Moms for Liberty Loves Ron DeSantis—but They’ll Never Vote for Him
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has staked his 2024 presidential run on going even further than Donald Trump on a host of hot-button culture war issues including abortion, race, and equality—but nothing he does seems to convince far-right groups to defect from the former president’s camp.
Jared Holt, a senior research analyst for the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and an expert on fringe political movements, joins The New Abnormal this week to share his own theories for why the Florida governor just can’t seem to move the needle. He was watching closely this weekend as MAGA group Moms for Liberty descended on Philadelphia for a conference headlined by both Trump and DeSantis—a pair whose reception could not have been more different.
“Where Ron DeSantis is using all these big words and talking about the ‘woke Marxist agenda,’ Trump instead just leans into the mic and it’s like, ‘These people are perverts,’ Holt said. “In that way it was kind of illuminating.”