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What Next - DeSantis Makes It Official

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🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The Florida governor has finally officially entered the Republican presidential primary. With electoral wins and culture war conflicts under his belt, does Ron DeSantis actually have a chance at beating Donald Trump?


Guest: Molly Ball, Time magazine’s national political correspondent.


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0:00.0

The way candidate for president announces their campaign doesn't usually matter all that

0:11.5

much, but some announcements have a way of sticking in your head.

0:19.6

There's Amy Klobuchar, who announced her 2020 bid for president in a driving snowstorm

0:25.8

or Donald Trump, who wrote a golden escalator to his campaign launch in 2015.

0:33.0

And to that list, the official start of Ron DeSantis' presidential run, which was supposed

0:38.9

to be broadcast live on Twitter Spaces, an audio streaming service Wednesday night.

0:45.9

And it kind of was, but it did not go smoothly.

0:56.2

You could hear the screeching sound of feedback.

0:59.3

People stream suddenly cut off mid-sentence.

1:12.8

He took nearly a half hour for DeSantis himself to get on the mic and declare he was running

1:17.4

for president.

1:18.9

By then, hundreds of thousands of listeners seem to have stopped tuning in.

1:24.7

Molly Ball from Time Magazine, she's here to assure you that a wacky stunt like this

1:29.8

is just the beginning.

1:32.1

In the 2024 presidential race, there are going to be more candidates, more oddball announcements,

1:38.0

more weird fails.

1:40.0

There's plenty of time.

1:41.0

I mean, it's 2023, and this presidential election will occur in 2024.

1:46.7

So just in terms of months on the calendar, right?

1:48.7

The first debate is not going to happen until August.

1:51.6

It's clear that there's a lot that can still happen.

1:55.5

But Molly also wants you to know that you should not count Ron DeSantis out, not yet anyway,

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