The Lincoln Project, a political action committee set up by moderate Republicans, has unleashed a new video. This one drags Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over his faltering campaign to win the Republican Presidential nominee.
Watch below.
The video paints a portrait of DeSantis as charmless, lacking in social skills, and generally a weak candidate. In other words, it captures him fairly perfectly.
The attack on DeSantis doesn’t mean the Lincoln Project is backing his main rival, Donald Trump. Moderate Republicans, horrified by the Trump Presidency, launched the PAC in 2019. In 2020, it went so far as endorsing Joe Biden for President.
Besides Trump, the Lincoln Project has also campaigned against other far-right GOP figures and those it perceives as enabling Trump. Its aim is to keep Trump out of power. And, it would appear, Ron DeSantis.
DeSantis can hardly complain about a disparaging video, given his campaign has relied upon them. At the end of June, to mark the end of Pride Month, his campaign released an advert celebrating his stance against LGBTQ+ rights. It attempted to paint DeSantis as a macho, alpha male. It was slammed as homophobic by right-wing gay groups like Log Cabin Republicans and was quietly deleted from social media within days.
DeSantis replaces his campaign manager
DeSantis’s campaign woes have been mounting in recent weeks. It’s known he’s axed dozens of campaign staff. Some pundits said he over-confidently over-hired too many at the start of his campaign and quickly hit cash flow problems.
Although securing some large donations on announcing his campaign, there are signs those donations have eased up more recently
Yesterday, it emerged DeSantis has replaced campaign manager Generra Peck. The change of staff comes as DeSantis continues to significantly trail Trump in opinion polls.
DeSantis will replace Peck with James Uthmeier, the chief of staff for his gubernatorial office. CNN describes Uthmeier as, “a trusted adviser known in Florida as a ruthless enforcer of DeSantis’ agenda and devoted protector of the Republican’s political brand.”
A DeSantis spokesperson confirmed the moves in a statement and said Peck would be retained as “chief strategist”, working alongside Uthmeier.
“James Uthmeier has been one of Governor DeSantis’ top advisors for years and he is needed where it matters most: working hand in hand with Generra Peck and the rest of the team to put the governor in the best possible position to win this primary and defeat Joe Biden.”
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Mister P
I wish him all the failure in the world.
inbama
Ugh!
You need to put on a latex glove before shaking his hand.
ZzBomb
You’ll still vote for him when Trump can’t run b/c he’s in prison. Better go out and get those latex gloves early!
abfab
You’ll need one when you get around to fisting him, too.
PubisHairus
The only way to get the hate out of Ron is to punch him from the inside!
abfab
Good one! LOL And probe-ably true. xo
Kangol2
He’s a horror show. That video’s too long and requires too much parsing to be effective, though.
Just use scary music, have a compelling narrator list all the hateful things he’s done and where Florida falls on the national scale, as well as other things–unaffordable insurance! rising housing prices and inflation! 100F temperatures burning the state up! leprosy!–plaguing Florida on his watch as he traipses around the US, and the ad will be far more effective. You know, use the GQP playbook against its now tarnished former golden boy!
abfab
Joe Scarboro always fliked and wiped his nose on air much to the dismay of his poor wife, Mika. What is it with GOP White men from northwest Florida (the redneck Riviera). Gross.
Doug
I’m reading more and more Republicans are turning against him, and they’re doing it because they don’t agree with what he’s doing to Disney… this is a good sign for us!
Tombear
I have to donate money to The Lincoln Project now. Damn there goes my beer money!
Tombear
I just donated $100 to the Lincoln Project.
Openminded
Upside= Helps cancel DeSantis
Downside= Helps support Trump
As a Republican, there’s just no winning right now.
trell
Wow. it comes to something when even your own political party are trolling you…..!
….but the Republican party have been trying to subvert Democrats for decades, whether labelling them as Commies/Woke/Leftist/Pinkos etc., it’s kind of fun to see them implode on themselves.
jax florida
Its an enormous amount of fun to see them implode on themselves!