Gov. Ron DeSantis expected to enter 2024 presidential race next week

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🗓️ 19 May 2023

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Sources tell CNN that Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to file paperwork with the Federal Election Commission and announce he’s entering the 2024 GOP presidential race next week. The Florida governor has been openly feuding with Disney, who has just upped the ante by scrapping plans to build a $1 billion office complex in the state, likely costing the state 2,000 white collar jobs. Former Trump White House Director of Communications Alyssa Farah Griffin tells Anderson Cooper she thinks the Florida Republican was “bound to get outmaneuvered by Disney” and shares how electable she thinks he is with voters.

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0:00.0	Good evening.
0:01.6	Tonight the clear assignment at the Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will challenge down
0:04.9	Trump for the Republican presidential nomination.
0:07.3	It comes on a day the company he has targeted Disney decided to hit him with a billion dollar
0:11.4	blow.
0:12.4	I'll have more than what Disney just announced shortly.
0:14.4	But on DeSantis's run sources are telling CNN he'll be filing the paperwork next week.
0:19.6	He had a call late today with donors and supporters, a New York Times reporter listened
0:23.4	in.
0:24.4	I'm going to read you a quote from that New York Times story which begins with something
0:27.3	Ron DeSantis said on the call.
0:29.7	You have basically three people at this point that are credible in this whole thing.
0:33.2	Mr. DeSantis told donors on the call organized by the super PAC supporting him never back
0:37.7	down.
0:38.7	Quote, Biden trumped me and I think of those three to have a chance to get elected president,
0:43.3	Biden and me.
0:44.8	Now according to the Times he went on to say that he's basing that on swing state data
0:49.0	which he describes is not great for the former president, quote, and probably insurmountable
0:53.8	because people aren't going to change their view of him.
0:56.5	Which is interesting because it would be hard to describe Ron DeSantis's recent moves
1:00.2	as courting those same swing state voters.
1:02.6	Instead, he appears to be trying to outflank the former president on the right.
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