Kind of sad that we didn't see any direct confrontation between Ron and Donald. At least we will get to laugh when he has to endorse Trump.

  • ZWQbpkzl [none/use name]
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    8 months ago

    So that just leaves Nikki Haley. Is NYT now gonna try to take her seriously now or just ignore her?

    • invo_rt [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      If he endorsed Haley, maybe. She already had a huge, uphill battle. Assuming most of DeSantis' voters actually go to Trump, she's done.

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        8 months ago

        DeSantis already endorsed Trump.

        The only people who have voted on DeSantis so far have been the Iowa caucus. They gave him 21% but they're notoriously weird. Like they nominated Rick Santorum in 2012 and Ted Cruz in 2016. I know there are polls and everything, but I would have been surprised if DeSantis was cracking higher than 15% in any of the primaries. There's no way Haley had a chance at any point, it's going to be Trump.

        • American_Badass [none/use name]
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          8 months ago

          And that's people that drug their asses out in negative temps to caucus. I'm assuming turnout was very low. I had very little knowledge that they were still really doing a Republican primary.

          So this is probably just the strangest subset of people that felt compelled to do this.

    • ped_xing [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      The front-runners are old. If you're keeping track of them, I think it makes sense to also keep track of who might step in in the scenario of crab-party or crab-partycrab-party of them dying.