David Gergen: It does seem like he is a bit of a darling of the conservative media when there is something to talk about. He's gotten positive attention surrounding, you know, his 2020 Republican National Convention speech or his response to Joe Biden's first state of the Union address. So it seems like he can sort of command the media when he wants to I want to come back to this question of a general election pitch and a sort of optimism and getting beyond the Arguments of a Republican primary.
The FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast gets ready for a big week in politics. South Carolina Senator Tim Scott officially kicked off his presidential campaign in North Charleston Monday morning. We also expect the long-teased Ron DeSantis presidential campaign to become a reality this week. And, according to the Treasury Department we are just a week or so away from a possible default on the nation’s debt. National politics reporter at the AP Meg Kinnard and Data Columnist at the Washington Post join the crew to weigh in.
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