“There’s evil out there”: Rep. Charlie Crist on Florida, DeSantis and Disney

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🗓️ 8 April 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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This week, Inside the Hive cohost Joe Hagan talks to Florida Congressman Charlie Crist, former Republican and one-time governor, about the culture wars emanating from his home state and specifically, from Governor Ron DeSantis. As DeSantis passes discriminatory new laws targeting gay and trans people, generating partisan bile for a potential presidential run, Crist is betting DeSantis is a “paper tiger” who is weaker than he appears. "I think he's terribly vulnerable,” he says. “[His] support is a mile wide and an inch deep.” Taking a page from Biden’s playbook against Trump in 2020, Crist thinks voters secretly want civility and not bullying, Disney and not DeSantis, even if current polling shows DeSantis trouncing Crist in a theoretical match up. "I'm an optimist, I'm idealistic, and I believe good will triumph over bad,” Crist says. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:38.5	Welcome to Inside the Hive.
0:40.0	This is your co-host, Joe Hagen.
0:42.3	Taking you inside the news with the people who make it and shape it.
0:46.4	Today, we're asking, what's the matter with Florida?
0:50.5	And specifically, what's the matter with Florida's governor, Ron Desanis?
0:56.2	Trump is in Florida at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, but his biggest rival, potential
1:01.3	rival for 2024, is Ron Desanis, who in recent weeks has been ratcheting up the culture wars
1:08.4	signing this recent law banning children from learning about gay and trans people in
1:13.3	school, so-called Don't Say Gay Bill, and another law aimed at critical race theory, essentially
1:19.7	banning it from curriculum.
1:21.7	So today, to help me understand what's going on in Florida is his potential rival in
1:26.7	the upcoming gubernatorial election, Charlie Christ, himself a former governor of Florida
1:32.3	from 2007 to 2011.
1:34.2	Now, Congressman from Florida's 13th District, welcome to Inside the Hive, Congressman.
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