{"id":20734,"date":"2023-06-01T21:02:43","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T21:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/01\/ron-desantis-will-get-back-to-you-on-the-pronunciation-of-his-last-name\/"},"modified":"2023-06-01T21:02:43","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T21:02:43","slug":"ron-desantis-will-get-back-to-you-on-the-pronunciation-of-his-last-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/01\/ron-desantis-will-get-back-to-you-on-the-pronunciation-of-his-last-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron DeSantis Will Get Back to You on the Pronunciation of His Last Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap\">There are a lot of things we can expect from a <strong>Ron DeSantis<\/strong> presidency, should the Florida governor win the Republican primary and then the general election. For one thing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2022\/12\/ron-desantis-just-as-bad-as-donald-trump-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it would be terrifying<\/a>, given DeSantis\u2019s takes on free speech, LGBTQ+ rights, abortion, science, and treating human beings like chattel. For another, it would more than likely involve his body man carrying a spoon at all times, in order to avoid any unfortunate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2023\/03\/ron-desantis-chocolate-pudding-denial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pudding incidents<\/a>. But one thing that remains a mystery? Whether Ron would be addressed as President \u201c<em>Deh<\/em>-Santis\u201d or \u201c<em>Dee<\/em>-Santis\u201d\u2026because apparently, the candidate himself doesn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s Axios with the perplexing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/06\/01\/desantis-pronounce-his-name\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"BlockquoteEmbedWrapper-sc-SdiGL kMAUQf paywall blockquote-embed\">\n<div class=\"BlockquoteEmbedContent-esRbGs fyBRiV blockquote-embed__content\">\n<p>Some presidential candidates struggle to nail their message. Ron DeSantis is struggling to nail his NAME. In the early days of his campaign, DeSantis has gone back and forth between pronouncing his name\u00a0<em>Dee<\/em>-Santis\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Deh<\/em>-Santis. Why it matters:\u00a0DeSantis\u2019s dissonance on how to say his name\u2014for years an issue of confusion for his campaign teams\u2014is a curiosity as many GOP leaders and donors wonder whether the Florida governor is ready for the scrutiny of a presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"paywall\">According to the outlet, in his first week as an official GOP candidate, DeSantis went with \u201cDee\u201d on at least two occasions, including for <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/rondesantis.gosimian.com\/share\/social\/-0D5S4ISuiWP-H7Lq0qRsQ\/1\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/rondesantis.gosimian.com\/share\/social\/-0D5S4ISuiWP-H7Lq0qRsQ\/1&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/rondesantis.gosimian.com\/share\/social\/-0D5S4ISuiWP-H7Lq0qRsQ\/1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a radio interview<\/a> and in the video announcing his bid for office:<\/p>\n<figure data-testid=\"IframeEmbed\" class=\"IframeEmbedWrapper-sc-dRedg hZcniq iframe-embed\"\/>\n<p class=\"paywall\">But then, in a twist:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"BlockquoteEmbedWrapper-sc-SdiGL kMAUQf paywall blockquote-embed\">\n<div class=\"BlockquoteEmbedContent-esRbGs fyBRiV blockquote-embed__content\">\n<p>DeSantis pronounced it \u201c<em>Deh<\/em>-Santis\u201d during interviews with\u00a0Fox News,\u00a0<strong>Glenn Beck<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Erick Erickson<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>Mark Levin<\/strong>\u00a0this past week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"paywall\">And there\u2019s more:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"BlockquoteEmbedWrapper-sc-SdiGL kMAUQf paywall blockquote-embed\">\n<div class=\"BlockquoteEmbedContent-esRbGs fyBRiV blockquote-embed__content\">\n<p>Early in his political career, DeSantis, 44, appeared to use \u201c<em>Dee<\/em>-Santis\u201d more often\u2014then began a slow and still-incomplete evolution to \u201cDeh-Santis.\u201d During the 2018 race for Florida governor, the candidate and his wife pronounced his name differently in his television ads: He said \u201c<em>Dee<\/em>-Santis\u201d\u00a0in his first TV spot, and she said\u00a0\u201c<em>Deh<\/em>-Santis\u201d in another. When a reporter noted the differences, a campaign spokesperson at the time said the candidate \u201cprefers \u2018<em>Dee<\/em>-Santis.\u2019\u201d The dueling pronunciations have tripped up others. When DeSantis was\u00a0sworn in\u00a0for his second term as governor in January, Florida\u2019s chief justice pronounced his name \u201c<em>Dee<\/em>-Santis\u201d\u2014and the governor repeated back, \u201c<em>Deh<\/em>-Santis.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Asked by Axios for the correct, official pronunciation, DeSantis\u2019s campaign, bizarrely, did not answer\u2014while the DeSantis-aligned super PAC Never Back Down declined to say. It\u2019s not clear why, but it seems like there\u2019s a strong possibility they don\u2019t actually know, because DeSantis hasn\u2019t decided.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Naturally, the Trump campaign has seized on this as evidence that the governor is unfit for the White House. \u201cRon DeSantis is a phony who can\u2019t decide how to pronounce his name,\u201d Trump campaign spokesperson told Axios. \u201cIf you can\u2019t get your name right, how can you lead a country?\u201d On Thursday, Trump himself declared:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2023\/06\/ron-desantis-last-name-pronunciation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of things we can expect from a Ron DeSantis presidency, should the Florida governor win the Republican primary and then the general election. For one thing, it would be terrifying, given DeSantis\u2019s takes on free speech, LGBTQ+ rights, abortion, science, and treating human beings like chattel. For another, it would more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[158,635],"class_list":{"0":"post-20734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity","8":"tag-2024-election","9":"tag-ron-desantis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}