{"id":1149,"date":"2024-01-11T06:57:05","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T06:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/11\/republican-debate-haley-and-desantis-exchange-barbs-in-fight-for-second-place\/"},"modified":"2024-01-11T06:57:05","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T06:57:05","slug":"republican-debate-haley-and-desantis-exchange-barbs-in-fight-for-second-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/11\/republican-debate-haley-and-desantis-exchange-barbs-in-fight-for-second-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican debate: Haley and DeSantis exchange barbs in fight for second place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-UN ambassador calls Florida governor a habitual liar as each tries to make up ground on absent Trump days before Iowa caucus<\/p>\n<p>The fifth Republican presidential debate started and ended with a barbed exchange<strong>s<\/strong> between Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis, with neither likely to have moved closer to eclipsing frontrunner Donald Trump in the Iowa caucus next week.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida governor slamming Haley for running \u201cto do her donors\u2019 bidding\u201d and the former UN ambassador calling DeSantis a habitual liar. The tone early in the Iowa debate matched prior GOP debates, which were frequently hostile, with candidates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/dec\/06\/republican-presidential-debate-alabama\">hurling personal attacks<\/a> at one another.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/jan\/10\/nikki-haley-ron-desantis-iowa-republican-debate-candidates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-UN ambassador calls Florida governor a habitual liar as each tries to make up ground on absent Trump days before Iowa caucus The fifth Republican presidential debate started and ended with a barbed exchanges between Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis, with neither likely to have moved closer to eclipsing frontrunner Donald Trump in the Iowa &#8230; <a title=\"Republican debate: Haley and DeSantis exchange barbs in fight for second place\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/11\/republican-debate-haley-and-desantis-exchange-barbs-in-fight-for-second-place\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Republican debate: Haley and DeSantis exchange barbs in fight for second place\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}