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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Ron DeSantis Spars with Nikki Haley on Foreign Policy

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

As world troubles grow, Nikki Haley has been gaining support in the GOP presidential polls. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is fighting back, but Barton Swaim says he is clearly more comfortable on domestic issues. Plus, Kim Strassel talks about the latest candidates for Speaker of the House. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:20.1

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

0:26.0

The Republican presidential race seems frozen as Donald Trump keeps his commanding lead,

0:31.6

but the other candidates continue to campaign, and are

0:34.9

Barton Swain recently followed Ron DeSantis around.

0:37.9

Barton is here to talk about what he heard. Plus, nine Republican candidates have put their names forward to run for House Speaker

0:45.9

after Jim Jordan withdrew following his third defeat on the House floor on Friday. What qualities of massacres

0:54.5

require a member of Congress to run for the current House

0:58.9

Speaker ship? We'll have a discussion about whether anyone has a leg up.

1:03.5

Welcome, I'm Paul Geego here with my colleagues, Kim Strassal and

1:07.1

Barton Swaim.

1:07.8

We haven't talked about the GOP presidential race of late, not too much, but there is still one, believe it or not, notwithstanding

1:14.8

the best efforts of the Trump campaign and the press corps to call Trump the inevitable winner.

1:20.3

Nicki Haley, the former South Carolina governor, has benefited from her debate

1:24.3

performance and the ascension of foreign policy in recent weeks and is now in the

1:29.2

polls close to Florida Governor Ron Desantis for second place, albeit a distant second to Trump.

1:37.0

Today we'll talk about Governor Desantis who entered the race with so much promise but really hasn't caught

1:42.0

fire.

1:42.6

Martin covered the governor last week.

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