{"id":118160,"date":"2023-08-27T00:51:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T00:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uklevitrasupport.com\/?p=118160"},"modified":"2023-08-27T00:51:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T00:51:09","slug":"in-iowa-a-voter-asks-desantis-why-should-i-choose-you-over-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uklevitrasupport.com\/politics\/in-iowa-a-voter-asks-desantis-why-should-i-choose-you-over-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"In Iowa, a Voter Asks DeSantis: Why Should I Choose You Over Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a rural Iowa town, Ethan Masters asked Ron DeSantis the most pressing question of the primary season: Why would he make a better president than Donald Trump?<\/p>\n<p>Standing next to a yellow-and-green tractor at J&amp;J Ag Solutions Machine Shop in Estherville, Iowa, Mr. Masters, a 21-year-old real estate agent, was a stand-in for many Republican voters. He went for Mr. Trump in 2020, but he\u2019s open to another candidate. He plans to caucus but did not have time to watch the Republican primary debate on Wednesday night. He\u2019s also not familiar with the details of Mr. Trump\u2019s various criminal cases.<\/p>\n<p>Though Mr. Masters\u2019s question on Friday was brief and straightforward, the Florida governor spoke for nearly three minutes, before he was interrupted by another voter, a rarity on Iowa\u2019s normally staid political circuit.<\/p>\n<h2>A Question for Ron DeSantis<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cYou could probably consider me the average voter. I haven\u2019t done a lot of research on you. I voted for Trump, and I didn\u2019t mind what he did. So I wouldn\u2019t mind either of you getting voted in. So what\u2019s your biggest selling point when I\u2019m in the voting stage and it\u2019s between you and Trump?\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><span>The Subtext<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Mr. DeSantis almost never criticizes Mr. Trump, who is leading him by double digits in Iowa and by nearly 40 points nationwide, unless prompted to do so. He has the difficult task of navigating the Trump Triangle, appealing to voters who like Mr. Trump\u2019s policies and brash manner; those who are aligned with his policies, but are tired of his legal troubles; and the Never Trump Republicans who want a return to the pre-Trump party.<\/p>\n<p>The question from Mr. Masters was a rare chance for the governor to make his single best argument in one place.<\/p>\n<h2>DeSantis\u2019s Answer<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cWell, I think a few things. One is, I think I\u2019m much more likely to actually get elected, which is very important. I could serve two terms. He\u2019d be a lame duck on Day 1 even if he could get elected. I have a track record of appointing really good people to office. I think he appointed a lot of duds to office, and it really hurt his ability to get his agenda done. I also think I\u2019m more likely to follow through on doing what I said I would do. You look in Florida, everything I promised, I did. I never made a promise that I didn\u2019t follow through on, and that\u2019s just how I am. I am not going to sit there and tell you something that you want to hear to try to get your vote, and then get in and just forget that it ever happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><span>The Subtext<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>That was only the first 45 seconds of Mr. DeSantis\u2019s answer, in which he listed not just one of his selling points but many, contrasting his record of success in Florida with Mr. Trump\u2019s failure to build the border wall or \u201cdrain the swamp.\u201d But his argument felt more like a series of bullet points than a comprehensive political vision. <\/p>\n<p>He went on for much longer, mentioning Mr. Trump\u2019s unrealized promise to \u201clock up\u201d Hillary Clinton and accusing him of handing over his congressional agenda to Paul Ryan, the former Republican speaker of the House who is now seen by some in the G.O.P. as insufficiently conservative.<\/p>\n<p>True to his debate performance and campaign trail events, Mr. DeSantis never delivered a real punch.<\/p>\n<h2>Why It Matters<\/h2>\n<p>The governor\u2019s path to victory is based on a slow-and-steady approach. While Mr. DeSantis may not have had a breakout moment at the debate on Wednesday, Republican voters thought he performed best of all the candidates, according to a snap poll by the Washington Post, FiveThirtyEight and Ipsos. And his campaign said he raised more than $1 million the following day, the most its raised in 24 hours, apart from the day Mr. DeSantis announced he was running.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRon DeSantis\u2019s path to victory isn\u2019t going to run through flashy, sugar-high moments that fade in and out of the national narrative,\u201d Andrew Romeo, the campaign\u2019s communications director, said in a statement. \u201cWe have challenged the opposition to try to keep up in terms of pace and organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>What the Voter Said<\/h2>\n<p>In a follow-up interview, Mr. Masters said that he was impressed by Mr. DeSantis overall but not blown away by his answer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI asked for his biggest selling point, and he gave me a list,\u201d said Mr. Masters. \u201cBut it was a pretty good list.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Nicholas Nehamas<\/span> is a campaign reporter, focusing on the candidacy of Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida. Before joining The Times, he was an investigative reporter at the Miami Herald.<span> More about Nicholas Nehamas<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/26\/us\/politics\/iowa-voter-desantis-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a rural Iowa town, Ethan Masters asked Ron DeSantis the most pressing question of the primary season: Why would<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>In Iowa, a Voter Asks DeSantis: Why Should I Choose You Over Trump? - uklevitrasupport.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uklevitrasupport.com\/politics\/in-iowa-a-voter-asks-desantis-why-should-i-choose-you-over-trump\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In Iowa, a Voter Asks DeSantis: Why Should I Choose You Over Trump? 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