but in the last two years, desantis has launched his presidential campaign and focused more on the culture war. we will make sure as president, we leave woke ideology in the dust bin of history, where it belongs. the twitter backlash they experienced made these women more receptive to parts of desantis fight against wokeness, but not all of it. i m wondering if you think that desantis very public war on woke distracts from the message that you like about him? a little bit, i do. yeah. to be honest, i do feel like it would be really good to have a big public debate about what did we get wrong in covid. the left doesn t want to have that debate. they re never going to allow that debate. i think there s a lot of incendiary tactics being used to smear him. i think he did sign a law that restricts transgender care for adults as well as kids. i have greater concerns about the six-week abortion ban.
campaign and focused more on the culture war. we will make sure as president we leave woke idealogy in the dust bin of history where it belongs. reporter: the twitter backlash they experienced made these women more receptive to parts of desantis fight against wokeness been not all of it. i m wondering if you think that desantis is very public, more unwoke, distracts from the message that you like about him. a little bit, i do. yeah. i mean, like to be honest, i do feel like it would be really good to have a big public debate about what did we get wrong in covid. like the left doesn t want that debate. they re never going to allow that debate. i think there s a lot of incendiary tactics being used to smear him. i think there s reporter: he did sign a law that restricts transgender care for adults as well as kids. i have greater concerns about the six-week abortion ban. reporter: tell me about that. i think if he made it clear
yes. i have never voted for a republican presidential candidate. i have always considered myself very socially liberal. but as we became more vocal on twitter, we were really demonized. reporter: in 2022, she ran for school board and won. so i m going to fight back. reporter: and was an active defender of her twitter friends. they aren t crazy. data from the education department show kids have been hurt by long-term remote learning. black and brown students more than white. in august, 2020, desantis was early to open schools compared to other u.s. states but not the world. many european countries went back under national policies. in may, 2020, for example, a finland health official cited data that kids didn t play a significant role in spreading the virus. but in the last two years, desantis has launched his presidential campaign and focussed more on the culture war. we will make sure as president we leave woke ideology in the dust bin of history where
that state, they have to make a decision to say, look, enough is enough. stop with the rhetoric. cut it out. stop trying to pass these horrific laws and get where the rest of the country is. so, again in the long-term, i don t think this is a winning position. ron desantis is deterred. he talked about fighting against woke this weekend. in fact, at one point he used the word seven times in 30 seconds. let s take a listen. as president, i recognize that the woke mind virus represents a war on the truth, so we will wage a war on the woke. we will fight the woke in education. we will fight the woke in the corporations. we will fight the woke in the halls of congress. we will never, ever surrender to the woke mob. we will make woke ideology leave it to the dust bin of history. it s gone. it s almost not new in any
torquically what we might have expected. now republican presidential candidate ron desantis was on the campaign trail friday. he made stops at several towns in south carolina. he took a qkquit question from e audience about how he met his wife over the lack of audience engagement at his events so far. for the most part, he stuck with his conservative campaign pitch. i believe that woke ideology represents a war on truth itself. so as president, we will wage a war on the woke. we will fight the woke in the schools. we will fight the woke in the corporations. we will never, ever surrender to the woke mob. we re going to leave woke ideology in the dust bin of history where it belongs. so desantis is try convince