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Steve Schmidt explains why Ron DeSantis' campaign is beyond saving

Jul 17, 202314 minEp. 44
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Steve Schmidt explains why Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign will be not be able to recover from recent reports of staff layoffs and poor polls. Steve also discusses how Ron's wife Casey has proved to be more of a liability than an asset in his 2024 campaign.


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Ron DeSantis the tallahassee Mussolini. His campaign isn't finished yet, and he hasn't quite exactly been strung up by his heels, but we're getting there. We have good news to share today. Across America. The Ron DeSantis campaign is going broke. Ron DeSantis hired more than ninety people. Two thirds of his donors are already maxed out for the rest of the campaign.

A layman's turns. What this means is that the easy money has already been raised and the hard money, the dollars high up in the tree, yet to be gathered. And it gets harder and harder because the latters to get up in those trees have been withdrawn, withdrawn from billionaires like Ken Griffin, who look at Ron de Santis and see, well, a loser, somebody who's losing to Donald Trump by twenty points. At any rate, Ron de Santis's campaign has nine million dollars cash on hands. They have

a payroll of over a million dollars a month. They don't have money to operate now. Ron de Santis has no chance whatsoever to be elected president of the United States. At his fall off, the edge of the cliff will be remembered for the rest of political eternity as one of the worst political endeavors in campaigns in American history. It's shocking, really, Ron DeSantis is all but finished. All that's rest for the campaign is for us to enjoy

his flailing, his failing, and ultimate humiliation. But apparently the pack that named itself never back down. The man who wore these fighting boots isn't done yet. He has a secret weapon. Her name is Casey, Casey Dissatist, and they've deployed it.

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Watch in America. We've witnessed a lot and put up with enough.

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You guys gotta go.

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He is arresting her.

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For We've been forced into silence, into compliance, told that we must trust.

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The science, into and outdoor venues should be cool.

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We've been told that we must deny truth, back down, and look the other way.

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Enough is enough.

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When you come after our kids, we fight back because there's nothing we won't do to protect our children.

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They're not yours.

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These are our.

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Kids, Our nation's children are all our children.

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We will not allow you to exploit their innocence to advance your agenda.

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We are no longer signed.

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We are united, and we have finally found our fighter.

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We're not gonna let you oppose an agenda on our kids. We're gonna stand up for our heads.

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We do for America what he did for us in Florida, schools open, parents' rights, defending fool choice.

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Universal, critical race theory prohibited DEI, stopped child.

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Mutilation, illegal.

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Girls' sports, saved communities, protected our economy growing, and freedom guaranteed.

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But winning a fight in Florida is just the beginning.

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We must protect parents' rights and the innocence of our children.

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We must restore sanity in our society.

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We need every mama and every grandmama in every corner of the country to stand up and fight back by electing Ron DeSantis president of the United States of America.

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This ad is a absurdity. No one is silencing anyone. Nobody's telling anyone what to do. The COVID pandemic is over. Casey DeSantis doesn't have to be afraid of the Fauci monster anymore. Is this really what the election's about? In twenty twenty four, an eighty year old retired doctor who is the greatest infectious disease specialist of his era, the incompetence of COVID was brought by Donald Trump, not by doctor Fauci. But at any level, Casey DeSantis is looking

for targets and it doesn't matter. She just wants to kick down like her husband. It's a character defect. It's why they're a perfect couple. Ron de Santis seeks to be the president of the mightiest nation on earth, and he's running on a platform of stigmatizing gay people, of dividing over the stupidest culture war issues possible. I have an idea for Ron de Santis. He won't be president of the United States. Maybe he could become an HR manager somewhere and show us all how to do it.

Ron de Santis is an imitator of the most rancid politicians the modern history of the country. He's another governor dreaming of standing in the schoolhouse door. All of the things that Ron de Santis says he did are in accomplishments, they're public postures. He goes out and he looks for fights, not against the most powerful, but against the weakest people in the society because he's a bully. All of this victimization, it's in these people's imaginations. It's not real. And by

the way. If Ron De Santis was doing such an incredibly good job, why is he losing to Donald Trump by twenty points in the state that, according to Ron de Santis, he's single handedly saved. Who will possibly be inspired by this ad? Who will look at this and say, yes, I want this woman's husband, She's a secret weapon? It

makes that sense. Ron DeSantis's rationale for a presidential run is completely collapsed, and his vote share will start to drop precipitously as his funding drives up, and it will dissipate to Tim Scott and Chris Christy in the weeks and months ahead, and the race will fundamentally become a two tiered one, with Christy, Scott and Donald Trump at

the top and Dissatis fading towards the bottom. Before he SLINKs back to tallahassee his proverbial tail between his legs, Humiliated, soon to be forgotten, A latter day Jim Crow, segregationist into twenty first century, lost in time, looking for battles and fights that no one is much interested in. You see what Rond DeSantis doesn't understand is Noah gives a shit about his ambition or Casey desantisus you have two

people who are aloof and abusive towards their staff. They don't care about other human beings, as evidenced by their consistent behavior in the Florida Governor's office. They don't have friends, they don't have deep relationships, and they're unable to connect on the campaign trail. They are apart and separated from the basic aspirations of American families and importantly, also their

fundamental decency. Normal people do not think that they are under siege from gay people and dog masts who are preying on their children. There are not marches of gay men across at Erica coming for your children. It's in Casey Desanis's imagination. What she's saying is these people are less than It's okay to dehumanize them, to teach our children to fear them. It's an age old tactic. It's one of a country that we thought we had moved beyond,

but we haven't. This is the backlash, and like all backlashes, it's fueled by a mix of idiocy and ignorance and malice and a lady in a sleeveless blue dress who's as vicious as they come. Make no mistake about it. She's a mama, mama protecting her kids. Huh, well, what about these mamas? What about these kids on Christmas Eve? Set on a plane, strangers in a foreign land, to a cold place, an island where they knew nobody, Where they were set loose, bewildered, lost, afraid. Did those children

count Casey to Santus? Or maybe not? Because why? I wonder what makes them less than their skin color? Perhaps their religious faith. A decent person would have understood Casey de Santus that those children deserve protection too. Did those mothers love their children too? But that doesn't exist in Ron de santiss book burning Florida, does it? Ron de Santis is a political extremist, and Rod de Santis is a book banner. He is a cheap demagogue in a

dangerous era. The only person who is less than in the entire mix of people we're talking about is Rond de Santus and his wife Casey, at least as judged by the polls. What they stand for is not hope, It is not aspiration. It is not a rebuilding of the American dream. What rondi Santist hopes for is to cut slace and dice his way to the presidency of the United States by dividing, by scaring, by hoping that Trump falls and there's no one left mean enough, stupid enough,

ignorant enough but him. Quite a strategy. The papers are filled with the truth about Ronda Santus's campaign. What he and his wife are selling no one wants, mostly because it's really dumb, and mostly because most Americans are good people and they understand something elemental. Everybody. Everybody is entitled to be treated with dignity and respect, particularly if they work hard in play by the rules, or law abiding

citizens and taxpayers who contribute to their community. Americans who hate, who hate half the people in their country because of what they believe, because of the religion they were born into, where the pigment of their skin are terrible Americans, you cannot love your country and hate half of the people in it. And that's the problem with Ron and Casey DeSantis. They hate where they love. They seek to tear where they should seek to bind up. They're dividers, they're mean,

they're nasty. Their politics is putred. What do you see when you see Casey DeSantis? What do you see behind those pulled eyes? Do you see the secret weapon Or do you see another extremist? Do you see another Laurence Bobert, Another Marjorie Taylor Green, another Sarah Palin, another Judge Genie, another Kimberly guilfoil Well. I have news for Rohnd de Santis and Casey de Santis about your campaign. It's over,

it's collapsing, it's bankrupt. Genera Peck has done ye in And in fact, no matter what Kimberley Gilfoyle says, it reminds me a lot of Casey disonest the best is not yet to come.

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