{"id":1937224,"date":"2023-05-24T18:19:01","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T22:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-files-paperwork-to-launch-presidential-campaign\/"},"modified":"2023-05-24T18:21:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T22:21:40","slug":"desantis-files-paperwork-to-launch-presidential-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-files-paperwork-to-launch-presidential-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis starts paperwork for presidential bid."},"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\">12<\/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-files-paperwork-to-launch-presidential-campaign%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=1937224&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>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Officially Enters 2024 Presidential Race<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-already-having-to-deal-with-ethical-headache-created-by-kamala-harris-niece-report\/\" title=\"White House Already Having To Deal With \u2018Ethical Headache\u2019 Created By Kamala Harris\u2019 Niece: Report\">officially declared<\/a> his candidacy for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-desantis-beats-trump-in-2024-straw-poll-at-top-conservative-summit\/\" title=\"BREAKING: DeSantis Beats Trump In 2024 Straw Poll At Top Conservative Summit\">2024 presidential race<\/a>. He is expected to publicly announce his campaign during an event on Twitter with billionaire Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis, who filed a document with the Federal Election Commission, is likely to emerge as former President Donald Trump&#8217;s biggest rival for the Republican nomination. The nominee will face President Joe Biden, a Democrat, in the November 2024 general election.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, the CEO of Tesla and Twitter with 140 million followers, said his appearance will not constitute an endorsement but will reflect his desire to make the service more of a town square. The Twitter event is at 6 p.m. EDT (2200 GMT).<\/p>\n<h3>DeSantis&#8217; Central Argument for His Candidacy<\/h3>\n<p>DeSantis&#8217; central argument for his candidacy is that he is the only Republican who can defeat Biden, the winner over Trump in the 2020 election. &#8220;We must reject the culture of losing that has impacted our party in recent years. The time for excuses is over,&#8221; DeSantis said at an event in Iowa earlier this month.<\/p>\n<h3>DeSantis&#8217; Record as Florida&#8217;s Governor<\/h3>\n<p>In the weeks leading up to his presidential bid, DeSantis has toured the country, visiting states such as Iowa and New Hampshire that will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-files-paperwork-to-launch-presidential-campaign\/\" title=\"DeSantis starts paperwork for presidential bid.\">hold early nominating contests<\/a>. He has boasted of his record as Florida&#8217;s governor, including his battles with the federal government over pandemic policies.<\/p>\n<p>His decision to wait until now to jump in has given Trump space to batter DeSantis with a series of attacks, costing the governor standing in national polls and frustrating some allies who might have preferred DeSantis step into the ring earlier.<\/p>\n<h3>Other Republican Candidates<\/h3>\n<p>Other declared Republican candidates include Nikki Haley, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and Tim Scott, a U.S. senator from South Carolina.<\/p>\n<h3>DeSantis&#8217; Policy Victories<\/h3>\n<p>DeSantis and his advisers were determined to wait to enter the race until the Florida Legislature could hand him a series of policy victories &#8211; and lawmakers have done just that. He signed measures that severely restricted abortions in the state, made it easier for residents to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/east-texas-school-district-allows-teachers-to-carry-concealed-weapons\/\" title=\"East Texas School District Allows Teachers to Carry Concealed Weapons\">carry concealed weapons<\/a>, expanded a voucher program to allow students to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/la-sen-bill-cassidy-this-admin-is-betraying-the-most-vulnerable-children-in-the-country\/\" title=\"La. Sen. Bill Cassidy: This admin. is betraying the most vulnerable children in the country\">attend private schools<\/a>, and eliminated funding for diversity programs at public universities, among other things.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis remains in a pitched battle with Walt Disney Co over the company&#8217;s criticism of laws prohibiting the teaching of gender identity concepts in public schools. The company has filed a federal lawsuit accusing DeSantis of weaponizing state government to punish its operations.<\/p>\n<h3>Support for DeSantis&#8217; Candidacy<\/h3>\n<p>DeSantis allies are spending money to boost his candidacy. The pro-DeSantis Never Back Down Super PAC purchased $1.4 million in ads that aired between May 5 and May 19, according to AdImpact, an advertising tracking firm. However, a pro-Trump Super PAC called MAGA Inc has already spent more than $14 million on television ads and other media attacking DeSantis, according to disclosures to the Federal Election Commission.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis on Wednesday will also convene a meeting of his top donors at a Miami hotel, where they will immediately launch his fundraising efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Reporting by James Oliphant, additional reporting by Alexandra Ulmer, Jasper Ward and Ben Klayman; Editing by Ross Colvin, Alistair Bell, Howard Goller and Cynthia Osterman<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the 2024 presidential race as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis officially declared his candidacy. He filed a document with the Federal Election Commission ahead of an event on Twitter with Elon Musk, where he is expected to announce his campaign. DeSantis, 44, is now a major contender in the race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1937225,"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":[],"tags":[7564,4980,15560,3849,6019],"class_list":["post-1937224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bid","tag-desantis","tag-paperwork","tag-presidential","tag-starts"],"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\/1937224","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\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1937224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1937225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1937224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1937224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1937224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}