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The Chuck ToddCast

The 2024 demolition derby ft. DeSantis, Trump and Scott: David Drucker and Audrey Fahlberg

The Chuck ToddCast

iHeartPodcasts

Government, News

4.02.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

It's the busiest week of the 2024 election so far: Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) ("the happy warrior") and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) (the Disney warrior) are jumping in the race ... and Donald Trump has at least one already in his crosshairs. The Dispatch's David Drucker and Audrey Fahlberg discuss DeSantis' unique planned announcement and what could be ahead.

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0:00.0

Hello there I'm Chuck Todd and this is the Chuck Todd

0:08.0

We are in the midst of the busiest week we've had yet in the 2024 presidential race.

0:12.8

South Carolina Republican Senator Tim Scott officially launched his campaign on Monday.

0:18.6

But in an interview with NBC News, he stayed away from taking shots at Trump and was fairly vague on what abortion laws he would sign as president,

0:25.4

but he is flush with cash and he is trying to be Mr. Optimus.

0:29.5

It's leading some cynics to wonder if he's simply running for vice president.

0:33.8

Time will tell. Tonight, we are taping this Wednesday before Twitter's spaces opens up,

0:40.0

but at six eastern, Rhonda Sanchez is set to jump in the race officially.

0:43.4

He's made an interesting choice to do his announcement on Twitter Spaces with

0:47.5

Elon Musk.

0:48.5

And if you're like me, you've apparently had to explain Twitter Spaces to people who are on Twitter all the time and had no idea

0:53.9

that Twitter spaces existed. Spokesperson for Make America Great again called

0:57.6

it one of the most out-of-touch campaign launches in modern history.

1:00.2

Joined now by two reporters from The dispatch senior writer David Drucker and

1:04.4

campaign reporter Audrey Fallberg. Welcome guys. Good to see you.

1:09.2

Nice to hear and see from both of you. We're actually all in the same room.

1:13.3

You can see in here. Yes, it's nice. It could be conversational. We can step on each other. We can

1:18.1

over talk. Let me start taking a step back. David, you've done this a while.

1:22.0

I'm trying to remember. a rockier rollout and I went through this

1:25.0

with somebody who's very close to Desantis world

1:31.0

when we were going through this over the weekend. The best we came up with was John McCain.

1:35.0

And it wasn't necessarily a rollout, but it's sort of a rollout that fell flat quickly.

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