Poor Pitiful Ron DeSantis Isn't Much Competition For Trump Now

And there are Trump voters, probably millions of them, who if push came to shove, wouldn't want to lose the health coverage won under the Affordable Care Act. Recall that in 2017, Trump tried to repeal the ACA, with only three Republicans, notably the late Sen. John McCain, stopping it.

"As I said from the beginning," Trump tweeted after the defeat, "let ObamaCare implode, then deal." But there was not a deal, only repeal.

The atmospherics following Trump's arraignment were something a Republican attempting a bank shot against the showman would step back from. It wasn't just Trump's post-arraignment primal scream spinning in a whirlpool of crackpot lies. It was Sen. Lindsey Graham crying on Fox News as he begged the little people to send money to Trump.

"If you can't afford a dollar, fine, just pray," he wailed. "If you've got any money to give, give it!" And send it to ... LindseyGraham.com. Would some of that money go to acting lessons?

There was an election on arraignment day, with real voters voting. They replaced a Republican-backed majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court with a Democratic-backed one. This is the state that helped Trump win a thin Electoral College victory in 2016 but swung over to Biden in 2020.

The Republican loser responded with a tantrum. "I do not have a worthy opponent to which I can concede," Dan Kelly said, drowning in self-pity. "This was the most deeply deceitful, dishonorable, despicable campaign I have ever seen run for the courts."

It was a tough campaign on all sides, Dan Kelly, but man up.

Same for you, DeSantis. Trump supporters seem to want a "fighter" more than anything else. Stop picking on drag queens, Goofy and school librarians. Go after the big Republican game. He's going after you, and if you wither under his assaults, you may disappear.

Coming across as scared and a weak-tea version of the guy who lost the 2020 election by 7 million votes doesn't seem a wise strategy. Said guy also caused Republican losses in both the 2018 and 2022 midterms. Oh, yes, he also lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton in 2016 by a not inconsiderable 3 million.

C'mon Ron. Get off the floor. The last stop in a losing campaign is coming off as pitiful, and you're dangerously close.

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