Touting Record In Florida, DeSantis Enters Presidential Race

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🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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The Florida governor made his campaign official on Wednesday night, in a Twitter Spaces event with Elon Musk beset with technical issues. Quickly attracting criticism from both Republican and Democratic challengers alike, DeSantis cited his pandemic response and battles against critical race theory as reasons why he would be an effective president.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Sandy from Concord, New Hampshire, where I just finished up my weekly long training run.
0:06.0	When I was in my 30s, I used to pace myself to Green Day.
0:10.1	In my 40s, cage the elephant became more suitable to my cadence.
0:15.0	Now that I'm in my 50s, it's live from NPR News in Washington. I'm Jack Spear.
0:23.8	Today's podcast was recorded at 10.43 a.m. on Thursday, May 25th.
0:29.4	Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but I'll still be trying to get my 5K time down to the good side of 30 minutes.
0:37.3	Okay, here's the show.
0:42.5	Public radio is there for you for many different reasons in life.
0:46.8	I'm with you and trying to get that run in time down.
0:49.0	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast. I'm Susan Davis, I cover politics.
0:52.8	I'm Kelsey Snow. I also cover politics.
0:54.9	And I'm Ron Elbing Editor-Coreresponder.
0:57.2	And Florida Governor Ron DeSantis made it official last night in an announcement on Twitter.
1:02.6	Well, I am running for president of the United States to lead our great American combat.
1:08.3	DeSantis is the second Republican following South Carolina Senator Tim Scott to enter the 2024 presidential race this week.
1:16.0	Kelsey, let's start with the choice of the platform and the people DeSantis chose for this announcement.
1:22.6	He was joined by Twitter owner and billionaire provocateur Elon Musk, as well as tech entrepreneur David Sacks,
1:29.0	who's become a bit of a political guru for the right tech San Francisco set.
1:34.9	These are weird choices for a presidential announcement.
1:37.9	I mean, they are weird choices, but they are also choices that are pretty well in line with what the way DeSantis has been kind of
1:44.7	addressing reporters in the media so far.
1:47.2	He is a pretty, you know, media averse person.
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