{"id":14654,"date":"2023-06-28T04:48:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T09:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=14654"},"modified":"2023-06-28T04:48:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T09:48:19","slug":"trump-and-desantis-to-hold-dueling-campaign-events-in-new-hampshire-after-squabbling-over-timing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=14654","title":{"rendered":"Trump and DeSantis to hold dueling campaign events in New Hampshire after squabbling over timing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Former President Donald Trump<\/a> and Florida<\/a> Gov. Ron DeSantis will hold dueling campaign events Tuesday in New Hampshire<\/a> after some squabbling over the close timing of the appearances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeSantis, who released an immigration and border security policy proposal on Monday, was set to appear at a town hall event in Hollis, while Trump, the leading GOP<\/a> presidential candidate, was scheduled to speak at a lunch in Concord hosted by a Republican women’s club and attend the opening of his campaign’s state office in Manchester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New Hampshire Federation of Republican Women, which is hosting Trump, issued a statement last week saying it was disappointed with the DeSantis campaign for scheduling a town hall around the same time as its own event \u2014 40 miles (64 kilometers) away and a couple of hours before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group branded it \u201can attempt to steal focus from\u201d the organization\u2019s sold-out \u201cLilac Luncheon\u201d fundraiser and said that other presidential candidates had scheduled around the event. It also said it had asked DeSantis to reschedule, to apparently no avail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two members of the women’s group, however, posted on Twitter that they disagreed with the statement. One, former state lawmaker Melissa Blasek, said she was resigning her membership in the group over what she called \u201ca cheap campaign stunt” that appeared to be motivated by the Trump campaign, which sent out its own press release sharing the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked to comment on the statement, the DeSantis campaign did not address the issue but said the governor is working to ensure his message \u201creaches every last primary voter in New Hampshire, and we have a top-notch organization in the state to help him do that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are confident that the governor\u2019s message will resonate with voters in New Hampshire as he continues to visit the Granite State and detail his solutions to Joe Biden\u2019s failures,\u201d the campaign’s press press secretary Bryan Griffin said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since launching his campaign last month, DeSantis has largely sought to project himself as more conservative than the former president in an attempt to dethrone him as the party’s dominant figure. The governor has asserted he would appoint more conservative Supreme Court justices than the three Trump appointed to the court, criticized Trump for implying the six-week abortion ban in Florida is \u201ctoo harsh\u201d and accused Trump of having generally \u201cmoved left.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While conservative bona fides are important in heavily GOP states like Iowa, the leadoff caucus state, they’re politically trickier in New Hampshire, a political battleground state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump’s first-place finish in New Hampshire’s 2016 Republican primary \u2014 after losing Iowa to Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas \u2014 helped propel him to dominance in the party. But his Democratic rivals ended up winning the state in both the 2016 and 2020 general elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while DeSantis has spoken about the abortion ban he signed while on the campaign trail among conservative audiences and in Iowa and South Carolina, he has generally not raised it when speaking to crowds in more moderate New Hampshire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Monday, DeSantis held a campaign event in the Texas border city of Eagle Pass to unveil his first major policy plan, a proposal on immigration and border security that calls for ending birthright citizenship, finishing the U.S.-Mexico wall and sending U.S. forces into Mexico to combat drug cartels. The plan largely mirrors Trump\u2019s policies and faces long odds, requiring the reversal of legal precedents, approval from other countries or even an amendment to the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

independent.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will hold dueling campaign events Tuesday in New Hampshire after some squabbling over the close timing of the appearances. DeSantis, who released an immigration and border security policy proposal on Monday, was set to appear at a town hall event in Hollis, while Trump, the leading GOP presidential candidate, was scheduled to speak at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":14655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1637,7382,1918,9225,7837,1230],"class_list":["post-14654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-campaign","tag-de-santis","tag-debate","tag-duel","tag-new-hampshire","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14656,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14654\/revisions\/14656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}