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Psaki cited polls showing Trump’s popularity increasing and DeSantis’s decreasing as evidence of her claim. “The polls started to drop for DeSantis and go up for Trump around the time that Trump started going after DeSantis. There is this clear correlation there. With DeSantis, he’s just started taking the gloves off this week, right? He did these interviews. We have seen the clips of the interview.”
She pointed to the governor’s recent interviews and public support of the “Don’t Say Gay” bill as examples of his attempts to “go more extreme” in the culture war. “He’s clearly gone out today as well to try and be the culture war hero, going more extreme on this Don’t Say Gay bill to try to be the owner of the culture war. I don’t know that that is going work because, as we have shown with the polls and digging into them further, Trump’s got such a high floor, and he’s already had a high floor. That’s why he jokes about being able to shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue. DeSantis hasn’t quite figured out how he’s going to poke into that.”
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Psaki also noted how Trump can “send a bat signal” to the Republican Party’s most vocal supporters to rally behind him, giving him an advantage that DeSantis has yet to find.
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As she concluded her remarks, Psaki firmly stated that the governor does not have this same power. According to Psaki, DeSantis is unlikely to secure the Republican nomination for President in 2024 if he continues to be seen as the “culture war hero.”
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