{"id":1988600,"date":"2023-08-02T11:17:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T15:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-refuses-to-debate-extremist-ron-desantis\/"},"modified":"2023-08-02T11:18:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T15:18:58","slug":"kamala-harris-refuses-to-debate-extremist-ron-desantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-refuses-to-debate-extremist-ron-desantis\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris declines debate with &#8216;extremist&#8217; Ron DeSantis."},"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%2Fkamala-harris-refuses-to-debate-extremist-ron-desantis%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=1988600&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--><div>\n<h2>Vice President Kamala Harris\u200c Rejects Invitation from Florida Governor \u200cRon\u2064 DeSantis<\/h2>\n<p>Vice\u2062 President Kamala Harris\u200c on Tuesday rejected an invitation from Florida governor Ron<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\"> DeSantis (R.) <\/span>to discuss \u200dthe state&#8217;s\u200b new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/missouri-school-district-spends-15k-on-critical-race-theory-audit\/\" title=\"Missouri School District Spends K on Critical Race Theory Audit\">black history curriculum<\/a> and said she will not be debating \u2062the topic \u2064of slavery with him.<\/p>\n<p><span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">DeSantis<\/span>, who \u200bis running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, on\u200b Monday invited Harris to Florida to discuss the state&#8217;s \u200cblack history curriculum after\u200c the \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-refuses-to-debate-extremist-ron-desantis\/\" title=\"Kamala Harris declines debate with 'extremist' Ron DeSantis.\">vice president criticized<\/a>\u200d it \u200dfor backing guidelines \u2063that \u200cshe said taught \u200b&#8221;revisionist \u200bhistory&#8221; about slavery in the \u200dUnited States.<\/p>\n<p>Florida&#8217;s board of \u2063education approved new guidelines\u2062 in July, including one for\u2063 middle \u2062school \u2064students that states &#8220;instruction\u2062 includes \u200chow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-blasts-florida-history-curriculum-gop-says-her-focus-should-be-on-fixing-border\/\" title=\"Kamala Harris criticizes Florida history curriculum, GOP urges her to prioritize border issues.\">slaves developed \u2064skills<\/a>\u2062 which, in \u2062some\u200b instances, could be applied for \u200ctheir personal benefit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Harris Stands Firm on Slavery Issue<\/h3>\n<p>On Tuesday, Harris made a\u2062 previously scheduled speech in the state, telling the audience, &#8220;Well, I&#8217;m here in Florida. I\u200c will tell you, there is no roundtable, no lecture, no invitation we will\u2064 accept to debate an undeniable fact: There were no redeeming \u200dqualities of slavery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Harris and other\u200c Democrats have slammed the \u200dcurriculum\u200d for including \u2062the line, another course they fiercely defended against scrutiny \u2062from \u200dDeSantis <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/that-racist-line-in-floridas-curriculum-a-woke-course-dems-loved-says-the-same-thing\/\">featured<\/a> \u200c a \u2064similar line that \u2064said slaves learned\u200d skills \u2064from &#8220;specialized trades&#8221; to &#8220;provide for themselves and others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Harris Paints DeSantis as an &#8220;Extremist&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>Harris\u200b was in Orlando to deliver remarks at an African Methodist Episcopal Church event, where she painted\u2063 DeSantis \u200bas an &#8220;extremist&#8221; \u2064while not referencing him by \u2064name.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will not stop calling out and fighting back against extremist, so-called leaders who try to prevent our children\u2064 from learning our\u200b true\u200b and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kayleigh-mcenany-sounds-off-on-don-lemon-after-cnn-host-says-opposition-to-crt-rooted-in-privilege\/\" title=\"Kayleigh McEnany Sounds Off On Don Lemon After CNN Host Says Opposition To CRT Rooted In \u2018Privilege\u2019\">full history<\/a>,&#8221; Harris said.<\/p>\n<p><span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">DeSantis<\/span>,\u2062 who earlier\u200d this year blocked an advanced\u2062 placement African American studies course from being taught\u200b to\u200c high \u2062schoolers in his\u2062 state, \u2064accused\u200d the Biden\u200b administration \u2063of disparaging Florida \u2063and misinforming Americans on the\u200c subject.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Nandita Bose\u2063 in Washington; Editing by Alistair Bell and Bill\u200d Berkrot)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Kamala Harris declined Florida Governor Ron DeSantis&#8217; invitation to discuss the state&#8217;s black history curriculum. She firmly stated her refusal to engage in a debate about slavery with him. DeSantis, a potential 2024 Republican presidential nominee, had extended the invitation on Monday, seeking a discussion with Harris in Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1988601,"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":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1988600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"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\/1988600","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\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1988601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}