DeSantis’s ‘ship might have already sailed’ ahead of next GOP debate: Tiana Lowe Doescher

The Washington Examiner’s Tiana Lowe Doescher said Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R-FL) “ship might have already sailed” as several GOP presidential candidates prepare to face off in the next Republican debate.

While appearing on Your World with Neil Cavuto, Doescher noted that the last Republican debate saw biotechnology entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy “draw the air out of the room” while former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley “put herself on the radar.” Thus, the stage is set for Ramaswamy and Haley in the next GOP debate.

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“Ramaswamy and Haley are really the two that have it,” Doescher said of the candidates’ current momentum heading into the debate. “The difference being that Ramaswamy’s angle is clearly, you know, hoping he could be the Trump alternative, whereas Haley is making inroads to the Romney 2012 constituencies. In the last CNN perspective head-to-head polling, Haley has the dominant margin with college-educated white voters and white voters overall because she gets those college-educated women that have run away from the Republican Party under Donald Trump. So in this debate, it’s sort of her moment to prove, or Ramaswamy’s moment to prove, that they could be that Trump alternative. Is that what Ramaswamy is angling for? Probably not.”

“DeSantis, if he wants, can try and make a second go at saying: ‘Let’s try and make this a two-man race,’ but that ship might have already sailed,” she continued.

In looking to the Democratic side of the race, Doescher noted that President Joe Biden’s “Bidenomics” branding of the economy was a “huge gamble and it’s clearly losing miserably.”

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“No one wants to hear that the rate of inflation is slightly abating to more than two to three times what the Fed has been wanting it to be,” Doescher said. “He’s making the unprecedented move to become the first-ever sitting president to go join the front lines of a union strike.”

“I think the is another gambit that will probably fail because look, as these strikes begin to take effect and contribute more to that inflation rate, people are directly blaming the reckless spending,” she added. “They’re blaming the ‘Bidenomic’ anti-growth policies for this inflation. And Biden’s just doubling down on it. Maybe that helps the margins with blue-collar workers in Michigan, but what about everywhere else?”