TOP NEWS | DeSantis Subtle Criticism of Trump, SCOTUS to Announce Decision of Abortion Pill, US to Train Ukraine on Abrams Tanks | April 21
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🗓️ 21 April 2023
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Summary
On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:
- Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis touts his anti-lockdown policies during the COVID-19 pandemic as the key to Florida’s economic success.
- The Republican Party is not ready to face the challenge of the “great awokening” according to Sen. Josh Hawley.
- American foreign policy should promote our national interests, but the president’s progressive politics isn’t allowing that to happen, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, says.
- The Supreme Court prepares to announce a decision on the abortion pill.
- The U.S. will start training Ukrainian forces on using and maintaining Abrams tanks.
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https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/04/20/gop-not-prepared-fight-great-awokening-sen-hawley-says/
https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/04/20/get-progressive-politics-out-foreign-policy-says-j-d-vance/
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Samantha Sharis, I'm Virginia Allen, and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Friday, April 21st. |
| 0:07.0 | Here are today's headlines. |
| 0:20.0 | Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis touted his anti-lockdown policies during the COVID-19 pandemic |
| 0:27.0 | as the key to Florida's economic success after the pandemic. |
| 0:31.0 | Slamming the ideology of former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Director Anthony Fauci, as Fauciism. |
| 0:39.0 | DeSantis spoke at the Heritage Foundation's 50th Anniversary Leadership Summit. |
| 0:45.0 | The Daily Signal of course is the news outlet of the Heritage Foundation. |
| 0:48.0 | Let's take a listen to some of DeSantis's speech from today. |
| 0:53.0 | Fauciism was wrong. Fauciism was destructive. Fauciism was responsible for students being locked out of school throughout this country for a year. |
| 1:05.0 | Fauciism was responsible for people being forced to take Vax. Fauciism was responsible for putting us on a path to some of the economic problems that we see now. |
| 1:17.0 | We can never let that happen to our country again. |
| 1:22.0 | DeSantis also subtly criticized former President Donald Trump, who has accused the governor of closing down his state for a long period of time. |
| 1:32.0 | DeSantis noted that after he won the governor's mansion by a razor thin margin in 2018, analysts told him to tread lightly. |
| 1:40.0 | To trim my sales, not to rock the boat, kind of keep my head down. |
| 1:45.0 | He rejected that advice and went on to get ahead of public opinion and advance a conservative agenda that would take Florida in a great direction. |
| 1:54.0 | The Republican Party is not ready to face the challenges of the great awokeening. |
| 1:59.0 | That's according to Republican Senator Josh Holly of Missouri. |
| 2:03.0 | Holly gave remarks also at Heritage's 50th Anniversary celebration and detailed the threats America is facing. |
| 2:12.0 | All of the challenges that we face, I think the one that may be the most pressing, the most dangerous, is the challenge of the new radical left and the new brand of Marxism that they have embraced. |
| 2:28.0 | But according to Holly, the Republican Party as we have known it for the last 30 years is not prepared for the challenge. |
| 2:36.0 | The Republican Party must be transformed. |
| 2:39.0 | Holly said that in the post Cold War Air, after the United States defeated the Soviet Union, most Republicans embraced global trade at the expense of working and middle class Americans. |
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