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another conservative radio host, he would be open to pardoning trump, and the january 6th capitol rioters, if elected. do you think the january 6th defendants deserve to have their cases examined by a republican president? and if trump, let s say, get charged with federal offenses and you are the president of the united states, would you look at potentially pardoning trump himself based on the evidence that might emerge of those charges? the doj and fbi have been weaponized. on day one, i will have folks that will get together and look at all these cases, who people are victims of weaponization or political targeting, and will be aggressive at issuing pardons. desantis s strategy is declared candidate is to ignore or excuse trump s biggest vulnerabilities. and differentiate himself by offering a cooler, darker forum of trumpism, if that could even exist. what would that mean for the country, as the republican
primary contest officially kicks off? sorting us now, jen psaki, former white house press secretary, and host of inside with jen psaki on msnbc. jen, desantis thinks he can position himself to the right of trump on things like immigration, abortion, he s aligning with trump on 16, which would seem to be like the most obvious place to begin to draw a distinction, and here he was, just tonight, in an interview on newsmax. some of the things he s been attacking me on, i ve been a little surprised at. he s attacking me from the left, that really wasn t the donald trump from 2015, and 2016, he was a hard charger, leaning in on all the issues. very edgy on conservative issues. and was part of the reason he did so well. but when he s taken disney side against me, i just kind of wonder, okay, i getting wants to hit me, but don t take the side of a multinational corporation that wants to sexualize kids. he s also hitting me against voting we against immigration amnesty. so, lots of lies in
two days after the state senate centered over. this time he signed behind closed doors, only five republican lawmakers watching. no media loud. in fact, the only images we have of the bill signing came from mick s office. this time the state senate passed the bill, sent it to the governor after defeating the five women in the chamber who attempted to filibuster the ban. just like last time, planned parenthood, other local providers sued immediately. but this time the state supreme court is not expected to rule in their favor because female justice who wrote the january opinion overturning the last six-week ban retired. the republican-led state legislature voted to replace her with a male justice, may he south carolina the only state in this country with an all-male supreme court. this new challenge works its way up to the state supreme court, odds are a six-week ban will survive. so people of south carolina
jen, if it does, and you get desantis as the republican nominee, what s that then gonna do to him with voters in a general? well, it certainly wouldn t help him in a general election. running to the right of trump on some of these issues, or even to the right in a bizarre way, for example, being on the other side of disney. who hates mickey and minnie mouse? i guess ron desantis. but it would not help him in a general election. of course, he s trying to find his path. trying to find the way to contrast with trump. now, the truth is, there s another path that may not prove to be successful. but would be to be a more mainstream, less insane, right wing candidate. who could ve had the bio in the back on to do. he chose not to. he s chosen, so far, not to take that path. will it work in a primary? we don t really know yet. there s no evidence it s going to work. she has only dropped in the polls, next to trump since