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The ReidOut with Joy Reid

DeSantis is in damage control mode after failing to launch without extreme awkwardness, glitchy failures

The ReidOut with Joy Reid

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4.53.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The ReidOut, Joy Reid and her guests examine how the Republican presidential candidates, except for Donald Trump, flocked to Iowa to embrace wildly unpopular issues like an extreme abortion ban. Is this the way to win a presidential election? Joy and her panel discuss. Plus, DeSantis is in damage control mode after failing to launch without extreme awkwardness and glitchy failures. Can he reassure right-wing donors and activists that he is not Scott Walker or Jeb Bush? Our political analysts bring their perspectives. Also in this episode, we bring you new reporting on a target letter sent by the special counsel to a Trump staffer, which could be an indicator of how Jack Smith plans to prosecute the classified documents case. All this and more in this edition of The ReidOut on MSNBC.

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0:00.0

On the readout.

0:07.0

I'm proud to have been a pro-life governor and I will be a pro-life president.

0:11.4

So of course I want to sign pro-life legislation.

0:15.0

I think it's something that we need to develop a culture of life in this country.

0:22.6

The Republican presidential candidates except for Trump flocked to Iowa to embrace wildly

0:27.2

unpopular issues like an extreme abortion ban.

0:30.5

It's surely no way to win a presidential election.

0:33.3

Plus, DeSantis endamaged control mode after failing to launch without extreme awkwardness

0:38.7

and glitchy failures.

0:40.0

He's looking to reassure right wing donors and activists that he's not Scott Walker

0:44.8

or Jim Bush.

0:46.5

Also tonight, new reporting on a target letter sent to the special counsel, spent by the

0:51.3

special counsel to a Trump staffer which could be an indicator of how Jack Smith plans

0:57.0

to prosecute the classified documents case.

1:00.5

But we begin tonight with some advice for the Republican Party.

1:07.1

Twin elections, you gotta read the room.

1:09.3

You listen to the American people, you pay attention to their priorities, and then those

1:13.9

Americans vote based on what they want.

1:16.4

It isn't complicated.

1:17.4

It's the kind of stuff you learn in the third grade.

1:20.0

Except, whoops, you don't want third graders reading books anymore.

1:23.7

But Republicans simply cannot read the room.

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