{"id":84068,"date":"2022-12-14T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84068"},"modified":"2022-12-13T09:29:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T15:29:17","slug":"inevitable-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84068","title":{"rendered":"Inevitable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DeSantis tops Trump in a new poll &#8211; and <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/3773062-desantis-tops-trump-by-23-points-among-republicans-in-new-poll\/\">not by a little bit<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emphasis added by me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Florida Gov.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/ron-desantis\/\">Ron DeSantis&nbsp;<\/a>(R) leads former President Trump by 23 points among Republicans in a hypothetical GOP presidential primary, according to a poll released Tuesday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/12\/13\/trump-support-gop-2024-presidential-race-poll\/10882346002\/\">USA Today-Suffolk University poll<\/a>\u00a0found that 56 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning voters prefer DeSantis, while only 33 percent would support Trump. <strong>More than 60 percent said they want a nominee who will continue Trump\u2019s policies but is not Trump<\/strong>, while 31 percent want the former president to run.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t care about mean tweets.  I do care very much about slashing regulation (and, since Trump didn&#8217;t do it, spending as well) and acting in the <em>nation&#8217;s <\/em>best interest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m <em>not <\/em>interested in relitigating the 2020 election; rooting out the corruption that <em>does <\/em>exist, sure; barbering on about remedies that aren&#8217;t anywhere in the Consitution, not so much. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of all? I want to force the Democrats to defend themselves, their record, their <em>squatting on American democracy<\/em>, in 2024.   Without Trump to deflect to, they fail. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DeSantis tops Trump in a new poll &#8211; and not by a little bit. Emphasis added by me: Florida Gov.&nbsp;Ron DeSantis&nbsp;(R) leads former President Trump by 23 points among Republicans in a hypothetical GOP presidential primary, according to a poll released Tuesday.&nbsp; The\u00a0USA Today-Suffolk University poll\u00a0found that 56 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning voters prefer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,13,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-24","category-republicans","category-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84069,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84068\/revisions\/84069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}