media blitz, we re also told it s going to include a rollout of videos, including one of trump directly addressing the camera and desantis candidacy. even with those polls, poppy, that kaitlan just mentioned, even though the fact that trump is leading, there is not a single adviser that i have spoken to that believes this is over or isn t concerned about it. they believe he might get a boost in the polls after this announcement. they do believe desantis is trump s biggest competitor. they re taking this incredibly seriously, poppy. so interesting. such a stark difference to how trump almost welcomed tim scott into this race earlier this week. is there anyone that is worried that all of these attacks on desantis could actually not help trump? i would say that there are no advisors in trump world who believe that these sustained attacks on desantis are going to hurt trump in any way. but i will tell you, i spoke to a number of people outside of his orbit, republican operative, peopl
twitter, desantis went on to talk about his policies in florida to brag about the ones that target education, books, race and gender. he owns them, he also repeatedly railed against the traditional media. this evening s rollout on twitter did begin with a technical issue and a crash. the event was delayed with those technical issues. in fact, this is what people heard when they logged on at 6:00 p.m. eastern, which was the advertised start of the announcement. let s see, so, yeah, i think so. just to simplify. well, it kept getting cut off. by the time it started, desantis made a joke that he broke the internet. biden s campaign made light of desantis s tech trouble, tweeting, this link works, and then the link went to a biden fundraising page. meanwhile, trump is watching desantis closely. he spent the day tearing into the florida governor, posting polls, attacking desantis and his record.
daytona beach area. he became a household name nationally during the pandemic pushing back against mask mandates and vowed to reopen schools and businesses much sooner than other governors chose to. a decision is he expected to talk about on the campaign trail. the test of leadership is really if you are willing to stand firm when it is not easy to do so. when you have intense criticism. when they are coming after you. sometimes you have to stand all alone. we had to do that during the covid-19 pandemic. multiple polls show desantis in a solid second place among gop primary voters only behind former president trump who continues to attack desantis. it is a bitter battle already underway. trump supporting attacking desantis. it is one of the most out of touch campaign launches in history. desantis after party at the four
today attacking desantis and the others challenging him for the gop nomination. no doubt about it, it s inching closer and closer. and there s in headline in the new york times, biden and me, desantis telling trump donors that he can t win. based on the data, it doesn t look for to former president and insurmountable because people won t change their view of him. i want to bring in sarah bedford. that was the general prevailing thought a few months ago when many were handing over the gop to ron desantis. and then all of a sudden, trump started to move up in the polls. i m not sure exactly why it happened but all of a sudden he s rocketed ahead with gop voters. that s who desantis has to convince first, right? that s right. there s two very different races
many years ago to try to use something about porn star hush money payments, that s an example of pursuing a political agenda and weaponizing the office. so, stephanie, trump has lashed out in response to that, attacking desantis poll numbers and desanctimonious, all of that. desantis, that s a unique kind of slapping somebody as you smile at them. yeah, shots fired by desantis. i think that it was pitch-perfect, though. he managed to say the words porn star and hush money twice. but while also calling into question this elected d.a. and if it s weaponizing the government, et cetera. so i thought it was pitch-perfect. donald trump the way he lashed back so quickly and as childishly as he did, told me that he was angry but also bigger picture, he s really