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Speaker 2: Ready, ready, good morning, and welcome to the Daily os.

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Speaker 2: It's Friday, the twenty sixth of May. I'm Sam, I'm Zara.

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump's key challenger, Roonda Santas has formally launched his

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Speaker 2: campaign to be the Republican nominee for the presidential election.

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Speaker 3: I am running for president of the United States to

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Speaker 3: lead our great American comeback.

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Speaker 2: So who is Roonda Santas and what does he have

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Speaker 2: to do to beat Trump?

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Speaker 4: Runda sanctimonious can kiss my big beautiful twenty twenty four

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Speaker 4: presidential ass We'll.

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Speaker 2: Let you know in the deep dive. But first, aarrah.

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Speaker 2: What's making headlines this morning?

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Speaker 5: A Senate committee has recommended the federal government increase its

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Speaker 5: support for male contraceptives. The committee found the responsibility of

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Speaker 5: birth control was falling on women due to a lack

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Speaker 2: Alleged fraudsteron Melissa Cattock has been declared dead by the

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Speaker 2: New South Wales Coroner. Kadog hasn't been seen since fleeing

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Speaker 2: her Sydney home in November twenty twenty. She was accused

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Speaker 2: both the Kadog story and why there isn't a male contraceptive.

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Speaker 2: There are links to both of those in today's show notes.

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Speaker 5: Woolworths has bought online grocery delivery platform milk Run just

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Speaker 2: And today's good news. The Vivid Arts and Light Show

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Speaker 2: Sydney landmarks such as the Opera House and a Armor

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Speaker 2: Ridge in an array of colors and patterns, and it'll

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Speaker 2: run until the seventeenth of June. Roonda Santis has officially

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Speaker 2: launched his bid to be the Republican candidate for president

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Speaker 2: at the twenty twenty four election. The forty four year

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Speaker 5: I'd really like to understand that sentence. You do need

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Speaker 5: to understand who Ronda Santis is. And I feel like

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Speaker 5: we've already said Rhonda Santis like nine times.

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Speaker 2: But who is he? So you might have come across

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Speaker 2: that's the position he currently holds. He represents the Republican Party.

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Speaker 5: In that position, he does a lot of media attention,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's quite contra.

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Speaker 5: And please explain for out listeners what contra.

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Speaker 2: Means, controlls, how the cool kids say controversial, And I'll

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Speaker 2: a Navy veteran. He served in Iraq, and he represented

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Speaker 3: And he's going to be your next governor, Ron DeSantis.

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Speaker 2: A big message in the launch was that the US

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Speaker 5: I've had Nina, our producer, in my ears this whole time,

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Speaker 2: Well, Trump's known for very measured responses, very calm ways

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Speaker 2: He's not on, but more than that, he actually has

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Speaker 5: Donald Trump saund astrayly, I.

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Speaker 2: Don't know, it's terrible. He said his whole campaign will

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Speaker 4: Ron DeSantis was struggling big time in his primary race

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Speaker 3: I'd like to thank our president for standing by me.

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Speaker 3: When it wasn't necessarily the smart thing to do.

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Speaker 4: You're welcome, Ron. Unfortunately, instead of being grateful, DeSantis is

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Speaker 4: it time DeSantis remembers how he got to where he is?

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Speaker 4: Truth is, There's only one person who can make America

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Speaker 2: I'm Donald J. Trump, and I approved this message.

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Speaker 5: Nothing if not effective advertising. Clearly, the race is now

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Speaker 2: Well, it's almost going to feel a little bit like

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Speaker 5: All Right, I want to ask you something. I'm going

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump will win the Republican nomination. I'm looking forward

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Speaker 5: If this episode has got you in the mood for

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Speaker 5: more US politics, there are links in the show notes

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Speaker 5: to episodes that we've done covering Trump's campaign and some

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Speaker 5: of the legal challenges that he is facing. At the

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Speaker 5: Thanks so much for listening, and have a brilliant weekend.