{"id":1941793,"date":"2023-06-01T08:14:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T12:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/at-iowa-launch-desantis-claims-trump-has-moved-left-cant-win-a-general-election\/"},"modified":"2023-06-01T08:18:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T12:18:07","slug":"at-iowa-launch-desantis-claims-trump-has-moved-left-cant-win-a-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/at-iowa-launch-desantis-claims-trump-has-moved-left-cant-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-cant-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=1941793&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 Takes Aim at Trump in First Campaign Speech<\/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 officially kicked off 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> with a bang. In his first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/at-iowa-launch-desantis-claims-trump-has-moved-left-cant-win-a-general-election\/\" title=\"DeSantis says Trump has shifted left and can't win in a general election at Iowa launch.\">formal stump speech<\/a>, DeSantis took aim at former President Donald Trump, claiming that he has &#8220;moved left&#8221; on key issues and can&#8217;t win a general election.<\/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 didn&#8217;t directly criticize Trump during his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/you-will-see-our-faces-not-our-backs-ukraines-president-zelensky-says-putin-has-ordered-invasion\/\" title=\"\u201cYou Will See Our Faces, Not Our Backs\u201d \u2013 Ukraine\u2019s President Zelensky Says Putin Has Ordered Invasion\">hour-long address<\/a>, but he did respond to Trump&#8217;s recent claim that Florida was the &#8220;third WORST State in Deaths by Covid&#8221; and that &#8220;New York had fewer deaths!&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m going to fight back. The former president is now attacking me saying that [former New York Gov. Andrew] Cuomo did better handling COVID than Florida did. I can tell you this: I could count the number of Republicans in this country on my hands that would rather have lived in New York under Cuomo than lived in Florida in our freedom zone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>DeSantis made it clear that he isn&#8217;t going to make his campaign about Trump, but rather a referendum on the failed policies of President Joe Biden. However, Trump is focused on his Republican opponents, and that&#8217;s starting to wear thin on many.<\/p>\n<h3>Kickoff Tour Begins, Ends in Iowa<\/h3>\n<p>The speech was just the beginning of DeSantis&#8217;s <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>, which ends on June 3 back in Iowa for a fundraiser with Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>May 31: Four Iowa cities<\/li>\n<li>New Hampshire<\/li>\n<li>South Carolina<\/li>\n<li>Return engagement with Ernst<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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>Prior to his address, DeSantis and his wife, Casey, met with local pastors for prayer, mimicking Sen. Ted Cruz&#8217;s (R-Texas) 2016 strategy when he won the Republican caucuses after lobbying extensively for Iowa&#8217;s evangelical vote.<\/p>\n<h3>A Tough Crowd<\/h3>\n<p>Among the curious Iowans who attended DeSantis&#8217;s speech was James Love of West Des Moines, who told The Epoch Times that he was a &#8220;no-nonsense Reagan Republican.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he had a 2024 Republican presidential candidate, he said: &#8220;No, not yet. I don&#8217;t think most Iowans have made up their minds yet.&#8221;<\/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>&#8220;There&#8217;s plenty of work in Des Moines. I&#8217;m lucky to be here,&#8221; he said before noting that, after 51 years as a general contractor, he&#8217;s &#8220;tired&#8221; and ready to relax.<\/p>\n<p>But first things first.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I am retiring this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 election. DeSantis criticized Trump&#8217;s policies, saying he has shifted left on federal spending, abortion, and crime. He also claimed that Trump only pays lip service to &#8220;America First&#8221; policies and cannot win a 2024 election. This was DeSantis&#8217; first formal stump speech for his own presidential campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":1941794,"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-1941793","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\/1941793","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=1941793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1941794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1941793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1941793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1941793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}