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Failure to Launch: The DeSantis Debacle

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Nation Weekly
May 26, 2023
When Ron DeSantis finally got to announcing his bid for president this week on Twitter, he trashed Joe Biden for his “woke” politics, claimed that Black leaders under other Florida administrations were there because of “identity politics,” and hyped his lame response to the Covid pandemic—which is expected to be one of his major lines of attack on Trump.

“Overall, the night will be remembered as a DeSantis debacle,” writes our national affairs correspondent Joan Walsh. But don’t be fooled: “DeSantis remains dangerous…for his ideas—if not his political clout.”
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Failure to Launch: The DeSantis Debacle
The jokes write themselves after Ron DeSantis’s campaign opener, on Twitter with cartoon villain Elon Musk, flames out as badly as some SpaceX rockets.
Joan Walsh
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