I recommend you all go to http://www.dolekemp96.org/main.htm
Note to candidates: We’re not going to your website.
I am curious if any campaign strategists told these candidates that their closing message, less than a week before the Iowa caucuses, should be ATTACK, ATTACK, ATTACK. I mean, I know everyone believes that tearing down your opponent in every possible way works, but… does it? We’re almost a half hour in, and so far it feels like the key message from DeSantis is that Nikki Haley is just the worst option imaginable, and that the key message from Haley is that Ron DeSantis is just the worst option imaginable. Ugh.
Haley talking about fighting Obama on Guantanamo Bay prisoners is probably not an issue on which she can top DeSantis, who was actually a Gitmo prosecutor.
DeSantis comes close to actually criticizing Trump on the border issue, then steers to Biden and Haley instead. He gets a solid hit in on Haley’s immigration record, however.
DeSantis has taken the opportunity to land blows on both Donald Trump and Biden, albeit mostly around his issue set. But he didn’t need his hand held by the moderators to get there.
Preferring “the Bakken to Beijing” might be alliterative, but the U.S. imports basically no energy from China.
DeSantis is correct that Florida is a small-government success story. State finances are excellent, and regulations and taxes are low compared to other states. But repeating that at the federal level will be much harder. DeSantis inherited a small-government success story and maintained it as governor of Florida. That’s an entirely different task than turning around a big-government mess, which is what the next president will have to do.
Would be curious about the math of a flat tax that exempted the first $50k of income, as DeSantis proposed.
I cannot imagine the voter whose vote will be changed because then-Congressman DeSantis joined his colleagues in passing what have become routine debt limit hikes. This oppo is crushingly banal.