{"id":1339,"date":"2023-02-16T10:11:48","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T15:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2023-02-16T10:11:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T15:11:49","slug":"watch-desantis-responds-to-reporter-asking-if-hes-running-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=1339","title":{"rendered":"Watch: DeSantis Responds to Reporter Asking If He\u2019s Running for President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-45.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-1340\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-45.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-45.png 750w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-45-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-45-293x154.png 293w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-45-390x205.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday, Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis responded to a question about a potential 2024 presidential run as the number of potential contenders for the election begins to increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While in Jacksonville at a press conference about\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\/news\/politics\/gov-desantis-top-legislators-to-speak-in-jacksonville\/\" target=\"_blank\">tort reform<\/a>, a reporter took a moment to ask the governor about Nikki Haley\u2019s decision to\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/resistthemainstream.com\/nikki-haley-announces-presidential-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\">announce<\/a>\u00a0her 2024 presidential run, asking DeSantis if he intends to announce a run soon as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNikki Haley announced her presidential run today, do you plan on following suit,\u201d\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FLVoiceNews\/status\/1625526392145190913?s=20&amp;t=Dytb7KyJNoNT8phjFm7AVA\" target=\"_blank\">asked<\/a>\u00a0the reporter to which DeSantis laughed, and responded, \u201cWouldn\u2019t you like to know?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: DeSantis asked if he&#39;s running for president<br><br>&quot;Nikki Haley announced her presidential run today, do you plan on following suit?&quot;<br><br>&quot;Hahaha! Wouldn&#39;t you like to know!&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/skYs9wi3DL\">pic.twitter.com\/skYs9wi3DL<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Florida\u2019s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FLVoiceNews\/status\/1625526392145190913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>DeSantis has been facing near-constant attacks from others, perhaps most notably from former President\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/resistthemainstream.com\/watch-desantis-responds-directly-to-trump-sharing-photo-accusing-florida-governor-of-being-a-groomer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0who has criticized him for his COVID-19 response among other things.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DeSantis said he has \u201cpeople attacking\u201d him from \u201call angles\u201d and that the verdict is really up to the \u201cpeople.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTrump has criticized you a number of times in the past couple of days on a number of different issues, one of them being COVID in the state,\u201d the Daily Caller prompted a response from DeSantis at a press conference on education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI roll out of bed, I have people attacking me from all angles,\u201d the governor responded. \u201cIt\u2019s been happening for many, many years. And if you look at the good thing about it, though, is like if you take a crisis situation like COVID, you know, the good thing about it is when you\u2019re an elected executive, you gotta make all kinds of decisions. You gotta steer that ship, and the good thing is that the people are able to render a judgment on whether they reelect you or not.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m happy to say, you know, in my case, not only did we win reelection, we won with the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/resistthemainstream.com\/watch-desantis-responds-with-a-mic-drop-after-his-blowout-victory\/\" target=\"_blank\">highest percentage<\/a>\u00a0of the vote that any Republican candidate has in the history of the state of Florida,\u201d DeSantis added. \u201cThat verdict has been rendered by the people of the state of Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/resistthemainstream.com\/watch-desantis-responds-to-reporter-asking-if-hes-running-for-president\/\">https:\/\/resistthemainstream.com\/watch-desantis-responds-to-reporter-asking-if-hes-running-for-president\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis responded to a question about a potential 2024 presidential run as the number of potential contenders for the election begins to increase. While in Jacksonville at a press conference about\u00a0tort reform, a reporter took a moment to ask the governor about Nikki Haley\u2019s decision to\u00a0announce\u00a0her 2024 presidential run, asking DeSantis if he intends to announce a run soon as well.\u00a0 \u201cNikki Haley announced her presidential run today, do you plan on following suit,\u201d\u00a0asked\u00a0the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1341,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/1341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}