Why is Ron DeSantis sinking?
The News Agents - USA
Global
4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Why is Ron DeSantis losing ground in the polls to an unknown?
Why is the new Barbie film driving American right-wingers mad?
And why did a young American soldier dash across the border to seek refuge... in North Korea?
Editor: Gabriel Radus
Social Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Producer: Will Gibson-Smith
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.2 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.8 | DORVs aren't even DORVs anymore because they thought that to be too politically incorrect. |
| 0:16.9 | Snow White is not even a white woman anymore, even though her name is Snow White. |
| 0:22.3 | That was Charlie Arnock. She's a right-wing broadcaster, commentator. |
| 0:25.5 | She's getting very, very upset about a movie that hasn't yet come out about a fairy tale. |
| 0:30.5 | And it's not just Snow White. It goes further than that. |
| 0:34.5 | Today, they all seem to be kicking off about Barbie. |
| 0:39.0 | Yes, it's the new dividing line in America. Are you pro or anti- Barbie? Or you're pro or anti-the-patriarchy. Are you |
| 0:44.5 | pro or anti-pink? A lot of Republicans went in pink to go and see Barbie, but they came out |
| 0:51.4 | with their faces purple with rage. Welcome to Newsagents USA. |
| 0:59.0 | This is the Newsagents USA with Emily Maidless and John Sobel. |
| 1:08.0 | It's John. It's Emily. And we are going to save the Barbie popcorn until a little bit later, |
| 1:13.8 | but we will bring you all the pink and indeed the red, puffy anger that that has caused when we do. |
| 1:21.3 | But we're going to start, actually, with the state of the Republican race. Why? Because Ron DeSantis, our friend Ron, who was always |
| 1:30.7 | sort of lingering behind Trump, but in a fairly comfortable second place in the race, is now |
| 1:37.8 | finding even that spot is now in trouble. He is starting to feel the pressure from others that you probably, to be |
| 1:47.1 | honest, haven't even heard of. Yeah, we're going to talk about Vivek Ramoswami. He's a biotech |
| 1:53.3 | multimillionaire who has been rising in the polls. He's a right-wing, libertarian. He is not being well known on the political circuit. He's not a |
| 2:04.1 | governor. He's not a congressman. He's not a senator. But he is making waves. And he's being very |
| 2:09.8 | clever in a way that a lot of the other politicians aren't in how to play Donald Trump. Because |
| 2:16.3 | everyone has fallen foul of what do we say about Donald Trump? |
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