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The Next Level

DeSantis and the No Labels DEFCON Level (The Secret Podcast PREVIEW)

The Next Level

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Sarah and JVL dig into Ron DeSantis’s awful campaign reset and then try to figure out just what the No Labels people are thinking.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey there, it's JVL. On the secret show with Sarah Longwell today, we talked about Ron

0:06.0

DeSantis' big campaign reset, and then about no labels and all the nonsense they've got going on. Here's the show.

0:14.1

We are going to talk about the breaking story by NBC News, which got the leak from the

0:27.7

Santas world about how they are ready to reboot their campaign, and then we're going to talk about no labels.

0:34.0

Sound good?

0:35.0

Great topics.

0:37.0

Yeah, good, good topics.

0:38.0

So, what would you like to do first?

0:41.0

I was going to leave with Santas. Yeah, let's do DeSantis first.

0:44.3

Okay, so let me set the table. The story, I'll just read you the lead to it.

0:50.0

Expect fewer big speeches and more handshaking in diners and churches.

0:54.6

There will be more of a national focus than constant Florida references,

0:58.4

and the mainstream media may start to get more access.

1:01.7

In short, DeSantis will be running as an insurgent

1:05.2

candidate rather than as an incumbent governor. This is from the NBC report.

1:11.0

There's a lot more in it. The reason I would like to talk about this is because not I just want to dunk on them, but because this is deeply concerning to anybody who wants Ron DeSantis to be a viable alternative

1:29.9

to Trump in the primary, which I think both of us would like.

1:33.0

And not because we like Ron DeSantis, but because...

1:38.0

To be clear, we would like somebody else to be the viable alternative to Trump.

1:41.0

We would like somebody else to be a viable alternative to Trump.

1:42.0

Right. If Mike Pence was a viable alternative to Trump? We would like somebody else, it would be great.

1:44.0

If Mike Pence was a viable alternative to Trump or Aesahotchison, it'd be great, right? But the point is, if you're looking

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