{"id":550451,"date":"2021-06-03T08:06:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T12:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=550451"},"modified":"2021-06-03T08:06:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T12:06:26","slug":"watch-crowd-cheers-as-desantis-torches-democrat-challenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-crowd-cheers-as-desantis-torches-democrat-challenger\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Crowd Cheers As DeSantis Torches Democrat Challenger"},"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%2Fwatch-crowd-cheers-as-desantis-torches-democrat-challenger%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=550451&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/DeSantis.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis was greeted with cheers on Wednesday during a press conference when he slammed the state\u2019s Democrat Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, who announced this week that she is going to try to unseat DeSantis in next year\u2019s gubernatorial election despite being a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PredictIt\/status\/1379513042166157313\">heavy underdog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Nikki Fried now getting into the race to oppose you, do you expect a kind of escalation in the cultural wars?\u201d a reporter asked DeSantis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere\u2019s what I\u2019d say, you know, Nikki Fried has done nothing in office, she does nothing,\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cAll she does is a emote on social media, virtue signal to small-dollar donors in California and New York.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe put her face, spent millions of dollars, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/florida-politics\/buzz\/2020\/02\/03\/nikki-fried-gas-pump-stickers-spark-dispute-with-florida-house-gop\/\">put her face on every gas pump<\/a> across this state purely to boost her own image at your expense as a taxpayer,\u201d DeSantis continued. \u201cShe\u2019s a lockdown lobbyist. She would have had our kids locked out of school the whole year. She would have had this business shuttered for the whole year. They would be out of business, if Fried were governor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo she\u2019s opposed us at every turn. All the good stuff we\u2019ve been able to accomplish for Florida, she opposes it,\u201d DeSantis concluded. \u201cAnd I\u2019ve done more I think in my first week as governor than she has done in her entire time in government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.9625\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NikkiFried?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NikkiFried<\/a> is a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/lockdownlobbyist?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#lockdownlobbyist<\/a> who has opposed every commonsense measure that has kept Florida safe and free like open schools, businesses, and places of worship. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovRonDeSantis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GovRonDeSantis<\/a> has done more in one week than Fried in her time as Ag Commisioner. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yw3pQp6YL0\">pic.twitter.com\/yw3pQp6YL0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Florida GOP (@FloridaGOP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FloridaGOP\/status\/1400165118504230915?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fried already raised eyebrows this week after she amended two financial disclosure forms right before she declared that she was running for governor that showed that she made hundreds of thousands of dollars in undisclosed income.<\/p>\n<p>The Tampa Bay Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/florida-politics\/2021\/06\/02\/fried-amended-financial-disclosure-before-campaign-announcement\/\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"17\">\n<p><em>The first change, a\u00a0last-minute amendment\u00a0to her 2018 financial disclosure forms first reported by blog\u00a0Tallahassee Reports, shows that Fried, 43, changed the amount of annual income she made from her consulting firm Igniting Florida from $72,000 to $351,480 on Friday, May 28, days before she announced that she will seek the Democratic nomination to run for governor against incumbent Ron DeSantis. The form was\u00a0first amended in January 2020 to reflect the $72,000 income for the first time.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fried has faced increasing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/florida-playbook\/2021\/04\/19\/nikki-frieds-vetting-is-about-to-start-don-gaetz-force-of-nature-nrsc-the-national-rick-scott-committee-492511\">scrutiny<\/a> over a variety of issues, ranging from how she obtained a certification for a medical marijuana card to domestic incidents where police became involved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBetween 2018 and 2019, Fried\u2019s net worth increased from $271,613 to $1,401,563 \u2014 almost entirely because her boyfriend, a marijuana investor and the former CEO of one of the largest marijuana companies in Florida,\u00a0bought her a house,\u201d National Review <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2021\/05\/what-has-happened-to-nikki-fried\/\">reported<\/a>. \u201cIt took her more than a year to admit that, at the time she created a new Cannabis Office and Medical Marijuana Advisory Committee in the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs, she had a $200,000 ownership stake in publicly traded marijuana company Harvest Health and Recreation Inc. that she had not listed on the previous year\u2019s disclosure forms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis was greeted with cheers on Wednesday during a press conference when he slammed the state\u2019s Democrat Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, who announced this week that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279020,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/DeSantis.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"WATCH: Crowd Cheers As DeSantis Torches Democrat Challenger","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/DeSantis.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"WATCH: Crowd Cheers As DeSantis Torches Democrat Challenger","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550451","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=550451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}