biden. alexandria hoff is live with more. good morning. alexandria: good morning. the financials are different. fox news have been speaking with desantis donors, waiting on the sidelines to infuse this campaign with cash. in the 24 hours following desantis announcement, the presidential candidate raised 8.2 million. desantis campaign manager said this historic fundraising hall shows grassroots republicans are united behienemy governor desantis s vision for our great america. it will be a near miss with former president trump who arrives in des moines the following day and will head to new hampshire and south carolina. in iowa then desantis will travel and make up for lost
washington with more. good morning. alexandria: good morning, the financials are different and desantis campaign is hoping record-breaking influx of cash they received will signal growing strength to voters on the campaign trail. in the 24 hours following his announcement, ron desantis raised 8.2 million. this historic fundraising shows grassroots republicans are reuniting behind governor desantis comeback. he sets off to key primary states to kickoff this campaign in des moines, iowa, on the 30th and president trump will arrive in des moines the following day and desantis will travel to new hampshire and south carolina. desantis has work to do. former president trump holds 3-1 advantage with 62% of americans signalling they would pick the
or gave enough. some observers certainly would point out that desantis has used his office for political purposes quite a bit the last couple of years and sort of his whole ethos. let s talk about the week in desantis, well covered the live stream of the twitter space was pretty glitchy, bad news. the good news, though, that $8 million fund-raising haul. that s a huge number, frankly better than trump s been doing. talk to us about it. yeah, it s a big one day number, and better than the six weeks of the trump campaign. on the other hand, the expectation for desantis was so high because for the first basically five months of this year people expected him to gett he d be on the fundraising level. you know, what we ve seen so far is there s going to be a lot of focus on the supe pac, a budget of about $200 million. obviously, far more than the $8.2 million raised for the
good chance to beat him. he doesn t criticize anybody else, it s only me, they wouldn t do that if they didn t think i have a chance. they are realizing i am offering folks a record of achievement that is second to none. for ron desantis, that is the problem, he juxtapose himself against the others or against trump? he took so long to announce and during that time, trump is throttling it, hitting ron desantis because he knows it is coming and ron desantis avoided the trump issue for a while. you can t now that your name is in the hat. ainsley: raised 8.2 million in online contributions since announcing and the donor summit in miami thchl is. this is historic. who tops the first record?
your microphone. let s go in here. we will talk to some of the folks. thank you very much. [shouting] steve: we were talking to this lady. stand up for just a minute. what s your name. emily sturgeon. what brings you to tiki 52. we are here talking politics. steve: we are talking politics. and on the kickoff for summer it s good that we re in a tiki bar anyway. absolutely. so what, as you look at the trump vs. desantis struggle and with everybody else who is now in the race, what do you see? here in the state of florida, we are lucky that we have two presidential candidates that are strong conservative. steve: right. we are lucky the democrat don t have that the democrats can t put up one strong candidate but we can put up two. we are seeing a gap in the national polling. we are seeing trump is leading desantis by 30 points and this is a trump-loving crowd. steve: right. desantis is bringing in a ton of cash. desantis brought in $8.2 million within the first 244