Speaker 1: How is it that Ron de Santas came to be
Speaker 1: seen as a credible candidate for the office of President
Speaker 1: of the United States?
Speaker 2: What was that trajectory?
Speaker 1: What qualifications does he have to be a national leader.
Speaker 1: Let's look at his career. He was elected to Congress
Speaker 1: and then very narrowly he won an election to Florida governor,
Speaker 1: running against somebody who was found passed out pictured half
Speaker 1: naked smoking crack a few months after the election. So
Speaker 1: with that, Ron de Santis became qualified, according to the
Speaker 1: American national news media because of his office, to hold
Speaker 1: the most powerful office in the world, to be the
Speaker 1: commander in chief of the most powerful military, to be
Speaker 1: the commander in chief of the world's most powerful nuclear arsenal,
Speaker 1: and leader president of the mightiest republic in human history.
Speaker 1: Then Ron de Santis obviously lacks the talent, the grace,
Speaker 1: the judgment for the position doesn't matter. All that matters
Speaker 1: is that he cleared the admissions process. He's not so
Speaker 1: different than a high school kid whose life is made
Speaker 1: at the age of seventeen because they did well in
Speaker 1: high school and popped high on the standardized tests. Does
Speaker 1: he have a lick of common sense judging by the
Speaker 1: fights he's picked as governor of Florida, the war he's
Speaker 1: waged with Disney, the answer is no. Chris Christie described
Speaker 1: Ron de Santis as one of the two worst politicians
Speaker 1: he's ever seen, the other being Marco Rubio. The simple
Speaker 1: truth is Ron de Santis is a strange cat. In
Speaker 1: America doesn't elect strange cats to be president of the
Speaker 1: United States. This country elect an orange, narcissistic demagogue, but
Speaker 1: not a strange cat like Toy Santas. I mean, first off,
Speaker 1: why does Ron de Santis, a fifty two year old male,
Speaker 1: walk around with everything he owns having.
Speaker 2: His name stamped on it. It's bizarre. Trump was right
Speaker 2: about one thing.
Speaker 1: Maybe all the presidential candidates should just go back to
Speaker 1: wearing a blue suit again, because the outfits outside of
Speaker 1: the blue suit aren't cutting it, to say the least. Now,
Speaker 1: Ron DeSantis has a problem connecting. And I'm going to
Speaker 1: show as lethal a question that's ever been asked in
Speaker 1: modern presidential politics. It's disguised as a friendly question from
Speaker 1: a Fox sikaphant who in an instant turns into a
Speaker 1: Fox News assassin gunning for Ron de Santis's weak spot.
Speaker 2: Let's watch.
Speaker 3: There's something about you that's not connecting for whatever reason,
Speaker 3: not connecting with the voter, to not be personality. Donald
Speaker 3: Trump says it's about loyalty. Francis Suarez says, it's about
Speaker 3: your relationships and it's not about those individuals so much
Speaker 3: as I'm curious in the analysis of Ron DeSantis of
Speaker 3: why not yet is connecting?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 4: I think, did you just see the news today about
Speaker 4: the record fundraising hall we've had. Nobody's been able to
Speaker 4: match that in the history of modern presidential politics. So
Speaker 4: we've got a huge amount of support to be able
Speaker 4: to take the case to the people. We really haven't
Speaker 4: started that yet. We're in the process of building out
Speaker 4: a great organization and I think we're going to be
Speaker 4: on the ground in all these early states. It is
Speaker 4: a three yards in a clouded dust type situation. That's
Speaker 4: what we're going to be doing. But look, at the
Speaker 4: end of the day, nobody has stood up for hard
Speaker 4: working Americans more than I have over these last five
Speaker 4: years and delivered the level of results that I have.
Speaker 2: It's brutal, isn't it.
Speaker 1: You can see his panic blinking, You can see Ron says,
Speaker 1: folding it together barely trying to figure out what he's
Speaker 1: going to say, and the answer reveals his character, his
Speaker 1: childish petulance.
Speaker 2: What he basically.
Speaker 1: Responds is saying, but I got the most money. Ron
Speaker 1: de Santis could have all of the money in the world,
Speaker 1: but it won't help his failing presidential campaign, which has
Speaker 1: already collapsed.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: In the old days, it was said that presidential campaigns
Speaker 1: ended when they ran out of money. In this new age,
Speaker 1: it's really hard for them to run out of money,
Speaker 1: but they still ultimately will and do, though just much
Speaker 1: later in the cycle. The simple truth about Ron de
Speaker 1: Santis is he had a moment after his landslide reelection.
Speaker 1: Ron de Santis had a straight line to the Republican nomination.
Speaker 2: His team, he and.
Speaker 1: Him just didn't understand enough about politics, the history of
Speaker 1: presidential campaigns. They didn't understand the moment and they missed it.
Speaker 1: Ron de Santas jumped through an open window, but by
Speaker 1: the time he got there, it was closed and he
Speaker 1: smashed through it. Ron de Santis's polling collapse has been epic.
Speaker 1: He has dropped like a rock since he got into
Speaker 1: the race with his disastrous Twitter appearances, and there's a
Speaker 1: truth about American politics dropped rocks don't bounce. Incredibly, Ron
Speaker 1: de Santis named his super pac never Backed Down, which
Speaker 1: is a really bad name and a really bad way
Speaker 1: to live life. But incredibly, his super pack did exactly that.
Speaker 1: Steve Cortes is one of its leaders. Steve Cortes was
Speaker 1: a MAGA lieutenant who defected from the Trump team to
Speaker 1: the DeSantis team at that brief shining moment when DeSantis's
Speaker 1: stock was high. The bottom line is Ron de Santis
Speaker 1: is a meager talent running on division, running on cruelty,
Speaker 1: running on meanness, running against the woke mind virus, whatever
Speaker 1: that is. He's running to be a Fox television host
Speaker 1: or maybe more accurately, a Newsmax or Oan one. Every day,
Speaker 1: Ron de Santis gets up and he tries to find
Speaker 1: the smallest, dumbest, most fatal issue to twist to antagonize
Speaker 1: as many people as possible.
Speaker 2: His campaign is rudderless, it's visionless.
Speaker 1: And more than that, it's disconnected from the real life
Speaker 1: experience of most every person in the United States of America.
Speaker 1: What Ron de Santus is doing is trying to stoke
Speaker 1: and antagonize a cold civil war with the belief that
Speaker 1: it will produce a Desantus presidency. Its madness. He has
Speaker 1: no chance of being the Republican nominee because he is
Speaker 1: among the very smallest people in the country.
Speaker 2: Think about it.
Speaker 1: Ron de Santis was given a great privilege. He became
Speaker 1: governor of Florida, and what did he do. He antagonized
Speaker 1: the state's largest employer to such a degree, picked such
Speaker 1: an unnecessary fight that they've canceled projects worth hundreds of
Speaker 1: millions of dollars and thousands of jobs. But Rond de
Speaker 1: Santis has offered the people of Florida.
Speaker 2: Is NonStop chaos, NonStop.
Speaker 1: Conflict, and the rest of the country is looking at
Speaker 1: it and saying no thanks. Soon, the Republican presidential debates
Speaker 1: will begin. The voting starts in one hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: eight days. Rond de Santis will fade quickly on that
Speaker 1: debate stage. But his campaign has no rationale other than
Speaker 1: his ambition. He's milk toast, He's Diet Trump, and nobody's
Speaker 1: in the mood for Diet Trump. The Trump supporters don't
Speaker 1: want it, the Trump opponents don't want it.
Speaker 2: Nobody does.
Speaker 1: Rond de Santis is losing this election because he's talentless,
Speaker 1: he lacks conviction principle and an ability to communicate with
Speaker 1: normal people. He clearly doesn't like them. In the end,
Speaker 1: politics is a people business, not a data business. Ronda
Speaker 1: Santis's spokesperson issued an incredible quote. It deserves pondering because
Speaker 1: it speaks to the faded rationale and hopes of the
Speaker 1: DeSantis campaign. What he said is, nobody should panic. If
Speaker 1: you're on Team Dessantis, everything will be okay because just
Speaker 1: wait until the maga Republican voters find out that Donald
Speaker 1: Trump didn't do much of what he promised in his
Speaker 1: first term. Can you imagine they really believe that what
Speaker 1: is it that the Santa's people think is going to happen?
Speaker 1: When the Trump people find out that Donald Trump is
Speaker 1: full of it's pretty incredible. Seven years on that. That's
Speaker 1: your takeaway, that's your assessment of American politics. Donald Trump
Speaker 1: has been accused of thirty seven acts of breaching the
Speaker 1: nation's most important, most closely guarded secrets, and he's gone
Speaker 1: up in the poll. Donald Trump is the Republican front runner.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is the leader of an autocratic cult of personality,
Speaker 1: and Donald Trump appears to be getting stronger, not weaker.
Speaker 2: The Biden campaign, which.
Speaker 1: On its best days seems rather lackluster, has made repeatedly
Speaker 1: clear they want Donald Trump. They want Donald Trump to
Speaker 1: be the Republican nominee because they feel they can easily
Speaker 1: beat him. Sound familiar. Frankly, I find it terrifying. And
Speaker 1: anybody who believes that Donald Trump can't be elected president
Speaker 1: of the United States again is a fool.
Speaker 2: He can be, and he might be.
Speaker 1: His coalition is a minority coalition in this country, but
Speaker 1: if you add indifference apathy to it, it might just
Speaker 1: well be the majority coalition. Ron de Santis won't be
Speaker 1: the Republican nominee, but Ron DeSantis has helped break the
Speaker 1: Republican Party forever. He helped end conservatism, and he helped
Speaker 1: launch a new American fascism. The politics of punishment, the
Speaker 1: politics of control, the politics of retribution are what Ron
Speaker 1: de Santis stands for. It's just that his strange personality
Speaker 1: is leading the voters to reject him.
Speaker 2: Even a Fox News host can see that clearly.