{"id":581887,"date":"2023-07-08T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/desantis-tries-to-shift-narrative-after-campaign-criticism\/"},"modified":"2023-07-08T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T10:00:00","slug":"desantis-tries-to-shift-narrative-after-campaign-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/desantis-tries-to-shift-narrative-after-campaign-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"#DeSantis tries to shift narrative after campaign criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/desantisron_062323gn14_w.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and his allies are trying to change the narrative about a campaign that is widely seen as having underperformed so far.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis has faced criticism for early missteps \u2014 notably a glitch-ridden <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> Spaces launch event and\u00a0comments downplaying the war in Ukraine. His numbers have drifted down from\u00a0just months ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>As of Friday afternoon, he lagged former President Trump by 29 points in the weighted national polling average\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/polls\/president-primary-r\/2024\/national\/\">maintained by FiveThirtyEight<\/a>. DeSantis is drawing the support of about\u00a01-in-4\u00a0Republican voters; he was backed by around\u00a01-in-3\u00a0in mid-March.<\/p>\n<p>But the candidate and his campaign are making the case that forecasts of failure are vastly premature \u2014 and based on a misunderstanding of their long-term strategy.<\/p>\n<p>As they seek to shift perceptions onto a more favorable footing, they stress a number of points, including that the campaign is at a very early stage; DeSantis is showing strength in fundraising; he has withstood a\u00a0barrage of attacks from Team Trump with his favorability intact; and his record in Florida, both electorally and policy-wise, provides a template that can be replicated in the national race.<\/p>\n<p>All of those threads get woven together in support of their overall argument that DeSantis is the only Republican who can beat Trump, and the best Republican to beat President Biden in the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRon DeSantis has been underestimated in every race he has won, and this time will be no different,\u201d said DeSantis campaign press secretary Bryan Griffin. \u201cDonald Trump has to explain to Republican voters why he didn\u2019t do the things he is now promising in his first term as president. Governor Ron DeSantis over-delivered on his promises as governor and has the national vision we need to restore our country, clean out D.C. and lead our Great American Comeback.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Griffin added a sentiment that has become a rallying cry for DeSantis and his supporters recently: \u201cThis campaign is a marathon, not a sprint; we will be victorious.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>An official for Never Back Down, the main super PAC supporting DeSantis, made the argument that the contest for the GOP nomination\u00a0is essentially at two-person race.<\/p>\n<p>The official contended that, even if other contenders at times edged up slightly in the polls, they lacked the infrastructure or on-the-ground investment to be truly competitive with the former president.<\/p>\n<p>There is, to be sure, some truth in that observation. No other Republican candidate is in double-digits as yet in national polling averages.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>But that could change in unpredictable ways once debate season gets underway. The first clash between the GOP candidates is set for Aug. 23 in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p>For the moment, the Florida governor is defending himself from critiques.<\/p>\n<p>In a Thursday interview on Fox <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a>, DeSantis told host Will Cain, \u201cI\u2019m running to win in January and February. I\u2019m not running to juice polling now.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Asked about a perceived failure to connect, DeSantis sought to turn the focus to his fundraising and his favorability numbers:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve also been attacked more than anybody, as you know,\u201d he told Cain. \u201cDonald Trump has spent over 20 million [dollars] attacking me \u2014 that\u2019s more than he spent supporting Republican candidates in last year\u2019s midterm elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.cdn.yougov.com\/kpnwbn3sup\/econTabReport.pdf\">Economist\/YouGov poll<\/a>\u00a0released earlier this week indicated that 73 percent of Republicans have a favorable view of DeSantis, and 15 percent have an unfavorable view. For Trump, the equivalent figures are 75 percent and 23 percent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Those statistics bear out the DeSantis team\u2019s argument that the initial wave of Trump attacks hasn\u2019t fundamentally damaged the Florida governor.<\/p>\n<p>But he still needs to best Trump, not just be seen in a broadly positive light by Republican voters. And the battle between the two men\u00a0looks set to become nastier.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"nlp-ignore-block article-content rich-text\">\n<div class=\"nlp-ignore-block article-content rich-text\">\n<aside class=\"promo-link\">\n        The Hill Elections 2024 coverage<br \/>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>On Friday, Trump told a crowd in Council Bluffs, Iowa, that DeSantis was a \u201clousy candidate\u201d who had only won the Florida governorship in 2018 thanks to the then-president\u2019s endorsement. Trump suggested, as he has done on a number of occasions, that DeSantis is being disloyal in challenging him.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Trump also attacked DeSantis as \u201ca globalist sellout and Paul Ryan and Karl Rove acolyte,\u201d referring to the former Speaker, a relative moderate, and the well-known Republican strategist.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Never Back Down\u00a0shot back rapidly with a video compilation of past clips of Trump praising Ryan.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, DeSantis allies tweeted a highly controversial video\u00a0that suggested Trump was too liberal on LGBTQ+ issues. The video was criticized as homophobic, including by some Republicans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>DeSantis, in his Fox interview, stayed away from such contentious terrain and instead took a thinly veiled shot at Trump\u2019s electability.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Referring to a general election, he said: \u201cYou can\u2019t win with just Republican voters. I think we showed in Florida, you know, if you want a big victory, you\u2019ve got to win independent voters, you\u2019ve got to win people who haven\u2019t voted for our party in the last several cycles.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve shown I can do that. And I think we can do it nationally,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis at least seems sure to have sufficient money to wage a drawn-out war with Trump for the nomination.<\/p>\n<p>His campaign has said it raised $20 million between the time he declared his candidacy in late May and the end of June. Meanwhile, Never Back Down says it has raised $130 million since its formation in March.<\/p>\n<p>Republican insiders say there is no mistaking the problems DeSantis faces \u2014 but that he has time to right the ship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPoll numbers drive the narrative in presidential politics, and DeSantis\u2019s poll numbers haven\u2019t been moving in the right direction,\u201d said GOP strategist Alex Conant.<\/p>\n<p>Conant said Trump\u2019s dominance of the media was one reason for that. But he said DeSantis had also made unforced errors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe failed to have a good launch \u2014 campaigns can capture some attention with a good launch, and he missed. Having a clear position on Ukraine, in contrast to Trump, was also a missed opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Conant said the debates \u2014 \u201cwhen more can h<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>en in one night than in the previous three months\u201d \u2014 were the most obvious opportunity for DeSantis to turn the page.<\/p>\n<p>As for DeSantis himself, he is arguing that he is ready to grind out a win over the long haul.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re in the process of building out a great organization And I think we\u2019re going to be on the ground in all these early states,\u201d DeSantis told Fox, adding a well-known football metaphor: \u201cIt is a, \u20183 yards and a cloud of dust\u2019-type situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For now, his supporters just want to see some sign that he\u2019s making any progress in moving down the field.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Memo is a reported column by Niall Stanage.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. 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