{"id":1830555,"date":"2023-01-31T14:50:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T19:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1830555"},"modified":"2023-01-31T14:53:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T19:53:16","slug":"desantis-responds-directly-to-trumps-attacks-on-floridas-handling-of-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-responds-directly-to-trumps-attacks-on-floridas-handling-of-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis Responds Directly To Trump\u2019s Attacks On Florida\u2019s Handling Of Pandemic"},"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\">22<\/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-responds-directly-to-trumps-attacks-on-floridas-handling-of-pandemic%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=1830555&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-->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/desantis-would-win-today-without-a-doubt-n-h-gov-on-2024s-first-primary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida Governor Ron DeSantis<\/a> (R) on Tuesday ignored a series of weekend broadsides by former President Trump who tried to portray him as pro-lockdown in the early days of COVID.<\/p>\n<p>Trump in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trump-warns-desantis-against-disloyal-24-bid-as-new-poll-has-gov-surging-in-key-state\">Series<\/a> of comments to reporters and in social media posts, claimed credit for his fellow Republican\u2019s success, called him a \u201cglobalist\u201d Who would you be? \u201cdisloyal\u201d DeSantis was asked to run for the presidency in 2024, and he tried to give Trumpian status to DeSantis. \u201cRon DeSanctimonius.\u201d The attacks did not seem to have affected the Sunshine State governor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI roll out of bed, I have people attacking me from all angles. It\u2019s been happening for many, many years,\u201d DeSantis added that \u201cin a crisis situation like COVID, the good thing about it is when you\u2019re an elected executive, you have to make all kinds of decisions, you\u2019ve got to steer that ship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis&#8217; attack on him for his COVID policy was strange, considering that DeSantis opened Florida schools and businesses well before other states. He was also a vocal opponent of vaccine mandates.<\/p>\n<p>Trump announced his candidacy for the White House. But, DeSantis is widely believed be contemplating a primary challenge. He won re-election with nearly 20 percent. He stated Tuesday that his November victory was a confirmation of his support for the handling of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the good thing is, is that the people are able to render a judgment on that, whether they reelect you or not,\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cAnd I\u2019m happy to say, you know, in my case, not only did we win re-election, we won with the highest percentage of the vote that any Republican governor candidate has in the history of the state of Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe won by the largest raw vote margin, over 1.5 million votes, than any governor candidate has ever had in Florida history. And in fact, we almost doubled the previous record, which I think was like 780,000 vote margin,\u201d DeSantis added. \u201cAnd so what I would just say is, that verdict has been rendered by the people of the state of Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DESANTIS REPONDS TO TRUMP ATTACKS &#8220;I roll out of bed, I have people attacking me from all angles [\u2026] In my case, not only did we win re-election, we won with the highest percentage of the vote than any Republican governor candidate in the history of the state of Florida.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FLEXeVPlRn\">pic.twitter.com\/FLEXeVPlRn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Florida\u2019s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FLVoiceNews\/status\/1620451264499949568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 31, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/01\/30\/trump-desantis-covid-praise\/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjE5NTAwNjI4IiwicmVhc29uIjoiZ2lmdCIsIm5iZiI6MTY3NTE0MTIwMCwiaXNzIjoic3Vic2NyaXB0aW9ucyIsImV4cCI6MTY3NjQzNzE5OSwiaWF0IjoxNjc1MTQxMjAwLCJqdGkiOiI4Nzk0NDhmZS0xNGI1LTRjMDktODZkNy0yNDE4MDRiMjkwYTEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy53YXNoaW5ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vcG9saXRpY3MvMjAyMy8wMS8zMC90cnVtcC1kZXNhbnRpcy1jb3ZpZC1wcmFpc2UvIn0.0PyYJTm219AVjTDFzCHlzWwbbRtuetS8hp6_8H38CsU\">Report<\/a> from The Washington Post highlighted how Trump repeatedly praised DeSantis\u2019 handling of the pandemic while he was still president, saying DeSantis did a \u201cfantastic job,\u201d DeSantis was praised for his refusal to close down, and he was particularly kind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had surges, and they went up and they went down, and now you\u2019re at your lowest numbers,\u201d Trump declared this October 2020. \u201cAnd you\u2019re open and you didn\u2019t close, and you\u2019re just amazing \u2014 right, this guy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we\u2019re joined today by one of the greatest governors in our country \u2014 and I know a lot of good ones, and I can tell you, there\u2019s some really bad ones, too \u2014 but this is a great one, Gov. Ron DeSantis.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) on Tuesday shrugged off a slew of weekend broadsides from former President Trump, who had sought to paint him as pro-lockdown during the early days of the COVID pandemic. Trump, in a series of comments to reporters and in social media posts, claimed credit for his fellow Republican\u2019s success, called &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1830558,"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":[6361,4980,9996,9164,4828,4499,3794],"class_list":["post-1830555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-attacks","tag-desantis","tag-floridas","tag-handling","tag-pandemic","tag-responds","tag-trumps"],"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\/1830555","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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1830555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1830558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1830555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1830555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1830555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}