THANK YOU, BILL.
>> Dana: LET’S GET TO THE RACE
FOR THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION.
A GROW NUMBER OF STATE LAWMAKERS
ARE THROWING THEIR WEIGHT BEHIND
RON DESANTIS ON THE VERGE OF
LAUNCHING FOR THE WHITE HOUSE.
LET’S BRING IN KELLYANNE CONWAY
FORMER ADVISOR TO PRESIDENT
TRUMP.
WE’RE IN THE ZONE, I UNDERSTAND,
THAT RON DESANTIS THE GOVERNOR
OF FLORIDA, WILL THROW HIS HAT
IN THE RING.
WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE FROM YOUR
PERSPECTIVE RIGHT NOW?
>> DESANTIS HAS ASSETS AND
LIABILITIES AND POSSIBILITIES.
I’LL RUN THROUGH THEM.
ASSET IS THAT HE GOT REELECTED
BY 19 POINTS IN OUR THIRD
LARGEST STATE AND HE JUST A
MASSED SOME SIGNIFICANT WINS AS
A CONSERVATIVE CENTER RIGHT
GOVERNOR ON GUNS AND PUBLIC
SAFETY AND EDUCATION.
HE LAUNCHED A TRIP OVERSEAS AND
HAD A NATIONAL BOOK TOUR AND
AMASS ENDORSEMENTS AND GOING TO
THE PEOPLE AND RAISED A TON OF
MONEY.
AS WE HAVE TALKED FOR A LONG
TIME DONORS DON’T CHOOSE THE
NOMINEES, VOTERS DO.
NOW DESANTIS HAS TO TURN ONE OF
HIS LIABILITIES TO AN ASSET.
HE HASN’T EVEN SCRATCHED THE
SURFACE OF DIPPING INTO LET
ALONE DIGGING DEEPLY INTO THE
MAGA VOTER.
HOW DO YOU PULL OVER HARDENED
TRUMP VOTERS?
YOU HAVE DONE A GREAT JOB AS
GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA, WHY DON’T
YOU WAIT YOUR TURN.
WE GO BACK TO THE GUY WHO
ACTUALLY DID THE JOB THE FIRST
TIME.
WE LIKE THE JOB HE DID AND WANT
HIM BACK.
RON DESANTIS WILL HAVE HIS TIME
TO SHINE AND GO OUT AND ANNOUNCE
HIS CANDIDACY.
MAGA VOTERS, THE BASE, 74
MILLION PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR
TRUMP/PENCE IN 2020 A LARGE
PORTION OF OUR COUNTRY.
THEY WANT TO HEAR, DANA, THEY
WANT TO HEAR RON DESANTIS DEFEND
TRUMP MORE WHEN SOMETHING LIKE
THE DURHAM REPORT COMES OUT AND
BRAGG INDICTMENT AND ARRAIGNMENT
HAPPENS IN NEW YORK.
THEY FEEL RON DESANTIS IS A GOOD
FIGHTER AGAINST DISNEY BUT WANT
HIM TO BE A FIGHTER FOR THEM.
TRUMP IS A FIGHTER FOR THE
PEOPLE.
DESANTIS NEEDS TO SHOW A LITTLE
BIT OF THAT.
DESANTIS, I THINK THE LAST SIX
MONTHS HAS -- HE ALLOWED HIMSELF
TO BE SEEN AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO
TRUMP.
HIS BEST PATH IS AN ALTERNATIVE
TO BIDEN.
THE WAY THAT WILL TRANSPORT HIM
TO A GENERAL ELECTION SITUATION
SO MORE PEOPLE CAN SEE HIM THAT
WAY.
>> Dana: I WANTED TO ASK YOU
ABOUT COMMENTS RON DESANTIS MADE
YESTERDAY TALKING ABOUT
PRESIDENT TRUMP.
HE IS TALKING ABOUT THE SIX-WEEK
ABORTION BAN BILL HE SIGNED INTO
LAW.
>> I THINK THAT AS A FLORIDA
RESIDENT HE DIDN’T GIVE AN
ANSWER ABOUT WOULD YOU HAVE
SIGNED THE HEARTBEAT BILL THAT
FLORIDA DID THAT ALL THE
EXCEPTIONS THAT PEOPLE TALK
ABOUT.
THE LEGISLATURE PUT IT IN.
I SIGNED THE BILL AND PROUD TO
DO IT.
HE WON’T ANSWER WHETHER HE WOULD
SIGN IT OR NOT.
>> Dana: IF WE HAD ALL TIME IN
THE WORLD ARE PRO-LIFE VOTERS
THAT MIGHT VOTE IN IOWA, NEW
HAMPSHIRE THE SAME AS THE MAGA
VOTERS YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT
AND SOMETHING DESANTIS CAN USE
TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN HIM AND
THE FORMER PRESIDENTS?
>> HE COULD.
I BELIEVE IOWA HAD A SIMILAR
BILL SIGNED INTO LAW BY KIM
REYNOLDS.
I THINK THE OPENING BID FOR
THESE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FOR
PRESIDENT HAS TO BE THE FEDERAL
15-WEEK BILL.
WHAT RON DESANTIS DID IN FLORIDA
IS WHAT THE LEGISLATURE PUT ON
HIS DESK AND THEY REPRESENT
FLORIDIANS.
THERE IS ONLY ONE PERSON WHO CAN
SAY I’M A TRUE CONVERT AND
BECAME THE MOST PRO-LIFE
PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY,
DONALD TRUMP.
THE JUDGES, MEXICO CITY POLICY,
TAKING SOME OF THE MONEY THAT
WOULD HAVE GONE TO PLANNED
PARENTHOOD AND PUSHING IT TO THE
QUALIFIED WOMEN’S HEALTH CENTER THAT PROVIDE HEALTHCARE TO WOMEN
THAT PROVIDE HEALTHCARE TO WOMEN
AND MA’AM -- MAMMOGRAMS.
TRUMP CHANGED THINGS WHEN HE
LOOKED AT CLINTON SAYING YOU ARE
THE EXTREMIST.
PEOPLE WENT OOH.
WE HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO AS
PRO-LIFEER.
TOOK 50 YEARS TO OVERTURN ROE V.
WADE AND IT WILL TAKE TIME TO
CHANGE HEARTS AND MINDS AND
COMPELLING ON WHAT IT MEANS TO
BE PRO-LIFE.
SIX WEEKS, 12 WEEKS, 15 WEEKS.
ONLY ONE PERSON CAN SAY I BECAME