{"id":2005878,"date":"2023-08-19T15:53:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T19:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-team-lashes-out-at-desantis-with-hillary-clinton-analogy-in-demand-for-apology\/"},"modified":"2023-08-19T15:54:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T19:54:19","slug":"trump-team-lashes-out-at-desantis-with-hillary-clinton-analogy-in-demand-for-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-team-lashes-out-at-desantis-with-hillary-clinton-analogy-in-demand-for-apology\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s team demands apology from DeSantis, drawing Hillary Clinton analogy."},"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\">20<\/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-lashes-out-at-desantis-with-hillary-clinton-analogy-in-demand-for-apology%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=2005878&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 Demands Apology from Ron DeSantis<\/h2>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump has fired back at Ron DeSantis, the GOP front-runner, after he insulted Trump&#8217;s fan base. In a statement, Trump compared the Florida governor to Hillary Clinton and demanded an apology from his election challenger.<\/p>\n<h3>Trump Supporters Are \u2062Patriots, Not\u2062 &#8220;Listless Vessels&#8221;<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;To Hillary\u200b Clinton, Trump supporters are &#8216;deplorables.&#8217; To Ron DeSantis, they are &#8216;listless\u2064 vessels,'&#8221; said Karoline Leavitt, spokeswoman for\u2063 Make \u200dAmerica Great \u200cAgain Inc., referring to comments from Trump&#8217;s\u200b rival in 2016. &#8220;The truth is, Trump \u2062supporters are patriots. Ron DeSantis is showing his true \u200ccolors. The pressure of polling in third place \u200cis getting to \u2062DeSantis, and now he\u200b is lashing out at\u2064 the very same voters who \u2063got\u2064 him elected governor. DeSantis \u200bmust \u200cimmediately apologize for his disgraceful insult.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s demand for an apology comes after DeSantis urged Republican voters to focus on candidates who \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-team-lashes-out-at-desantis-with-hillary-clinton-analogy-in-demand-for-apology\/\" title=\"Trump's team demands apology from DeSantis, drawing Hillary Clinton analogy.\">embody conservative values<\/a> rather \u2062than Trump&#8217;s &#8220;personality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If \u200dall we are is listless vessels that are just supposed to follow&#8230; whatever happens to come down the pike on Truth\u200c Social every morning, that&#8217;s\u2063 not going to be a durable movement,&#8221; DeSantis stated. &#8220;You could be the most \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trans-people-exist-oreo-cookie-virtue-signals-while-parent-company-faces-child-slave-labor-lawsuit\/\" title=\"\u2018Trans People Exist\u2019: Oreo Cookie Virtue Signals While Parent Company Faces Child Slave Labor Lawsuit\">conservative person<\/a> since sliced bread. Unless you&#8217;re kissing his rear end, they will somehow call you a\u2062 RINO. So it&#8217;s \u2063been totally\u200c detached from principle in\u200c what \u2064you actually believe and results.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Trump&#8217;s Dominance in Early Polling<\/h3>\n<p>Despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kemp-and-youngkin-appear-at-conservative-conference-as-donors-quietly-push-white-house-run\/\" title=\"Kemp and Youngkin attend conservative conference amid whispers of White House bid.\">facing 91 felony charges<\/a> from four <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newly-released-jan-6-footage-shows-non-uniformed-officers-urging-pro-trump-protesters-to-go-to-the-capitol\/\" title=\"Newly Released Jan 6 Footage Shows \"Non-Uniformed\" Officers Urging Pro-Trump Protesters to Go to the Capitol\">separate criminal indictments<\/a>, Trump continues \u200cto dominate early \u200bpolling\u2063 in the \u200drace. According to data compiled by FiveThirtyEight, over half (54.4%) of Republican voters would \u2064support\u2064 Trump in the GOP primaries. DeSantis trails far behind at 15.4%, followed by Vivek Ramaswamy (7.9%), former \u2062Vice\u2064 President Mike Pence (5.1%), and Nikki Haley (3.7%).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump criticized Ron DeSantis for insulting his fan base, comparing him to Hillary Clinton. Trump demanded an apology from his election challenger after DeSantis referred to Trump&#8217;s supporters as &#8220;listless vessels,&#8221; accusing him of betraying the Republican party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2005879,"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-2005878","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\/2005878","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=2005878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2005879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}