{"id":1607220,"date":"2022-08-15T16:19:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T20:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1607220"},"modified":"2022-08-15T16:19:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T20:19:54","slug":"ads-by-desantis-opponents-offer-clashing-definitions-of-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ads-by-desantis-opponents-offer-clashing-definitions-of-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Ads by DeSantis, Opponents Offer Clashing Definitions of Freedom"},"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\">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%2Fads-by-desantis-opponents-offer-clashing-definitions-of-freedom%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=1607220&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>Viewers in Florida with a penchant for skipping past TV or internet ads may miss juicy material coming across the airwaves between now and Election Day in November.<\/p>\n<p>Political communications experts viewed the first crop of campaign ads from Gov. Ron DeSantis and his two top Democratic\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dos.elections.myflorida.com\/candidates\/CanList.asp\">opponents<\/a> in the Sunshine State.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some quick takes:<\/p>\n<p>A major theme associated with the state\u2019s gubernatorial race is \u201cfreedom.\u201d But how candidates define \u201cfreedom\u201d seems to vary widely, experts told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>Another observation: DeSantis, with buckets of campaign cash and a predicted victory in the fall, wisely is taking \u201cthe high road.\u201d His ads poke at no one, tout his accomplishments, and appeal to a wide range of voters, even outside his base.<\/p>\n<p>If the race tightens, he can afford to pummel his challengers by flooding the state\u2019s expensive media markets with harder-hitting messages, the experts said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/08\/05\/Newsom-DeSantis-1200x675.jpg\"><\/a> Left: California Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-gavin-newsom\">Gavin Newsom<\/a> speaks at a VA Facility in Los Angeles, on Nov. 10, 2021. (John Fredricks\/The Epoch Times); Right: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in an undated file photo. (Courtesy of Ron DeSantis for Governor) <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a cheeky <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/status\/1543610674873438208\">ad campaign<\/a>\u00a0directed at DeSantis by another governor, California\u2019s Gavin Newsom, attracted viral national news coverage following its Independence Day launch in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>With his ad, Newsom ventured onto DeSantis\u2019s turf to try to tear him down. But the attack could backfire on the Democrat, who appears to be teeing up a presidential run, one expert predicts.\u00a0 Newsom\u2019s suggestion that Floridians may want to flee to California to experience more freedom can be easily deflected by DeSantis through data that show where Americans are moving to or from, the expert said.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis challenger Charlie Crist\u2014a Democratic congressman who previously served as a Republican governor of Florida\u2014has ignored his top opponent in the two<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viewers in Florida with a penchant for skipping past TV or internet ads may miss juicy material coming across the airwaves between now and Election Day in November. Political communications experts viewed the first crop of campaign ads from Gov. Ron DeSantis and his two top Democratic\u00a0opponents in the Sunshine State. Here are some quick [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":984,"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-1607220","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\/1607220","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\/984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1607220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607220\/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=1607220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1607220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1607220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}