Ron DeSantis: Donald Trump a Lame Duck on Day 1 – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis argues that Donald Trump would be a lame-duck president who could not seek another term on the first day of his second presidency if he were to win in 2024.
“You really need a very disciplined energetic presence willing to spit nails and fight the needed battles every single day for eight years…It really requires two terms to be able to finish the job,” DeSantis said on Thursday.
He has also recently noted that a one-term Trump second presidency could jeopardize the conservative supermajority on the U.S. Supreme Court.
“I think if you look over the next two presidential terms, there is a good chance that you could be called upon to seek replacements for Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito and the issue with that is, you can’t really do better than those two,” DeSantis said last month at a Florida event, adding that there may also be a chance to “make improvements with those others, and if you were able to do that, you would have a 7-2 conservative majority on the Supreme Court that would last a quarter century.”
Ron DeSantis Hits Trump on Failure to ‘Drain the Swamp’
Trump had four years as president to clean up the “Swamp” as he likes calling the entrenched national-security bureaucracy, but he failed to do so, DeSantis said during a campaign appearance in New Hampshire on Thursday.
When a reporter asked DeSantis about whether he thought Trump could “drain the swamp,” DeSantis fired back, “Why didn’t he do it in his first four years?”
The Florida governor seemed to emphasize that Donald Trump could not finish the job.
Conservatives argue that Trump spent much of his first term being subverted at every turn in many cases by people he appointed, including CIA Director Gina Haspel, FBI Director Christopher Wray, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and others as the Russiagate probe unfolded. The Durham Report made it clear that his own Executive Branch agencies carried out a smear campaign against the president, but ultimately his lack of governmental experience.
He also proved unable to work with fellow Republicans on passing a replacement for Obamacare when they had a 241-seat majority in the House and 52 seats in the Senate due to his decision to provoke a feud with Sen. John McCain.
Donald Trump Team Defends Against Attack
The former president shot back saying he didn’t want DeSantis as president if he needed eight years to get the job done.
“You don’t need eight years, you need six months,” Trump said Thursday morning during a breakfast with the Westside Conservative Club in Urbandale, Iowa. “We can turn this thing around so quickly. If you need eight years ― who the hell wants to wait eight years? You don’t need eight years.”
Trump continued: “He’ll stop saying that ― watch,” Donald Trump added during his speech. “Every time I hear, I wince because if it takes eight years to turn around, you don’t want him as president.”
Trump has attacked DeSantis recently claiming he has no personality and arguing he has no political skill despite having won a landslide victory in the November election, turning Florida into a solidly Republican state.
DeSantis Viewed by Political Enemies as More Competent
Whereas Donald Trump struggled to manage the federal bureaucracy as president, DeSantis has shown he has a strong command of his state’s levers of power.
This frightens DeSantis’ Democratic political opponents.
“I believe addiction to the power of the presidency is the only reason Trump is giving the presidency another go — he has no real interest in legislative movement that doesn’t line his pockets. DeSantis, however, is a different brand of threat,” Yahoo! News columnist Dustin Seibert wrote. “He managed to become a beast of a governor, anchored by a Republican Florida Legislature that, as the recently closed legislative session has shown us, bends to his whims like some do to Darth Vader using the Force.”
Florida Democratic State Rep. Maxwell Frost appeared on the Dean Obeidallah XM radio program saying, “If you think Donald Trump was bad, you’ve got another thing coming because DeSantis actually knows the system.”
John Rossomando was a senior analyst for Defense Policy and served as Senior Analyst for Counterterrorism at The Investigative Project on Terrorism for eight years. His work has been featured in numerous publications such as The American Thinker, The National Interest, National Review Online, Daily Wire, Red Alert Politics, CNSNews.com, The Daily Caller, Human Events, Newsmax, The American Spectator, TownHall.com, and Crisis Magazine. He also served as senior managing editor of The Bulletin, a 100,000-circulation daily newspaper in Philadelphia, and received the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors first-place award for his reporting.
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