they are trying to get to the right of donald trump in terms of a gop primary. what they want to do is be able to say to republican conservative voters, look, this is the level of accomplishment and going beyond. you saw what happened this past week where basically desantis took a little bit of a dig at trump and said i signed a six-week ban, but you woipt say what you re willing to support. you see where that strategy is going. in regards to a general election, yes, these are things that they re going to have to deal with if they make he is going to be able to sell a few points. he s going to say, look, i boosted teacher pay $1 billion, i basically got money for everglades restoration. there are some things on his list of accomplishments in terms of florida that they could try to sell to people in terms of a moderating influence. but i mean, i think the thing is you know the biden campaign, if he in fact is the republican nominee, the biden campaign is going to focus on the culture
the other side took a mile. isliberals took a mile. jesse: liberals exploited the gay marriage push into what, gay everything? transgender everything, black lives matter, abortion, the whole bai basket of issues. liberals felt empowered. precedent set after corporations weighed in on gay issues. liberals say if you are going to weigh on he can same sex marriage. why aren t you weighing in on black lives matter? why aren t you weighing in on abortion. the ceos painted themselves into a corner they initially set this precedent weighs in on the gay issue and pushing corporations into this left ward drift. jesse: is there any way the corporations can stop the culture war stuff and stay out of this. i think they can. but the fact is it s going to take an equal and opposite reaction. the same grassroots forces that pushed corporations to weigh in on these contentious social issues can push corporations to
he folded quickly. i think that would be telling to see how he actually runs or if he does run when things get a little more complicated. that raises an interesting question on some of his social policies. they may be popular in florida, maybe. we ll see the next election. but they re not going to be as popular around the country, certainly not in a handful of states that he would need to win if he wanted to be president. do you expect that after seeing this and the criticism he faced with this, he might change his ways as a general on some of the social stuff? i think what we have to understand of ron desantis at this point, he knows how to read a poll. florida, an eye towards winning the republican nomination. i think he s well aware he would have to win the general. ron desantis has been able to attract a lot of support. he gives everybody who s a trump fan what they want, but it s almost with a little bit of a wink wink nod nod to the rest of the republican party. i ll make you
issues the issue is, is he hurtin himself with the other wing of the party? call it the wagon wing that s exactly the question as you sure up the base, you lose the general public. there is a piece in th atlantic, which is a very soli analysis of the desantis pseudo-candidacy he points this out, which think a lot of people have missed in the focus to the culture war stuff. more dangerous than th unpopular positions that desantis holds at the popula positions that he does not hold what is his view on health care? he doesn t seem to have one. president joe biden ha delivered cheap insulin to u s. users good idea or not silence from desantis. there is no desantis job policy, he hardly speaks about inflation. homelessness, the environment, nothing. even on crime, desantis must avoid specifics becaus specifics might remind his
social media influencers on th right, people that he ha cultivated in tallahassee, trying to make them allies i think he s doing all of that because he doesn t want to giv trump any opening to attack hi on the kind of maggot styl issues the issue is, is he hurtin himself with the other wing of the party? call it the reagan wing. that s exactly the question as you sure up the base, you lose the general public. at there is a piece in the atlantic, which is a very soli analysis of th pseudo-candidacy he points this out, which think a lot of people have missed in the focus to the culture war stuff. more dangerous than th unpopular positions that desantis holds at the popula positions that he does not hold what is his view on health care? he doesn t seem to have one. president joe biden ha delivered cheap insulin to u.s users. good idea or not