{"id":1737627,"date":"2022-11-14T08:32:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T13:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1737627"},"modified":"2022-11-14T08:33:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T13:33:00","slug":"bill-maher-defends-ron-desantis-against-left-wing-attacks-desantis-should-run-now-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-maher-defends-ron-desantis-against-left-wing-attacks-desantis-should-run-now-for-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher Defends Ron DeSantis Against Left-Wing Attacks: \u2018DeSantis Should Run Now\u2019 For President"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fbill-maher-defends-ron-desantis-against-left-wing-attacks-desantis-should-run-now-for-president%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=1737627&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>Bill Maher, host of HBO\u2019s \u201cReal Time with Bill Maher,\u201d defended Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) against attacks he has faced from media and a Democrat politician who criticized DeSantis on the show\u2019s most recent broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>Maher\u2019s remarks about DeSantis come after the governor became a top story of last week\u2019s midterm elections after winning in blowout fashion and lifting down-ballot Republicans in the state as GOP candidates in other states struggled. A post-election poll has shown the Republicans now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/republicans-republican-leaning-independents-shift-in-who-they-want-to-be-gops-nominee-in-2024-poll\">prefer<\/a> DeSantis over former President Donald Trump for the party\u2019s 2024 nominee by seven points.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason why I think DeSantis is so strong is because he can do both things,\u201d Maher said during a panel discussion with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and CBS News correspondent Robert Costa. \u201cHe can do the performance art that seems to have you so exercised to the base, most of which I don\u2019t really know if it\u2019s that damaging.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe picks a fight with Disney,\u201d Maher continued. \u201cDoes it really affect anybody? I mean, I read that \u2018Don\u2019t Say Gay,\u2019 which is not the name of the law. They called it the Don\u2019t Say Gay law. It could have been called the \u2018let\u2019s do things in schools the way we did five years ago\u2019 law. It really could\u2019ve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The crowd responded with applause at that moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo what I\u2019m saying is he can do both that \u2014 But he yes, he, he knows how to rile up the base. I agree. He\u2019s a politician \u2014 but he also can be a normal governor,\u201d Maher said. \u201cIn other words, after the storm, he can stand with President Biden like a normal governor does and work with them and then send some migrants to Martha\u2019s Vineyard. You know, and that\u2019s a very powerful thing to have both those elements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Khanna then appeared to panic about DeSantis\u2019 rise and complained that he didn\u2019t have a foreign policy agenda. Maher responded by noting that DeSantis is a governor and Florida is not a part of the United Nations, so it would be pointless for DeSantis to focus on global policies.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the show, Maher said that Biden would beat Trump in a rematch in 2024, but he wasn\u2019t sure that Biden could beat DeSantis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWould he beat DeSantis?\u201d Maher said. \u201cThat I don\u2019t know. And It\u2019s gonna look weird, because he will be like literally twice as old as him, no really, and DeSantis has like three little kids. You know, that always plays well in America. America likes new.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeSantis should run now and quickly,\u201d Maher said. \u201cThis is the problem with Chris Christie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight,\u201d Costa said. \u201cHe could have run in 2011, 2012. Sometimes in politics you have one chance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe longer you stay at the fair the more you get beat up,\u201d Maher said. \u201cLike when Obama ran they said, \u2018he has no record,\u2019 he went, \u2018Good. Great. I\u2019m glad I have no record.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is his moment in the sense that the Republican Party for the first time in seven years is starting to say\u201d no to Trump, Costa added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExactly,\u201d Maher responded.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bill Maher defends Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis from left-wing attacks. Maher says he should run for president right now. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/H1HD2cS82X\">pic.twitter.com\/H1HD2cS82X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stillgray\/status\/1592111151189745666?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 14, 2022<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Maher, host of HBO\u2019s \u201cReal Time with Bill Maher,\u201d defended Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) against attacks he has faced from media and a Democrat politician who criticized DeSantis on the show\u2019s most recent broadcast. Maher\u2019s remarks about DeSantis come after the governor became a top story of last week\u2019s midterm elections after winning &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":1737630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1737627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737627","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\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1737627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1737630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1737627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1737627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}