DeSantis dismisses CNN’s claim of alienating suburban moms.
Republican Candidate Ron DeSantis Defends His Policies
During a recent interview on CNN’s “The Lead,” Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis passionately refuted an analysis that claimed his policies alienated suburban moms. Instead, he argued that his policies had actually won over suburban moms in Florida.
“Well I don’t think that’s true. I mean, the proof is in the pudding,” DeSantis fired back. ”I mean, I took a state that had been a one-point state, and we won it by 20 percentage points, 1.5 million votes. Our bread and butter were people like suburban moms. We’re leading a big movement for parents’ rights that the parents be involved in education, school choice, get the indoctrination out of schools. Of course, there’s bread and butter issues that matter, too. Inflation, more economic opportunity — Florida’s economy is ranked number one of all 50 states. We’ve worked hard to make that happen.”
DeSantis acknowledged that his poll numbers had taken a slight hit in recent months, but he attributed it to the media attention he received after his victory and his subsequent focus on governing rather than immediate campaigning.
“So I think that that analysis is wrong,” he said. “And so I was basically taking fire really nonstop since then because a lot of people view me as a threat. I think the Left views me as a threat because they think I’ll beat Biden and actually deliver on all this stuff. And then, of course, people would have their allegiances on the Republican side, you know, have gone after me. But the reality is, this is a state-by-state process. I’m not running a campaign to try to juice, you know, whatever we are in the national polls.”
DeSantis emphasized that his focus is on building a strong organization and mobilizing a large ground game to win the early states.
“Now that is not going to make the same type of splash as if you were trying to run ads nationally or do those other things,” DeSantis said. “And so we’ve been making really good progress. I think this weekend was really good in terms of The FAMiLY Leader and some of the other things we were doing in Iowa. We’re here in South Carolina; we’re going to do a lot in New Hampshire. But that’s going to be our focus, focusing on those early states, continuing to build our coalitions and going forward.”
DeSantis also addressed false narratives pushed by his opponents, including a 2018 CNN poll that had him down roughly 15 points before he won the election as Florida’s governor for the first time.
“So I think some of this is motivated reasoning, but I tend to get a kick out of it when they say, ‘He didn’t fundraise well’, when I did more than Biden and Trump in the second quarter, and I’m just the governor,” DeSantis added.
Tapper, the interviewer, concluded by stating that he didn’t believe the poll was accurate.
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