{"id":26714,"date":"2023-07-17T08:20:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T12:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=26714"},"modified":"2023-07-14T17:41:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T21:41:32","slug":"can-desantis-scale-the-maga-wall-in-sc-furmans-nelsen-offers-his-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/can-desantis-scale-the-maga-wall-in-sc-furmans-nelsen-offers-his-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Can DeSantis scale the MAGA wall in SC? Furman&#8217;s Nelsen offers his thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brent Nelsen, the Jane Fishburne Hipp Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Furman University, contributes to an extensive article about the 2024 presidential election in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/florida-politics\/2023\/07\/13\/desantis-needs-win-south-carolina-maga-wall-stands-his-way\/\">Tampa Bay Times<\/a>. Reporting from an early July Trump rally in Pickens, South Carolina, Jay Cridlin notes the importance of South Carolina in selecting the eventual GOP nominee &#8211; &#8220;perhaps the most crucial primary in DeSantis\u2019 bid for the White House,&#8221; and points to the ground the Florida governor needs to make up in the battle against front-runner former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Nelsen believes DeSantis&#8217; fighter mentality could work in his favor. \u201cSouth Carolina has a long history of being the rebels and being somewhat out of sync with the cultural players, press players in America,&#8221; he said. &#8220;To be out of sync with New York and Washington is a good thing in South Carolina and has been for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina is a key battleground state in the race for the White House. Nelsen opines on Gov. Ron DeSantis&#8217; chances in the Palmetto State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":26721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,32,2170],"tags":[2172,704,2117,2171],"class_list":["post-26714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-tampa-bay-times","tag-battleground-states","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop-nomination","tag-ron-desantis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}