event, alexis have fun thank you. aishah: she doesn t have time to eat she s chasing trump, desantis getting all the scoop thank you alexis and erica trump s appearance at the fair comes as desantis is trying to reboot is struggling campaign the florida governor has made small gains in recent polling trump remains way ahead of the pack. let s bring in now james freeman assistant editor of the wall street journal editorial page and our fox news contributor. welcome to the program thank you for joining us on your saturday we appreciate it. sure, thanks for having me. will start off with what alexis asked a former president xi asked him are you coming to the debate? he said that would be interesting. he s kind of pushing this offer. we expect them to make a decision coming up this week here. let me ask you this. he s been pointing to the recent polling we have a recent new york times siena poll we will put up on the screen. it shows he is up by a lot he is
more than six weeks after announcing his presidential bid, desantis continues to trail the former president by more than 30 points in the real clear politics polling average. we re back with our panel, dan henninger, kim strassel and allysia finley. so, kim, what do you make of this fire from the home team on the desantis campaign, and how worried should he be about the fact that it hasn t been able to move the polls at all since the governor with got in the race? well, look, i mean some of this, paul, could be about expectations management, right? lowering that expectations as we re five or six weeks out from the debates and, you know, you try to cast your guy as the underdog, and then if you manage to get some momentum, you can play off that. but there s also some reality to this too, paul. he hasn t necessarily closed the gap in ways that some people thought that he might. we can talk about why that is. my own view is that he s, i think, chasing trump too much,
days. they will insist on passing things that begin to role back the extremism, i look out there, michigan is a great case. two most likely candidates for governor were both knocked off ballot. were not allowed to run. very much like what they are trying to do with trump. i think that michigan would not have been this democratic had they not rigged the election by knocking the two candidates off th ballot, i see a country, where the cu country is moving away from extremists. even in new york we have a republican majority in u.s.
to be nearly interpreted to avoid vagueness and based on object of criteria, for example, if i were a wealthy individual, i ran out and started running ads saying we should be investigating and indicting hunter biden because i thought that would have the purpose of defeating joe biden in 2024. it is still would not be a campaign expenditure, i m not talking about electing or reelecting joe biden, i m talking about hunter biden. if i said, i ll give a bunch of money to a conservative think t tank, i think that will help trump or another republican nominee win the election in 2024, that still not a campaign contribution, that is contribution to i think take, we see that in other areas of law, a p prohibition in law against
agents there to monitor the antiwar groups and civil right groups and martin luther king phone. in his hotel room was bugged. he bugged hubert humphrey s phone to see what his vice president was saying to campaign trail about the vietnam war. it incredible what past presidents did and got away wi with. and the fbi was used during the obama administration and biden administration. obama v/biden, to spy, i would argue, on the trump campaign, trump is a choir boy, he never did this stuff, women were in and out john kennedy s office, an east german spy they hustled out. a mob boss girlfriend, a