The Republican Race: DeSantis' Controversies and Challenges

Rick Wilson's The Enemies List

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🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Host Rick Wilson dives deep into the morass of Florida politics with NBC Senior National Political reporter Matt Dixon on this episode of The Enemies List. They cover an emotionally disconnected, uncharismatic Ron DeSantis, popular with the GOPers in Florida, but flopping on the national stage and the challenges to democracy created by a longtime lack of a functional Democratic Party operation now trying to regain lost ground. Timestamps: [00:00:01] Enemies list, Republicans, Qanon, Rick Wilson, Matt Dixon, DeSantis. [00:01:27] Florida man earns fifteen years of pub subs. [00:05:35] DeSantis' strategy: troll, attack, meme, win. [00:09:01] DeSantis-Trump relationship evolves in book. [00:13:58] DeSantis rises, Trump falls quickly. [00:18:16] "Florida politics: rightward turn, consequences for non-winners" [00:20:54] MAGA migration to Florida: Trump era. [00:24:40] MAGA types vs traditional politics. [00:26:46] Slavery not beneficial: No, No, No. [00:27:33] End slavery: Acknowledge horrors. Follow Resolute Square: Instagram Twitter TikTok Find out more at Resolute Square Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:01.0	Resolute Square
0:07.0	There was also maintain what was called an enemy's list, which is rather expensive and continually being updated
0:15.0	Immaculate! Why would we come like it instead?
0:21.0	Where I could stand in the middle of the family and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay?
0:27.0	The women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having a margin!
0:35.0	On January 6th of 2021, you had tens of thousands of people peacefully protesting.
0:41.0	So, that's not right, we can spare theories not killing on! It's real!
0:46.0	I'm Rick Wilson, and this is the enemy's list.
0:51.0	Welcome back to the enemy's list. My second guest today is Matt Dixon.
0:56.0	Matt is the senior national political reporter with NBC.
1:01.0	He covers a whole wide spectrum of the chaotic Republican presidential race, and frankly, the stories beyond that that's going on this year.
1:10.0	But Matt is a fellow Florida man, and we have a mutual interest in the anthropology, the psychology, the performance of one Ron DeSantis,
1:19.0	who has been having some low-light campaign that was marked for about a year of pretty easy-going highlights.
1:28.0	Matt, welcome back to the... You've been even on here before, right? Do we have you before?
1:34.0	I think so, it's been a little while, but...
1:37.0	Anyway, well Matt, welcome to the...
1:40.0	Thank you, thank you, Honorable Florida man. I wasn't born here, but I've been here 15 years, and the state just sort of seeps into your DNA somehow.
1:46.0	So now I feel Florida man.
1:48.0	Well, look, look, after 15 years you're a Florida man. I mean, I'm a fifth-generation Florida man, so I'm a different animal, but you are certainly...
1:58.0	You've earned your Florida stripes after 15 years. You've had your share of pub subs, as they say.
2:03.0	So listen, Matt, I want to talk to you a little bit. You were out covering the Ron DeSantis campaign event this weekend in Park City, Utah.
2:12.0	A town I've spent some time in. What's the feeling inside DeSantis world after week after week of off-the-rails, chaos, dissent, concerned stories, percolating out of his world?
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