{"id":1917374,"date":"2023-04-20T22:56:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T02:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pity-the-reporters-assigned-to-the-ron-desantis-beat\/"},"modified":"2023-04-20T22:57:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T02:57:17","slug":"pity-the-reporters-assigned-to-the-ron-desantis-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pity-the-reporters-assigned-to-the-ron-desantis-beat\/","title":{"rendered":"Pity The Reporters Assigned To The Ron DeSantis Beat"},"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%2Fpity-the-reporters-assigned-to-the-ron-desantis-beat%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=1917374&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--><div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>                         <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>To get a sense of how hard reporters in Washington <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/02\/27\/new-york-times-frustrated-that-ron-desantis-isnt-dumb-enough-to-be-one-of-their-staff-writers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">are struggling to kneecap Ron DeSantis<\/a> ahead of his expected presidential campaign, consider that they\u2019ve rolled in Chris Christie to attack the Florida governor.<\/p>\n<p>Was no one else available? Perhaps a Republican who people outside of D.C. remember?<\/p>\n<p>Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/04\/20\/chris-christie-interview-00092999?nname=playbook&#038;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&#038;nrid=0000014e-f115-dd93-ad7f-f915a6170001&#038;nlid=630318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on Thursday<\/a> published a tedious interview with Christie, who, for non-historians, was once the governor of New Jersey, and gave him XXL space to share his thoughts on how inadequate DeSantis is as a challenger to Donald Trump for the Republican nomination. Earlier this week, the news site Semafor hosted Christie for a live-stream interview, during which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/04\/18\/chris-christie-ron-desantis-disney-00092505\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">he criticized<\/a> DeSantis for his efforts to strip Disney of its <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/21\/gov-desantis-is-right-to-attack-disney-republicans-everywhere-should-follow-his-lead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">weird status<\/a> allowing it to function in Florida as a separate civic entity.<\/p>\n<p>Christie has not worked as an elected official in more than five years. When he ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, his support among primary voters maxed out at less than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2016\/president\/us\/2016_republican_presidential_nomination-3823.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">5 percent<\/a>. Even Marco Rubio, the person who, to this day, Christie brags about supposedly knocking out of the race, managed to get up to 20 percent. (The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CkdpzRDxTXU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">debate moment<\/a> that he\u2019s credited with securing Rubio\u2019s doom was humiliatingly referred to as a \u201ckamikaze\u201d mission.) And let\u2019s not forget Christie\u2019s most notable contribution of late\u00a0\u2014 apologizing over and over again for almost dying from Covid. He literally went on ABC\u2019s \u201cGood Morning America,\u201d gave an interview to The New York Times, and wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal to lecture everyone about how \u201cwrong\u201d it was for him to attend a White House event without a face mask. He\u2019s that pathetic.<\/p>\n<p>There are few people less relevant in general, let alone relating to the 2024 presidential election, than Chris Christie. But the media need something to report regarding DeSantis, and they\u2019re otherwise left describing his sustained popularity in Florida or turning out another inconsequential article quoting random Democrats and unnamed Republicans who don\u2019t like him.<\/p>\n<p>Tough choice for reporters in Washington.<\/p>\n<hr><\/div>\n<div data-image data-amount=\"5\">\n<h2>Popular<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To get a sense of how hard reporters in Washington are struggling to kneecap Ron DeSantis ahead of his expected presidential campaign, consider that they\u2019ve rolled in Chris Christie to attack the Florida governor. Was no one else available? Perhaps a Republican who people outside of D.C. remember? Politico on Thursday published a tedious interview<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":1917375,"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":[546],"tags":[15411,5186,4980,7720,4738,8679],"class_list":["post-1917374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-assigned","tag-beat","tag-desantis","tag-pity","tag-reporters","tag-ron"],"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\/1917374","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1917374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1917375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1917374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1917374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1917374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}