Jacob Ogles
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will sit down for an extended exclusive with CNN’s Jake Tapper, the network announced.
Tapper, host of CNN’s weekday day The Lead, will interview DeSantis in Columbia, South Carolina immediately after a campaign event. The interview will air on Tuesday at 4 p.m.
CNN in a press release hinted the network will discuss policy positions with DeSantis, who has been running to the right of President Donald Trump on cultural issues.
“On the campaign trail, DeSantis has projected himself as a more conservative alternative to Trump on several issues, including abortion and guns. He has touted Florida’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and measures he’s signed that LGBTQ advocates have criticized,” the press release states.
“In the first major policy proposal of his presidential campaign, DeSantis last month proposed a sweeping crackdown on illegal immigration, including sending the US military to the border and mass detention and deportation of undocumented people.”
While DeSantis has been a fixture on Fox News dating back to his days as a U.S. Congressman, he has largely eschewed other cable networks. That includes CNN, an outlet viewed especially negatively by populist conservatives DeSantis has wooed in his quest for the Republican presidential nomination.
But DeSantis after nearly two months on the campaign trail continues to lag behind former President Donald Trump in polls of Republican primary voters. That has prompted the DeSantis campaign to reportedly scale down staffing and evaluate ways to reset the campaign’s direction.
A leaked internal campaign document, first published by NBC News, from the DeSantis campaign made clear increasing free media and attracting news coverage will be a priority moving forward.
“The earned media is the cake,” the memo reads. “The paid media (early states and national conservative cable) is the icing and keeps the messaging points from the eared media hits in the voter’s face.”
Notably, former President Donald Trump, the consistent frontrunner for the GOP nomination, has appeared on CNN even while heavily criticizing coverage. Most notably, he appeared in a live town hall event on the network in June moderated by CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins.
10 comments
Dont Say FLA
July 16, 2023 at 1:29 pm
CNN didn’t learn their lesson with the Trump town hall? LOL @ CNN
Tom
July 16, 2023 at 1:56 pm
I guess if Fox is Repub, MSNBC is Dem and CNN sits somewhere in the middle, it’s probably time that all those folks in the middle got to see our nasty, little bully Governor for what he really is. It should be interesting if nothing else.
AnneJosef
July 16, 2023 at 2:37 pm
I work an online job from home and earn 185 dollars per hour. I never imagined I could do it, but my best friend, who makes $15,000 a month at the job, encouraged vs04 me to find out more about it. This has limitless possibilities.
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GINO Rhonda
July 16, 2023 at 7:13 pm
I sure hope the real Jake Tapper doesn’t ask me if I am the Governor In Name Only, the GINO of Florida. Other than collecting the paycheck and accepting the all expenses paid (by State of Florida) campaign tour, of course. I continue to perform those two duties with a creepy smile.
GYNO GINO
July 17, 2023 at 7:34 am
DeSantis is the Gyno GINO, uninterested in governing unless it involves shoving some women back into the kitchen.
My Take
July 16, 2023 at 11:16 pm
“What are your plans for two years of loserdom back in tiny Tallahassee as governor?”
“And after that?”
“And the Mrs.?”
The Rhonda Game
July 17, 2023 at 7:33 am
Let’s play a game during Rhonda’s interview. It’ll be just like a drinking game, based on stuff Rhonda says, but with mass shootings in Florida schools rather than drinking. Does that sound like fun?
I think Rhonda would enjoy this game as much as he enjoys saying shit that leads to violence against trans drag queens etc. I mean why wouldn’t he enjoy this game as much as the anti-trans anti-drag-queen anti-gay anti-brownish game he play? The stakes are the same: Violence against individuals within Florida & USA. It’s Right up Rhonda’s Alley. You thought I was gonna say Rear didn’t ya! lol
Anyhow …. GAME ON. Let’s hear everyone’s ideas for what happens when Rhonda says certain things during their CNN interview
“You know” = add a body to the body count
“Reminds me of Florida” = add another school
“Books are not banned” = …. what? Let’s get some ideas rolling for The Rhonda Game
Anth0ny Jeseln1k
July 17, 2023 at 9:31 am
I suggest “merdur suicide” when Ron says “Florida is where Woke goes to die.” That’s assuming Casey will be there, and Jake Tapper and the rest of the CNN crew are just observers, and are exempt.
Exclusive means somebody else wants in
July 17, 2023 at 7:37 am
I am not sure “exclusive” is the correct word for an interview with losing Ron DeSantis. Exclusivity means others wanted in on it but were not allowed. Everybody Hates Rhonda. Jake Tapper probably gonna quit before tomorrow.
Matt Gatoz
July 18, 2023 at 8:56 am
People might be concerned about how Ron will come across in this CNN spot. Do not be alarmed, I am helping him with prep. I am teaching him how to act like a human. I got this. Hold my beer, little girl. You’re kind of cute. Do you still live at home? I know how to make you purr. Can i pet you little girl?
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