The invisible primary
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🗓️ 3 June 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson, and this is five things you need to know Saturday, |
| 0:07.4 | the 3rd of June, 2023. |
| 0:11.2 | Today, the Republican primary comes into sharper focus. |
| 0:24.0 | Plus former Vice President Mike Pence won't be charged for classified documents and |
| 0:29.2 | Hunter Biden faces a complicated paternity case. |
| 0:39.8 | A once-invisible primary battle is finally coming into sharper focus. |
| 0:44.6 | I spoke with USA Today National Political Correspondent David Jackson to learn more. |
| 0:53.4 | You wrote about this once-invisible primary in the GOP field? |
| 0:58.3 | And who are we talking about here, David? |
| 1:01.1 | Basically, Donald Trump. |
| 1:02.2 | But we've talked about this in recent months, and it seems like the campaign's been suspended |
| 1:07.3 | animation. |
| 1:08.3 | Trump was out there leading, campaigning for the presidency, and a number of Republicans |
| 1:13.6 | were either jumping into the race or preparing to jump in the race, but they wouldn't talk |
| 1:17.1 | about Trump. |
| 1:18.1 | They wouldn't criticize him. |
| 1:19.3 | They wouldn't argue why they should be the nominee and not him. |
| 1:22.6 | So we've dubbed it the Invisible Primary because let's face it, the race is all about Trump |
| 1:27.0 | and his record, but yet no one is really wanting to engage in that. |
| 1:30.3 | No one until this week when Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, he officially announced |
| 1:34.7 | his candidacy last week. |
| 1:36.2 | This week he went out on tour, went to Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, and he |
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