{"id":581266,"date":"2023-07-04T01:59:43","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T22:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/desantis-faces-gop-pushback-for-trump-lgbtq-video\/"},"modified":"2023-07-04T01:59:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T22:59:43","slug":"desantis-faces-gop-pushback-for-trump-lgbtq-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/desantis-faces-gop-pushback-for-trump-lgbtq-video\/","title":{"rendered":"#DeSantis faces GOP pushback for Trump-LGBTQ video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/07\/NEWS-ONLY_070323mm-gn-ap-lynne-sladky-adobe-stock-getty_desantis-anti-lgbtq-video.png?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2019s (R) presidential campaign is facing pushback\u00a0after his team shared\u00a0a video attacking former President Trump over his past comments in support of the LGBTQ community.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg (D), the first openly gay man to be confirmed as Cabinet secretary, responded to the video on CNN Sunday by asking who DeSantis was trying to \u201cmake better off\u201d with the video. Caitlyn Jenner, the former Olympic decathlete who came out as transgender in 2015, said the video marked \u201ca new low\u201d for the campaign. Even 2024 Republican presidential contenders Chris Christie and Will Hurd said the video was divisive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProudElephantUS\/status\/1674893068519247872\">video shared Friday<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 the last day of LGBTQ Pride month \u2014 includes resurfaced clips of the former president saying he would \u201cdo everything in my power\u201d to protect LGBTQ citizens and expressing support for transgender individuals to use the restroom of their choice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The video then cuts to clips of DeSantis and a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of headlines discussing policies DeSantis has passed as governor of Florida concerning the LGBTQ community, including a ban on transgender people using public bathrooms that are consistent with their gender identity and restrictions on access to gender-affirming health care.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some LGBTQ Republicans, responding to Friday\u2019s video,\u00a0said in interviews with The Hill\u00a0that they would no longer support DeSantis as the GOP nominee in 2024. Some questioned whether they would back a Republican candidate at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m somebody who has my fair share of policy disagreements with DeSantis, but I was considering voting for him in the primary before he entered the race officially,\u201d said Brad Polumbo, an openly gay libertarian journalist and self-described \u201canti-Trump voter.\u201d \u201cSince then, he\u2019s done thing after thing that really makes me increasingly write off that possibility.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was the final nail in the coffin,\u201d said former New Hampshire state Rep. Yvonne Dean-Bailey (R), who said she had previously considered backing DeSantis in 2024 but will now likely vote third-party.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this point, I can\u2019t see myself voting for DeSantis,\u201d she said, adding, \u201cI don\u2019t even want to call myself a conservative anymore. I don\u2019t identify with these people.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI used to think he was a great governor,\u201d Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), who has endorsed Trump and is the first non-incumbent gay Republican elected to Congress, said of DeSantis. \u201cNow, I\u2019m starting to think differently.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeSantis under-calculated his hand and doesn\u2019t realize that every vote matters,\u201d Santos added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other Republicans, however, believe the video is indicative of how hard DeSantis\u2019s campaign is working to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eal to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> conservatives within the party, particularly in Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is clearly a play at Iowa, social conservatives and traditional Republicans,\u201d said Ford O\u2019Connell, a Florida-based Republican strategist. \u201cThis is an attempt for DeSantis to get to the right of Trump.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>According to May polling from the pro-DeSantis super PAC Never Back Down\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2023\/06\/30\/desantis_allies_say_they_blunted_trumps_post-indictment_surge__149434.html\">obtained by Real Clear Politics<\/a>, 46 percent of Christian respondents said they would caucus for DeSantis, while 45 percent said the same for Trump. The polling also found that 60 percent of \u201ctraditional Republicans\u201d would caucus for DeSantis over the former president.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s more of a way to shock the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> cycle because Trump just sucks up so much oxygen all the time,\u201d said New Hampshire state House Majority Leader Jason Osborne (R), who has endorsed DeSantis. \u201cIt\u2019s a parody of how the left is treating DeSantis.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dan Eberhart, a DeSantis donor, noted in a text message to The Hill that the spot was \u201chard-hitting, but politics ain\u2019t beanbags.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cAnd it\u2019s not like Trump cares about being polite,\u201d Eberhart added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Others said the video signals the start of a new chapter in DeSantis\u2019s campaign strategy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is marking the next phase of the campaign where he\u2019s going to start highlighting the differences between himself and Donald Trump as far as policy,\u201d said former New Hampshire state Rep. Melissa Blasek (R). \u201cWhat that video showed is that Donald Trump does not know what time it is when it comes to issues that are important to Republican voters anymore.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Yet, others note that endorsing the video may have misfired on DeSantis\u2019s team, especially as members of Trump\u2019s campaign have seized the opportunity to criticize the governor.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s senior adviser Jason Miller\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JasonMillerinDC\/status\/1674915858106204160?s=20\">shared the video<\/a>\u00a0on his own Twitter page, writing \u201cSomebody\u2019s getting fired.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an unforced error. I don\u2019t know a single voter who was inspired to go out and vote for Ron DeSantis because of that tweet,\u201d said Alex Stroman, a South Carolina Republican strategist. \u201cIt actually made Donald Trump look reasonable.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cIt makes [Trump] look very, very tolerant and open-minded and kind of sensible, and yet they\u2019re using it to try to outflank Trump to the right,\u201d said Polumbo, the \u201canti-Trump\u201d voter.\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t understand the political strategy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ken Cuccinelli, the head of the Never Back Down PAC, responded to the criticism over the video in an interview on NewsNation\u2019s \u201cThe Hill\u201d Monday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think that he is,\u201d Cuccinelli said when asked if he thought DeSantis was going too far on the issue.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThis is Donald Trump and obviously Ron DeSantis doesn\u2019t agree with those positions,\u201d he added. \u201cRon DeSantis is the leader on the leading cultural battle of our time. It\u2019s a spiritual battle, it\u2019s a cultural battle, and Republican voters care a great deal about it.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Critics of DeSantis\u2019s video also point out that the majority of voters are not on Twitter, meaning they likely won\u2019t see the clip, but also that the campaign should invest more in retail politicking in the early contest states.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRaces are not won on Twitter and so I think\u00a0it would behoove former President Trump and Gov. DeSantis to actually be taking their messages to regular voters who are not on Twitter,\u201d Stroman said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis is continuing to hit up the early contest states. The governor will take part in July Fourth festivities with voters in New Hampshire Tuesday. New Hampshire-based Republican strategist Matthew Bartlett noted that most New Hampshire voters are not tuned into the controversy surrounding the video.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is probably some saving grace to the DeSantis campaign because it is absolutely tone deaf, not just for New Hampshire, absolutely in the year 2023 even for the Republican Party,\u201d Bartlett said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many Republican strategists\u00a0flagged\u00a0that the video does pose the risk of turning off swing voters ahead of a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> election.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only way you can win the presidency is by winning over independents and I don\u2019t think that that video won over a single independent voter,\u201d Stroman said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. 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