Reacting to a new NBC poll that shows polling numbers for Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) crashing since he announced his 2024 Republican Party presidential nomination bid, former GOP campaign consultant Rick Wilson gleefully compared his campaign to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's presidential faceplant in 2016.
Speaking with host Chris Jansing, the Lincoln Project co-founder said the DeSantis campaign is going nowhere but down based on the latest poll numbers.
With the NBC poll showing a decline from 31 percent in April to 22 percent in June, while Mike Pence and Nikki Haley show modest increases, Wilson pointed out a massive misstep being made by the DeSantis campaign brain-trust.
Asked whether the debates will be a game-changer for any of Trump's rivals, Wilson explained, "If you're waiting for the debate to be a miracle, where your focus groups and your consultants write you a couple of one-line zingers, and then Trump can proceed and kind of consume the entire stage and wreck you, it's not going to work. Miracles don't work in this business."
"Look,Ron DeSantis is spending over $2 million a month right now in Iowa, maybe more than that, trying to win one primary just like Ted Cruz did," he added. "We see that Ted Cruz is not now and will never be president."
"All of these candidates fundamentally do not understand where the MAGA base is," he elaborated. They think they can say all the things the base likes, but the base wants to hear all those things from Donald Trump. It is not a possibility for any of these people to become Donald Trump."
He then claimed, "DeSantis himself has been probably the worst of the well-funded candidates I've ever witnessed and I've been in politics for over 30 years."
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