Radical billionaire George Soros has predicted that Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis will win the GOP’s 2024 presidential nomination.
While speaking at the 2023 Munich Security Conference on Thursday, Soros trashed President Donald Trump and declared that DeSantis will beat the 45th POTUS in the GOP primaries.
Despite DeSantis not announcing a presidential run, Soros insists that DeSantis will win and prompt Trump to run as a third-party candidate.
“This could induce Trump, whose narcissism has turned into a disease, to run as a third-party candidate,” DeSantis told attendees.
“This would lead to a Democratic landslide and force the Republican Party to reform itself.”
In a wide-ranging speech, Soros ripped Trump’s presidency and complemented elements of DeSantis’s style.
“DeSantis is shrewd, ruthless, and ambitious,” Soros said.
“He is likely to be the Republican candidate.”
Trump, on the other hand, “has turned into a pitiful figure continually bemoaning his loss in 2020,” Soros said.
“Big Republican donors are abandoning him in droves.”
Soros, the Democrats’ largest donor, typically dumps millions of dollars into political races and committees.
He heads a far-left global network of groups pushing “climate change,” financial reform, and “woke” soft-on-crime changes to the criminal system.
His predictions for the Republicans aren’t rare.
Even in mainstream Republican circles, there has been talk of Trump running as a third party if he loses the GOP nomination
Typically, third-party candidates take only votes from the other candidate in the race whose politics is close to theirs, meaning a Trump candidacy would take votes from the Republican nominee.
Yet, most national polls show Trump beating all GOP challengers by large margins.
However, in early voting states, notably Iowa and New Hampshire, it’s DeSantis who leads many.
In his speech, Soros trashed Trump and what he stands for.
Soros believes that Trump a “threat to democracy.”
“Trump is a deeply flawed character, a confidence trickster whose narcissism grew into a disease,” Soros said.
“He feels no commitment to democracy; democracy merely provides him with a stage on which to perform.
“As president, he was more interested in hobnobbing with dictators than in promoting democratic principles.
“Trump’s role model was Putin, who amassed a fortune while asserting total control over his country.”
He twisted many of Trump’s successful policies into liberal talking points, despite evidence that many, including tax cuts, the appointment of conservative judges, and election reform initiatives, have worked.
“Trump attracted a lot of non-educated white followers, but his biggest backers were the mega-rich — and he certainly delivered for them,” Soros said.
“First, he cut their taxes. Second, he nominated to the Supreme Court ideologues who embraced an extreme version of the Republican agenda.
“Third, he brought the Republican Party under his control by threatening those who didn’t swear loyalty to him with a challenge in the primaries.”
“Lastly, he encouraged Republican-controlled states to introduce outrageous measures of voter suppression to ensure that his party would remain in power indefinitely,” he added.
“With that program, he was almost reelected in 2020.”
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