Link. Another link. A third link. The Mercer family must be having second thoughts about whether DeSantis can fog a mirror.
UPDATE: Morning Consult. Kaplan Strategies.
There may be something at play - as Trump was in 2016, Vivek is the one not a tired career politician. Worth watching.
FURTHER: Slick as Trump arising from nowhere in 2016. Brighter. Watch out.
FURTHER: Fast talker. Call him Kingfish.
FURTHER: Big question, work on an answer -WHO ARE RAMASWAMY'S PEOPLE, BEHIND HIM, BEHIND THE TOO, TOO, OVER SLICK WEBSITE
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THE TOO, TOO SLICK PRESENTATION.
WORK ON THAT. MORE POSTED LATER. MAYBE.
UPDATE: He's a bullshitter. He is for family and apple pie. He out talks Tucker. Tucker letting it happen.
Go figure.
FURTHER: SeattleTimes carries a WaPo item about Social Security and Medicare policy suggestions of DeSantis, Pence and Haley; saying also Trump stands differently:
From the earliest days of his 2016 run, Trump has vowed not to touch either Social Security or Medicare – a break from GOP orthodoxy that has shifted the party’s views – and has more recently hammered DeSantis for wanting to cut the program.
“When people say that we’re going to somehow cut seniors, that is totally not true,” DeSantis said on Fox News. “Talking about making changes for people in their 30s and their 40s so the program’s viable – that’s a much different thing, and something I think there’s going to need to be discussion on.”
On Monday, Pence told Fox Business: “I’m glad to see another candidate in this primary has been willing to step up and talk about that.”
The positions the three Trump rivals are taking suggest that even the fiscally conservative candidates in the GOP presidential primary are reluctant to endorse cutting Social Security for seniors, highlighting just how much the party has shifted on the issue.
Trump stands reluctant to suggest any tampering with either program. Without apparently being pressed to define how long term funding will be managed, were he elected.
Of interest, Vivek Ramaswamy appears to have largely escaped having to articulate any policy views of retrenching the two programs. As if given a free pass by MSM operatives. Regarding Ramaswamy, Wapo simply states:
“Shutting down” the administrative state? Easy, he says, because much of it was created by rescindable executive orders. Returning the Federal Reserve to the single mandate of preserving the dollar as store of value? Statute be damned, the person he chooses to replace Chair Jerome H. Powell will acknowledge no other mandate.
Making Social Security and Medicare sustainable? Painless: Neither benefit cuts nor revenue increases needed because sustained 5 percent economic growth is attainable partly by “abandoning the climate cult, drilling more, fracking more, burning coal unapologetically.” Abolishing the Education Department? A piece of cake, and without congressional involvement: Civil service rules protect individuals, so mass layoffs are possible by executive fiat. And impoundment — the presidential power to not spend appropriated money — should be revived.
Readers are encouraged to attempt to find if VR has stated any expansion of how he knows a five percent growth of the economy will happen if he's elected on such a smoke and mirrors magic fast spoken trust-me agenda.