Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger has appeared on CNN a lot lately and the guy sounds like a baby Liz Cheney. I get that no one is happy with Tuesday’s results. It wasn’t the landslide win we all hoped for but don’t forget, it isn’t over! Many of these races that we are all currently waiting on will turn into run-off races and the conservative party will need to keep their wits about them.
If anything, don’t be a Kinzinger and start attacking each other, which is what the RINO did on CNN Wednesday.
“Governor Ron DeSantis obviously won big in Florida, including getting a lot of Latino votes. Do you think, I mean, do you see him as the future of the Republican Party?” Cooper asked.
“Yeah. Well, I don’t,” Kinzinger responded.
He continued, “But I think, you know, certainly he’s probably in the lead right now, kind of a bit of a front-runner status. Again, I think what we’re going to see over the next week is, you know, how does Donald Trump pivot from this, because he’s certainly not going to take his loss. He’s going to try to throw DeSantis under the bus. He’s certainly going to go after [House GOP Leader Kevin] McCarthy. And if he’s able to do that successfully, and he has been over the last number of times, then again, Ron DeSantis, is going to have a kind of a short-lived victory here.”
DeSantis’ victory was considered a “landslide” by many reporters after he won the previously left-leaning Miami-Dade County. The last Republican governor to win the county was former Gov. Jeb Bush in 2002.
Many have cited DeSantis’ gains with Latino voters as a factor in his massive strides within the state despite media attempts to downplay the results.
Though Kinzinger did not downplay DeSantis’ victory, he emphasized that other midterm results suggested the country does not want a “Ron DeSantis type.”
“I think it’s important, though, this is not, you know, Ron DeSantis winning big was huge and congratulations to him. It’s not necessarily a message that we saw last night, though, that the rest of the country wants necessarily Ron DeSantis-type, I guess, leadership, I’ll call it. I think he has a real opportunity to take the Republican nomination to win the presidency. But it’s not going to be kind of this in-your-face thing that we’ve seen from Donald Trump. This is what we saw last night,” Kinzinger said.
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Good indicator for DeSantis: @RepKinzinger says he's not the future of the Republican Party.
"DeSantis winning big was … not necessarily a message that we saw last night that the rest of the country wants necessarily Ron DeSantis-type" pic.twitter.com/ZzrgPZWBFn
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 9, 2022
I don’t care if some people back DeSantis over Trump. To me, it’s not important right now because Trump isn’t running. Neither of them is right now. I don’t want to play in on what Trump is saying because it isn’t relevant to the battle ahead, in my opinion.
So, please, whether you support a ’24 run by Trump or DeSantis, let’s keep the energy focused on these upcoming run-off elections. What say you?
Don’t be a Kinzinger…