Could Ron DeSantis Drop Out If He Doesn’t Win Next Week’s Iowa Caucus?
The Rich Zeoli Show
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🗓️ 12 January 2024
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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 4:
- On Wednesday night, Republican presidential candidates Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley participated in a debate on CNN hosted by Jake Tapper and Dana Bash. Simultaneously, former President—and Republican primary front runner—Donald Trump held a town hall hosted by Fox News.
- Despite placing the bulk of his resources in Iowa, Governor Ron DeSantis trails former President Donald Trump by a whopping 36.4%, according to Real Clear Politics polling averages. Assuming he is unable to close that massive gap by Monday, January 15th—the day of the Iowa caucus—he’ll likely drop out of the race. So, what would be next for DeSantis? Perhaps an endorsement of Trump and a 2028 presidential run?
- On Thursday, Donald Trump’s team delivered its closing arguments in a civil fraud trial in which New York Attorney General Letitia James alleges that the former president inflated the value of assets controlled by the Trump Organization in past financial statements. If Trump loses the case, he could face up to $370 million in fines and penalties as well as being permanently prohibited from doing business in the state of New York. Notably, in 2018, while campaigning to become Attorney General, James vowed to “sue” Trump—providing evidence to the defense’s argument that this civil suit is entirely political.
- Jonah Bromwich, The New York Times reporter who is inside the courtroom for Donald Trump’s civil fraud case, writes: “As [Andrew] Amer, the state lawyer, is explaining it, the case for Trump’s intent rests on his responsibility for the annual financial statements, Michael Cohen’s testimony and some of the gaps in Trump’s own testimony. But thus far, there is no real smoking gun that shows that Trump intended to commit fraud—the evidence is mostly circumstantial.” You can read more here: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/01/11/nyregion/trump-fraud-trial
- While speaking in the House of Representatives, Congressman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) insisted that Republicans can’t impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas for simply following the Biden Administration’s relaxed U.S. southern border policies. So, is this an admission that President Joe Biden is solely responsible for border chaos?
- While speaking with Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC, First Lady Jill Biden said what Republicans are doing to her son, Hunter Biden, is “cruel.”
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| 0:50.0 | Back in court today, Donald Trump in court, Hunter Biden in court, the chaos of 2024 is well underway |
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| 1:03.0 | Glad you're here today. |
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| 1:11.0 | is planning for another pandemic. |
| 1:14.6 | By the way, let me just address this a couple of people |
| 1:16.3 | appointed this out to me regarding something Trump said last night |
| 1:19.5 | and about Desantis. |
| 1:21.0 | He said he was Fauchy's favorite governor. That of course is not true. That's not accurate in the least. I don't think we have a clip of that, but not accurate in the least. I mean, look, I've said this before. Governor DeSantis is the only of COVID was outstanding. |
| 1:36.0 | And President Trump made mistakes during COVID |
| 1:41.0 | like he made throughout his entire four years of president which is |
| 1:44.8 | to listen to the bureaucrats and he's learned from that in a big big way but it's not |
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