{"id":972596,"date":"2021-11-05T14:14:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T18:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=972596"},"modified":"2021-11-05T14:14:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T18:14:33","slug":"national-dems-signal-surrender-to-desantis-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/national-dems-signal-surrender-to-desantis-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"National Dems Signal Surrender to DeSantis in Florida"},"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%2Fnational-dems-signal-surrender-to-desantis-in-florida%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=972596&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 readability=\"28.660869565217\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/\">Elections<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Democratic Governors Association will not prioritize Florida race<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DeSantis-736x518-1.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DeSantis-scaled-e1636131458291.jpeg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DeSantis-300x211.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DeSantis-1024x720.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DeSantis-768x540.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DeSantis-1536x1080.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DeSantis-2048x1440.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DeSantis-1400x985.jpeg 1400w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DeSantis-698x491.jpeg 698w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tFlorida governor Ron DeSantis (R.)  \/  Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/philip-caldwell\/\" title=\"Posts by Philip Caldwell\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Philip Caldwell<\/a> \u2022 November 5, 2021 2:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"71.821705426357\">\n<p>The Democratic Governors Association will not prioritize efforts to unseat Florida governor Ron DeSantis (R.) in light of the hefty costs of boosting a challenger and the slim odds of a Democratic win in the race, according to a <em>Politico<\/em> report.<\/p>\n<p>The DGA, a <a href=\"https:\/\/democraticgovernors.org\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">political organization<\/a> &#8220;dedicated to electing Democratic governors and candidates,&#8221; has spent more than $15 million on the last two Florida gubernatorial elections, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/states\/florida\/story\/2021\/11\/04\/no-million-dollar-checks-democratic-governors-may-sit-out-florida-1392319\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to <em>Politico<\/em>. But Florida Democratic consultants in contact with the association told the outlet that the DGA is standing down ahead of the state&#8217;s 2022 gubernatorial election, essentially surrendering the race to DeSantis.<\/p>\n<p>The organization is occupied with defending Democratic incumbents this cycle, the consultants said, and lacks confidence that a Democratic challenger could topple DeSantis. The enormous costs of effectively advertising across Florida would be a major drain on the DGA&#8217;s finances if it were to prioritize the state&#8217;s election.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I spoke to [the DGA] two weeks ago. \u2026 DeSantis is looking strong politically and financially,&#8221; one consultant told&nbsp;<em>Politico<\/em>. &#8220;They might do some money, but they are not going the way they have been in the past. There are not going to be multimillion-dollar checks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A DGA staffer told <em>Politico<\/em> the Florida race is not a priority during an election cycle in which Republicans hope to flip Democratic seats all across the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let me tell you how the DGA works,&#8221; the staffer said. &#8220;First, it\u2019s incumbent protection, and there is a bunch of that this year. Then they look at open seats, then they look at challenging incumbents, and DeSantis isn\u2019t the easiest incumbent to challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, the DGA spent $7.6 million on Democrat Andrew Gillum&#8217;s failed campaign against DeSantis. The<em> Cook Political Report&nbsp;<\/em>rates Florida&#8217;s 2022 gubernatorial race as &#8220;lean Republican.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elections Democratic Governors Association will not prioritize Florida race  Florida governor Ron DeSantis (R.) \/ Getty Images  Philip Caldwell \u2022 November 5, 2021 2:00 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972596","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\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}