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I was listening to Richard Baris today talking about how DeSantis’s focus on “values” issues as governor was primarily motivated by a desire to help him win the Iowa caucus, as Iowa voters tend to be more socially conservative than, say, New Hampshire or South Carolina.

It was always DeSantis’s ambition to run for president, and his courting of evangelicals was based on political calculation not on a particularly strong religious bent. Baris claims DeSantis and his wife rarely attend church, and relayed a story about how DeSantis had to send an aide out to buy a Bible for his swearing in ceremony. His point in bringing this up was not to trash him for being irreligious, but to point out his inauthenticity.

[backpacker_c]

Thanks for the info...

I’m behind in listening to several things, but baris is in the queue :-)