extremists passbook bans to prevent them from learning our true history. book bans in this year of our lord 2023. and while they do this, check it out, they push forward revisionist history. just yesterday in the state of florida they decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefitted from slavery. they insult us in an attempt to gaslight us, and we will not stand for it. i want to bring in nbc s allie raffa covering the white house, eugene daniels is politico s white house correspondent and co-author of the politico play book. he s also an msnbc political contributor. john kasich served as the republican governor of ohio and is an msnbc political analyst. let s start in florida, eugene. give us some details about
and watched students going by emmett till s casket. the reaction, the visceral reaction that they had. you can t even begin to teach that in a classroom and the conversations that they were having as they left. the naacp responded to this saying they would fight, quote, malicious actors including those inside the desantis administration. what do you see happening here, and is it limited to florida? chris, last night my wife i got home last night from an event out of town and she was going through looking at her phone, and she said i cannot believe that this could be true, and i said what is it now, sweetheart? and she talked about this, whatever this commission or something saying that, well, let s look at the positive side of what happened with slavery. i said, well, that simply can t be true. she goes, well, i mean, it s being reported. a lot of things get reported. i don t know how much it s true. it turns out it is true that
he ought to talk about the fact that he repaired that bridge. they had the big hurricane, knocked out the bridge, he went in and got the bridge rebuilt in a week or two. amazing stuff. there are many things he can talk about that were very positive. all the people moving into florida, the battle he had with gavin newsom, somehow he s got off that track, and somebody s telling him to get off that track, and beyond it. war with disney, everything is woke. you know, everything. and i just don t think it makes any sense because it doesn t put him in as positive a light with as positive a message as he could have. maybe he ll figure it out. i don t think he has to fire his top staff, i think he ought to fire his closest advisers. that s a reboot i think would make more sense. more smiles, more friendly, strength, projection, not anger, not divisiveness. i think the problem for that, and you ll understand it given what you have said so far today in your conversations in your
go to your happy price priceline as we speak, the culture wars are escalating on the right with republican candidates rushing to take advantage as they battle what they call the woke left. just some stark examples of the growing divide include a fight over jason aldean s new song try that in a small town. one critics say is rife with racist and violent overtones, although aldean denies that. some republicans are defending the song as a celebration of american values. down in florida, governor desantis s department of education has rewritten the public school s history curriculum to include a portion describing slavery as beneficial for some slaves. vice president harris who is speaking on this very topic in florida later today is having none of it. and speaking of our children,
courting evangelical voters at the family leadership sonnet in des moines, iowa on friday. but notice really absent from that summit? former president donald trump was been sparring with iowa governor kim reynolds who says she is remaining neutral and she won t endorsed a candidate ahead of the caucuses. now, despite skipping traditional campaign, stop trump still hold firm as the front runner in the race. the, latest florida, atlanta university poll shows that even in governor ron desantis s home state of florida, former president trump holds a 20% lead over him with gop voters. with other candidates still trailing much further behind. joining me now is victor, she shouted you director of voters of tomorrow. former white house intern and he was the youngest delegate to president biden in 2020. victor, my friend, always circuit that have you on the show. i wanted to start with you with that fau poll. it clearly points to trouble for the desantis campaign. and it s also 18 vote profile