Posted on 01/17/2024 9:05:46 AM PST by conservative98
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis criticized former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and former President Donald Trump during a town hall event this week for declining to debate ahead of the New Hampshire primary.
DeSantis made the remarks during the CNN town hall after finishing second in the Iowa caucuses this week behind former President Donald Trump, with Haley coming in third. Both DeSantis and Haley had heavily focused on the state, ad spending for both surpassing $30 million — pro-DeSantis spending reaching $35 million while pro-Haley spending reached $37 million, the most of any candidate.
“The tradition here with first-in-the-nation is something that’s very significant. I agreed to do a debate with WMUR and ABC on Thursday, and with CNN on Sunday,” DeSantis said. “I’m the only candidate that actually agreed to come to New Hampshire to debate, and what does that say? We have four candidates for president now: Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, and me.”
“I’m the only one who’s not running a basement campaign at this point,” he continued. “You deserve, as a voter, to have the candidates come up, answer your questions in forums like this, have somebody like Wolf moderate a debate where you go back and forth…we’ve gotten away from, ‘Hey, let’s make let people make these decisions’ to almost like, you know, just let the media coverage determine what’s going on. I don’t think that’s what we want in a republican form of government.”
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we need a cartoon that has a bundled up derelict DeSantis figure huddled on the sidewalk and holding up a “Will Debate For Food” sign ...
DeSantis whining about something he can’t change demonstrates what a truly weak person he is ...
indeed ... quit whining and instead ATTACK! ... hasn’t ANYBODY learned ANYTHING from Trump?
“and the more voters saw of him, the worse his poll numbers got.”
hillary had that same problem ... biden avoided that problem by simply not campaigning at all ...
“Did he forget the other Democrat candidates like RFK Jr?”
i thought RFKJ went 3rdParty/Independent ...
My error, DeSantis was referring only to "candidates" so I should have said, did he forget about other candidates like RFK Jr.
“Trump is now in the lead and feels no need to engage with anyone”
well, not engage with anyone except the tens of thousands he engages with on a weekly basis in dozens of live rallies ... or Trump’s recent CNN Town Halls or Trump’s FNC Town Halls ... but yeah, other than all of that, Trump has been hiding in his basement and refusing to engage with anyone ...
I was specifically referring to debates. And I have no problem with Trump skipping the debates which have turned into nothing more than a gotcha game the liberal press plays on conservatives.
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