couldn t keep the speakership tucker continue to power way at. him i agree with you that it was this sold later on to the stakes. you have congressman raskin that has concerns that releasing the footage could lead to another capitol attack. i wonder as someone who watches what the far-right groups say online, what is it that they are saying about these tapes? they re saying it s going to prove that this was a false flag. and that this is not only going to vindicate them but in a way it s going to help identify who was actually behind this or the groups behind this, so they can be the patriots that they are and take appropriate actions against them to protect themselves and america. in a way, this is going to sort of be the target that gets painted on a lot of people s backs. either explicitly or buy in window. and this is something that tucker has been doing consistently and the right-wing media, we ve seen it play out in the culture war fights, this is going to be another iterat
so he picks one, he ll pick another one another day, whether it s dei at ap level back history. here we are with the drag show. yeah. so i think the first thing that people need to keep in mind is even if they don t like desantis, and i m not a huge fan, even if they think these culture war fights are stupid, he s not stupid for picking them. it s a winning issue for him. if you read what kids were openings posed to, the around nonpolitical parent is going to hear it and say, i think it s inappropriate for six year olds to see all of that stuff and to hear all of that stuff. and if democrats want to fight em on it, then they have to defend what was going on there, which is not good politics. so i think it s a smart move for him. he s very good at picking these kinds of fights. and he waits for someone to sort of fight back on them, thinking that because it s a boo beatty kind of culture war issue that he must not know what he s talking about, then he s got the goods to back it up.
these last few elections. they ve underperform three election in a row. which despite the hamburgers that are being taken away from us,, yassin might be message discipline. but maybe a discipline around a losing, shrinking message, tua losing it shrinking. base, gas you look at where the popular opinion is in the center around things like abortion, guns, which are extremely hard-core base issues for the republicans. and because they exist so much an echo chamber, whether it s fox news, weather very red districts and barriers. and becomes more of an echo chamber. and the cycle becomes much tighter. , so yesterday rhonda scientist tweeted as i mentioned s own version of the gas and flag. with a gas still. on at rhonda scent is the poster child for all these culture war fights. he s the guy that s pushing the anti-lgbt agenda the book banning, a war with
that baton is governor ron desantis. what are you seeing? trump in a lot of ways shifted the center of the republican party. i don t know that governor sununu represents where the energy in the republican party is right now. that s write desantis is so popular. sununu represents the old guard, the pro business, the very middle of the road kind of republican that has helped him be successful in a blue state like new hampshire. but broadly speaking throughout the country, desantis has shown a way to wage those culture war fights in education, you know, on immigration, on a lot of issues that republicans care about in a way that is still not nearly as divisive as donald trump. he s able to have hundreds of thousands of democrats that did not support him the first time around come around to his side with his landslide election in 2022. it will be interesting to see the different types of ideology get matched up. i m not sure that governor
i think we ll have a great partnership. reporter: pushing trump s policies and rhetoric. ron loves playing with the kids. desantis just 44 years old was first elected to congress in 2012. he went on to become a founding member of the conservative house freedom caucus. thank you, mr. speaker. reporter: he won his bid for governor of florida by just 32,000 votes in 2018. and elevated his national prominence through his management of the covid-19 pandemic, becoming an outspoken proxy for republican anger over mask mandates and school closings. if they want to shut down businesses, i m going to stand in the way. reporter: not shying away from wading into controversial culture war fights, like legislation critics have dubbed the don t say gay law. americans impose injecting this type of material into the