What Next: DeSantis Makes It Official

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🗓️ 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. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ah, the sound of spring cleaning.
0:03.6	Steam clean your way to brighter bathrooms and sparkling kitchens with the carcass deem cleaner.
0:09.6	You'll be done before you know it, with more time to pitch your feet up.
0:14.0	Find your carcass deem cleaner at carcature.co.uk or a carcass retailer.
0:20.0	May 2023, German Paper 1.
0:24.0	Students should listen carefully to the recording.
0:27.0	Read the questions and try to ignore the churning in their stomach.
0:31.0	The shaking in their hands or the little voice that matters.
0:34.0	Do or best I'm idiot.
0:36.0	Make sure they hear another voice that asks,
0:40.0	Are you okay?
0:41.0	That reminds them, you've got this.
0:44.0	A proper chat can ease exam stress.
0:47.0	Britain get talking, ITV.
0:51.0	The way a candidate for president announces their campaign doesn't usually matter all that much.
1:03.0	But some announcements have a way of sticking in your head.
1:07.0	There's Amy Klobuchar, who announced her 2020 bid for president in a driving snow storm.
1:16.0	Or Donald Trump, who wrote a golden escalator to his campaign launch in 2015.
1:23.0	And to that list, the official start of Ron DeSantis' presidential run.
1:28.0	Which was supposed to be broadcast live on Twitter Spaces, an audio streaming service Wednesday night.
1:36.0	And it kind of was...
1:43.0	That was quiet.
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