Portrait of Ron DeSantis

DeSantis Campaign Press Release - Ron DeSantis: "Donald Trump's running for his issues, Nikki Haley's running for her donors' issues. I'm running for your issues."

January 09, 2024

DES MOINES, Iowa – During the Fox News Town Hall, Ron DeSantis said:

"First of all, just to boil down this choice on caucus night: Donald Trump's running for his issues, Nikki Haley's running for her donors' issues. I'm running for your issues, your family's issues, and to turn this country around. And that's my sole focus.

And I think you can see an indication of who represents the biggest threat to the current order of things in Washington, because we need a change agent in Washington, rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic and going to work. They have spent more money attacking me than all the other Republicans have faced combined. They've spent more money attacking me than Biden and Trump combined in this election cycle. The media, I mean, who does the media not want to be the candidate? Me. They're after me all the time. But you know, I view that for Republican voters, that should be an endorsement of me, if the media doesn't want me if they're trying to do everything they can to stop me, well, I must be doing something right. And I must be a good candidate for you. So I wear that as a badge of honor.

I think what you're seeing us do in Iowa, is do it the old fashioned way. You're lining up people who are committing to caucus for you. We have massive numbers of people. I think we have more commits than anyone's ever had. And then Iowa caucus, we have all the counties organized. People that have been involved in this process, say it's the best yet. That's not something that necessarily is a poll or not, because a poll is based on who's going to turn out and who's not our people are turning out. And so for those who are supporting us, thank you. Anyone who's done decided, I'm the guy that will get this done for this country. You know, one of the things that I like in Florida is people will come up to me who didn't vote for me in the primary when I ran for governor in 2018. And they'll say, Yeah, I didn't vote for you, man. That was the worst vote I ever did. Like, you've done a great job. I couldn't be happier and even some people that voted for me in the primary would say, you know, I really liked you. I thought you'd be a good governor. You did so much better than even I could have imagined so isn't a time instead of having people over promise and under deliver that you have somebody that makes bold promises and over delivers on those promises? Let's stop under delivering."

Watch HERE.

Ron DeSantis, DeSantis Campaign Press Release - Ron DeSantis: "Donald Trump's running for his issues, Nikki Haley's running for her donors' issues. I'm running for your issues." Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/370609

Simple Search of Our Archives