MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video) - 04-02-2024-222636
MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)
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🗓️ 2 April 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks to you at home for joining me this hour. |
| 0:01.9 | Do you remember this moment in May of 2021? |
| 0:07.8 | What's going to be different about Florida's election in 2022? |
| 0:11.6 | What are you about to sign? |
| 0:14.8 | So right now I have what we think is the strongest election integrity measures in the country. |
| 0:19.9 | I'm actually going to sign it right here, it's going to take effect. So, there we go. |
| 0:25.2 | The bill is signed. |
| 0:27.2 | Governor Ron Desantis nearly three years ago signing Florida's voter suppression bill and doing it live on Fox and Friends. |
| 0:37.8 | That little exclusive became sort of a campaign hallmark. |
| 0:41.2 | Desantis built his ill-fated presidential candidacy on turning his |
| 0:45.1 | state into a Mago Wonderland. A year later, Desantis signed the so-called Stop Woke |
| 0:51.1 | Act, a law that essentially banned the teaching of race and racism in the |
| 0:54.9 | state of Florida if it made white people uncomfortable. |
| 0:58.8 | Governor Desantis supported the idea that slavery benefited enslaved people, doubling down on a new curriculum |
| 1:04.2 | that suggested slavery was sort of a skills training program. He signed the |
| 1:09.6 | Don't Say Gay Bill which banned any teaching about homosexuality or gender identity in |
| 1:14.2 | Florida public schools and all of this was supposed to transform Florida |
| 1:18.8 | into a conservative utopia that then would put Rhonda Santis directly on a glide path to be the next |
| 1:24.7 | president of the United States. All of it was put on display for the entire |
| 1:29.2 | country. It was highlighted in speeches and even broadcast live on Fox News, all of it, except for one thing. |
| 1:37.0 | There was one agenda item that was so toxic, so unpopular with so many people, |
| 1:44.0 | including Republicans, that Governor DeSantis |
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