Where Ron Desantis’s Presidential Announcement Went South with Andrew Kolvet
The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie Kirk
4.6 • 65.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
How much do first impressions really sway people’s opinions? We’re about to find out, after technical issues and a dull opening speech hampered Ron DeSantis’s long-awaited presidential announcement. Charlie and Andrew compare Ron’s announcement to Trump’s eight years ago, and those of other past presidential contenders, to unpack what the damage might be, what the governor’s strategy is, and what it means for 2024 and beyond.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, |
| 0:00.4 | to tell Charlie Kirk show, DeSantis has a tough presidential launch. |
| 0:04.1 | We are honest about what he did well and how things could improve for him if he so chooses. |
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| 0:45.6 | We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to |
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| 1:06.0 | We had our evening all scheduled, producer Andrew and I, despite the TPSA Faith Pastor |
| 1:09.8 | Summit. I was curious to see what |
| 1:11.9 | was going to happen now you've probably heard about the absolute mess of the rand de santis |
| 1:16.9 | announcement yesterday and it was a mess right now to ron de santis's credit there was a legitimate |
| 1:23.7 | amount of interest here elon hyped it up and so I think there's a fair argument to be |
| 1:28.2 | made that's not spin and not BS that enough people wanted to hear Ron DeSantis and wanted to hear |
| 1:33.0 | what he had to say. And I think that's a positive thing. I wish they would have actually leaned into |
| 1:36.7 | that spin earlier. Andrew, it was 25 minutes of just kind of a mess, right? It was Elon walking out of |
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