“Welcome home Ron, welcome back to the MAGA movement where you’ve always belonged.”
What did Ron DeSantis think he was doing running against Trump?
Yes. A year ago he was running high in the polls as the Republican’s new model.
A pseudo-MAGA with a goofy grin.
He was able to raise and spend millions of dollars.
After a dismal second place showing in Iowa last week and heading for last place in New Hampshire, DeSantis dropped out this weekend.
And endorsed Trump.
“Welcome back Ron to the MAGA movement where you always belonged,” said Matt Goetz, the Florida congressman.
Goetz is right, of course.
DeSantis was always just Trump in cowboy boots.
Although DeSantis thought he had a path running to the right (if those definitions have any meaning anymore) of Trump. DeSantis believed his anti-woke bullshit could peel away voters from the front runner.
MAGA voters could see right through it though.
Why vote for a poor copy when you can have the real thing?
Nikki Haley has the same problem. Neither could provide a good reason for running when the MAGAs already had The Donald.
“I voted for Trump twice,” said Nikki in campaign stops in New Hampshire.
It’s an odd way to campaign against the guy but in the cult that is the Republican Party it is the only way to run.
Two days before the New Hampshire primary election, DeSantis’s humiliation was complete. “This is probably the biggest collapse of a presidential campaign in modern American history, if not all American history,” David Jolly, a former Republican congressman from Florida, told the MSNBC network on Sunday. “Ron DeSantis had everything going for him.” wrote David Smith in The Guardian.
But here is the problem for the Democrats in November.
They are running Joe Biden.
It’s an election rematch most voters do not want.
The bad news for Florida is that Ron hasn’t just returned to the Trump fold. He is returning to Tallahassee to act as governor again.
Lock those library doors.