{"id":1903122,"date":"2023-03-22T15:55:30","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T19:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-draws-distinction-from-trump-says-he-would-have-fired-fauci\/"},"modified":"2023-03-22T16:05:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T20:05:53","slug":"desantis-draws-distinction-from-trump-says-he-would-have-fired-fauci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-draws-distinction-from-trump-says-he-would-have-fired-fauci\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis Draws Distinction From Trump, Says He Would Have \u2018Fired\u2019 Fauci"},"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\">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-draws-distinction-from-trump-says-he-would-have-fired-fauci%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=1903122&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<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0322\/60811b37-70c0-414e-aa81-0c80516bd72d\/audio.mp3?length=4438989&#038;duration=370\"><\/div>\n<p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis stated in a Fox Nation interview that he would have &#8220;fired&#8221; former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci if he were president during the COVID-19 pandemic. He also differentiates himself from former President Donald Trump in his approach to the pandemic. DeSantis sees Biden as his main rival if he runs for president in 2024, not Trump. He noted the importance of not only winning over Republicans but also independents and even some Democrats. DeSantis sometimes targets Trump, but he has been circumspect in his comments about the former president&#8217;s recent legal issues. Trump, however, has been focusing on targeting DeSantis, claiming that he might face false accusations and fake stories in the future. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5045885\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript> Dr. Anthony Fauci in Washington on Dec. 9, 2022. (Saul Loeb\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Fauci is a Frequent Target for DeSantis<\/h2>\n<p>DeSantis has been targeting Dr. Anthony Fauci, NIAID director from 1984 to 2022, and Biden&#8217;s chief medical adviser in his recent campaign-like book tour appearances. DeSantis demands that Fauci be held liable for school lockdowns, business closures, and mask regulations. He says Fauci is getting too big for his britches and that he did a lot of harm. DeSantis thinks he&#8217;s able to win support from Democrats and independents because they&#8217;re not woke and they want quality education and safe streets. He doesn&#8217;t think he&#8217;ll go against Trump if he runs for president. Instead, he&#8217;ll focus on Biden and Democrat policies. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4940929\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript> Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis celebrates signing into law provisions that would ban certain discussions about sexual orientation and gender identity in school classrooms from kindergarten to third grade, on March 28, 2022. (Courtesy of Florida Governor\u2019s Office)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>DeSantis Believes He Can Gain Votes from Independents and Democrats<\/h2>\n<p>DeSantis is confident that he can receive more support from independents and disaffected Democrats than other potential GOP candidates. During his first term as Florida governor, an estimated 80,000 registered Democrats, mostly minority &#8220;school-choice parents,&#8221; voted for him because he has provided quality education and safe streets. DeSantis thinks that he can appeal to people across the political spectrum. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading more from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/desantis-would-have-fired-fauci-kind-of-likes-trumps-desanctimonious-nickname_5141847.html?utm_source=partner&#038;utm_campaign=conservnewsd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Epoch Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis would have \u201cfired\u201d former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci if he was president during the COVID-19 pandemic, he tells Piers Morgan in a Fox Nation interview that airs March 23. DeSantis, regarded the undeclared top challenger to Donald Trump\u2019s bid for a third consecutive Republican<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":1903123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[543],"tags":[4980,22507,10903,4434,6363,3634],"class_list":["post-1903122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-desantis","tag-distinction","tag-draws","tag-fauci","tag-fired","tag-trump"],"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\/1903122","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\/509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1903122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1903123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1903122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1903122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1903122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}