S12 EP22: Hour 3 - Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis?
The Erick Erickson Show
Erick Erickson
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🗓️ 2 February 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | the email, all of that sort of stuff. |
| 0:02.5 | At the bottom of this hour, the governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, is going to call to talk about his trip to Davos, among other things. |
| 0:10.3 | Right now, though, I actually want to. |
| 0:12.2 | I've got a reporter for The Washington Post, as I mentioned, is in studio with me in Georgia talking to voters and others about the future of the GOP. |
| 0:21.3 | I actually wanted to talk about that today anyway with this word that Nikki Haley is announcing. |
| 0:27.9 | Actually, there's a report out today that Larry Elder, the radio show host, he might actually consider jumping into the ring as a candidate who believes conversations need to be had. |
| 0:39.4 | You got Donald Trump already in. |
| 0:42.4 | Everybody's waiting for Ron DeSantis. |
| 0:44.2 | And here's my thing with the GOP. |
| 0:46.1 | I was an elected Republican worst job I ever had being on the city council where people really would yell at me if their trash had not been collected because they were too lazy to roll their trash can down and thought I could do something about it. |
| 0:59.0 | I at one time knew what the Republican Party stood for per se. |
| 1:02.8 | I don't know that I know at this point what it stands for other than we're not Biden. |
| 1:07.3 | We're not woke. |
| 1:07.9 | We're not the left. |
| 1:08.7 | I mean, what are the values, the issues of the GOP? And a lot of that comes from right now the GOP, I guess to some degree Trump is the leader of |
| 1:17.0 | the party, but there's also a leadership vacuum where you have a Republican split in Washington, |
| 1:22.9 | D.C., the House and the Senate, you've got to split within the Republican conference in the |
| 1:27.0 | House between moderates, conservatives, and among conservatives, between national, populist, |
| 1:31.5 | traditional, conservative, social conservatives. |
| 1:34.1 | I mean, where do we go? |
| 1:35.0 | And for 2024, where should we head? |
| 1:38.7 | And I'm happy to have those conversations with you. |
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