{"id":2012431,"date":"2023-08-25T18:39:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T22:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-haley-super-pac-pans-desantis-debate-performance-as-forgettable\/"},"modified":"2023-08-25T18:41:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T22:41:36","slug":"pro-haley-super-pac-pans-desantis-debate-performance-as-forgettable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-haley-super-pac-pans-desantis-debate-performance-as-forgettable\/","title":{"rendered":"Haley-supporting super PAC criticizes DeSantis debate as &#8216;unmemorable&#8217;"},"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\">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%2Fpro-haley-super-pac-pans-desantis-debate-performance-as-forgettable%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=2012431&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>The Main Super PAC Supporting Nikki Haley&#8217;s Presidential Run Critiques Ron DeSantis<\/h2>\n<p>The main super\u2062 PAC\u2064 supporting \u200cformer U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley&#8217;s \u200drun for president panned Gov. Ron\u2063 DeSantis (R-FL) as \u2063irrelevant after a Wednesday debate performance it called &#8220;forgettable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;While they would have you think differently,\u2063 the fact remains that Ron \u2063DeSantis had the most to lose and did not have the night he needed,&#8221; Harris wrote. &#8220;With a campaign that&#8217;s \u200cbeen hemorrhaging support, dropping in the polls \u200dand is on its seventh reboot \u200bsince\u200b his June kick-off, DeSantis needed to do more than just exist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In fact,\u2064 he wasn&#8217;t memorable, and his remarks were forgettable,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>DeSantis spoke for a combined 10\u2062 minutes throughout the two-hour debate, the\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/knowles-gavin-newsoms-success\/\" title=\"KNOWLES: Gavin Newsom\u2019s Success\">fourth-highest<\/a> of any candidate, but \u200chis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amazons-new-ceo-andy-jassy-earned-213-million-in-compensation-in-2021\/\" title=\"Amazon\u2019s New CEO Andy Jassy Earned 3 Million in Compensation in 2021\">subdued performance<\/a>, \u2064and the decision of his\u2062 rivals to ignore him, led pundits to describe him as a\u2062 &#8220;loser&#8221; of the event.<\/p>\n<h3>Haley&#8217;s Stock Rises as \u200bDeSantis Falls<\/h3>\n<p>Yet Harris argued Haley&#8217;s stock is rising as DeSantis&#8217;s falls, pointing to a Democratic-aligned poll of Wisconsin independent voters, 45% of whom said she won the debate, compared to 24% for DeSantis.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, her exchanges with Ramaswamy on foreign policy and her willingness to criticize Trump directly \u2014 \u2064she called\u200b him the &#8220;most disliked politician in America&#8221; \u2014 earned her\u2062 media attention.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a \u2062good rule of thumb in debates:\u2063 If you&#8217;re\u2062 not being heard and no \u2063one is focused on you, \u2064it just means you aren&#8217;t relevant anymore,&#8221; \u200bHarris said in a dig at DeSantis.<\/p>\n<h3>Momentum and Fundraising<\/h3>\n<p>Each candidate has sought to project \u2062momentum\u200d following\u200c the debate. The Haley campaign called the 24 hours that followed &#8220;the best\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-pacs-report-over-100-million-cash-on-hand-ahead-of-2022-midterms\/\" title=\"Trump PACs Report Over 0 Million Cash-On-Hand Ahead Of 2022 Midterms\">fundraising day<\/a> of the campaign,&#8221; while DeSantis&#8217;s camp touted a $1 million haul.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRon DeSantis showed Wednesday night\u200d that he is a proven leader who \u2062will deliver results as president, and we are \u200dthrilled with the flood of support we have received since his debate victory,&#8221;\u200d campaign manager James Uthmeier said in a statement to \u200cthe Washington Examiner. &#8220;We look forward to building on this momentum\u200b in the weeks\u2062 and months ahead as \u2064the Governor continues \u200cto outwork everyone in this race\u200c as he lays out his vision to \u2064reverse our\u200c nation\u2019s decline\u200b and revive the \u200dAmerican Dream.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Challenges for\u200d Haley and DeSantis<\/h3>\n<p>Haley has\u200c ground \u200cto make up if \u2062she wants to remain \u200ccompetitive in the \u200drace. She registered at 6% support in the latest \u2062poll of Iowa Republican voters, behind\u2062 Trump, DeSantis, and her home state colleague Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC). She \u200cis tied for \u2063sixth place\u2064 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/latest-poll-majority-of-americans-want-republican-party-to-control-the-senate-sean-hannity\/\" title=\"LATEST POLL: Majority of Americans Want Republican Party to Control the Senate | Sean Hannity\">latest poll<\/a> out of New\u200b Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, DeSantis, \u200bdespite posting strong fundraising numbers, has troubles of his own. He has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-haley-super-pac-pans-desantis-debate-performance-as-forgettable\/\" title=\"Haley-supporting super PAC criticizes DeSantis debate as 'unmemorable'\">undergone\u200b multiple campaign shake-ups<\/a> as donors complain about a slide \u2063in the polls. He trails\u2064 Trump,\u200c who skipped Wednesday&#8217;s debate, nationally by 41 points \u200bin the RealClearPolitics average.<\/p>\n<h3>Encouragement to Drop \u200bOut<\/h3>\n<p>Without naming names, Harris encouraged \u200dthose candidates who failed to stand out \u2063to\u200d consider dropping out of the race.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Those who got lost in\u2062 the coverage should \u2064take a \u200bsecond\u2062 look at whether it&#8217;s\u200b really in the best interest of our country and shared goal to defeat Donald Trump and\u200b Joe Biden\u2063 that they continue on with\u2063 their campaigns,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Eight candidates\u2063 ultimately attended the debate, several of whom had \u2064breakout moments of their own, among them \u2063former Vice President Mike \u2064Pence and ex-New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.<\/p>\n<p>Scott, who is competing with Haley for support in South Carolina, offered a more restrained debate performance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The super PAC backing Nikki Haley criticized Gov. Ron DeSantis as insignificant, labeling his debate performance as forgettable. Mark Harris, the strategist for SFA Fund Inc., praised Haley&#8217;s standout moments in the initial Republican primary debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2012432,"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-2012431","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\/2012431","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=2012431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2012432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}