Ron DeSantis Draws Small Crowd In Georgia Flop

Ron DeSantis went to Georgia to visit a gun shop that bills itself as the world’s largest, but the one thing that wasn’t large was the crowd for the Florida governor.

Here is the event:

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported before DeSantis visited:

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DeSantis picked the suburban gun store for the latest stop on his yet-to-be-announced presidential campaign, part of a media blitz that’s widely seen as a prelude to an official 2024 announcement expected within months.

Democrats, meanwhile, called on DeSantis to scrap the stop at a shop that bills itself as the “World’s Largest Gun Store” days after a deadly mass shooting at a private school in Nashville, Tennessee.

Ron DeSantis visiting a gun store after three 9-year-olds were killed in a Nashville school shooting was a degree of blatant political pandering that was a lot, even by Republican culture war standards.

The larger issue is that DeSantis still can’t seem to draw a crowd when he leaves Florida. He couldn’t get people to come to see him in New York. He fared a little better in Iowa, but in that case, he struggled to interact with human beings. 

It looks like Fox News and the big-money Republican donors might be backing the wrong horse. There is no Ron-mentum, so to speak, and if they insist on sticking with DeSantis, it could be the equivalent of handing the 2024 presidential nomination to Trump.

Jason Easley

Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.

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