Day: January 24, 2024
DeSantis: Graceless to the End
“DeSantis’s departure from the race revealed another problem with his candidacy. He was graceless throughout, especially so on his way out the door.” Said DeSantis: “Trump has my endorsement because we cannot go back to the old Republican guard of yesteryear, a repackaged form of warmed-over corporatism that Nikki Haley represents.”
— John Ellis, on Substack
Trump’s Emasculation of Ron DeSantis
“Donald Trump plumbed new depths of degradation in his savage takedown of Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, a yearlong campaign of emasculation and humiliation that helped force one of the party’s rising stars out of the presidential race after just one contest and left him to pick up the pieces of his political future.”
— New York Times
Florida Republicans Want Floridians to Pay Trump’s Legal Costs
$5 million
“Florida Republicans may set aside millions in taxpayer money to help pay for former President Donald Trump’s multiple legal battles,” Politico reports. “A Miami Republican who endorsed Trump’s reelection has filed a bill for this year’s legislative session that could allow the state to hand out up to $5 million to the embattled Republican frontrunner for president.”
Tyrant of Tallahassee Returns
Ron DeSantis is nobody’s favorite political gnome,
And his toxic smile ain’t a symptom — it’s a syndrome.
So we Floridians rightly fear
What he’ll do in the next three years,
Because our bitter loser fascist governor is coming home.
