{"id":1338259,"date":"2022-02-24T10:25:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T15:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1338259"},"modified":"2022-02-24T15:38:02","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T20:38:02","slug":"desantis-delivers-fiery-speech-at-cpac-the-1st-of-campaign-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-delivers-fiery-speech-at-cpac-the-1st-of-campaign-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis Delivers Fiery Speech At CPAC \u2014 The 1st Of Campaign 2024?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdesantis-delivers-fiery-speech-at-cpac-the-1st-of-campaign-2024%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1338259&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1372589980.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Think he\u2019s running in 2024?<\/p>\n<p>Judging from his rock-star arrival at the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) in Orlando on Thursday \u2014 and the repeated standing ovations he got throughout his stemwinder of a speech \u2014 the answer sure looks like a big yes.<\/p>\n<p>Ron DeSantis, the popular Republican governor of Florida, threw the conservative crowd pounds of red meat, hitting government overreach on COVID-19, soaring crime, \u201cBidenflation,\u201d big tech censorship, transgender athletes and election integrity.<\/p>\n<p>But most of all, he hit the left wing of the Democratic Party, which he said wants to stifle the voices of conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWoke is the new religion of the left,\u201d DeSantis said, mirroring this year\u2019s CPAC slogan, \u201cAwoke, Not Woke.\u201d He also called the woke movement a \u201cform of Marxism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFreedom has prevailed in the Sunshine State,\u201d he said to cheers.<\/p>\n<p>While many stood through his 20-minute speech, others jumped to their feet when he delivered lines like, \u201ccriminals will see the inside of a jail cell,\u201d labeled the Biden White House \u201cthe Brandon administration\u201d and declared \u201cFlorida has defeated Fauciism,\u201d a reference to Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has led the effort to lock down America and mandate masks in schools.<\/p>\n<p>He also got a standing ovation when he said his state wouldn\u2019t become a \u201cFaucian Dystopia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis drew laughter and applause when he said that if Biden dumps illegal aliens from the southern border in his state, \u201cI\u2019m rerouting them to Delaware, Biden\u2019s home state. He added that he would, for good measure, send some to Washington, D.C., and Hollywood. The lines drew the biggest cheer of the day.<\/p>\n<p>The governor, who is considered a frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination in 2024, also prompted cheers when he blasted the \u201clegacy media,\u201d which he said is \u201cnot in the business of telling the truth.\u201d He also blasted Big Tech, saying it is \u201cnow the No. 1 institution of censorship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his opening, after flinging some baseball caps into the crowd, he mocked Democratic politicians who mandate masks in their blue states \u2014 then escape to Florida, where they enjoy more freedom.<\/p>\n<p>He shredded liberal lawmakers who have backed \u201cdefund the police\u201d movements and shied away from cracking down on soaring crime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe stand up against the weak-on-crime policies that are ravaging cities across the country,\u201d DeSantis said.<\/p>\n<p>For his home state, he said \u201cthis is not going to be like Portland. \u2026 In Florida, you are not getting a slap on the wrist, you are getting the inside of a jail cell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Critical Race Theory (CRT), the governor said, \u201cBecause we will not spend taxpayer money to teach our kids to hate America or to hate each other, we have banned CRT in K through 12 education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Biden, DeSantis said, \u201cHe\u2019s had the worst first year of any president since the 1800s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, he urged CPAC attendees to \u201cmake 2022 the year America fought back. \u2026 There is no substitute for courage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent, and ran the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2015. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Think he\u2019s running in 2024?Judging from his rock-star arrival at the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) in Orlando on Thursday \u2014 and the repeated standing ovations he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1338259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}