Trump targets Fox News for 'promoting' DeSantis 'so hard and so much'

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Last edited Tue Feb 28, 2023, 01:19 PM - Edit history (1)

Former President Trump renewed his attacks on Fox News this week, accusing the network of underplaying a new poll showing him with a double-digit lead on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in a potential 2024 Republican presidential primary match-up.

Trump, in reference to the Fox News poll published Sunday that showed him leading DeSantis by 15 points in a hypothetical match-up, knocked the media giant for “promoting” DeSantis “so hard and so much that there’s not much time left for Real News.”

“Reminds me of 2016 when they were pushing ‘JEB!’ The new Fox Poll, which have always been purposely terrible for me, has ‘TRUMP Crushing DeSanctimonious,’ but they barely show it,” Trump wrote. “Isn’t there a big, beautiful, Network which wants to do well, and make a fortune besides? FAKE NEWS!”

The Hill has reached out to Fox News about Trump’s comments.
Trump has in recent weeks stepped up his attacks on the network, which still features a number of hosts who are staunchly supportive of him, though some have signaled a growing interest in DeSantis.

Last week, Trump labeled Fox a “RINO” network — a term that means “Republican In Name Only” — and blasted the New York Post, also owned by conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch, over their coverage of the Florida governor.

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[True Blue American]

1. By the time Dominion gets through with Fox

I doubt their endorsement will mean a lot.

[Captain Zero]

6. By the time Jack Smith gets through with trump,

He will be in jail, I'm not sure how the Republicans can nominate him in jail.

He wouldn't be able to make an acceptance speech.

That being said, Eugene Debs ran from a jail cell and got something like 3.4 percent of the votes.

On edit I I found this about Debs vote totals: Debs ran for president in the 1920 election while imprisoned in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. He received 919,799 votes (3.4 percent), slightly less than he had won in 1912, when he received 6 percent, the highest number of votes for a Socialist Party presidential candidate in the United States.

[True Blue American]

8. I am quite sure there are enough

Low information voters who would vote for Trump.

At least the party is rejecting him. He has not been invited to the big donor party. They are also rejecting CPAC. Trump may have that stage all to himself.

[Mike Nelson]

2. Hmm...

... interesting how nobody questions FOX has a huge bias, anymore. They don't even use their deceptive "Fair and Balanced" slogan much, anymore. Nobody seems shocked at the FOX revelations.

[Lovie777]

3. With DeSatan it will be another lie(s).................

[Kaleva]

4. Some here fear DeSantis beating tfg

Nobody would pay him any attention if they didn't deem him a threat.

[pwb]

5. None of the above.

Neither are presidential material. Who else you got pukes?

[Freethinker65]

7. C'mon Trump. Tell them how you know. Tell the world how Fox helped you and your campaign.

Name names. Tell them who were coerced into constantly promoting you. How weak those talking heads were to promote nonsense if they were informed it would help you. That was their job then. Now, they are being told to do it for someone else! How dare FoxNews help anyone but Trump!

[jcgoldie]

9. Meatball Ron we hardly knew ya

...welcome back DeSanctimonious.

[bluesbassman]

10. How anyone can still admire and follow this whining baby-man astounds me.

I get that in the beginning he pushed all of their hot buttons and gave them all permission to wear their grievances on their sleeves, but all he does now is piss and moan about how everyone is out to get him and everything is stacked against him. Even the staunchest supporters have to be sick of all the whining. I know I am.

[Whiskeytide]

11. So I guess he's settled on "DeSanctimonious". n/t