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Nominee, let's talk about ron desantis. last week, the atlantic published a piece about the gop's 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 i've 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. let's take a quick look at some of desantis's more awkward moments. >> you do not have to wear those masks. plays. honestly, it's not doing. anything...

If your child has a congenital heart defect or something or more likely a bad covid, we don't 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 number of new covid cases in one week. more than 150,000. now remember when governor ron desantis threa...

>> 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, we'll 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, i'm frustrated by it and believes it ...

Desantis handling this? voters can sometimes have long memories. he's 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, we'll 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...

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, we'll 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, i'm frustrated by it and believes it was overclassified. but desantis, understandably, maybe the calculat...