🇺🇸 Read An Article From FOX NEWS With Me | Advanced English Vocabulary Lesson

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And today, we're going to read a news article together from Fox News to help you improve.

Your reading skills to learn Advanced vocabulary.

Correct, grammar and even correct pronunciation.

Let's get started our headline.

Trump says he's under total assault because he's leading in 2024 GOP, polls, take swipes

at DeSantis.

Its first of all, of course, Trump is former President Donald Trump.

He needs no introduction.

If you didn't know DeSantis, he is Ron DeSantis and he's the current governor of Florida and

also if you didn't know GOP, do you know what this stands for?

This is an abbreviation and it stands for grand old party.

That's right.

GOP.

Stands for grand old party.

But nobody calls.

It grand old party.

Everyone says GOP.

And that is a nickname for the Republican Party.

Trump is a republican.

DeSantis is a republican Joe Biden.

The current president is a Democrat now GOP.

When you see this, just think

Republican

party polls.

Let's take a look at this takes swipes at DeSantis.

This is just part of

A sentence, the full sentence would be Trump

takes swipes at

dissenters, and that's why you see this as here, because it's conjugated with the subject

Trump, even though the subject isn't there?

So, this represents Trump or you could say he, and that is why we have S on our verb

in the present, simple.

He takes swipes at DeSantis.

When you take swipes at someone, it's

Way of insulting them or criticizing them or attacking them, which is another way of

singing assault.

So, he's pointing out the flaws of DeSantis.

He's taking swipes at DeSantis.

I have the definition here and for an example, my boss always take swipes at me.

Now, notice we have the S because it's conjugated with

With my subject, third person singular.

But we also have an s on swipes.

Swipes, always has an S, but if I change this to my bosses because I am more than one boss,

my boss is always take swipes at me because this represents the subject, they okay.

So remember that, conjugate your verb but you always leave the ass on swipes and then

because they're always criticizing me insulting me.

Me taking swipes at me.

I could say I feel like I'm under attack or under assault.

So that was the language used here.

And notice we have our verb to be our preposition under and then attack or assault.

You can use either one.

Let's continue.

Trump, noted that DeSantis who despite touring key States traditionally crucial in a GOP

Presidential primary had remain coli, when asked, if he has White House aspirations.

So if you didn't know, the rumor is that DeSantis is going to announce his candidacy for the

2024 election, which means he might become a

Editor to Donald Trump.

Let's take a look at this word he remained Coy.

When your koi, it means you intentionally on purpose.

Keep something secret, for example, my boss is Coy about who's getting the promotion.

So to be coy means you're intentionally keeping something

Secret, your boss knows who's getting the promotion.

She's already decided, but she's keeping it, a secret for whatever reason she's coy.

So, here DeSantis is being Coy about whether or not he's going to run for president.

So our beginning of the sentence.

So notice we have this comma here and then another comma here, this is all

Additional information.

But the actual sentence is Trump, noted that DeSantis.

And now, I can go all the way to the next comma Trump noted that DeSantis is now reportedly

planning to launch.

An exploratory committee on a run in 2024, launch is another way of saying start.

So he's going to start or

It's a committee now exploratory describes the committee exploratory just comes from

the word explore.

So it's a committee designed simply to explore options and what are they exploring?

What options?

Well, they're exploring.

Whether descent is has enough popularity or support to officially announce his candidacy

for the 2024.

Presidential election.

So that is to run in 2024 because you run for office, that's the verb we use for a political

position.

It doesn't have to be for president to run for an elected position.

Whatever that elected position is you could run for mayor of your small town of only 10,000

people.

You could run for City councilor, you could run.

For president you could run for school board trustees.

So if it's an elected position, you run for that position, which is saying you are officially

a candidate in the competition in the election.

Okay, let's continue.

He's going to form an exploratory committee.

To determine this is Trump's quote.

So Trump is saying these words and the he is DeSantis.

I know that because Trump is saying this, and the only other he in the article is DeSantis,

DeSantis is going to form an exploratory committee committee to

to determine and then it changes ideas.

Well, that's a big step because he said he was never looking at committees.

So Trump is implying that DeSantis previously said he wasn't going to run.

He was never going to.

That wasn't his intention.

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Now, he's looking at committees.

It's amazing what being 40 down does.

In this case, 40 down that represents points is how they measure the popularity of different

candidates.

I don't, to be honest, I don't know what 40 points represents, how many people that represents,

but he's 40 down.

Down, which means he's less popular than Trump and most likely other candidates as well.

Trump told Bannon Saturday, the donors are largely

leaving

him now.

So the donors, those are the people that give money for a specific purpose often.

It's for charitable contributions but you can donate that's the verb to donate.

To give money or things often for charitable purposes.

I said or things because you could donate a car to a charity.

And then the charity could give that car to someone in need or they could sell the car

and then use the money to support other initiatives.

You can donate your time as well so you don't have to give money to donate now if you donate

to a cause you are a donor

So this is the noun.

So the noun a donor, the donor is someone who donates.

And in this case, the donors, most likely donate financially to digit DeSantis has campaign.

But it's possible that they also donate their time or other resources as well.

But the donors are largely leaving him.

So they're deciding not to donate because

Is he's 40 down which means he's not very popular Trump, and bannon's spoke of a new

book, titled letters to Trump, which included correspondence between Trump and an array

of world leaders before he became president.

Let's take a look at the noun array.

And array, this is a large group of things or people.

So here the

The book Letters to Trump included, correspondence between Trump and a large group, a world leader,

so many world leaders, an array of for a more everyday context.

You could say there was a delicious array of food at the party.

so, here notice

If I got rid of my adjectives delicious, then I would need to add an because arrays starts

with a vowel.

But if I separate this with an adjective that doesn't start in a vowel then I would get

rid of that n but I could use a vowel that's or an adjective that starts with a vowel such

as there was an appetizing array of food.

The party or and appealing array of food at the party.

But I like delicious, there was a delicious array of food at the party.

So that's a great noun for you and you can add an adjective to make it sound more advanced.

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Now let's continue NBC News reported last week that DeSantis is planning to officially

declare his presidential candidacy which means he's going to become a candidate.

A candidate.

Is someone who's running for office.

So I'll candidate someone

Who's running for office, which means an elected position and remember our verb, you run for

an elected position.

So candidacy is just the form of the word candidate.

So presidential candidacy and you declare your candidacy which simply means DeSantis

officially says I am running.

NG for president.

But this hasn't happened yet.

It's just a rumor because remember DeSantis is being coli about whether or

not

he's going to run.

So he's planning to officially declare his presidential candidacy in mid-may.

So, if you're watching this video after mid-may, you will now know if he declared it or not

to combat The Narrative that Trump will remain the 2024 GOP, which represents Republican

party.

FrontRunner a front-runner, is someone who is winning?

Someone who is leading the person who is

The most likely to win the most popular.

So the front runner

Most popular most likely to win Taylor Buddha, which a former Trump spokesman and now head

of magha ink had alleged that there was probable cause to investigate whether the governor

had broken the law by fundraising through his friends of Ron DeSantis P AC okay?

When you allege something.

It means you claim that someone else did something wrong, but it's important to note that there

is no proof.

So I could simply say, Hey, you stole my wallet but I have no proof that you stole my wallet.

I'm alleging that you stole my wallet.

So the spokesman alleged that there was probable cause to investigate whether the governor

had

In the law by fundraising.

So when you investigate something you look into it to determine if it's true or not,

true, having his team interview, political operatives in

early, primary

States going on a personally,

lucrative book tour.

Let's take a look at this

adjectives.

When

something is lucrative, it means it produces a lot of money.

So this is

a very good thing

is

Generally

used in a business context.

For example, our partnership, our Business Partnership has been very lucrative has been

notice.

I use

the present perfect because it suggests that our partnership has been lucrative is started

at some point in the past, but it continues until now so it is still lucrative and it's

been lucrative in the past as well and it will continue into

The future.

Our

partnership

has been very lucrative, which means it's produced a lot of money and taking other steps

toward running for

president.

Again, that verb, you run for an elected position running for president.

Well, not officially declaring his candidacy for

higher

office.

So these are the claims against DeSantis.

These are the things that he did wrong.

Wrong, which is what the

spokesperson is alleging.

But

remember, when you allege something,

you don't have proof.

A spokeswoman for

DeSantis called the complaint frivolous.

Frivolous is a fun adjectives.

To say frivolous.

When something is frivolous, it means it's silly, it's not serious or it's not important.

So the spokeswoman is saying the complaint

Is frivolous because they're silly complaints, they're not real.

And she's saying that because remember when you allege something there's no proof.

So they're frivolous and politically motivated and said it was inappropriate to use State,

ethics complaints for partisan purposes, notice here.

The author of this article chose to say spokeswoman

And spokesman, of course, you can say that, but today, in modern usage, we generally don't

use gender specific nouns.

We generally just use person, so, instead of saying, businessman, businesswoman mailman

fireman because it doesn't include both genders.

Now, there is a trend towards

Seeing spokesperson spokesperson.

So you can say that.

And then you don't have to identify if it's a man or a woman.

But it's certainly not incorrect to say spokes, man, or spokeswoman is just more of a trend

towards using these gender neutral expressions, and that is the end of our articles.

So, what, I'll do now is, I'll go to the top and I'll read the article from

Start to finish and this time you can focus on my pronunciation.

Trump says he's under total assault because he's leading in 2024 GOP, polls tanks, swipes

at De santis Trump, noted that DeSantis who despite touring key States traditionally crucial

in a GOP.

Presidential primary had remained Coy when asked, if he has White House, aspirations

is now reportedly planning tool.

Launch.

An exploratory committee on a run in 2024, he's going to form an exploratory committee

to determine well.

That's a big step because he said he was never looking at committees.

Now, he's looking at committees, it's amazing what being 40 down.

Does Trump told ban in Saturday, the donors are largely leaving him now.

Trump and Bannon spoke of a new book, titled letters to Trump, which included correspondence

between Trump.

And an array of world leaders before he became president.

NBC News reported last week that DeSantis is planning to officially declare his presidential

candidacy in mid-may to combat.

The Narrative that Trump will remain the 2024 GOP.

FrontRunner Taylor Buddha, which a former Trump spokesman and now head of magha ink

had allege that there was probable cause to investigate whether

Whether the governor had broken the law by fundraising through his friends of Ron DeSantis

P. AC having his team, interview political operatives in early, primary States going

on a personally, lucrative book tour and taking other steps toward running for president while

not officially declaring his candidacy for higher office.

A spokeswoman for DeSantis called the complaint frivolous and politically motivated and said.

Said it was inappropriate to use State.

Ethics complaints for partisan purposes.

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