Where Does Ron DeSantis Go From Here?
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 17 January 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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On Monday, Ron DeSantis lost the Iowa caucuses to Donald Trump by thirty points, despite dedicating a great deal of his campaign funds and time to the state. Yet the Florida governor still insists he is in the 2024 Presidential race for the “long haul.” Sarah Larson, a New Yorker staff writer, calls Tyler Foggatt from Des Moines to discuss the meaning of these results, and the challenges of covering this unusually uncompetitive election.
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| 1:10.6 | They were just so excited about the fact that they were predicting that we wouldn't be able to get our ticket punched here out of Iowa. |
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| 1:30.4 | punched out of Iowa. |
| 1:34.6 | So Ron DeSantis lost the Iowa caucus to Donald Trump by 30 points. Why is he celebrating? |
| 1:43.4 | Well, all along it was kind of a race for second place, |
| 1:47.1 | and there was so much of that time that Haley was thought to have a slight edge on him. |
| 1:52.5 | He kept saying he felt like an underdog, and then blammo, |
| 1:55.9 | he got about 2,000 more votes than she did. |
| 1:58.8 | So it's a victory in that sense, I guess. |
| 2:04.8 | That's my colleague Sarah Larson. |
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