Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour 3.

Hi there. Welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. Glad to have you with me this third hour of the program.

The phone number is 877-97-9-373-7-425. I have put it off as long as I possibly could.

It is very interesting to see on Fox News what's happening.

If you turned on most conservative media these days,

you'd be hard pressed to know much about what Donald Trump is doing

and you would in fact

everywhere here Ron DeSantis. Ron DeSantis is all over Fox which is the

dominant share of conservative eyeballs of the country. They've got on Tim Scott a lot

as well. They had on Ron DeSantis on Fox and Friends, which is massively watched around the country.

And one of the things that DeSantis said on Fox this morning talking about the future of the GOP, well, I'll let you listen to him

in his own words. This is Ron DeSantis, who by the way refused to go to CPAC, said there was no

reason to go to CPAC. He'll be coming to our conference in August. And now just as Republicans,

what have we done with Florida? When I got elected, it was a one-point race.

Almost every election between governor and president.

We were able to go from winning by 32,000 votes to winning by over 1.5 million votes,

sweeping Hispanics by over 60 percent, winning Miami-Dade County by double digits.

But we have built in an infrastructure for

Republicans to where Florida, it should no longer be considered a swing state.

I mean, this is a state that we have the strong advantage in now.

So he's taken Florida off the map and made it safe for the GOP, something that George Bush did in 1998 in Texas

that caused so many to go with him. But that wasn't the only appearance. He also had another

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