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ac 360 begins right now. good evening, we begin with the contest for who will lead the republican party as its presidential candidate in 2024 as well as a touch of irony. both are embodied by the op-ed that larry hogan wrote for this sunday s the new york times. in it he writes, to once again be a successful governing party we must move on from mr. trump. he also takes aim without naming him at florida governor ron desantis and what he refers to, quote, as angry, divisive politics. in hogan s view they need someone other than those two, a common sense conservative who can broaden the party s base, someone his argument suggests like him. the irony is he s writing those words in an op-ed explaining why he is not running for president which with all due respect to nikki haley. each spoke over the weekend and though ron desantis was more measured in tone than the former president at the conservative political action committee convention, both portrayed themselves as l ....
Anger about certain things, but there s real concern he can t beat joe biden because we know he already lost to him and there is concern about during his four years he complained about a lot of things and didn t finish it. that s why i think desantis has more upside. on this point about the general election, i think whether we nominate trump, desantis or pick anybody else who is in or considering this race, democrats are going to say the same thing, listen to van tonight. he s already describing ron desantis as worse than donald trump. that s going to be the case for any nominee. look at what he did in florida. he won by 20 points. he turned miami red. this is a guy who has clearly got appeal beyond the republican base, democrats don t want to and other people seem to be worried about this idea that he can t appeal. look at what he did in florida. he appealed to everybody. van? maybe so. i think he s got a challenge to get the nomination, though. people like yourself love to imag ....