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🗓️ 24 July 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Florida governor Ron DeSantis had a strong start in his run for the GOP presidential nomination. But lately, his polling numbers have dropped and big donors are hitting the pause button. Why isn't his strategy working?
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0:00.0 | So what's happened to Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign? |
0:06.2 | When the Florida governor launched his bid for the White House this past spring, he seemed |
0:10.1 | to have a lot going for him. |
0:11.4 | He's a conservative governor with discipline and a winning record. |
0:15.0 | So we just completed the boldest and most far-reaching agenda that we've seen in the modern |
0:21.0 | history of the Republican Party. |
0:22.7 | In a not-so-vailed swipe at the Republican Frontrunner Donald Trump, DeSantis says it's time |
0:27.9 | for the GOP to end the culture of defeat. |
0:31.5 | DeSantis is running as the nation's leading cultural warrior. |
0:35.6 | He signed one of the toughest abortion bands in the country, crack down on LGBTQ rights, |
0:41.2 | picked a costly fight with Disney while promising to oppose wokeness. |
0:46.6 | We reject woke ideology. |
0:54.9 | We fight the woke in the legislature. |
0:57.4 | We fight the woke in the schools. |
0:59.5 | We fight the woke in the corporations. |
1:01.6 | We will never ever surrender to the woke mob. |
1:05.4 | Florida is where woke goes to die. |
1:09.8 | But his campaign has struggled to take off. |
1:12.4 | He's running second among GOP presidential hopefuls, but his poll numbers are stagnant. |
1:17.2 | So far, he's unable to close that large gap against Trump. |
1:21.4 | His big donors are hitting pause. |
1:23.1 | He's laid off campaign staff and his campaign is trying to reset. |
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