#KeystoneState: Writing off DeSantis prematurely. Salenazito.com
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#KeystoneState: Writing off DeSantis prematurely. Salenazito.com
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/the-great-underestimation-of-desantis-starts-to-unravel
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBSI on the World. I'm John Batchett with my colleague, Sothena Zeechov, the Washington |
| 0:09.3 | Examiner, the Pittsburgh Post, because at the New York Post, we're discussing governors |
| 0:14.2 | from southern states that are written off, done, finished, don't talk to me. No way that's |
| 0:18.8 | gonna go. All the merchandise they ordered is in a warehouse and we can't get rid of it. |
| 0:23.6 | This time we're not talking about camp of Georgia or young kind of Virginia. We're talking |
| 0:28.4 | about the Sanchez of Florida. Wasn't he momentarily a star candidate for the Republican Party? |
| 0:33.8 | What happened, Sothena? Where did he go? |
| 0:36.6 | We'll see. I disagree with that notion. I disagree that he's fading, that he doesn't |
| 0:43.9 | stand a chance. The Trump is stomping all over him. He's not decided to run yet. Now |
| 0:51.2 | that will probably change in the next few weeks. But this is a guy who decided before |
| 0:58.3 | he ran and as he went out and tested the waters, tested his message, tested sort of how |
| 1:05.0 | to nimbly work and understand and meet voters, was that he was not going to engage until |
| 1:13.2 | his legislative session is over. In talking to voters in Iowa, South Carolina, New Hampshire |
| 1:20.6 | but also even in Pennsylvania, which is going to have an early primary state, this primary |
| 1:27.5 | contest this year. We're going to be right up next to Super Tuesday in Pennsylvania. |
| 1:33.5 | This is a guy where you see a lot of voters saying, I love Trump. I'm ready to move on. |
| 1:39.5 | They're just not that voice much like in 2016 with Trump over Hillary Clinton has not |
| 1:48.0 | yet been captured by the press. Have I been reading the wrong publications? So we've |
| 1:52.4 | had the New York Times to why she didn't post a national view online. But heavens, I |
| 1:56.9 | trying to read widely, even the London papers have written off Ron DeSantis. You and Carl |
| 2:02.6 | are over the only two I know who are not writing him off at this point. Now, money is everything. |
| 2:08.1 | Has he got the money or is the money available? He has raised a significant amount of money |
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