pretty obvious. he s seeing ron desantis has built this incredible national brand by owning these culture fights. he s seen this giant yawning gap on the democratic side. he said, i can be the left s ron desantis. i think it s pretty clear to democrats now, they can t just ignore it. they have to put something on the table for voters to choose. that s it for us. we ll be talking about this for quite some time. thanks for watching inside politics. coming up next, state of the union with jake tapper and dana bash. dana s guests are kissty gnome and adam kinzinger. you can watch dana monday night on celebrate the fourth in america with fireworks coast to coast and incredible music at 7:00 p.m. eastern time. happy fourth of july and have a great rest of your day.
if everything else clears. it s hard to see him going up against kamala harris, but stranger things have happened in politics for sure. he has the money are the donors if he decides to do something in the future. he s filling a vacuum. the most important point is he s filling a vaum. i hear this from the biden administration, including those in the white house, there s a feeling they haven t been aggressive enough. they haven t been fighting these cultural specifically early 2021, all the republicans were talking about all this nonsense, crt, ha, ha, dr. seuss. there was this mocking. then they saw the youngkin race and they re like, oh, no, this stuff is working. we better engage and not just step away and let them own these culture fights. he s stepping into the fray and filling this vacuum. he s obviously seen i haven t talkeded to gavin newsom about it, but i have no idea of his motivations here, but it s
culture fights over how race is taught in school and the rights of transgender children to recapture suburban voters, potentially rocketing fights over education to the top of campaigns across the country. we are attuned a, there is a larger issue here we always believe that we should be more critical of herself, the press corps the people we read in the people we see all day long on cable news tend to live in blue dots, no fault of their own it s where their employers are located but it helps explain why the press court largely was shocked at the rise of the tea party. shocked that the election of donald trump, out beyond the last exit from whole foods, people have been listening to steve bannon and trumpers have been running for town in the city council, and boards fed. and this is happening in town, after town, across what is still a very red country.