Who does Ron DeSantis remind you more of?

[EJ24]

Personally, I think he's the next Rick Perry. Very overhyped. A sure bet to win in theory, but a doofus in practice. He's gonna flop.

[Alben Barkley]

The problem with Perry is he was discount Dubya at a time when the GOP wanted to move on from Dubya. (This hurt Jeb! even more four years later, when his brother was even less popular within the GOP and Jeb! was an even worse candidate.)

DeSantis might be discount Trump, but the GOP doesn’t seem ready to move on from him yet so maybe that could work in his favor. I still think it’s more likely than not he flops though.

[Joe Biden 2024]

Write-in: Scott Walker

[MR DARK BRANDON]

Write-in: Scott Walker

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[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Rick Perry, he won't be Prez and we still don't know if he will beat Crust, he is tied in FL polls

[Pouring Rain and Blairing Music]

Write-in: Scott Walker

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Yeah, that was my answer when I saw the title.

[Ⓐnarchy in the ☭☭☭P!]

He's halfway between Bush circa 2000 and Trump, albeit a lot closer to the former than the latter.

I don't see the comparison to Rick Perry. Rick Perry was an actual moron who couldn't even remember his own headline policies. DeSantis at least so far seems to be reasonably quick on his feet if the 60 Minutes situation is anything to go by.

He's still got plenty of time to drop the ball between now and 2024, though. In that case he'd be more comparable to Walker than anyone else

[Roll Roons]

I don't see the comparison to Rick Perry. Rick Perry was an actual moron who couldn't even remember his own headline policies.

Watching that clip, I was reminded of how terrible the GOP field was that year, aside from Mitt and Huntsman.

[Progressive Pessimist]

All of the above, in different ways:

-Mitt Romney in the sense that I wouldn't be surprised if the primary consist of him versus several more red meat appealing anti-DeSantis candidates only for him to win in the end.

-Bush because of how incompetent he is at governing that Republicans don't care about as well as by convincing some that he is reasonable and moderate.

-And Rick Perry for being a complete idiot (this could also work for Bush).

I don't see the comparison to Rick Perry. Rick Perry was an actual moron who couldn't even remember his own headline policies.

Watching that clip, I was reminded of how terrible the GOP field was that year, aside from Mitt and Huntsman.

Was 2016 better?

Write-in: Scott Walker

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Hopefully.

[roxas11]

Who does Ron DeSantis remind you more of?

[Medal506]

Ron DeSantis is basically a polished, more likable and charismatic version of Ted Cruz.

[Mr. Morden]

I mean, in a scenario in which Trump doesn't run, he still has a less than 50% chance of winning the nomination, sure, but that's true of everyone else too.  And yet, *someone* will have to win the nomination.  Are his chances any worse than those of anyone else (again, assuming Trump himself doesn't run again)?

[David Hume]

I know a lot of Dems or lean Dems don't like DeSantis, which is perfectly understandable. But honestly, who is the R nominee you want to avoid the most?

[SAAuthCapitalist]

None of the above.

He isn’t really like Perry, 2000 Bush, and certainly not Romney, who were establishmentarian and globalist. I don’t even see the Scott Walker comparisons though I get it way more than the others.

[Pericles]

I know a lot of Dems or lean Dems don't like DeSantis, which is perfectly understandable. But honestly, who is the R nominee you want to avoid the most?

It's a tough choice because I don't even consider any of them so someone who is a worse President might actually be more electable. Mike Pence would be a god outcome from my view-despite being Trump's VP he's more of an establishment Republican, somewhat respectable and could be qualified to actually be President. While he is also a weak general election candidate that wouldn't motivate Trump's base or appeal to swing voters well (on the other hand, the downside risk for the GOP may be higher with another candidate-if a landslide defeat is possible it's hard to see that happening with Pence).

[Wormless Gourd]

If DeSantis has an impressive reelection showing then I'd say Bush '00.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

As I said before everyone doesn't like DeSANTIS, he only beat Andrew Gillium by a narrow margin, let's wait until 2022 in order for him to beat a real candidate like CRIST. He isn't that good looking Either when you praise Rush Limbaugh. John Edwards lost in leiu of Gephardt and miles ahead of DeSantis

Rick Perry had no competetion in TX neither and he was in the debates and lost everyone of them

Rs act like Everyone should like DeSANTIS

[SN2903]

He's a more likeable Nixon. Conservative but could appeal to moderates.

[Person Man]

I know a lot of Dems or lean Dems don't like DeSantis, which is perfectly understandable. But honestly, who is the R nominee you want to avoid the most?

It's a tough choice because I don't even consider any of them so someone who is a worse President might actually be more electable. Mike Pence would be a god outcome from my view-despite being Trump's VP he's more of an establishment Republican, somewhat respectable and could be qualified to actually be President. While he is also a weak general election candidate that wouldn't motivate Trump's base or appeal to swing voters well (on the other hand, the downside risk for the GOP may be higher with another candidate-if a landslide defeat is possible it's hard to see that happening with Pence).

Pence is easily the safest choice, but he isn't the best choice for Republicans. Biden, Romney, and Kerry were all the safest choices. Only Biden won.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

He's a more likeable Nixon. Conservative but could appeal to moderates.

He has to appeal to Afro Americans, they are 15 percent in FL, WI, PA and MI and he failed against Gillium

If he only has to appeal to moderates before the Insurrectionists, Trump would have won when he was close to 50, females are swing group and they are Ds

[libertpaulian]

He has Perry's superficiality, Dubya's Latino appeal, and Trump's pwn da libz persona.

[AlterEgo]

Rick Perry, he won't be Prez and we still don't know if he will beat Crust, he is tied in FL polls

Well, in fairness you keep touting Crist (and again, as someone who has somewhat of an actual understanding of this state, Crist is completely unelectable to a statewide office) but that poll where DeSantis is tied is actually against Nikki Fried. (Although a late Feb poll from Mason-Dixon had DeSantis leading Fried by 9. The one and only poll of DeSantis vs. Crist had DeSantis up 11.

[Skill and Chance]

Either Ronald Reagan or Chris Christie.  If he can stay the course, the upside is tremendous, but I increasingly think he is peaking too soon and becoming too much of a target.  If there's any significant dirt out there on him, someone will find it in the next 3 years. 

[pbrower2a]

A right-wing version of Mike Dukakis.

[Vosem]

Dubya. He's a large-state Governor meant to simultaneously invoke the most recent Republican President (Papa Bush/Trump) while also having some record of appealing to the most recent Republican President's demographic weakness (rural Southerners/suburbanites). The extremely downplayed, but still on some level there, elite educational background and vague factional positioning are also similar.

I see the similarities to Perry but they don't seem as compelling. (Walker much less so -- but I will say that 2021 DeSantis hype clearly has some parallels with 2013 Christie hype, which also went nowhere.) DeSantis doesn't strike me as similar to Romney at all.