April 30, 2024 - The StoneZONE - Roger Stone
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| Troy, there was a big meeting this weekend. | |
| Donald Trump and his former nemesis, Governor Ron DeSantis, met for two hours privately in Miami. | |
| Now, it is my understanding that Representatives of Governor DeSantis told the Washington Post, who broke this story, that Trump had requested the meeting, yet my sources in the Trump camp tell me that's incorrect, that it was DeSantis who wanted this meeting. | |
| The idea that Ron DeSantis has some enormous financial network, which candidate Trump now needs to tap into, is largely false. | |
| Among small and medium-sized donors, DeSantis was an abject failure. | |
| Most of his campaign money in his campaign for president came from very, very large donors and from bundlers. | |
| Uh, most of his donors, most of his donations came from individuals or entities who had to give because they do business in the state of Florida, uh, where the governor has enormous power to affect their business. | |
| Uh, and, uh, therefore people gave not because they loved Ron DeSantis, but because they had to. | |
| So this idea that, uh, that DeSantis could somehow Deliver a financial network to the president is not accurate. | |
| Many, many of the larger bundlers who were supporting DeSantis have already come over to Trump. | |
| I'm really uncertain what the purpose of this meeting is, but I guess we couldn't decipher that unless we knew who actually asked for the meeting. | |
| And I don't think It was President Trump. | |
| Now, I'm told that the meeting may have been somewhat contentious in the beginning, but once they got through that, that Governor DeSantis pledged to do whatever he can and whatever is necessary to make sure that President Trump carries Florida. | |
| I hope that that is accurate. | |
| I also hope it proves to be true. | |
| Once again, Troy, I want to go on record as saying that Anybody who looks at Florida and thinks it is completely safe in a red state, based on the last statewide elections, I think makes a mistake. | |
| While I would give President Trump an edge here, the fact that the Democrats have put recreational marijuana on the ballot as a constitutional amendment, and the fact that they have petitioned on a constitutional amendment on abortion rights, essentially repealing the six weeks And of course, the abortion question will be used to try to shape perceptions of the presidential campaign. | |
| That is going to jack up turnout among younger voters, particularly, but also among more Democratic-leaning voters. | |
| And of course, the abortion question will be used to try to shape perceptions of the presidential campaign. | |
| Biden and the Democrats, particularly the Florida Democrats, they would like this election to be about abortion, not about our open border, not about the illegal invasion of America by migrants, | |
| not about the potential for World War III, not about the potential for World War III, not about shipping billions to Ukraine, not about unfreezing hundreds of billions for Iran, not about the cost of a gallon. | |
| gallon of gasoline, which you can slowly see creeping up, not about the cost of groceries when you go to the supermarket, if you can find what you're looking for. | |
| They don't want it to be about any of these things. | |
| They would like it to be about abortion. | |
| Your thoughts? | |
| Well, Roger, I think I always come back to what you say, because, you know, You know, we look at the situation that we uncovered in the 2022 election where DeSantis fundraiser, Erica Alba, kind of has her fingers all over this Florida voters in charge pack that was given out money to election supervisors across the state kind of has her fingers all over this Florida voters in charge And then I also look at the speculation. | |
| So you look at the election system just in Florida, you say, well, DeSantis really has some influence here. | |
| Um, and it's, and it's money that's coming from really nefarious groups of people. | |
| And I think, uh, it's been pointed out on this show many times, the idea that he would win Miami-Dade County in the way that he did, that's pretty much impossible. | |
| And I think, uh, it's, look, it's easy to look at the DeSantis election, Roger. | |
| I think for a lot of Republicans it is to say, well, you know, he won and, and Florida has a red governor. | |
| But at the same time, we have to look at how that was obtained. | |
| And I think DeSantis' way that he's politically acting is a lot like the Democrats. | |
| I don't think we win by becoming the Democrats. | |
| I think we win by standing for what we believe in. | |
| And as far as DeSantis is concerned, I'm seeing more and more about VP speculation, Roger. | |
| And I always come back to what we talk about on this show. | |
| It's not prohibited. | |
| But you're saying that Florida is a question mark on its own, you know, without any kind of additional legal problems. | |
| Florida is still a toss up. | |
| It's a purple state. | |
| I think and there's been no talk about this from you. | |
| You haven't mentioned this, but I've seen this online and people are speculating about it now because of this meeting that Trump could go back to the original thing that Republicans wanted and to put DeSantis on the ticket. | |
| I don't see that as a possibility because I think any chance you have of winning Florida goes out the window if you pick a vice presidential candidate in DeSantis, who is a resident of the same state as President Donald Trump, who also lives in Florida. | |
| So I'd like you to talk about that real quickly. | |
| Trump picking DeSantis would kind of completely rule out any idea of Republicans winning the election and the state of Florida, wouldn't it? | |
| I don't think that that was the purpose of this meeting. | |
| I don't think Governor DeSantis is under consideration. | |
| For the vice presidential nomination, as you know, the 12th Amendment of the Constitution, while it does not specifically prohibit two individuals who are legal residents of the same state from being on the ticket for president and vice president, it would, however, force you to forfeit the electoral college votes of that state. | |
| Now there's an argument that the party could nominate two individuals from Florida. | |
| Let's say, hypothetically, President Donald Trump and Congressman Byron Donalds, both legal residents of Florida. | |
| And they could certainly legally be on the ballot. | |
| If the ticket won, then theoretically, before the Electoral College met, either President Trump, highly unlikely, or newly elected Vice President-elect Donald, hypothetically, could legally change their state of residence to a different state and therefore avoid the 12th Amendment could legally change their state of residence to a different state | |
| I'm not an attorney, and I don't know if that would work, but I do know that explaining it to the voters would be extraordinarily difficult. | |
| home. | |
| There are a number of potential candidates in Florida. | |
| I don't really count DeSantis, but Senator Marco Rubio has been named. | |
| General Michael Flynn has been mentioned. | |
| The aforementioned Congressman Byron Donalds. | |
| I don't believe any of them at this juncture are under serious consideration. | |
| Donald's could be, I don't know, but you still have that Florida 12th Amendment issue. | |
| All the way back when there was first discussion of DeSantis challenging Trump I raised this 12th Amendment question to those who said, oh, well, look, we can avoid this clash of the Titans by forming a Trump-DeSantis ticket. | |
| I think the 12th Amendment of the Constitution pretty much prohibits that. | |
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