because the left would flip out.
Trump's yearning for the educated elite to fawn over him is a major weakness of his.
He doesn't realize that the educated elite will always hate him no matter how much he capitulated to them.
The problem with nominating Trump again is not just expecting bad governance if he wins but that he will never win.
I am not saying DeSantis is a lock to win the Presidency but he at least gives us a fighting chance to win the Presidency. Trump will lose in such a landslide that he will drag down the entire down-ballot. A Trump/Lake ticket or a Trump/MTG ticket will lose even fucking Texas. This is what awaits us.
A DeSantis presidency would atleast prevent the left from gaining any more ground. A Trump nomination in 2024 cements a Biden second term.
The choice is really clear for our primary voters.
They can choose between winning the election or losing everything over their misguided love for Trump. They will not get both.
I despise Trump's behavior since 2020 and his inability to learn from his mistakes.
I wholly believe that nominating Trump again in 2024 is a suicidal mistake for the conservative movement. He will lose in a landslide and demolish all of the key down ballot races.
Too many people on the right still foolishly worship Trump and want to nominate him again as some kind of misguided "revenge" for the 2020 election.
They don't realize that if we lose the House and fail to flip the Senate in 2024 and if we also lose the Presidency at the same time, the country is just gone.
The Dems will get rid of the filibuster and pack the Supreme court, they will add D.C. and Puerto Rico as new states, they will ban all guns and then they will have absolute power.
This nightmarish scenario can be avoided simply by not nominating Trump again in 2024. Too many people on the right are too stupid to realize this.
A man who says takes the guns first is not capable of saying I don't know why anyone needs an Ar-15?
This is a shitty defense.
Trump was a NY Democrat for decades. Is it so far-fetched that he would be for gun-control?
Have you not seen this video?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yxgybgEKHHI
I don't care who is the source for this, a man who said "take the guns first then due process after" is no friend of the second amendment.
None of this is even remotely feasible.
First of all the right won't be winning many elections with how many people on the right still prefer an entertainer who is excellent at wallowing in grievance instead of a man who actually achieves results and pushes the conservative agenda forward.
The right wing movement will never get even an inch closer to total control until the people in the movement majorly wise up and start picking competence over empty bluster and bravado.
We have video footage of him saying take the guns first then due process after while sitting next to fucking Dianne Feinstein.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yxgybgEKHHI
It should not be too surprising that he says this indefensible shit.
This is a problem that will eventually destroy western society.
Democrats are disillusioned because they actually think the nation is still not leftist enough for their tastes.
Republicans are disillusioned because they lament that the country has degenerated into such far leftism.
I don't think there is any solution to this problem.
You cannot improve election integrity without winning elections.
Electability is something the Trump affiliated wing of the GOP sadly refuses to even consider. PA primary voters are from the Trump branch mainly and these idiots nominated lunatic Mastriano in a swing state. They still have the audacity to claim Mastriano lost due to muh fraud. He lost by fucking double digits. He cost the PA GOP the State House in the legislature by being such a bad candidate that the down ballot was annihilated.
This is the part that you don't seem to grasp fully.
Shitty candidates can't win elections.
You need to win elections to enact policy.
I actually want candidates who can win and implement conservative policy.
The Trump wing of the party sadly values wallowing in grievance more than achieving actual results.
I want more candidates like Ron DeSantis in every state. People who can win and do win and then they actually implement good conservative policy.
I am not advocating for actual weak cucks like Lindsey Graham to win primaries like you are falsely insinuating.
I call people who constantly make excuses for Trump and insist that only he must be the nominee again in 2024 Trump cultists.
Call me an asshole if it makes you feel better but I call out Trump cultism when I see it.
If Imp trips he will blame women for it.
He baselessly blames women.
That is not what I would ever do concerning the orange man.
I vehemently despise his actions since 2020 but I do not blame him for things he is not responsible for.
People like you overly idolize Trump and can't stand that I aggressively criticize him on valid grounds.
Lake was a shitty candidate for a few reasons.
She purposely alienated McCain voters and even told them to get the hell out at one of her rallies instead of trying to get as many votes as possible.
She could have won despite the election day Maricopa issues if only she didn't push away many center right voters.
Why would you ever tell people not to vote for you and demonize a dead politician even if you hated him?
She had good communication skills but she unfortunately had absolutely terrible political sense.
She also leaned way too hard into Trump worship. That infamous picture of her vacuuming a rug that Trump would stand on before Trump arrived to one of her rallies devastated her appeal to independents.
Kari Lake is the prime example of pure wasted talent. She could have won despite the election day shenanigans had she just done a few things differently.
She has since destroyed her future political career by going full "stop the steal" grifter mode where she still gives her supporters false hope that the courts will somehow allow a redo of the election.
She has also gone full Trump cultist and spread blatant lies that Soros somehow endorsed Governor DeSantis.
Lake is one of the most obnoxious figures in the GOP these days.
I pray she never wins a primary again for any office again in Arizona so we won't throw more winnable races away.
How is Governor Kemp responsible for state legislatures in every swing states allowing mass mail in ballots using COVID as an excuse?
Kemp certified the election in his state because the Trump campaign had no hard evidence to show regarding mass mail in ballot fraud.
There is especially no evidence to support the claims that Sydney Powell and Lin Wood made regarding Dominion machines being used to steal the election.
The reality is that the left was able to use mail in ballot rule changes to flood the zone with mail in ballots.
I know what happened in 2020 and it could have been entirely prevented had Trump not allowed Fauci to lockdown and if Trump had a better legal team that fought to prevent the mail in ballot changes from taking place before the election.
The lockdowns allowed swing state legislatures the cover to push mass mail in ballot rule changes.
What you call "stealing the election" is unfortunately technically legal thanks to the lack of election integrity regarding mail in ballots.
It is absurd that signature verification and voter id is not even present in all of the swing states.
I definitely acknowledge there are improvements needed to improve election integrity.
If only we had good candidates in 2022 who could have won governor races in AZ, WI, MI and PA.
Thanks to Trump endorsing shit candidates in those states, nothing has changed with regards to election integrity in those states.
What happened in the 2020 election is unfortunately wholly legal since swing states have pisspoor election integrity measures.
We need to win elections to make our future elections secure.
Trump is not going to be able to win a national election in 2024.
Sometimes they do things solely because they are pressured to by certain groups such as the WEF.