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Fox News Pundits Trash Trump’s ‘Childish’ DeSantis Pudding Fingers Ad<!-- wp:html --><p>Fox News</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/dominion-judge-to-appoint-special-master-to-decide-if-fox-news-withheld-key-evidence">Fox News</a> hosts and guests are pushing back against Donald Trump’s <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/desantis-new-hampshire-gop-event-hits-a-snag">Ron DeSantis</a> attack ad, which plays off a perplexing account—first <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-republican-2024-presidential-campaign-trail-is-already-getting-gov-ron-desantis-proofed">reported</a> by The Daily Beast—of the Florida governor eating pudding with his fingers in 2019. </p> <p>“Ron DeSantis loves sticking his fingers where they don’t belong,” <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-attack-ad-rips-into-ron-desantis-gross-pudding-habits">the ad states,</a> while showing a man reenacting the tale. “And we’re not just talking about pudding. DeSantis has his dirty fingers all over senior entitlements. Like cutting Medicare, slashing social security, even raising our retirement age.”</p> <p>Fox News host Neil Cavuto <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/politics/fox-newss-cavuto-rips-insulting-attack-ads-like-trumps-anti-desantis-commercial-i-just-find-it-idiotic/">called</a> the ad “childish” on <em>Your World</em> Friday. </p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-pundits-trash-trumps-childish-desantis-pudding-fingers-ad">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

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Fox News hosts and guests are pushing back against Donald Trump’s Ron DeSantis attack ad, which plays off a perplexing account—first reported by The Daily Beast—of the Florida governor eating pudding with his fingers in 2019.

“Ron DeSantis loves sticking his fingers where they don’t belong,” the ad states, while showing a man reenacting the tale. “And we’re not just talking about pudding. DeSantis has his dirty fingers all over senior entitlements. Like cutting Medicare, slashing social security, even raising our retirement age.”

Fox News host Neil Cavuto called the ad “childish” on Your World Friday.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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