{"id":1585578,"date":"2022-08-02T18:34:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T22:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1585578"},"modified":"2022-08-02T18:34:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T22:34:34","slug":"desantis-yet-to-endorse-a-florida-republican-congressional-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-yet-to-endorse-a-florida-republican-congressional-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis yet to Endorse a Florida Republican Congressional Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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-yet-to-endorse-a-florida-republican-congressional-candidate%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=1585578&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--><p>With the Florida primary election just three weeks away, Gov. Ron DeSantis has not offered an endorsement to any congressional candidates from his state. Yet, his name and image have still been used widely in the campaigns of several Republican contenders, Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/08\/01\/florida-republicans-desantis-support-00048617\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Anthony Sabatini (R-Fla.) touted the governor\u2019s philosophy during a recent congressional debate organized by DeSantis and held during the Republican Party of Florida\u2019s summer conference in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe country is running out of time, and we need people with [DeSantis\u2019] philosophy in D.C.,\u201d Sabatini said.<\/p>\n<p>A large photo of DeSantis along with the words \u201cSabatini has been the most trusted ally of the Governor DeSantis agenda\u201d was included in his campaign mailer, as the conservative congressman seeks to gain a GOP seat to replace Rep. Stephanie Murphy. a Democrat, who has said she will not seek another term.<\/p>\n<p>Another close ally of the governor, Laurel Lee, made good use of the connection to her former boss as a selling point. Her television ads featured the statement \u201cFor Congress, there\u2019s just one candidate trusted by Gov. DeSantis to secure our elections: Laurel Lee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s part of everyone\u2019s pitch to voters, but in my case it isn\u2019t fiction,\u201d said Lee, who was appointed DeSantis\u2019 secretary of state back in 2019. She is now running for a new congressional seat in the Tampa Bay area.<\/p>\n<p>With the state\u2019s population growing, Florida Republicans are expected to gain four more congressional seats that would give them a 20\u20138 advantage, compared with the present 16\u201311 edge.<\/p>\n<p> DeSantis\u2013A Rising Star <\/p>\n<p>DeSantis has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/desantiss-track-record-in-florida-would-boost-potential-2024-run-but-work-is-needed-to-reach-non-florida-voters-analysts_4598908.html\">drawn<\/a>\u00a0increased national attention in recent weeks. He has been given credit for highly positive economic figures for Florida in 2022, with unemployment at 3.2 percent in March\u20140.4 percentage points below the national rate\u2014and 325,000 jobs added between March 2021 and March 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Florida primary election just three weeks away, Gov. Ron DeSantis has not offered an endorsement to any congressional candidates from his state. Yet, his name and image have still been used widely in the campaigns of several Republican contenders, Politico reported. Rep. Anthony Sabatini (R-Fla.) touted the governor\u2019s philosophy during a recent congressional [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"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-1585578","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\/1585578","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\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585578\/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=1585578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}