Donald Trump's 'Don't Say Gay' Campaign

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Ron Descentis was a backbencher congressman who never got a single bill passed of his own accord. He did virtually no campaigning in Florida for the governor's office until Trump endorsed him. And since COVID, we've had famously him flying Venezuelan migrants to Martha's Vineyard and creating this new office of election fraud.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has hit on a winning — if possibly unethical — campaign strategy: prosecuting people who accidentally committed voter fraud. The Tampa Bay Times’s Lawrence Mower explains.

This episode was produced by Miles Bryan and Siona Peterous, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Jillian Weinberger, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram, who also edited.

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