DeSantis Rising
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🗓️ 7 March 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
DeSantis has just released a new book that highlights his pugnacious style and hardline stance on issues ranging from education to public health. And he has attracted even more attention as Florida's Republican-led legislature began its session Tuesday.
NPR's Greg Allen has this look at how DeSantis became what some believe is the future of the Republican Party.
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| 0:00.0 | SeePack, the conservative political action conference, is a sort of annual testing ground |
| 0:12.5 | for Republican policies and for potential Republican candidates. |
| 0:17.5 | So in the keynote speech, we got a preview of the themes that may dominate former President |
| 0:22.7 | Trump's 2024 campaign. |
| 0:25.3 | They sound a lot like the ones he's run on before. |
| 0:45.6 | And to judge by the admittedly unscientific straw poll of seePack attendees, Trump still |
| 0:51.4 | has a firm grip on the party. |
| 0:54.5 | 62% voted for the former president. |
| 0:57.2 | But what was most notable about this year's conference is who wasn't there. |
| 1:02.2 | You saw the scenes at seePack. |
| 1:04.2 | That room was half full. |
| 1:06.0 | Okay. |
| 1:07.0 | Let's not pretend that seePack is seePack anymore. |
| 1:09.0 | It's seePack. |
| 1:10.0 | Okay. |
| 1:11.0 | It's TrumpPack. |
| 1:12.0 | Former New Jersey governor and Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie pointed |
| 1:16.2 | out on ABCs this week that many of Trump's potential opponents opted to skip the event. |
| 1:21.9 | And only the most desperate people showed up at seePack to even speak other than Trump, |
| 1:27.1 | or people within Trump's orbit. |
| 1:28.8 | Former Vice President Mike Pence sat it out, so did South Carolina Senator Tim Scott. |
| 1:33.9 | But the most glaring absence was the candidate who took second place in that straw poll. |
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