What we have here is further evidence of the growing irrelevance of network news, i.e., the 'clunky' dinosaurs otherwise known as NBC, CBS, ABC.
Top headline: NBC Normalizing News, 3/19/2023
Bottom headline; Washington Post, 3/21/2023
There are elegant attempts to appeal to voters, and there are clunky ones. In an NBC News report published Sunday, Americans were introduced to one of the clunkiest: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) effort to portray himself as an Ohioan in spirit.
[snip]
From a political perspective, though, DeSantis’s challenge isn’t really that he’s claiming the swing-state of Pennsylvania only tangentially. It’s that his effort to claim kinship with voters in that region before a likely 2024 presidential bid is an attempt to claim kinship with a voting base that’s already nestled in Donald Trump’s pocket. [emphasis added]
Sounds like cynical opportunism to Retiring Guy.
According to Merriam-Webster, the first-known use of 'clunky', as in clumsy in style, form, or execution, occurred in 1968.
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