{"id":1941486,"date":"2023-05-31T17:53:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T21:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/at-iowa-launch-desantis-claims-trump-has-moved-left-cannot-win-a-general-election\/"},"modified":"2023-05-31T17:55:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T21:55:46","slug":"at-iowa-launch-desantis-claims-trump-has-moved-left-cannot-win-a-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/at-iowa-launch-desantis-claims-trump-has-moved-left-cannot-win-a-general-election\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis says Trump has shifted left and can&#8217;t win in a general election at Iowa launch."},"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\">32<\/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%2Fat-iowa-launch-desantis-claims-trump-has-moved-left-cannot-win-a-general-election%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=1941486&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 Kicks Off 2024 Presidential Campaign in Iowa<\/h2>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0531\/b0212a28-bad6-408d-836e-fc8175c8e0b8\/audio.mp3?length=7223949&#038;duration=602\"><\/div>\n<p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/inside-the-privacy-battle-raging-between-apple-and-facebook\/\" title=\"Inside The Privacy Battle Raging Between Apple And Facebook\">officially launched<\/a> his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-has-never-talked-about-2024-campaign-plans-with-biden\/\" title=\"Kamala Harris Has 'Never Talked About' 2024 Campaign Plans with Biden\">2024 presidential campaign<\/a> in Iowa, and he didn&#8217;t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-may-ease-ccp-virus-lockdown-from-march-foreign-secretary-says\/\" title=\"UK May Ease CCP Virus Lockdown From March, Foreign Secretary Says\">hold back<\/a> in his criticism of former President Donald Trump. DeSantis accused Trump of moving left on federal spending, abortion, and crime, and failing to implement &#8220;America First&#8221; policies while in office. He also stated that Trump cannot win a general election and that there are many voters who will never vote for him.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;There are a lot of voters that just aren\u2019t going to ever vote for him. We just have to accept that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>DeSantis did not directly criticize Trump during his speech, but he did respond to Trump&#8217;s claims that Florida was the &#8220;third WORST State in Deaths by Covid&#8221; and that &#8220;New York had fewer deaths!&#8221; DeSantis fired back, saying that he could count the number of Republicans who would rather have lived in New York under Cuomo than in Florida under his leadership.<\/p>\n<h3>Kickoff Tour Begins, Ends in Iowa<\/h3>\n<p>The speech marked DeSantis&#8217;s first formal campaign event after declaring his candidacy on May 24. He kicked off a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-would-have-been-in-jail-years-ago-if-a-republican-desantis-says-in-iowa\/\" title=\"DeSantis claims Hunter Biden would be jailed if he were a Republican.\">12-city tour<\/a> across three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/at-iowa-launch-desantis-claims-trump-has-moved-left-cannot-win-a-general-election\/\" title=\"DeSantis says Trump has shifted left and can't win in a general election at Iowa launch.\">early-primary states<\/a>, ending on June 3 back in Iowa for a fundraiser with Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa). DeSantis will visit four Iowa cities on May 31 before moving on to New Hampshire, South Carolina, and his return engagement with Ernst.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5302518\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/31\/id5302518-GettyImages-1494686707-1200x800.jpg\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/31\/id5302518-GettyImages-1494686707-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"Ron DeSantis and wife Casey DeSantis arrive for a campaign event at Eternity Church in Clive, Iowa, on May 30, 2023.\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p>Before his address, DeSantis and his wife, Casey, met with local pastors for prayer, mimicking Sen. Ted Cruz\u2019s (R-Texas) 2016 strategy when he won the Republican caucuses after lobbying extensively for Iowa\u2019s evangelical vote.<\/p>\n<h3>A Tough Crowd<\/h3>\n<p>Among the curious Iowans who attended DeSantis\u2019s speech was James Love of West Des Moines, who told The Epoch Times that he was a \u201cno-nonsense Reagan Republican.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he had a 2024 Republican presidential candidate, he said: \u201cNo, not yet. I don\u2019t think most Iowans have made up their minds yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Love moved to Iowa from Seattle 20 years ago. He said he misses the beautiful city and the Pacific Northwest but that Iowa has been good to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s plenty of work in Des Moines. I\u2019m lucky to be here,\u201d he said before noting that, after 51 years as a general contractor, he\u2019s \u201ctired\u201d and ready to relax.<\/p>\n<p>But first things first.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am retiring, but I\u2019m going to vote first,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>be trusted to lead the conservative movement.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis criticized former President Donald Trump&#8217;s policies in his first formal stump speech for the 2024 presidential campaign in Iowa. DeSantis claimed that Trump has shifted left on federal spending, abortion, and crime, and failed to implement &#8220;America First&#8221; policies. He also expressed doubts about Trump&#8217;s ability to lead the conservative movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":1941487,"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":[543],"tags":[3680,4980,3728,5626,4706,3691,19613,3634,7627],"class_list":["post-1941486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-cant","tag-desantis","tag-election","tag-iowa","tag-launch","tag-left","tag-shifted","tag-trump","tag-win"],"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\/1941486","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\/509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1941486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1941487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1941486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1941486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1941486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}