S12 EP87: Hour 1 - The Fight To 2024
The Erick Erickson Show
Erick Erickson
4.5 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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DeSantis gets in and now the race begins. Lets break it down.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour One. |
| 0:12.8 | Greetings and welcome. It is Eric Eurickson here. I hope you're having a lovely, lovely day. |
| 0:18.2 | The phone number 8779779-745. If you want to be on the program, |
| 0:24.4 | at this time tomorrow, Governor Ron DeSantis will be joining me on the radio. He is kicking |
| 0:31.7 | off his presidential campaign this evening. He's going to do it a little differently. |
| 0:41.4 | I have done one of these for most of the prominent Republicans who have entered the race, and I want to spend time now on DeSantis |
| 0:47.2 | in the same way I have done with Haley and Scott and Pence. The irony is of Pence, who is not yet declared, but appears likely, of Haley and Scott |
| 0:59.1 | and DeSantis. The only one I don't know is Ron DeSantis. I have talked to Ron DeSantis one time in my |
| 1:06.4 | life, and that was here with you when his book came out. I otherwise don't know him. |
| 1:14.4 | Mike Pence and Nikki Haley, very good friends of mine. |
| 1:17.6 | Tim Scott has gotten to be a friend over the years. |
| 1:19.9 | Know a lot of people on Tim Scott's staff who are dear friends. |
| 1:23.0 | Don't really know anyone on the DeSantis team either. |
| 1:27.3 | But it is safe to say, I think nationally, |
| 1:30.3 | DeSantis is the most intriguing candidate in the eyes of the press and much of the base. |
| 1:36.3 | He's the one outside of Trump who really shows up in the polling, and he is set to launch his campaign |
| 1:42.3 | tonight at 6 p.m. on of all things Twitter. |
| 1:45.4 | Vanity Fair had a complete meltdown. |
| 1:47.8 | I'm not kidding you. |
| 1:49.0 | This is the headline from Vanity Fair announcing this. |
| 1:54.7 | Report colon. |
| 1:59.5 | Ron DeSantis will formally announce his 2024 bid with Elon Musk because apparently |
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