and that s in large part because ron desantis, who was initially hyped up as the candidate has seen his poll numbers tank. just look at the polling averages since the start of this calendar year. desantis should come with its own slide whistle. he s almost 30 points behind trump and the average of the national poll. even a top official at a pro-desantis superpact recently conceded his campaign has been a bust so far. right now in national polling we are way behind. to be blunt and honest, it s an uphill battle. i don t think it s a winnable battle but clearly donald trump is the runaway front-runner in the first four states which matter tremendously. polls are tighter. we re clearly still down. we have work to do and wood to chop. it does seem like a bad sign when one of your top surrogates has to admit that but it s true at least and a lot of reasons the desantis campaign is doing so poorly. one reason is what some are calling a lack of charisma which seems to be alienat
grab your pencils, democrats. today is the last day for biden supporters to convince folks to new hampshire to write in the name joe biden, after joe took his name off the ballot toth prioritize the race in south carolinaac.. you follow that? the secretary ofyo state s offie says, astate long as the intentf the name is clear, the vote will likely count for biden. they are not sure if the big guy or corn pop is a bad dude will make the cut, but it s a way toy make sure he wins a primary and avoid embarrassing losses toan p dean phillips. this is going to demonstrate that he is unelectable and weak, and that there s a candidate here who can do it s been promised for generations. i think joe biden is a good man, peas not standing from the press and is not here meaning. voters, he s not answering questions or doing town halls, and here won t do debates. s.i think is a good man, i don t think he has a cognitive issue, butit he s 81 years old. he is in decline. v ot meanwhi
hello, everyone. i m dana perino along with jesse watters and greg gutfeld. it s 5:00 in new york city and new hampshire. and this is the five. we ve got here in the g.o.p. primary went down to 2. we are one day away from the primary and new hampshire. all eyes on donald trump and nikki haley nikki haley. the last candidate standing after a massive shake up the race florida governor ron desantis dropping out and endorsing the former president. it s clear to me that a majority want to give donald trump another chance. he superior to the current incumbent, joe biden. that is clear. i signed a pledge to support the republican nominee. i will honor that pledge. who is going to come out on top tomorrow? the latest polls show trump is ahead by nearly 20 points. the former president getting 57% of the vote compared to 38% nikki haley gets. here is president trump sounding up on the race. what are you going to do with the name? name is officially retired as of this mome
justice department. his message was unambiguous. it was time for me, jeffrey berman, the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york and lifelong republican, it was time for me to take one for the home team. he came into my office and closed the door, quote, you re not going to believe the conversation i just had with o callaghan, before sharing the details. the top leadership at doj wanted me to bring criminal charges against a private attorney who had once been president barack obama s white house counsel and they wanted me to bring those charges before election day. i said, you have got to be f ing kidding me. i wish, he said, but no. doj s rationale for this demand had nothing to do with evidence or law. o callaghan kept reminding him that our office had just prosecuted two high profile trump loyalists, republican congressman chris collins and crump s private attorney, michael cohen. he related that o callaghan told him bluntly, quote, it s time for you guys to ev
a very excited to see that. that s gonna do it for us. alex wagner will be here tomorrow, now is the time for the last word with lawrence o donnell, good evening lawrence. is it okay if i have david corn on two, to talk about american psychosis? the title of his new, i think as of now, his by sign because of the five minutes you spent on it. listen, i love david cohen. personal disclosure, he s a friend, i think is a great journalist, i love the way he thinks and rights. i am so glad that he s done a super readable modern history the right, we keep talking about these things that they haven t happened before and not exactly right, and we just need smart digestible history about this, particularly as we head into the midterms. this is just perfectly timed. we ve all been thinking about it. i remember thinking about it when donald trump got the nomination in 2016, i kind of work my way back to sarah palin, and then it kept going and kept going. but i never did the full