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'Kari if you're reading this on your burner, please ask Trump why he gave Fauci an award on his last day in office'
Poll finds two big winners of the GOP debate, with a third making gains
A poll found that the main competitor to the front-runner in the GOP primary campaign won the Fox News debate on Wednesday, while two others made significant gains.
The results were reported by the Washington Post a day after the contentious debate that former President Donald Trump choose to ignore.
Of the eight Republicans who took the stage, 29% of the respondents to the WaPo poll said that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was the clear winner.
A close second was entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who won over 27% of the respondents.
In third place came former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who got the support of 15% of respondents.
Only 7% said former Vice President Mike Pence won the debate, while none of the four other candidates received over 4% support.
Ramaswamy might have benefitted from the spotlight after being targeted for rhetorical attacks from several candidates including Haley, who received great support from the audience for her criticism of the entrepreneur.
Support for Haley's presidential campaign grew the most as a result of her debate performance. Prior to the debate, 29% of Republicans said they were considering voting for her, while post-debate, 46% said they were considering voting for her.
However, overall, DeSantis still has the most support of all Republicans when they were asked if they were considering voting for him: 67% said they were considering voting for DeSantis after the debate, while 61% said they were considering voting for Trump after the debate.
Trump snubbed the Fox News debate and instead sat down for an interview with Tucker Carlson that was published minutes before the debate began. That interview garnered more than 242 million views on Twitter, now rebranded as X, but some have cast doubt on how the application counts views.
Here's more about the GOP debate:
Glenn Beck REACTS to Who Won and Who Lost the First GOP Debate www.youtube.com
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New poll finds Trump's lead over DeSantis is narrowing after indictment and campaign announcement
A new poll found that former President Donald Trump is still beating Ron DeSantis, but the Florida governor made gains in narrowing the distance to the frontrunner in the primary race since announcing his presidential campaign.
The Reuters Ipsos poll was released Monday.
It showed that DeSantis garnered the support of 22% of self-identified Republicans for the GOP primary while Trump had 43% of their support.
That margin of 21 percentage points is far fewer than the margin in April when Trump had 58% support and DeSantis only had 21% support.
The popular Florida governor has since declared his presidential campaign and become the most popular alternative to Trump, the frontrunner.
The poll also found that a majority of Republicans, 81%, agreed that the indictment against Trump was politically motivated. 35% of Republicans also said that the charges against Trump related to documents being improperly kept at his Mar-a-Lago residence were believable.
A separate poll found similar results for DeSantis in Iowa, a key early voting state. The WPA Intelligence survey said that the Florida governor was in a virtual tie in a head-to-head contest with the former president, who had 45% support compared to 43% for DeSantis.
When respondents in that poll were asked to consider all the other GOP candidates, DeSantis garnered 29% of support while Trump garnered 39%.
Trump has lashed out at DeSantis by calling him disloyal and accusing him of having a worse record in relation to the coronavirus pandemic than Democratic governors. DeSantis has responded by accusing Trump of trying to hit at him from the left, especially on his fight against Disney.
"He was a hard charger leaning in on all the issues very edgy on conservative issues, and it was part of the reason he did so well," said DeSantis in an interview in May.
"But when he's taken Disney's side against me, I just kind of wonder like, okay, I get he wants to hit me, but don't take the side of a multinational corporation that wants to sexualize kids," he added. "He's also hitting me against voting against immigration amnesty."
Here's more about the GOP primary race:
DeSantis Touts New Iowa Poll Showing Him Gaining Ground On Trump www.youtube.com
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Ron DeSantis Reacts to Trump's insults
Ron DeSantis hasn’t announced that he’s running for president, but that hasn’t stopped Trump from attacking the Florida governor as if he is.
This is all despite the firestorm Trump is facing from those on the left, who are grasping at every straw to finally get him behind bars.
DeSantis sat down with Piers Morgan at the governor’s mansion in Tallahassee, Florida, yesterday to discuss a potential run and react to the latest commentary coming from the left’s favorite boogeyman.
Piers asks DeSantis if he could beat Biden, and DeSantis responds, “I think so.” To which Piers then asks, “So you’re running?”
DeSantis coyly responds, “I didn’t say that.”
Piers then asks DeSantis what his favorite nickname is that Trump has given him: “Ron DeSanctimonious” or “Meatball Ron.”
DeSantis says, “I don’t know how to spell DeSanctimonious, I don’t really know what it means, but you know, I kind of like it. It’s long, it’s got a lot of vowels. I mean, so we’ll go with that.”
He continues, “You can call me whatever you want, as long as you also call me a winner. Because that’s what we’ve been able to do in Florida, is put a lot of points on the board and take the state to the next level.”
According to Dave Rubin, Trump was even workshopping these nicknames by literally bringing a bunch of people together to brainstorm them.
Rubin points out that the nicknames just aren’t working any more. What people really want is competency. And DeSantis has proved that he is incredibly competent.
The world is not even close to being the way it was when Trump was first elected. After Biden’s disastrous few years, it’s in far worse shape, and calling political opponents names like “Little Marco” or “Lyin’ Ted” just doesn’t cut it any more.
People want a free country, not a country divided by childish nicknames.
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