The complete collapse of Ron DeSantis' campaign

Apr 21, 2023

NOTE: The third installment in my series on the US military industrial complex will come tomorrow. If you haven’t had a chance to read the first two, here they are:

Part 1:

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Jon Stewart meets the US military industrial complex

Last week, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks was interviewed at a symposium at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy by Jon Stewart. The full interview extends for more than an hour. I realize that most people will not watch it in full. That’s too bad. It is a revealing exchange that is deeply worrying…

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Part 2:

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Jon Stewart meets the US military industrial complex

Yesterday, I wrote the first in a three-part series about the US military industrial complex. If you didn’t get a chance to read it, do so before reading today’s installment. How did a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman manage to post some of the nation’s most closely guarded military intelligence on a video game platform…

2 years ago · 168 likes · 51 comments · Steve Schmidt

Yesterday, a Wall Street Journal poll was just the latest evidence that Ron DeSantis’ support as a potential GOP nominee is stalling — to put it mildly. Back in December, DeSantis had a 14-point lead over Donald Trump. The latest survey results show a 13-point drop since that time.

Here is my commentary about the Florida governor’s collapse. With Donald Trump now the frontrunner for the Republican nomination in 2024, the country must come together to stop him from being reelected:

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If not Biden as the Dem nominee then who? Whitmer or Warnock perhaps. I doubt that Harris would fair any better than Humphrey in ‘68. After seeing Biden in action in Kyiv, Warsaw, and the State of the Union I am less concerned with his age - especially against a corpulent Trump.

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The collapse of DeSantis is just fine! Not suited for the White House, anyway. More on . . .

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