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Nominee, lets talk about ron desantis. last week, the atlantic published a piece about the gops new golden boy. i will put that. unquote and whether he could stand up to national scrutiny. mark libuse writes about the former governor, quote, people who know him better and ive watched him longer are skeptical of his ability to take on the former president. desantis, they say, is no thoroughbred political athlete. he can be awkward and plotting. lets take a quick look at some of desantiss more awk...

If your child has a congenital heart defect or something or more likely a bad covid, we dont have one. your child will wait for another child to die. >> reporter: in these five states, more than 90% of icu beds are now occupied. this situation is worse in states where vaccination rates are lowest. in mississippi, just 36% are fully vaccinated. almost 8,000 mississippi residents have died from covid. how many have died from the vaccine? 0. >> reporter: and this just in from florida, a record numb...

>> right. ron desantis made an image of himself, forged a political brand in congress of being one of the number one critics of the fbi over the russia investigation in defense of president trump. he then gets in office, this information unfolds and the fbi kind of rolled him and said, look, well tell you the information but you got to sign this nda. so suddenly he kind of goes from this attack dog of the agency to a little more of a lap dog in kind of doing its bidding. when i asked him about i...

Desantis handling this? voters can sometimes have long memories. hes new to office. this kind of counters the public image he had crafted for himself in congress. >> right. ron desantis made an image of himself, forged a political brand in congress of being one of the number one critics of the fbi over the russia investigation in defense of president trump. he then gets in office, this information unfolds and the fbi kind of rolled him and said, look, well tell you the information but you got to...

Brand in congress of being one of the number one critics of the fbi over the russia investigation in defense of president trump. he then gets in office, this information unfolds and the fbi kind of rolled him and said, look, well tell you the information but you got to sign this nda. so suddenly he kind of goes from this attack dog of the agency to a little more of a lap dog in kind of doing its bidding. when i asked him about it yesterday, he was none too pleased about it. he said, look, im fru...

Heterosexual christians." yeah, adam, that is what those policies that led to record low unemployment for latinos and african-americans were all about, stoking ethnic fears. that is absurd. the most despicable use of racism in the midterm came from the trump haters and some democrats. >> im not calling mr. desantis a racist, i am subleasing the racists believe he is a racist. >> sign me up in the category of people who think he is racist. he has said so many racist things. he is a racist pig! >>...

Early on. seen in this campaign ad using toy blocks to build trumps wall with his daughter. >> build the wall! >> reporter: but the race has been ugly from the start, including accusations of racism. >> im not calling mr. desantis a racist, im simply saying the racists believe hes a racist. >> reporter: the republican then taking aim at gillum, pointing to the feds looking into corruption in tallahassee. >> the fact of the matter is, he has not served honorably as the mayor. >> reporter: the oth...

And said about and grew gillum, "the last thing we need to do is monkey this up." that and some other things about ron desantis led gillum to enter the most memorable debate line from any candidate running in either party for office this year. >> my grandmother used to say a hit dog will holler, and it hollered through this room. mr. desantis has spoken. first of all, hes got neo-nazis helping him out in this state. he has spoken at racist conferences. he has accepted a contribution and would no...

From any candidate running in either party for office this year. >> my grandmother used to say a hit dog will holler, and it hollered through this room. mr. desantis has spoken. first of all, hes got neo-nazis helping him out in this state. he has spoken at racist conferences. he has accepted a contribution and would not return it from someone who referred to the former president of the united states as a muslim n-i-g-g-e-r. when asked to return that money, he said no. im not calling mr. desanti...

Over an election where you are on the ballot raises too many questions of conflicts of interest. >> i want to -- i have to get this in, i have to get this in scott. i want to play this moment. from the florida debate last week between democrat andrew gillum and republican ron desantis. this is last night. yeah, sorry. >> my grandmother used to say, a hit dog will holler. and it hollered through this room. mr. desantis has spoken, first of all, hes got neo-nazis helping him out in this state. hes...