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Today, Explained

Teflon Ron

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has hit on a winning — if possibly unethical — campaign strategy: prosecuting people who accidentally committed voter fraud. The Tampa Bay Times’s Lawrence Mower explains. This episode was produced by Miles Bryan and Siona Peterous, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Jillian Weinberger, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram, who also edited. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained   Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The Tampa Bay Times released some video footage last week, then ended up being a

0:05.1

Rorschach test for the country. You either see some confused people being

0:10.2

arrested for a crime they had no idea they committed. Or you see the authorities

0:23.6

policing one of the most consequential crimes in the country. Voter fraud. If

0:32.6

you're in the former camp you're outraged by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. If

0:37.4

you're in the latter camp DeSantis is your guy either way DeSantis wins and

0:43.0

maybe that's how he wins Florida in a few weeks and maybe one day the nation.

0:48.4

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0:54.4

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