Morning Jolt: What Changed for Ron DeSantis?

TODAY'S JOLT IS SPONSORED BY

WITH JIM GERAGHTY

January 22 2024

On the menu today: Ron DeSantis calls it quits, the polling outlook looks grim for Nikki Haley, and why it's actually easier for a Democrat to vote in the Republican presidential contest in the Iowa caucuses than in the New Hampshire primary.

Vaya con Dios, Ron DeSantis

In the closing days of Ron DeSantis's gubernatorial-reelection campaign in 2022, his campaign ran an ad, "God made a fighter." The ad deliberately evoked the "So, God made a farmer" speech of the late Paul Harvey.* The ad declared:

"And on the eighth day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, 'I need a protector.' So, God made a fighter. God said, 'I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, kiss his family goodbye, travel thousands of miles, for no other reason than to serve the people — to save their jobs, their livelihoods, their liberty, their happiness.' So, God made a fighter. God said, 'I need someone to be strong. ...

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