Jen Psaki, former White House press secretary, and MSNBC host, declared during an episode of All In on Wednesday that Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) may not be able to unseat former President Donald Trump in the 2024 Republican presidential nomination race if he continues to act as the culture war hero.
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Psaki cited polls showing Trumps popularity increasing and DeSantiss decreasing as evidence of her claim. The polls started to drop for DeSantis and go up for Trump around the time that Trump started going after DeSantis. There is this clear correlation there. With DeSantis, hes just started taking the gloves off this week, right? He did these interviews. We have seen the clips of the interview.
She pointed to the governors recent interviews and public support of the Dont Say Gay bill as examples of his attempts to go more extreme in the culture war. Hes clearly gone out today as well to try and be the culture war hero, going more extreme on this Dont Say Gay bill to try to be the owner of the culture war. I dont know that that is going work because, as we have shown with the polls and digging into them further, Trumps got such a high floor, and hes already had a high floor. Thats why he jokes about being able to shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue. DeSantis hasnt quite figured out how hes going to poke into that.
Psaki also noted how Trump can send a bat signal to the Republican Partys most vocal supporters to rally behind him, giving him an advantage that DeSantis has yet to find.
As she concluded her remarks, Psaki firmly stated that the governor does not have this same power. According to Psaki, DeSantis is unlikely to secure the Republican nomination for President in 2024 if he continues to be seen as the culture war hero.
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