{"id":1937702,"date":"2023-05-25T07:10:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T11:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-maps-out-how-hell-beat-trump-and-then-biden\/"},"modified":"2023-05-25T07:13:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T11:13:30","slug":"desantis-maps-out-how-hell-beat-trump-and-then-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-maps-out-how-hell-beat-trump-and-then-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis plans to defeat both Trump and Biden."},"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\">16<\/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-maps-out-how-hell-beat-trump-and-then-biden%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=1937702&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 Announces Presidential Candidacy<\/h2>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0525\/938c32bc-3835-47e3-b05f-bef6e78ace32\/audio.mp3?length=3272013&#038;duration=273\"><\/div>\n<p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has announced his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-n-peacekeepers-killed-in-central-african-republic-before-election\/\" title=\"U.N. peacekeepers killed in Central African Republic before election\">candidacy<\/a> for the Republican presidential nomination, stating that he can win over Donald Trump because he is broadly acceptable to Republicans. He believes he can then beat Joe Biden in the general election because he has the proven strength to appeal to independents.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis stated in a phone-in press conference with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-maps-out-how-hell-beat-trump-and-then-biden\/\" title=\"DeSantis plans to defeat both Trump and Biden.\">select news organizations<\/a>, including The Epoch Times, on May 24, that he won 97 percent of Republicans in his reelection. He believes he is acceptable to the broad swath of Republicans and is not taking policy positions that are alienating massive segments of the party.<\/p>\n<p>He believes that winning independents is essential and pointed to the examples of Georgia\u2019s Brian Kemp and Iowa\u2019s Kim Reynolds in their gubernatorial reelections. \u201cI think that there\u2019s millions of people that want to move on from Biden. I think they\u2019re ripe for us to be able to get,\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cBut I think you have got to have a vehicle that they\u2019re comfortable with. And I think we\u2019ve shown in Florida that we\u2019re able to win voters who don\u2019t always vote Republican. You know, you can\u2019t win 60-40 with only Republicans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis acknowledged Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-senators-prepping-1t-infrastructure-counteroffer-to-biden\/\" title=\"GOP Senators Prepping T Infrastructure Counteroffer to Biden\">high poll numbers<\/a> but said most Republicans haven\u2019t yet focused on the race. He noted that polls could be wrong, such as those that failed to predict his recent reelection victory by nearly 20 percentage points.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5290055\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/25\/id5290055-Trump-GettyImages-1485857181-1200x800.jpg\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/25\/id5290055-Trump-GettyImages-1485857181-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally on April 27, 2023 in Manchester, New Hampshire. (Spencer Platt\/Getty Images)\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p>DeSantis believes that the party would need to be aggressive, including using ballot harvesting in states where it\u2019s legal, such as Nevada, Pennsylvania, and possibly Wisconsin, which may legalize it once more. \u201cWe banned all that in Florida, but I don\u2019t think you can say, \u2018Don\u2019t play the way they\u2019re playing.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Responding to another question, DeSantis contrasted his positions with those of Trump by noting particular issues where Trump has attacked him. DeSantis said he voted against a Trump-backed bill to declare amnesty for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-ron-desantis-we-have-to-reject-open-borders\/\" title=\"Gov. Ron Desantis: We have to reject open borders\">2 million illegal immigrants<\/a> in return for \u201ca pittance\u201d in gains against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-blue-state-claw-back\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Blue State Claw Back\">illegal immigration<\/a>. \u201cI oppose amnesty. That was supposed to be America First policy to oppose amnesty, and yet he endorsed and tried to ram thro<\/p>\n<h3>DeSantis&#8217; Proven Record of Success<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Won 97% of Republicans in his reelection<\/li>\n<li>Representing the values that the vast, vast majority of the party professes to hold<\/li>\n<li>Able to win voters who don\u2019t always vote Republican<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>DeSantis&#8217; Strategy for Winning the General Election<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Winning independents is essential<\/li>\n<li>Pointed to the examples of Georgia\u2019s Brian Kemp and Iowa\u2019s Kim Reynolds in their gubernatorial reelections<\/li>\n<li>Believes there are millions of people that want to move on from Biden<\/li>\n<li>Party needs to be aggressive, including using ballot harvesting in states where it\u2019s legal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>DeSantis vs. Trump<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>DeSantis believes he can win over Donald Trump because he is broadly acceptable to Republicans<\/li>\n<li>DeSantis believes he can beat Joe Biden in the general election because he has the proven strength to appeal to independents<\/li>\n<li>DeSantis contrasted his positions with those of Trump by noting particular issues where Trump has attacked him<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis believes he can secure the Republican presidential nomination by being widely accepted among Republicans. He claims he can then defeat Joe Biden in the general election by appealing to independents, citing his success in winning 97% of Republicans in his reelection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1117,"featured_media":1937703,"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":[3620,5505,4980,3641,3634],"class_list":["post-1937702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-biden","tag-defeat","tag-desantis","tag-plans","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\/1937702","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\/1117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1937702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1937703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1937702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1937702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1937702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}