DeSantis warns GOP faces 'issue' keeping Trump voters engaged in future elections

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ronda Santis, governor of Florida. He was on the Fox
and Friends Morning Show and he was saying how Congress
hasn't done anything since August.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Listen to this. What should be the bullet points. I
think it's economy. Immigration. We don't talk about immigration as
much as we were maybe when Biden was letting it in.
The border is secure, we've stopped the influx. He's now
working on a moratorium of new people coming in, particularly
from some of these countries where the people are hostile.
That's a huge victory for people. Then you be talking

(00:33):
about that and go even bolder on that, I just
think you got to be bold. I think you've got
to be strong. And I think one of the frustrations
with the Congress is what have they done since August
till now? They really haven't done anything right. And it's
like if I'd be like every day coming out with
something new and make the Democrats go on the record
show the contrast. Think about what we've been able to
win big in Florida is because there's a very sharp

(00:56):
contrast to what we're doing and what the liberal Democrats
stand for. Parents' rights, illegal immigration, you know, tax anything
you can think of most voters knew we were on
their side, and I think you got to really make
that sharp. But I would tell you, you know, the
Democrats they caused a lot of this with the inflation,
and now they're acting like it's like they had nothing

(01:16):
to do with it. Are you too good of the catch?
You got to come in more ale? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah, but wait, wait, wait a second.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
You can.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Put that to the Republicans too. They act like it's
all Democrats that caused the inflation. Everybody's guilty in this,
And I get what he's saying, and he's right. Have
you noticed there's been almost no sales pitch of the
big bullcrap bill.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, you haven't heard a lot about it.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Numerous publications have had articles about this that it's really
frustrating a lot of these especially you know, House members
are going to be in these tight races, who say,
wait a second, we went on a limb for you.
We voted on something that was deemed very kind of
unpopular when it passed. And normally when a president gets
a signature agenda item, he goes around out around the country,

(01:58):
whereas his people go out and keeps talking about it.
You haven't seen any of this we had. Ben and
I were talking Ben verbannikrom from Tara hate WTHI and
Tara Hote. We were having conversation last night with our
waitress when we were out watching the Bears game and
there was almost nobody in this bar last night, and
we were like, dude, usually Sundays are pretty good when

(02:19):
the NFL is going on. People go out do stuff.
And we were talking to her. She goes, well, you know,
last night was just super packed. But she was saying,
this is more of a reflection now, not on Fridays
or Saturdays, they do okay, but the day to day
operations or flow is more of what you're seeing here
on this Sunday rather than how well we did on

(02:40):
the you know, the game last night.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
That was more than norm throughout the week.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
Right. And then when Ben and I were walking back
to the to the radio station, this is seven thirty, right,
We're not talking. This is not midnight. This is seven
thirty on a Sunday, and the city's vacant, like there's nobody.
It's like some dystopian like or well thing. And we're
looking around at all these businesses, including these high end
restaurants and We're saying, I wonder how they're doing it,

(03:06):
because not only you're not seeing people out on the streets.
And again, it's Christmas time. As a kid, you know,
kid or even an adulting come down here, trees lit up,
People are coming to see the thing. It's a Sunday night.
The weather wasn't you know, it wasn't sixty and sunny,
but it also wasn't minus ten. You normally see all
sorts of people out and about, and there's nobody here.
And so one of the problems the Republicans are having

(03:29):
is the same thing the Democrats had last year, which is,
you can put up whatever numbers you want and you
can say, oh, this, by this measure, the economy's great.
You can't make people not believe in their own experience.
You can't make people not believe their own life that
they're living day to day. And it's like Trump's doing
the same thing Biden did. No, no, no, It's great. Well,

(03:49):
but it's not.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Another thing that Ron DeSantis was saying was that a
lot of the Republicans they rode into office on Trump's coattails,
and they're not going to be able to do that again.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
A couple things why in an off year mid term,
the party in powers voters tend to be more complacent.
Party out of power, they get upset, right, That's just
the nature of midterms. We saw it when Obama was
in and Republicans ki so that dynamic is always going
to be there. And then I think Republicans have an
issue that Donald Trump has created a big pool of voters,
but some of them are unique to him, right, so

(04:20):
they will go vote for Trump and they'll vote for
all the Republicans when Trump's on the ballt but if
he's not on the ballot, some of them don't vote. Now,
you can overcome that. We did in Florida in twenty
twenty two. You know, we had a state that was
a purple state, one point state. We won by a
million and a half votes, twenty points, the biggest Republican
victory ever. But we did that based on results and substance.

(04:40):
We get it by flying under a banner of bold colors,
not pale paestals. We were sticking it to the left
every single day and delivering big victory. So it can
be done. But I think it's like, you can't go
on twenty twenty four and say oh, well, we Republicans
won this district by ten points, so therefore we're going
to win it because President Trump is the reason you want.
But what do you say,