{"id":1920653,"date":"2023-04-28T00:26:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T04:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-depth-trump-desantis-and-their-surrogates-at-war-on-social-media-2\/"},"modified":"2023-04-28T00:28:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T04:28:13","slug":"in-depth-trump-desantis-and-their-surrogates-at-war-on-social-media-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-depth-trump-desantis-and-their-surrogates-at-war-on-social-media-2\/","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=\"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%2Fin-depth-trump-desantis-and-their-surrogates-at-war-on-social-media-2%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=1920653&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.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, a declared presidential candidate for 2024, relentlessly lashes out at DeSantis, while the likely-but-undeclared Republican candidate takes subtler swings at the former political ally. Various surrogates pummel the presumed opponent of their favorite, day and night, on Twitter and Trump\u2019s own Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p>Some of Trump\u2019s latest posts express outrage about DeSantis\u2019s current trip abroad to meet with world leaders. He wrote about that on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/110254379926071082\">his platform<\/a> on April 24.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe \u2018Consultants\u2019 are sending DeSanctus [sic], and demanding he go immediately, on an emergency Round the World tour of U.S representative population countries, like South Korea, Japan, the United Kingdom, and Israel, in order to up his game and see if he can remove the stain from his failing campaign. Bad poll numbers!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\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<h3>The Impact of Press Coverage<\/h3>\n<p>Twitter and other social media have proven effective tools and weapons for politicians. They wouldn\u2019t be, however, if the press and media didn\u2019t make them so, according to 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<p>Social media also allow campaigns to get videos out for a fraction of the cost of television ads. Then, the press and media start talking about them. Ultimately, millions of people might watch them if they go viral.<\/p>\n<h3>Online Campaigning Generates Cash<\/h3>\n<p>Trump has used social media brilliantly, not only to speak to his followers but also to raise money from people making small contributions, Donahue said. 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 $4 million, much of it from small donors, in the first quarter of 2023, according to the Federal Election Commission.<\/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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