full focus to your state? do you think he can continue to be the culture warrior governor he s been so far? or will he have to change course? it s going to be interesting. when he comes back to florida, he s burned a lot of bridges inside of the republican party. he s alienated the trump base here in earth, which is very strong. we have seen a county straw poll from county to county that trump is not letting him in these troubles. so he s going to come back with no money, with no political friends, with the influence and he s going to hit that decision to make. does he continue to try to break in any of his power and control over the woke agenda? or is the republican legislature and base here in florida not going to accept him back? it s going to be interesting to see what product he takes when he comes home and more importantly, what the republican legislature that has rolled out the carpet and all have his agenda items that last
incredible story of progress to tell and at least the ten months to deliver that straight to public voters. terrance woodbury, sank for being on with us again. as the iowa caucus approaches, perhaps no republicans has more on that line on monday then ron desantis. the florida governor has focused nearly all of his resources on the hawkeye state and campaigned in all 99 of its counties. faith known as the full grassley. but effort doesn t necessarily translate to support. a suffolk university poll authority shows him battling for a second place with nikki haley. with both candidates well behind donald trump. and if you think new hampshire would be kinder to florida governor, consider this. his campaign says he ll flight directly to south carolina after monday night s caucus.
few years, and to see exactly what happens. it s going to be a really interesting test of the republicans. but i can say. wanting the florida democrats already. we have been organized, on the ground, talking about the issues that are important to the people of our. we are ready for 2024, because we understand what s on that line and we understand how important it is to get back to the basics, back to the edges people in florida care about. on that point, and effort to enshrine access to abortion in florida has received enough signatures to put the issue on e ballot in november. we ve seen simila measures passed in state like kansas, kentucky, and ohio. how confident are you that the measure will in fact be on that ballot and that if it is, it will energize that democratic base to go out and vote? you know, brad, after november, 2022, everybody can
to florida out. but we saw when the republican legislature passed the abortion ban, that 77% of floridians didn t want, crossroad organizations, democratic and republican came together, and got in an eight month period of time almost 1.4 million signatures. we only needed 891,000. this shows, this issue in particular, and with mentioned it, not just here in florida but across the entire country, and get under the ballot and people have the choice to make the ultimate decision of what they want for their own personal lives, making sure they still have access to abortion, that galvanizes, gets everybody out from independents, republicans, democrats. that s what you are going to see here in florida. you are going to see, once we get past the hurdle of the supreme court, it s going to get under the palette and then the people of our state are going to come together, protect their freedoms, and fight for
joining me now is nikki fried, chair of the florida democratic party. miss fried, you know governor desantis very well. he s from your state of florida. what do you think he struggled to gain traction and the state of iowa? thanks for having me on. i think it s simple. the more and more he spends with people, the less they like him. you are seeing that not just in iowa but across the entire country. when you start to peel what the layers that is ron desantis, people just don t like him. and on top of it, they re seeing looks happen here in florida. right now, florida, there is three times higher inflation, three times higher than that national average. we have an insurance crisis that is crippling people, our middle classed, property insurance, middle class all over our state and our working class people are leaving. so they re seeing what s happened here in the state of florida. of course, what s happened this past week, we had a