Um…hasta luego, señor?
Francis Suarez out of 2024 Republican primary race. Never clear why he entered race in first place. https://t.co/AGTEsS0y12
— Byron York (@ByronYork) August 29, 202.
Um…hasta luego, señor?
Francis Suarez out of 2024 Republican primary race. Never clear why he entered race in first place. https://t.co/AGTEsS0y12
Byron York (@ByronYork) August 29, 2023
Nonentity and occasional object d’ scorn that he was, Francis Suarez stood atop the shining mount one last time to wave adieu to the adoring throngs…that never were…going to be.
I think a girlfriend of mine captured the mood of the people perfectly upon hearing the news.
This was the CNN+ of Presidential campaigns.
— Amygator ???? *not an actual alligator (@AmyA1A) August 29, 2023
The mayor of Miami was one of the last to jump in the pool and he is the first one out. We were treated to several of his commercials up here in the Panhandle – I have no idea why – and they were not appealing.
Where Burgum is a folksy WEF-type, and Ramaswamy has frenetic energy, and all over the contradictory map simultaneously accomplished, annoying, and ingratiating, Suarez is way too much of a smoothly unctuous political chameleon to be trustworthy – in the Charlie Crist mold, only Latin. Plays both sides against the middle looking for the best footing.
…He is more moderate than DeSantis and Trump but has threaded the needle carefully on cultural issues that have become popular among GOP politicians.
Suarez has been critical of DeSantis, dismissing some of the state laws he has signed on immigration as “headline grabbers” lacking in substance.
