Governor DeSantis Plots 2024 Campaign

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

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4.1 • 738 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis visited Iowa this past week, securing key endorsements by Iowa lawmakers, as rumors swirl that he is set to announce his presidential candidacy as early as next week. FOX News Radio Political Analyst Josh Kraushaar joins to discuss the early polling in the GOP primary and how Governor DeSantis can cultivate a favorable image as he fields attacks from former President Trump. Later, Josh shares how religious demographics impact an election, how President Trump secured secular voters in the 2016 election, and who he believes Evangelical voters will put their support behind in 2024. Follow Martha on Twitter: @MarthaMacCallum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:42.6	Welcome to the Untold Story podcast.
0:48.8	I'm delighted to be joined by Josh Crashauer today, political analyst extraordinaire and writer.
0:57.5	And Josh, we're talking a lot this week about 2024 as we start to kind of see some parts of it take shape.
0:59.3	We're still obviously a long way out.
1:06.6	But I want to just jump in and start by asking you about your thoughts with regard to Ron DeSantis,
1:12.6	who we're starting to get some clarity that he'll jump in, at least file, toward the end of next week.
1:17.5	Well, look, this has been a good week for Governor DeSantis. He's finally going to announce.
1:27.4	I think there was a lot of anxiety about why the governor was taking so long, why he was letting a lot of Donald Trump's attacks go unanswered. He's lost a lot of ground in the polls
1:29.2	over the last couple months. But at the same time, his trip to Iowa was a success. He got
1:34.9	endorsements from some of the top legislative leaders in the state of Iowa, which is a hugely
1:40.3	important state for the governor. And he also had a message that is going to be crucial
1:45.7	to his success in that, you know, he's the electable candidate. And Donald Trump has been part of,
1:50.9	as he put it, a culture of losing. And look, that's going to be the message you'll hear from
1:56.1	the governor when he announces pretty soon. And it'll be the key argument, I believe, in the Republican primary.
2:03.0	And if the governor, if Governor DeSantis gets momentum and he's going to be focusing on early states like Iowa, New Hampshire, to get that momentum back,
2:12.7	it's going to be focused on making his candidacy seem like not just the conservative candidate in the field,
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