activated part of the republican primary electorate as it pertains to the sort of anti-woke agenda governor desantis has embraced and how virulent that point is. let s take a look at this video. let me show you over here. this is clothing. dinosaurs are cool, right? there s a big rainbow on the dinosaur. we re not going to stop there. we ve got a cloud hula-hooping with a rainbow. what s this? trucks are cool. why are we picking up a rainbow, guys? why is this boy s clothing today. i m not done. baby shark, bye-bye, masculinity they re destroying masculinity. that s who ron desantis is going for, right, the dad in there with his made by god gender division t-shirt railing
bio, talk about me and avoid engaging trump or hit back because lord knows donald trump is going to be swinging and swinging fiercely. yeah, mark, in the time those 21 minutes of technical glitches we were treated to that, the trump campaign literally cut an ad juxtaposing trump s campaign launch with the ron desantis campaign launch. they are going to be vicious. and the desantis people seem so intent on not saying bad about donald trump, the opposite is not true. from the jump trump is trying to position desantis as arrogant and ungrateful for all the things i put in quotes that trump has done for desantis, and you ve got to wonder whether that s going to be a resident message when it comes to the republican base. yeah, i would agree i actually think it could be. it s something one could understand. desantis very blatantly decided to piggy bank on trump and sort
person who can make america great again. what a night. we have so very much to talk about. joining me now are jonathan martin, the politics bureau chief at politico, and mark liebovich. first your reaction to the 21 minutes of technical glitches the audience was treated to as part of the desantis launch. i thought it was a great and unifying evening for america. i think, first of all, it s very rare that you you see donald trump, fox news, so many democrats, i m guessing so many people who know ron desantis and suspected that maybe he wasn t ready for prime time are
now, lucky for mr. dant s that was not the only part of his launch today. he also released this much more traditional ad. in florida we proved it can be done. we chose facts over fear, education over indoctrination, law and order over rioting and disorder. we showed we can and must revitalize america. we need the courage to lead and the strength to win. i m ron desantis, and i m running for president to lead our great american comeback. there s a lot to get into there, but there is notably no mention of donald trump. there is no one in a maga onsie, and no one is quoting apprentice lines, and no one is building walls out of cardboard block. so those days when ron desantis played understudy to donald trump, those days seem to be over. in fact, governor desantis at this point would probably you
that exists in the republican party, but it is i think so far divorced from the concerns of ordinarily people. you know who knows about what sells? target. if there s if there s a group of people that know about what the public wants, it s the people who develop the merch at target. although target is taking this stuff off the shelves in response to threats from and that is separate thing around pride month. there s an activated group of target consumers who are using violence to get this stuff off the shelves. this is a video from earlier, and i would argue to ron desantis and anyone else doing casual polling about what works and what doesn t in the broader public, target knows that there are a lot of people who don t mind buying these shirts. people also like disney. exactly. largest employer in the state, also widely popular with basically all children despite what parents may want their children to look at.