speak about the desantis perspective. how does his camp view trump? it seems they re positioning him to the right of trump on moat most issues, right? they re competing for the same constituency. it s the same voters. the assumption has been that those are trump s voters. the way governor desantis really came to the national prominence was over covid. he s been well to the right, you know, very, very libertarian, now anti-mask, anti-vaccine, but really playing to that crowd, which is kind of anti-science, anti-elites, more than president trump. dexter, you ve spent several months reporting on this piece for the new yorker this week. i want to read a paragraph from the piece to you. it is from a speech he gave in orlando earlier this year. you write, from the main stage, desantis flashed a smile and tossed baseball caps into the crowd. in the 20-minute speech, he described an america under assault by left-wing elites who,
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domenech the washington post columnist marc thiessen. you know, used to be a speech writer, marc, there are moments when presidents need to go some place in a moat. he had moments with these family members but the speech he delivered was different in its tone, tenor and what he was looking do. it was. the interesting thing i was with president bush when he gave a lot of these kinds of speeches, the job of the president is to be the consoler in chief, the uniter and chief. and president biden campaigned on being the uniter in chief. instead he chose to use this moment to sort of subtly but accuse the republican party of supporting white supremism and call out this replacement theory. i think it s important to remember that the people who came up with replacement theory were the democrats. democrats were the ones who said democracy is destiny the more immigrants that come in color.
dollars. he s never done security ever in his life. was a graffiti artist. the reason they couldn t hire real security because real security guards are too associated with law enforcement and they wouldn t trust them. so they had a guy that had never done security at all do security for black lives matter. and they did a few private plays and said that was because of covid. another number that really shocked me, they only gave about 200 to 300 grand to the families of mike brown and trevon martin but spent $6 million on a mansion. think about that. a couple hundred thousand for the real victims of actual violence, and then they spent $6 million, 10 times that, on a mansion. and they put $32 million into the stock market. for people that hate capitalism, a lot of money to put in the stock market. emily: lot of hypocrisy in their expenditures, dana? dana: i read about their security piece, what do they have a moat and live tigers around the manning? i also think it s very interesting
tell us about that. you may have seen an interesting interaction over the weekend. this was not on my bingo card. i had a bit of a standoff on the air on msnbc with a gentleman dressed as paul revere who was preventing reporters from entering a rally rally between mccormick and barnett. sorry, mast ra know and barnett. it is difficult to talk about this with a straight face. i mean, it was a really bizarre scene. all the reporters were there. this was supposed to the big rally for moat of them. mastriano made headlines getting the trump endorsement. we were just being asked to let in and were prevented from doing that, again, by a gentleman dressed as paul revere. michael steele, my serious point is josh is on the ground, but our reporting shouldn t lose sight of the fact that anti-journalist, anti-press access, pro trump at that point,