Ed Rollins – a recent co-chair of the pro-Ron DeSantis SuperPAC ‘Ready for Ron’ – has admitted that “…no one in the Republican primaries is going to beat, defeat President Trump,” adding: “[Trump] has a strong, solid base. It’s gotten stronger as he’s gone through these terrible indictments. The fact that he’s been indicted on 91 counts is just absurd.”
This isn’t the first time that Rollins has expressed criticism of Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign. In July, he announced he was backing down from DeSantis, calling the Florida Governor a “flawed candidate.” Addressing the flurry of mid-summer donor calls for a DeSantis campaign reboot, Rollins said, “A top-to-bottom makeover and real accountability may be the only thing that saves Ron DeSantis, but even then you still have the governor at the top… And it is getting harder and harder by the day to see not just his people as the problem, but him as the problem.”
It is not just former DeSantis supporters – turned detractors – like Rollins who are expressing a sense of inevitability regarding Trump winning the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. Jeff Roe, chief strategist for the pro-DeSantis SuperPAC Never Back Down, was caught on a leaked audio recording telling donors the campaign was in desperate need of $50 million and that DeSantis only has 60 days to try and defeat Trump before the primary race is effectively over.
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