While we wait for the final results to come in from this obviously heavily flawed system (Because wow, it’s taking forever) let’s look at who’s talking. I think the people of Illinois need to watch out for young GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger.
Kinzinger appeared on CNN’s coverage of the midterm elections speaking with anchor Anderson Cooper about the results from the previous night.
One notable focus included DeSantis’ landslide victory in Florida and what that could mean for conservatives. “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 because it doesn’t jive with the narrative. You know, the one where Republicans a ‘racists’ and against legal immigrants.
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.
Kinzinger has recently referred to himself as a man ‘without a party’. A young, male Liz Cheney in my opinion. A guy who claims that Trump’s influence is dying—That was a separate interview he did with his buddies at CNN.
Watch:
I just want to remind everyone that there will be runoff elections coming up. There were too many close races not to run a second election. The last thing conservatives need right now is to start acting like Democrats and attack each other.
I know a lot of people are in shock. I’ve seen a lot of defeatism coming for lifelong conservatives and I really just want to suggest that everyone knock it off and grow a spine. So it’s a dogfight for the last few seats. No one said it was going to be easy. Stop bellyaching and get ready for round two.
You’re only kidding yourselves if you don’t think that’s exactly what Democrats are preparing to do.