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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

What Next - DeSantis Makes It Official

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 27 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

June 2023 French Paper 1

0:03.8

After the question is announced, there will be a pause to allow students to read the instructions

0:09.2

and to consider all the things they do not know.

0:12.4

However, note every highlighter, every hand cramp has been for nothing.

0:17.2

But this is incorrect. All they need is a gentle reminder that whatever the result,

0:22.4

Ilnesson pastu-pied, a proper chat can ease exam stress.

0:27.5

Britain get talking ITV.

0:57.5

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

1:11.3

But some announcements have a way of sticking in your head.

1:15.2

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

1:24.6

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

1:31.5

And to that list, the official start of Ron DeSantis's presidential run,

1:36.7

which was supposed to be broadcast live on Twitter Spaces,

1:41.1

an audio streaming service Wednesday night.

1:44.4

And it kind of was...

1:46.6

But it did not go smoothly.

1:54.9

You could hear the screeching sound of feedback.

1:58.1

People stream suddenly cut off mid-sentence.

2:02.5

It took nearly a half hour for DeSantis himself to get on the mic,

2:15.1

and declare he was running for president.

2:17.4

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

2:23.1

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

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