The California governor has been trying to get his Florida Republican counterpart to engage. On Wednesday, he got it.

  • ganksy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    How would Republicans split the ticket? Are you assuming one would run as independent after the primary?

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      1 year ago

      Yeah I don’t buy it - if trump was the runner up, I could totally see him running as an independent, but I don’t see it for DeSantis, and even if he tried, I don’t think he has the base anymore to actually pull it off.

      You need the kind of blind adoration that Trump (for some reason) has in his following to make a 3rd party bid remotely feasible, DeSantis just doesn’t inspire that in people.

      Out best hope for a split conservative base was DeSantis winning the primaries and Trump switching to independent (because he’s absolutely stubborn and prideful enough to do it), I don’t see it happening the other way around

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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      I think the idea is that if Tump didn’t get the nomination he would run as an independent and hold the party hostage.

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        please happen, please. I want to see the absolute destruction to the party that supported a wannabe dictator