Ron DeSantis prepares to launch his 2024 campaign on Twitter,

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promo code Ben today. Well, finally, the 2024 Republican primaries can begin in earnest today.

Governor Rhonda Sanchez to Florida, long awaited, long expected, will announce his campaign

for the presidency. He has like $150 million in the bank. He is ranked second to Donald Trump in virtually all the polls. In the national polling, Trump has a very solid lead over to Santis. In the state polling, things are a little bit more dicey for Donald Trump. This race has not yet begun for people who are suggesting the race is preliminarily over, let me remind everybody, the back in 2008,

the two nominees for the Republican and the Democratic Party, respectively, at this point in the race, we're supposed to be Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton. And of course, none of that happened. These races are unpredictable. Obviously, Trump has the upper hand going in, considering that he's the former president of the United States of the hammerlock on 25 to 30 percent of the Republican base. But that does not mean that he is not a vulnerable incumbent candidate.

He is a candidate who lost in 2020 and 2021 and 2022.

He is a person who's going to have to run at Ron DeSantis from the left, not from the right.

And he really has never faced a candidate quite as determined and I think methodical as DeSantis in a Republican primary.

In the last Republican primary in 2016, of course, all of the other Republicans bumper card each other,

leaving a wide open lane for Donald Trump to run straight up the middle.

Rubio and Cruz, they went after each other.

Chris Christie performed a political murder suicide during a New Hampshire primary debate with Marco Rubio. You had a bunch of candidates who kind of stayed in too long, splitting the vote a bunch of different ways, and Trump was able to run right up the middle in that race. This race appears that it's going to break down probably into a two-man race at this point, barring some sort of cataclysmic circumstance between DeSantis and Trump. That is a very clear alternative.

If you are somebody who believes in sort of conservative governance and solid ability to actually get your agenda through, then DeSantis is your guy for looking for colorful. If you're looking

for provocative, then Donald Trump is probably your guy. Those are sort of how the factors break down here. There's a lot of personal loyalty, obviously, for a lot of Republicans for Trump because they think that he was a good president. I think that the first three years of his presidency were quite good as well. I think the last year was kind of a disaster area with his handling of COVID and the riots. But with all of that said, this is essentially a two-person race. Now, the way that Ron DeSantis is about to launch his campaign is quite fascinating. And you can see everybody who's upset about it. People in the media are upset about it. Trump's team obviously upset about it because he's doing something different and, frankly, somewhat creative. There's an attempt to pigeonhole DeSantis as quote

unquote two online, which is a weird rip on somebody who won a swing state by 20 points in the last

gubernatorial election cycle and somebody who bucked all the conventional wisdom with regard to

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