{"id":1920342,"date":"2023-04-27T17:25:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T21:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-depth-trump-desantis-and-their-surrogates-at-war-on-social-media\/"},"modified":"2023-04-27T17:29:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T21:29:00","slug":"in-depth-trump-desantis-and-their-surrogates-at-war-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-depth-trump-desantis-and-their-surrogates-at-war-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"IN-DEPTH: Trump, DeSantis and Their Surrogates at War on Social Media"},"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%2Fin-depth-trump-desantis-and-their-surrogates-at-war-on-social-media%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=1920342&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--><h2>The Social Media War Between Trump and DeSantis<\/h2>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0427\/4da0563c-0fc4-4261-ad7b-4c01f181d79c\/audio.mp3?length=8930637&#038;duration=744\"><\/div>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are engaged in a heated war of words, and the battlefield is social media. Hardly a day goes by without sniping. Trump, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-labels-russias-war-against-ukraine-a-territorial-dispute\/\" title=\"DeSantis Labels Russia's War Against Ukraine a 'Territorial Dispute'\">declared presidential candidate<\/a> for 2024, lashes out relentlessly at DeSantis, while the likely-but-undeclared Republican candidate takes subtler swings at the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/im-not-to-judge-anti-pipeline-activist-dismissed-pedophilia-allegation-against-colleague\/\" title=\"\u2018I\u2019m Not to Judge\u2019: Anti-Pipeline Activist Dismissed Pedophilia Allegation Against Colleague\">political ally<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, various surrogates pummel the presumed opponent of their favorite, day and night, on Twitter and Trump\u2019s own Truth Social.<\/p>\n<h3>Trump&#8217;s Latest Posts<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Express outrage about DeSantis\u2019s current trip abroad to meet with world leaders<\/li>\n<li>Question DeSantis&#8217;s ability to remove the stain from his failing campaign<\/li>\n<li>Mock DeSantis&#8217;s poll numbers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5218715\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/04\/25\/id5218715-GettyImages-1252134375-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and his wife, Casey DeSantis, are escorted to their seats for a meeting with the Japanese Foreign Minister at the Iikura Guest House in Tokyo on April 24, 2023. (Eugene Hoshiko\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<p>DeSantis, for now, keeps his own Twitter missives, on accounts attributed to him as an individual, looking like a governor and potential president. Posts show him giving speeches, signing bills, and otherwise addressing the people\u2019s business.<\/p>\n<p>With about nine months until any primary voting starts, others are also weary of the infighting. Political science professor emerita at the University of South Florida, Susan MacManus, lamented, \u201cPeople are saying, \u2018I don\u2019t know if I can take a year and a half of it. Will it be tit for tat for a year and a half?\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>The Name Game<\/h2>\n<p>Trump has tried out various nicknames for his presumed primary opponent on social media and in speeches, including \u201cRon DeSanctimonious\u201d and \u201cRon DeSanctus.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Impact of Press Coverage<\/h2>\n<p>Twitter and other social media have proven effective tools and weapons for politicians. They wouldn\u2019t be, though, if the press and media didn\u2019t make them so, said Tobe Berkovitz, a political media consultant and emeritus professor of advertising at Boston University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the media ignored Truth Social, Trump\u2019s platform, if they didn\u2019t cover Trump\u2019s posts and DeSantis\u2019s posts, the average voter wouldn\u2019t even know these things exist,\u201d he told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<h2>Online Campaigning Generates Cash<\/h2>\n<p>Trump has used social media brilliantly, not only to speak to his followers, but also to raise money from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-depth-trump-desantis-and-their-surrogates-at-war-on-social-media\/\" title=\"IN-DEPTH: Trump, DeSantis and Their Surrogates at War on Social Media\">people making small contributions<\/a>, Donahue says. He compared Trump with the late Jesse Helms, who used direct mail for the same purpose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHelms was one of the top fundraisers you ever saw,\u201d Donahue said of Helms, a Republican senator for North Carolina from 1973 to 2003. \u201cDirect mail was expensive, and now you have Facebook. And Trump\u2019s back on Facebook.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump raised more than $<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are fighting a war of words, and the battlefield is social media. Hardly a day goes by without sniping. Trump, a declared presidential candidate for 2024, lashes out relentlessly at DeSantis, while the likely-but-undeclared Republican candidate takes subtler swings at the former political ally. 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