{"id":1974547,"date":"2023-07-16T15:17:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T19:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-team-blasts-desantis-for-admitting-post-midterm-polling-was-only-a-sugar-high\/"},"modified":"2023-07-16T15:19:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T19:19:05","slug":"trump-team-blasts-desantis-for-admitting-post-midterm-polling-was-only-a-sugar-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-team-blasts-desantis-for-admitting-post-midterm-polling-was-only-a-sugar-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump team criticizes DeSantis for acknowledging post-midterm polling as a mere &#8216;sugar-high&#8217;."},"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\">24<\/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-team-blasts-desantis-for-admitting-post-midterm-polling-was-only-a-sugar-high%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=1974547&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>Former President Donald Trump\u2019s\u2064 \u201cWar \u2064Room\u201d Team Criticizes Gov. Ron DeSantis&#8217; Polling Numbers<\/h2>\n<p>The team \u200dbehind \u2064former \u2062President Donald\u2062 Trump&#8217;s &#8220;War\u2064 Room&#8221; took aim at \u2063Governor\u2064 Ron \u200dDeSantis (R-FL)\u2064 for his recent polling numbers.\u2062 This came after DeSantis admitted that\u200b his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-team-blasts-desantis-for-admitting-post-midterm-polling-was-only-a-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/halloween-candy-prices-surge-to-unprecedented-heights\/\" title=\"Halloween Candy Prices Surge to Unprecedented Heights\">sugar-high<\/a>\/&#8221; title=&#8221;Trump team criticizes DeSantis for acknowledging post-midterm polling as a mere &#8216;sugar-high&#8217;.&#8221;>strong post-midterm results<\/a>\u2063 were merely \u200da \u200d&#8221;sugar-high.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I had \u2064gotten a lot of \u200bcoverage\u200c in\u2064 the aftermath of the midterm\u200c election; we always knew with these national polls that that was a \u200csugar-high,&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>DeSantis revealed this\u200c during\u2063 an\u200c interview with \u200dHoward Kurtz on Fox News \u2063Channel&#8217;s Mediabuzz. The Florida\u200b governor&#8217;s comments\u200d didn&#8217;t go unnoticed by Trump&#8217;s team, \u200cwho \u200bpromptly took to Twitter \u2064to express \u2063their disapproval.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Ron DeSanctimonious\u200b admits his \u200bpost-midterm \u2062polling \u2062was only\u2063 a\u2063 &#8216;sugar high.&#8217; Welcome\u2064 back \u2062to \u200creality!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>During\u2064 the \u2063interview,\u200c DeSantis\u200b also \u2063downplayed the\u2063 significance of national polls, \u2062stating that they weren&#8217;t a\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-spike-in-florida-coronavirus-cases-despite-no-mask-mandate\/\" title=\"No Spike in Florida Coronavirus Cases Despite No Mask Mandate\">major concern<\/a> for \u2064him. However, the \u200bpolls\u200b clearly show\u200d Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-noncommital-on-appearing-at-first-gop-presidential-candidate-debate\/\" title=\"Donald Trump undecided about participating in initial GOP debate.\">significant\u2064 lead<\/a>\u200d over\u200b other \u2063GOP \u2064presidential candidates. \u200cAccording to a RealClearPolitics\u200d analysis, Trump leads\u2062 in all \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newt-gingrich-says-trumps-first-year-as-next-president-will-be-astonishing\/\" title=\"Gingrich: Trump's first year as president will be 'amazing'\">recent\u200b polls<\/a>,\u200c with an average of\u2063 53%.\u200d In comparison,\u2062 DeSantis\u200d trails \u200dbehind at \u206220.6%,\u2064 a 32.4% \u200ddifference.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, other\u200d GOP \u200bcandidates \u200blike former\u2063 Vice President \u2062Mike \u200dPence, former South \u2062Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, Sen. \u200cTim Scott (R-SC), and\u200c entrepreneur\u2064 Vivek \u200bRamaswamy are\u2064 polling in \u2062the single digits and \u200chave\u2064 yet\u2064 to\u200c make \u200ca breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis has acknowledged that \u2063the 2024\u2063 election\u2064 will \u2062be \u2063an uphill battle, \u200bbut he remains\u2063 determined to earn \u200bhis place in\u2063 the race.<\/p>\n<p><a\u2062 href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to read more from \u200cThe Washington\u200c Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump&#8217;s team criticized Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) for his polling numbers. DeSantis acknowledged that his impressive post-midterm results were temporary. He stated, &#8220;We were aware that the national polls were just a temporary boost.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1974548,"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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1974547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/1974547","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1974547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1974548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1974547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1974547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1974547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}