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Kellyanne Conway Gets It All Wrong.
What’s really interesting about the early jousting within the GOP for the top 2024 spot is that the rats are beginning to jump ship, even though the ship doesn’t yet seem to be going down.
All right, so Trump talked to a half-empty hall at CPAC, but that says more about CPAC slowly dying than it says anything about Trump. In fact, the polls show Trump still ahead of all the competition, even if it’s still too early to put any real significance into any poll result.
On the other hand, when someone like Kellyanne Conway basically turns her back on Trump, as she did in a recent Fox interview, it may signal the beginning of the end for Trump’s political career, or at least a career promoted by Conway and other political pros who know how to read the tea leaves, so to speak.
That being said, the advice that Conway gave DeSantis in her interview, which was probably an effort to get herself on the short list for the DeSantis team, was so incredibly stupid that I can only hope her comments become the basic DeSantis narrative which will guarantee a 2024 win for Joe.
Here’s what she said: “Talk a little bit more about the economic miracle in Florida. Make America Florida.”
Now it’s true that the unemployment rate in Florida is under 3 percent. On the other hand, the state’s per capita GDP…