{"id":986215,"date":"2021-11-08T18:13:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T23:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=986215"},"modified":"2021-11-08T18:13:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T23:13:42","slug":"desantis-doubles-down-on-brandon-administration-comment-when-pressed-by-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-doubles-down-on-brandon-administration-comment-when-pressed-by-reporter\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis Doubles Down On \u2018Brandon Administration\u2019 Comment When Pressed By Reporter"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fdesantis-doubles-down-on-brandon-administration-comment-when-pressed-by-reporter%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=986215&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><\/div>\n<p>Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis defended his recent dubbing of President Joe Biden\u2019s administration as the \u201cBrandon administration\u201d during a Monday interview.<\/p>\n<p>WPEC CBS12 News reporter Jay O\u2019Brien pressed the Florida governor on calling the administration \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/03\/brandon-administration-trends-twitter-desantis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Brandon administration<\/a>\u201d in reference to the popular anti-Biden phrase \u201cLet\u2019s Go, Brandon\u201d at an election integrity press conference on Nov. 3 in Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you feel that that is the proper level of exchange between a governor and a president?\u201d O\u2019Brien asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, let me ask you how he\u2019s treated us. Well, look, I think it\u2019s a joke but honestly, one of the reasons why that has taken on is because a lot of your folks in the national media, they get very sensitive to it,\u201d DeSantis responded. \u201cBecause what happened was people were chanting something else very colorful. You had a reporter though, say it was \u2018Let\u2019s Go, Brandon\u2019 when that\u2019s not really what was said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the reason why it\u2019s caught on is because I think it needles the national media a little bit because look, they\u2019ve become very partisan.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/03\/lets-go-brandon-ron-desantis-press-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Let\u2019s Go, Brandon\u2019 Chant Erupts After Ron DeSantis Calls Biden Admin \u2018Brandon Administration\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"11.335347432024\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">EXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovRonDeSantis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GovRonDeSantis<\/a> defends his comment last week labeling the Biden Admin \u201cthe Brandon Administration.\u201d Calls it \u201ca joke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When pressed, says it was no worse than what was said about Trump.<\/p>\n<p>More on vaccine mandates and masking to come. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBS12?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CBS12<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vnfaRm5WVe\">pic.twitter.com\/vnfaRm5WVe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jay O\u2019Brien (@jayobtv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jayobtv\/status\/1457805564050825221?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>O\u2019Brien continued to press the governor by arguing that the \u201cBrandon administration\u201d term is a \u201cswear about the president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The governor further defended his rhetoric, arguing that the media largely supports the president and that very little backlash arose in response to the media\u2019s harsh criticisms made about <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/02\/florida-lets-go-brandon-banner-fine-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">former President Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWas there hand wringing about the stuff said about Trump for four years? No, there wasn\u2019t,\u201d DeSantis said.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/04\/lauren-boebert-lets-go-brandon-dress-aoc-mar-a-lago\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Let\u2019s Go, Brandon<\/a>\u201d chant was popularized after NBC reporter Kelli Stavast attempted to cover up a NASCAR race\u2019s audience \u201cFuck Joe Biden\u201d by reporting that they chanted \u201cLet\u2019s Go, Brandon\u201d in support of NASCAR driver Brandon Brown.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis previously <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CalebJHull\/status\/1455918990887432194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1455918990887432194%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdailycaller.com%2F2021%2F11%2F03%2Fbrandon-administration-trends-twitter-desantis%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">criticized<\/a> the national media\u2019s \u201cdishonesty\u201d at the Nov. 3 press conference in response to Stavast\u2019s reporting. He argued that the chant \u201chas taken on a life of its own\u201d to expose corporate reporters for hiding the truth.<\/p>\n<p>Former Clinton-era press secretary and CNN analyst <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/02\/joe-lockhart-tweet-lets-go-brandon-kkk-nazi-rhetoric\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Lockhart<\/a> recently compared the chant to ISIS, Ku Klux Klan and Nazi rhetoric via Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis defended his recent dubbing of President Joe Biden\u2019s administration as the \u201cBrandon administration\u201d during a Monday interview.WPEC CBS12 News reporter Jay O\u2019Brien pressed the Florida &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"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-986215","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\/986215","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\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986215\/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=986215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}