{"id":1939451,"date":"2023-05-27T08:52:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T12:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-super-pac-hammers-desantis-in-new-ad-featuring-leaked-footage-of-2018-debate-prep\/"},"modified":"2023-05-27T15:49:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T19:49:30","slug":"trump-super-pac-hammers-desantis-in-new-ad-featuring-leaked-footage-of-2018-debate-prep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-super-pac-hammers-desantis-in-new-ad-featuring-leaked-footage-of-2018-debate-prep\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Super PAC Hammers DeSantis in New Ad Featuring Leaked Footage of 2018 Debate Prep"},"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\">30<\/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%2Ftrump-super-pac-hammers-desantis-in-new-ad-featuring-leaked-footage-of-2018-debate-prep%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=1939451&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--><p>Leaked 2018 footage of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis engaged in debate prep during his first gubernatorial campaign, has appeared in a new ad sponsored by the Trump Super PAC Make America Great Again Inc.<\/p>\n<p>ABC News, which first obtained the footage, <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/2018-debate-prep-recordings-show-desantis-feared-becoming\/story?id=99153059\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has highlighted<\/a> portions of the debate prep that reportedly show DeSantis, who is now officially vying with Trump for the GOP presidential nomination, wrestling with how best to handle charges of racism. Republican voters, accustomed to tuning out such nonsense, will recognize those charges as predictably bogus.<\/p>\n<p>Of deeper interest to Republican voters is President Trump\u2019s use of that leaked footage to draw distinctions between himself and Governor DeSantis.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ron DeSantis fought against President Donald Trump\u2019s America First agenda while in Washington. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YytIGaSjyX\">pic.twitter.com\/YytIGaSjyX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MAGA War Room (@MAGAIncWarRoom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MAGAIncWarRoom\/status\/1661408423487873025?\">May 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The ad features two key elements designed to draw this distinction.<\/p>\n<p>First, it focuses on 2016-18, when DeSantis, then a third-term Florida congressman, \u201cvoted repeatedly to cut Social Security and Medicare,\u201d pushed \u201ca new 23% national sales tax,\u201d and voted \u201cagainst funding for Trump\u2019s wall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Second, it features a clip from the leaked footage that shows DeSantis answering a debate-prep question about whether there is a difference between him and Trump. \u201cObviously there is because I, I mean, I voted contrary to him in the Congress,\u201d DeSantis said.<\/p>\n<p>To win the Republican nomination for president, DeSantis must convince millions of Trump voters that he, the popular Florida governor, is a more electable version of the former president whom they adore.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, on the other hand, needs only to hold together his MAGA movement. It appears his early strategy will be to cast DeSantis as a \u201cSwamp Creature,\u201d the preferred candidate of a weak and corrupt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-says-republicans-need-better-leadership-mitch-mcconnell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">party establishment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is another relevant clip from the leaked footage that does not appear in the Trump ad. If widely circulated, however, this clip will do DeSantis no favors with the MAGA base.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, DeSantis leans forward against his podium and says, with mild exasperation, that he must be careful on the question of differences between himself and Trump. \u201cI have to frame it in a way that\u2019s not gonna piss off all his voters,\u201d DeSantis said.<\/p>\n<p>Viewers may decide for themselves whether DeSantis\u2019s manner and tone suggest mere strategic calculation \u2014 understandable, given the setting \u2014 or whether they hint at concealed contempt for the voters he hopes to win.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, Trump continues to take calculated risks in his aggressive campaign against a red-state governor whose attitudes and policies, particularly on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/desantis-schools-reporter-less-2-minutes-florida-will-teaching-real-history-not-wokeness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wokeness<\/a> and COVID-related tyranny, remain popular with Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>The broader question is whether DeSantis\u2019s candidacy signals a civil war between the Republican Party\u2019s establishment and its increasingly working-class base.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis has conservative and libertarian credentials that endear him to many Republican voters. If they perceive DeSantis as having made policy missteps, those same voters likely will forgive him in the same way that Trump loyalists have forgiven the former president\u2019s perceived errors on his administration\u2019s COVID-era policies.<\/p>\n<p>If he hopes to woo Trump voters, however, DeSantis cannot be the candidate of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/eight-year-alliance-100-ex-trump-officials-endorse-potential-rival-2024-run\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">political insiders<\/a>, whom Trump voters detest.<\/p>\n<p>In short, DeSantis cannot be the candidate of \u201cThe Swamp\u201d \u2014 and nothing says \u201cThe Swamp\u201d quite like condescending disdain toward Trump voters.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-super-pac-hammers-desantis-new-ad-featuring-leaked-footage-2018-debate-prep\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Trump Super PAC Hammers DeSantis in New Ad Featuring Leaked Footage of 2018 Debate Prep<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaked 2018 footage of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis engaged in debate prep during his first gubernatorial campaign, has appeared in a new ad sponsored by the Trump Super PAC Make America Great Again Inc. ABC News, which first obtained the footage, has highlighted portions of the debate prep that reportedly show DeSantis, who is now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2056,"featured_media":1939452,"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":"Trump Super PAC Hammers DeSantis in New Ad Featuring Leaked Footage of 2018 Debate Prep","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[4476,3896,4980,8132,5254,6188,10740,7409,20979,4783,3634],"class_list":["post-1939451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","tag-4476","tag-debate","tag-desantis","tag-featuring","tag-footage","tag-hammers","tag-leaked","tag-pac","tag-prep","tag-super","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Trump Super PAC Hammers DeSantis in New Ad Featuring Leaked Footage of 2018 Debate Prep","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939451","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\/2056"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1939451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1939452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1939451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1939451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1939451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}