The headlines this The week hasn’t been kind to Ron DeSantis, who is trying and so far failing to catch up in the polls to 2024 GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump. Even Republican-friendly Fox News has questioned why DeSantis can barely seem to break 20 percent recently, even with his outlandish campaign ads. But according to DeSantis, the reason for these headlines is not that his campaign is failing. No, instead he blames a vast media conspiracy for his lack of success in the polls.
Bartiromo: I wonder what’s going on with your campaign… What happened?
DeSantis: They are narratives. The media don’t want me to be the nominee. pic.twitter.com/stX7j5ns0t
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“You’ve done a great job pushing back against the awakening. We know that,” Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo told DeSantis during Sunday Morning Futures. “But I wonder what’s going on with your campaign. There was a lot of optimism about your run for president earlier this year, but here’s this weekend’s Politico Playbook headline: “It has not been released. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ campaign to unseat Donald Trump has stalled. “We’re way behind,” says a senior DeSantis PAC official, sounding the alarm. What happened?”
“Those are narratives,” DeSantis replied after letting out a nervous laugh. “The media don’t want me to be the nominee. I think it’s very, very clear. Because? Because they know I’m going to beat Biden. But more importantly, they know I’m actually going to do all these things.”
But to have a chance to “beat Biden,” DeSantis must first beat Trump. According to one NBC News poll, however, DeSantis’ numbers have gone in the wrong direction. In late June, DeSantis received the support of 22% of Republican primary voters. That’s a nine percent drop from an April NBC News poll that put DeSantis at 31 percent.
The governor faced similar questions about his campaign’s lack of success on Fox last Thursday, when host Will Cain asked him: “While Donald Trump is above 50 percent, in some “these polls, 60 percent, your numbers are between 20 percent. percent and 10 percent. And they’ve been there for about two months. Why do you think the numbers haven’t reflected your success in Florida ?”
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“Well, I think if you look at people like the corporate media, who are they going after? Who doesn’t want to be nominated? They’re going after me,” DeSantis responded, again trying to blame the press, but with a new addition to the alleged conspiracy against him: the president of Mexico. “Who is the president of Mexico who attacks because he knows who will be strong on the border and will hold him and the cartels accountable? He goes after me. So I think if you look at all these people who are responsible for a lot of the ills in our society, they point to me as the person they don’t want to see as a candidate.”
Speaking of conspiracies, DeSantis also accused rival Trump on Sunday of “colluding” with Big Tech to censor media related to President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden.
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DeSantis: I look back at the censure of Hunter Biden, which was a huge, huge deal in the 2020 election. And yet, you know, those were Donald Trump’s own agencies that were colluding with big tech. pic.twitter.com/iBzEobrHzP
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“We’re going to clean house at the Justice Department,” DeSantis said. “I look back at the censure of Hunter Biden, which was a huge, huge deal in the 2020 election. And yet, you know, those were Donald Trump’s own agencies that were in cahoots with big tech. Never would allow that to happen. I would fire these people immediately. And in fact, in Florida we have signed legislation that prohibits all state and local officials in our state from colluding with tech companies to try to censor the political speech of Americans.” .
That’s right, DeSantis just accused Trump of conspiring with big tech against himself to block a negative story about his opponent’s son. No wonder his campaign is struggling.
