Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate concedes country has faced \u2018challenges\u2019 over dealing with race<\/p>\n
US politics \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n The hard-right Florida governor Ron DeSantis says the US is \u201cnot a racist country\u201d, echoing a controversial claim by Nikki Haley<\/a>, the former South Carolina governor who is also trying to deny Donald Trump the Republican presidential nomination.<\/p>\n \u201cWell, the US is not a racist country,\u201d DeSantis told a CNN town hall this week in New Hampshire. \u201cAnd we\u2019ve overcome things in our history. You know, I think the founding fathers \u2013 they established a set of principles that are universal.\u201d<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate concedes country has faced \u2018challenges\u2019 over dealing with race US politics \u2013 live updates The hard-right Florida governor Ron DeSantis says the US is \u201cnot a racist country\u201d, echoing a controversial claim by Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor who is also trying to deny Donald Trump the … 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1568","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\/1568","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=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}