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i ll tell you what that would actually look like and i ll ask jacksonville s mayor elect donna deegan how she pulled off a stunning upset with a much different brand of politics. plus, fulton county district attorney fani willis signals that something big could becoming an august. i have some unsolicited advice about how drunk donald trump s republican rivals might want to message around that. meanwhile, president biden cuts a foreign trip short as time runs out to strike a deal on the debt limit. one of the senators urging biden to consider going around his republican hostage takers joins me live. and later, a jog in the park with senator cory booker. we talk about his message of positivity amid so much cynicism in washington and his friendship with one of those republicans running for president. . both florida governor ron desantis is set to officially enter the race for president this week. and let s be honest, he s definitely work in progress when it comes to ....
Which means 2000 workers who were going to come to florida are no longer relocating to florida. so that in a nutshell is the desantis plan for america. make it just like florida, you can decide out there if you like that or not but the fact is we don t know how this republican primary will play out and the general election is still 18 months away. but this week, voters in florida s largest city did seem to indicate that the desantis brand of politics is a relief for them. in jacksonville, democrat donna deegan and be a republican backed by ron desantis. jacksonville was the largest city in america with republican mayor but not anymore. jacksonville s mayor elect donna deegan joins me now. first of all, congratulations on your big win, you ve given a lot of democrats hope about florida. jen, thank you so much. it s good to be with you. i just laid out there what is happening in tallahassee under governor desantis, especially in recent months and over the last year. i want to ask you ....
Commitment and we followed through and i think what you saw resoundingly from the voters was not only were they tired of the jacksonville that wasn t moving forward at a pace they would like but they were really tired of the ugly. this is a community that went through three bouts of breast cancer with me. we built a really strong bond over the years while i was on the air. people prayed for me, and i created a foundation for them. there was a lot going on here but i think i had a very deep rooted relationship. we lived a shared life with folks here. i felt like if anybody had an opportunity to bring in folks from across the aisle, i had that opportunity. and then i had the most amazing campaign manager in the world pat mcculloch, in amazing women who came in with a grassroots plan from day one and just lead that thing like a general. we were the only campaign to qualify for the petition, we got 9000 signatures and then we ....
I ll tell you what that would actually look like and i ll ask jacksonville s mayor elect donna deegan how she pulled off a stunning upset with a much different brand of politics. plus, fulton county district attorney fani willis signals that something big could becoming an august. i have some unsolicited advice about how drunk donald trump s republican rivals might want to message around that. meanwhile, president biden cuts a foreign trip short as time runs out to strike a deal on the debt limit. one of the senators urging biden to consider going around his republican hostage takers joins me live. and later, a jog in the park with senator cory booker. we talk about his message of positivity amid so much cynicism in washington and his friendship with one of those republicans running for president. . both florida governor ron desantis is set to officially enter the race for president this week. and let s be honest, he s definitely work in progress when it comes to retail ....
Disconnect between what is happening in the legislature and what voters actually care about in jacksonville? i think one of the most concerning things to mayors is the loss of local rule under this legislature and governor. that s one of those things that we ve been hyper focused on. i ran a very jacksonville-based campaign. i m a fifth generation jacksonville native, i m somebody who was a news anchor for 25 years, i ve a foundation for breast cancer patients. people know me as someone who works very well across the aisle. but at the end of the day, but we kept hearing over and over again when we were out of the neighborhoods and talking to people was how much is there going to be left for local mayors to do if we continue to take away local rule the way we have done in tallahassee. so i do think that was something that really resonate with people in addition to some of these other things you are talking about. one of the things, mayor elect deegan that gave people hope is that yo ....