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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis tries to reset his 2024 presidential campaign Monday

with a speech in New Hampshire on economic policy.

We'll see how he did.

Welcome.

I am Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

We are joined today by my colleagues, columnist Kim Strassel and editorial board member Kate

Bacheld or Odell.

Ron DeSantis recently fired a good chunk of his campaign staff and there has been talking

the press about a reset to his candidacy.

One piece of that seems to be the speech on Monday where he issued a policy plan on economics

a declaration of economic independence as he's framing it and let's start with a clip

of him explaining what he thinks the United States should do.

We will declare our economic independence from the failed elites that have orchestrated

American decline from the reckless federal spending that has inflated prices and plunged

this nation to the brink of bankruptcy.

We will declare our economic independence from the Chinese Communist Party.

We will declare our economic independence from the central planners who seek to advance

their political agenda at the expense of the well-being of average Americans.

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