‘Morning Joe’: Charlie Sykes Drags DeSantis’ Republican Party, Where ‘Normies Continue to Empower the Crazies’ (Video)

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a new Financial Times story that quotes one key Republican donor on DeSantis, saying, “Because of his stance on abortion and book banning, myself and a bunch of friends are holding our powder dry.”“Despite not even jumping into the 2024 presidential race yet, Florida governor Ron DeSantis is already losing support from key Republican donors over his extreme positions just days after the governor signed a six-week abortion ban into law,” Brzezinski said, eventually punting to Scarborough.

Her co-host then meditated on the state of the so-called “culture wars” between Republicans and Democrats, and how they’ve changed even in just the last year. “A year ago, Republicans were attacking Democrats for obsessing over cultural issues and not focusing on inflation, the southern border, gas prices,” Scarborough said. “Now, here we are a year later, and it’s the Republicans obsessing on extreme gun issues, on abortion, on the social issues that used to help them overwhelmingly with their base and even with some independent voters.

But it’s having the opposite impact. And this has all happened all very quickly, hasn’t it, as far as the political backlash.”“And you left out, of course, the obsession with drag queen story hour and banning books,” Sykes added. “It’s going to be all culture war all the time from the Republican Party,” he continued. “And in terms of the normies, we talked about this before — I am constantly being assured, as you are, Joe, that normies constitute the majority of the Republican Party.