Mark Leibovich profiles Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis

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🗓️ 2 December 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Leibovich, staff writer at The Atlantic, talks to Chuck about his latest story, a profile of the “GOP’s hottest molecule.”

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0:00.0	Hello there, I'm Chuck Todd and this is the Chuck Todd cast.
0:08.6	I guess today is Mark Lovitch.
0:10.0	He's staffed right at the Atlantic and he is perhaps one of the best profilers in the
0:17.3	long-form genre that we have and his latest profile for the Atlantic focuses on Florida
0:23.5	government around the San Jose.
0:24.5	He's of course a potential 2024 candidate and as Lovitch described him, he's the GOP's
0:31.4	hottest molecule.
0:33.3	But it's sort of like the hopes, the dreams of the Republican Party post Trump seem to
0:39.5	all fall on him and I think the question is who is he and is he capable of being everything
0:45.1	that people want him to be.
0:47.0	Mr. Lovitch, welcome back to the Todd cast.
0:50.0	Chuck, it's good to be back on the Todd cast.
0:52.4	I am sometimes surprised.
0:54.4	Can we start with this?
0:55.4	Did you get time with the Sanchez?
0:57.4	Nope.
0:58.4	No time at all.
0:59.4	I'm not surprised.
1:01.4	He doesn't make time for many actual journalists.
1:05.8	He makes time for activists that are on cable TV channels but that's journalism.
1:14.5	But he doesn't want people to get to know him.
1:17.6	Nope.
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