Feb. 27, 2023: What’s in Ron DeSantis' new book

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🗓️ 27 February 2023

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Ron DeSantis's “The Courage to Be Free” will be released tomorrow, kicking off a media tour that is widely assumed to be the prelude to a formal announcement this spring that he’s running for president. The book rollout is taking full advantage of DeSantis’s relationship with the Rupert Murdoch media empire. The book is published by HarperCollins, which is owned by Murdoch’s News Corp. The first excerpt, “How the Florida blueprint can work for the whole US,” was published in the NY Post. Two authorized leaks from the book, one about his relationship with Trump and, early this morning, one about a private phone call with former Disney CEO Bob Chapek, have been published by foxnews.com. And DeSantis started his media tour last night by giving his first interview about the book to Mark Levin, on Fox News’s “Life, Liberty & Levin.” The 40-minute conversation was as friendly and fawning as you’d expect. After midnight, The New York Times published a review of the book by Jennifer Szalai, who is, to put it mildly, not impressed. Taken together the Levin interview and the Szalai review perfectly capture how the right and left are greeting the DeSantis 2024 rollout. Subscribe to the POLITICO Playbook newsletter Raghu Manavalan is the host and senior editor of POLITICO's Playbook Daily Briefing.Jenny Ament is the executive producer of POLITICO Audio.

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0:00.0	Presented by Emerchant
0:02.0	Good morning Playbookers.
0:05.0	I'm Rogumonovalin.
0:06.0	Fox News avoids the D-word plus Ron DeSantis' new book.
0:11.0	Here are the big things we're tracking on Monday, February 27th.
0:16.0	Perhaps not a surprise, but former President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis
0:22.6	led a recent Fox News poll of 2024 of 2024.
0:28.6	Fox News' Dana Plenton writes that Trump tops the list with 43%, followed by Ron DeSantis
0:34.7	at 28%.
0:36.4	Nikki Haley and Mike Pence were at 7% each.
0:39.6	Greg Abbott and Liz Cheney were at 2% each.
0:43.1	Jacob Rubashkin, from Inside Elections, had some interesting analysis of the poll in a tweet.
0:48.9	It underscores the difficulty and opportunity of beating Trump.
0:52.9	At 43%, he's not invincible, but that's almost exactly what he won in 2016.
0:59.9	And Fox News rejected an ad from the Progressive Group Move On
1:04.1	that would have highlighted the recent revelations from Dominion voting systems defamation lawsuit.
1:10.5	The spot addressed Fox viewers directly, quoting messages from Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingram,
1:16.5	while saying, text show, they lied to you about the 2020 election for profit.
1:21.4	Move On says they wanted to run the ad nationally in prime time, but the network said no.
1:27.1	It would, of course, be a stretch to expect
1:29.6	any network to run ads that directly criticize it. And Fox's criticized Dominion for having
1:36.0	what they state, cherry-picked quotes stripped of key context and spilled considerable ink on
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