Bet on the Ronald, not the Donald, for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination | Mulshine
Updated Mar 09, 2021;
Posted Mar 09, 2021
Then-President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis talk during a COVID-19 and storm preparedness roundtable in Florida last year. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)TNS
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Here’s a fun political trivia question: Who was the last president before Donald Trump to lose the White House, the Senate and the House?
The answer: Herbert Hoover. And at least he could blame his loss on a Depression that started the year he took office.
It was Bill Cassidy, a Republican senator from Louisiana, who popularized that observation about The Donald. He did so the day before Trump’s speech last week at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
But what does that page actually look like?
Trying to make sense of this moment in history is almost as difficult as trying to unravel the multitude of conspiracy theories about the election itself.
Some corners of America seemed to collectively exhale as President Donald Trump – twice impeached, banned from Twitter and yet still refusing to even mention Biden’s name or concede defeat left Washington for some measure of exile in Florida. But from other corners of the nation, the pulsating and pressurized steam of grievance still hissed with anger and distrust.
“We must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal,” he said in his inaugural address from the same U.S. Capitol portico where a pro-Trump mob tried to stop his elevation to the presidency only two weeks earlier.
But what does that page actually look like?
Trying to make sense of this moment in history is almost as difficult as trying to unravel the multitude of conspiracy theories about the election itself.
Some corners of America seemed to collectively exhale as President Donald Trump – twice impeached, banned from Twitter and yet still refusing to even mention Biden’s name or concede defeat left Washington for some measure of exile in Florida. But from other corners of the nation, the pulsating and pressurized steam of grievance still hissed with anger and distrust.
“We must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal,” he said in his inaugural address from the same U.S. Capitol portico where a pro-Trump mob tried to stop his elevation to the presidency only two weeks earlier.
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