1 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:06,840 Speaker 1: How is it that Ron de Santas came to be 2 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:10,480 Speaker 1: seen as a credible candidate for the office of President 3 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:11,639 Speaker 1: of the United States? 4 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:13,440 Speaker 2: What was that trajectory? 5 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:18,759 Speaker 1: What qualifications does he have to be a national leader. 6 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:22,960 Speaker 1: Let's look at his career. He was elected to Congress 7 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 1: and then very narrowly he won an election to Florida governor, 8 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 1: running against somebody who was found passed out pictured half 9 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:36,279 Speaker 1: naked smoking crack a few months after the election. So 10 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 1: with that, Ron de Santis became qualified, according to the 11 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 1: American national news media because of his office, to hold 12 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:50,680 Speaker 1: the most powerful office in the world, to be the 13 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 1: commander in chief of the most powerful military, to be 14 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 1: the commander in chief of the world's most powerful nuclear arsenal, 15 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:02,840 Speaker 1: and leader president of the mightiest republic in human history. 16 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:06,679 Speaker 1: Then Ron de Santis obviously lacks the talent, the grace, 17 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:10,880 Speaker 1: the judgment for the position doesn't matter. All that matters 18 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 1: is that he cleared the admissions process. He's not so 19 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:17,920 Speaker 1: different than a high school kid whose life is made 20 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:20,760 Speaker 1: at the age of seventeen because they did well in 21 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:24,600 Speaker 1: high school and popped high on the standardized tests. Does 22 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 1: he have a lick of common sense judging by the 23 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:31,360 Speaker 1: fights he's picked as governor of Florida, the war he's 24 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:35,919 Speaker 1: waged with Disney, the answer is no. Chris Christie described 25 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:40,039 Speaker 1: Ron de Santis as one of the two worst politicians 26 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 1: he's ever seen, the other being Marco Rubio. The simple 27 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 1: truth is Ron de Santis is a strange cat. In 28 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 1: America doesn't elect strange cats to be president of the 29 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:58,560 Speaker 1: United States. This country elect an orange, narcissistic demagogue, but 30 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:02,559 Speaker 1: not a strange cat like Toy Santas. I mean, first off, 31 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:06,520 Speaker 1: why does Ron de Santis, a fifty two year old male, 32 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:10,800 Speaker 1: walk around with everything he owns having. 33 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 2: His name stamped on it. It's bizarre. Trump was right 34 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 2: about one thing. 35 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 1: Maybe all the presidential candidates should just go back to 36 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 1: wearing a blue suit again, because the outfits outside of 37 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:27,239 Speaker 1: the blue suit aren't cutting it, to say the least. Now, 38 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 1: Ron DeSantis has a problem connecting. And I'm going to 39 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 1: show as lethal a question that's ever been asked in 40 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 1: modern presidential politics. It's disguised as a friendly question from 41 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 1: a Fox sikaphant who in an instant turns into a 42 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 1: Fox News assassin gunning for Ron de Santis's weak spot. 43 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 2: Let's watch. 44 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:57,680 Speaker 3: There's something about you that's not connecting for whatever reason, 45 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 3: not connecting with the voter, to not be personality. Donald 46 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:04,840 Speaker 3: Trump says it's about loyalty. Francis Suarez says, it's about 47 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 3: your relationships and it's not about those individuals so much 48 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 3: as I'm curious in the analysis of Ron DeSantis of 49 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 3: why not yet is connecting? 50 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:17,120 Speaker 2: Well? 51 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:19,519 Speaker 4: I think, did you just see the news today about 52 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:22,840 Speaker 4: the record fundraising hall we've had. Nobody's been able to 53 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:26,239 Speaker 4: match that in the history of modern presidential politics. So 54 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 4: we've got a huge amount of support to be able 55 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 4: to take the case to the people. We really haven't 56 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:33,520 Speaker 4: started that yet. We're in the process of building out 57 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:35,960 Speaker 4: a great organization and I think we're going to be 58 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 4: on the ground in all these early states. It is 59 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 4: a three yards in a clouded dust type situation. That's 60 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 4: what we're going to be doing. But look, at the 61 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:47,800 Speaker 4: end of the day, nobody has stood up for hard 62 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 4: working Americans more than I have over these last five 63 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 4: years and delivered the level of results that I have. 64 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 2: It's brutal, isn't it. 65 00:03:56,200 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 1: You can see his panic blinking, You can see Ron says, 66 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 1: folding it together barely trying to figure out what he's 67 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 1: going to say, and the answer reveals his character, his 68 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 1: childish petulance. 69 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 2: What he basically. 70 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 1: Responds is saying, but I got the most money. Ron 71 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:21,920 Speaker 1: de Santis could have all of the money in the world, 72 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:27,120 Speaker 1: but it won't help his failing presidential campaign, which has 73 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 1: already collapsed. 74 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 2: Now. 75 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:33,880 Speaker 1: In the old days, it was said that presidential campaigns 76 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,640 Speaker 1: ended when they ran out of money. In this new age, 77 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:40,360 Speaker 1: it's really hard for them to run out of money, 78 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:44,920 Speaker 1: but they still ultimately will and do, though just much 79 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: later in the cycle. The simple truth about Ron de 80 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 1: Santis is he had a moment after his landslide reelection. 81 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:58,240 Speaker 1: Ron de Santis had a straight line to the Republican nomination. 82 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:00,320 Speaker 2: His team, he and. 83 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 1: Him just didn't understand enough about politics, the history of 84 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:11,360 Speaker 1: presidential campaigns. They didn't understand the moment and they missed it. 85 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:15,480 Speaker 1: Ron de Santas jumped through an open window, but by 86 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:18,560 Speaker 1: the time he got there, it was closed and he 87 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:23,760 Speaker 1: smashed through it. Ron de Santis's polling collapse has been epic. 88 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 1: He has dropped like a rock since he got into 89 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:33,479 Speaker 1: the race with his disastrous Twitter appearances, and there's a 90 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:41,040 Speaker 1: truth about American politics dropped rocks don't bounce. Incredibly, Ron 91 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:45,600 Speaker 1: de Santis named his super pac never Backed Down, which 92 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 1: is a really bad name and a really bad way 93 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:53,160 Speaker 1: to live life. But incredibly, his super pack did exactly that. 94 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 1: Steve Cortes is one of its leaders. Steve Cortes was 95 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 1: a MAGA lieutenant who defected from the Trump team to 96 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 1: the DeSantis team at that brief shining moment when DeSantis's 97 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:10,279 Speaker 1: stock was high. The bottom line is Ron de Santis 98 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 1: is a meager talent running on division, running on cruelty, 99 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:22,960 Speaker 1: running on meanness, running against the woke mind virus, whatever 100 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:27,800 Speaker 1: that is. He's running to be a Fox television host 101 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 1: or maybe more accurately, a Newsmax or Oan one. Every day, 102 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:39,520 Speaker 1: Ron de Santis gets up and he tries to find 103 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 1: the smallest, dumbest, most fatal issue to twist to antagonize 104 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:48,919 Speaker 1: as many people as possible. 105 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:54,880 Speaker 2: His campaign is rudderless, it's visionless. 106 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:59,160 Speaker 1: And more than that, it's disconnected from the real life 107 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:04,479 Speaker 1: experience of most every person in the United States of America. 108 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:08,760 Speaker 1: What Ron de Santus is doing is trying to stoke 109 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:13,720 Speaker 1: and antagonize a cold civil war with the belief that 110 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 1: it will produce a Desantus presidency. Its madness. He has 111 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:23,600 Speaker 1: no chance of being the Republican nominee because he is 112 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:28,400 Speaker 1: among the very smallest people in the country. 113 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 2: Think about it. 114 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 1: Ron de Santis was given a great privilege. He became 115 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:38,800 Speaker 1: governor of Florida, and what did he do. He antagonized 116 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:42,880 Speaker 1: the state's largest employer to such a degree, picked such 117 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:47,920 Speaker 1: an unnecessary fight that they've canceled projects worth hundreds of 118 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 1: millions of dollars and thousands of jobs. But Rond de 119 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 1: Santis has offered the people of Florida. 120 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 2: Is NonStop chaos, NonStop. 121 00:07:56,640 --> 00:08:00,240 Speaker 1: Conflict, and the rest of the country is looking at 122 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:05,000 Speaker 1: it and saying no thanks. Soon, the Republican presidential debates 123 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:08,040 Speaker 1: will begin. The voting starts in one hundred and eighty 124 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:11,600 Speaker 1: eight days. Rond de Santis will fade quickly on that 125 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 1: debate stage. But his campaign has no rationale other than 126 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 1: his ambition. He's milk toast, He's Diet Trump, and nobody's 127 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:26,760 Speaker 1: in the mood for Diet Trump. The Trump supporters don't 128 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:29,520 Speaker 1: want it, the Trump opponents don't want it. 129 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:31,320 Speaker 2: Nobody does. 130 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 1: Rond de Santis is losing this election because he's talentless, 131 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:42,680 Speaker 1: he lacks conviction principle and an ability to communicate with 132 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:46,960 Speaker 1: normal people. He clearly doesn't like them. In the end, 133 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:52,959 Speaker 1: politics is a people business, not a data business. Ronda 134 00:08:53,080 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 1: Santis's spokesperson issued an incredible quote. It deserves pondering because 135 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:04,360 Speaker 1: it speaks to the faded rationale and hopes of the 136 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:10,800 Speaker 1: DeSantis campaign. What he said is, nobody should panic. If 137 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:15,480 Speaker 1: you're on Team Dessantis, everything will be okay because just 138 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:20,520 Speaker 1: wait until the maga Republican voters find out that Donald 139 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:24,319 Speaker 1: Trump didn't do much of what he promised in his 140 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:30,160 Speaker 1: first term. Can you imagine they really believe that what 141 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 1: is it that the Santa's people think is going to happen? 142 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:37,280 Speaker 1: When the Trump people find out that Donald Trump is 143 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 1: full of it's pretty incredible. Seven years on that. That's 144 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:48,160 Speaker 1: your takeaway, that's your assessment of American politics. Donald Trump 145 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 1: has been accused of thirty seven acts of breaching the 146 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:59,440 Speaker 1: nation's most important, most closely guarded secrets, and he's gone 147 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:03,360 Speaker 1: up in the poll. Donald Trump is the Republican front runner. 148 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:08,479 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is the leader of an autocratic cult of personality, 149 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:14,680 Speaker 1: and Donald Trump appears to be getting stronger, not weaker. 150 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:17,679 Speaker 2: The Biden campaign, which. 151 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 1: On its best days seems rather lackluster, has made repeatedly 152 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:27,480 Speaker 1: clear they want Donald Trump. They want Donald Trump to 153 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 1: be the Republican nominee because they feel they can easily 154 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:36,440 Speaker 1: beat him. Sound familiar. Frankly, I find it terrifying. And 155 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:42,680 Speaker 1: anybody who believes that Donald Trump can't be elected president 156 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:46,720 Speaker 1: of the United States again is a fool. 157 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:50,840 Speaker 2: He can be, and he might be. 158 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 1: His coalition is a minority coalition in this country, but 159 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:02,520 Speaker 1: if you add indifference apathy to it, it might just 160 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:06,680 Speaker 1: well be the majority coalition. Ron de Santis won't be 161 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:11,640 Speaker 1: the Republican nominee, but Ron DeSantis has helped break the 162 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:16,920 Speaker 1: Republican Party forever. He helped end conservatism, and he helped 163 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:21,720 Speaker 1: launch a new American fascism. The politics of punishment, the 164 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:26,719 Speaker 1: politics of control, the politics of retribution are what Ron 165 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:31,880 Speaker 1: de Santis stands for. It's just that his strange personality 166 00:11:32,679 --> 00:11:36,200 Speaker 1: is leading the voters to reject him. 167 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:38,520 Speaker 2: Even a Fox News host can see that clearly.