Care about their kids education, i think that is also softening it a little bit by adding the grandma references as well. but there is a chance, if it starts being interpreted as a safe spot in the campaign for example for the moms for liberty and things like that, that are more blatantly embracing the culture wars in ways that she kind of stopped short of doing, i think that is where the risk comes. because we know that the culture wars will perhaps have a republican base in a primary, but they may not play as well in a general election. and even leaning heavily in this covid message is an interesting choice. dave zweigle wrote this and i thit w smart. the fauci dystopia that desantis talkut never came to dubuque, in iowa and nashua and new hampshire and another reason for the fade, s were the least controversial among olders voters who are the mt likely
Thinking to myself, what is going on with this country? so we need a dose of common sense. i think the good news is if you look at some of the obstacles, a lot of problems, a lot of pessimism, but a place like florida we have shown it can be done. we chose facts over fear, we chose education over indoctrination. we chose law and order over rioting and disorder. florida held the line when freedom itself hung in the balance. we were not going to let our state descend into some type of fauci dystopia where people s livelihoods were destroyed and freedoms curtailed. no, we stood up to protect people s rights, to protect people s jobs and businesses and to protect our kids right to get an in-person education. you know what? we were better off as a result of that. we chose freedom over fauciism and that was the right thing to do. [applause]
Them, what do you think of that as a strategy? well, the way desantis is operating has been really fascinating. there are about a third of republican primary voters that are opening to voting for somebody other than trump that are kind of looking for an alternative to trump. they tend to be more moderate voters, though. desantis is not going after them, right? desantis is going to the right. desantis is going to the right of trump on what the desantis campaign has identified the strategist for the super pac has identified the biggest issue for republican primary voters, which is progressivism. desantis referred to it as leftism taking over the country. fauci dystopia is not going to be a good message. the six-week abortion ban that desantis signed in florida is not good for a general election.
Himself and the former president. take a listen to what he said earlier today about his covid response at an earlier event in sioux city, iowa. take a listen. we held the line when freedom itself hung in the balance. i was not going to let the state of florida descend into some type of fauci dystopia where people s freedoms were curtailed and their livelihoods were destroyed. we stood up for people s rights. we chose freedom over fauciism, and we are better off for having done that. reporter: on that and several other issues, chris, governor desantis is trying to run to the right of former president trump. when he was asked about that in that news conference afterwards, he did respond and said any criticism that the former president is lobbying had him and saying that new york state handled covid better he sees as ridiculous because the former president moved his family to florida. i ve been speaking with voter,
State descend into some type of fauci dystopia where people s livelihoods were ruined and freedoms curtailed. no, we chose freedom and we are better off for having done that. [applause] it is important when i was making these decisions when your governor was making decisions, she and i for the only ones in the country saying kids need to be in school, you shouldn t lock kids out of school, she took black, i took flak from all over, the corporate press, the left, their bureaucracy, even some republicans were attacking me and i remember people telling me, supporters like man, you got to do something different because you re getting filleted if you re not going to be in this world politically if you keep on that course but the leader s job is to put the interest of the people he represents before his own and i