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
un-redacted affidavit the government used to get a search warrant for trump s mar-a-lago club last year. full disclosure nbc news is part of a group of organizations that sued to get this affidavit un-redacted, and now it is out. it is not totally un-redacted, but it is way, way less redacted than the original version, so we have been comparing and contrasting the two as fast as we can. again, this thing just came out two hours ago, but the thing that jumped out at us immediately was this, the newly un-redacted sections of the affidavit give us a much better understanding of what the government could see on the surveillance footage it got from mar-a-lago. there s fun details we didn t have before like how the cameras were motion activated. but really it s what the cameras couldn t see that sticks out. on july 6th of last year the trump organization provided the fbi with the hard drive containing the footage of four cameras. all four of those cameras were in the basement hallw
in these cases we see they don t need the instruction of a group. all they need is the political rhetoric to spike their interest send them on some google searches and real people lose their lives. thank you very much. thanks for having me. that is all in on this wednesday night. and remember you can get all the best video from the show and much much more by following us on the big new social media site that launched threads. we re as@allinwith chris. we re threading stuff apparently. out front starts right now. i promise as soon as i m offset i ll become the next follower to the chris hayes show. thank you, chris. one more for you. and thank you at home for joining us this hour. alex has the night off, and what a night it is. for the past two hours we have been speed-reading the new