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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1478443
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1478443
It might be but that message was already sent loud and clear in 2016 and it’s been on repeat ever since.
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Especially since our weak-kneed, milquetoast attorney general won’t do anything about it, go for it!
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Ron De isn’t happy with his second place consolation prize and, so, now is going for a Golden Duke.
Winning just means that much to him.
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That would be because it is a civil enforcement under the FEC.
ETA:
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The DOJ has nothing to do with it. The FEC enforce their own regulations.
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Right. No one has ever gone to prison over election law violations. /s
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I don’t like Ron DeSantis…
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neither does anyone else
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There are a lot of election laws. Has someone gone to prison for violating pac regulations?
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Doesn’t matter. If Ron DeathSentence gets into the realm of Federal criminal violations, Merrick the Meek will sit on it for at least a year, by which time, hopefully, Biden will have replaced him for being ineffective.
See, it’s a poll so it must be true 
Most Young Voters Want Abortion Limits, Say Legal Rights Begin in Womb: Poll | The Epoch Times
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Soon “Never back down” will be backing down as they’ll have nothing to back up. Ronnie’s in for a beating in NH which might…just might…let his donors know that a deep South Red Neck just aint gonna cut it across America.
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“But it sends a notable and disturbing message to federal candidates, Democratic and Republican: Don’t let the law stand in your way”
Or you might end up in front of Judge Aileen Cannon. 
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He has a lot of fine qualities (if you like tapeworms).
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Ron DeSantis is the Ted Cruz of Ken Paxtons.
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And what poll source could possibly be more trustworthy than The Epoch Times?
(very very long list follows, including the old guy at the street corner who is shouting about UFOs)
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the Citizens United decision opened the floodgates for unregulated contributions and spending by outside groups
Republicans oppose welfare. Unless it’s for them.
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We’ll have to have a new Duke category like Worst Footwear Fiasco or Meritorious Achievement in Recalcitrant Losing.
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Instead of a new Duke category, maybe it should be an Il Duce wannabe category. DeSantis wants to be Mussolini 2.0 and his wife yearns to be Jackie Kennedy 2.0. Really, really pathetic self-packaging.
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