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Is Ron DeSantis going to run for president in 2024? If he's, New Irregular co-hosts Andy Levy and Molly Jong-Quick assume he’ll be a scarier candidate than Donald Trump. They level to a lackluster speech the previous president not too long ago gave throughout an occasion run by conservative scholar activist group Turning Level USA.
“A part of why Trump wasn’t as efficient as he may have been was as a result of he was hindered by his emotionality, proper?” says Molly. “I don’t assume that DeSantis is gonna rise up there and say, ‘It’s actually concerning the 2020 election.’ He’s gonna rise up there and say, ‘We have to, , punish trans youngsters.’”
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“Regardless that DeSantis is boring as hell, he’s kind of the brand new boring,” she provides.
“DeSantis gained’t rise up there and say, ‘We’re gonna punish transgender youngsters.’ What he’ll do is rise up there and say, ‘We imagine in dad and mom’ rights,’ and he’ll sofa it in numerous methods as a result of he’s smarter than Trump in that approach. So he’ll rise up there and say it in a approach that's someway extra palatable to even the people who find themselves not probably the most rabid of the bottom,” Andy provides.
The 2 increase on this within the episode, adopted by an interview with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul. She talks to Molly about what she and her administration are doing to forestall ugly fallout from the Supreme Court docket ruling on weapons within the state and her opinion on Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg not prosecuting Trump.
Plus! James Obergefell, the plaintiff within the historic Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court docket ruling that legalized same-sex marriage, shares the occasions that led to his case and why he’s “disgusted” right now.
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