undermine his attempts to convince voters that he is the most viable alternative to donald trump. and trump not wasting any time going on the attack today, insisting desantis can t win the general election. he also argues that desantis needs, in trump s words a personality transplant. i want to bring in nbc s dasha burns who broke the news about desantis s announcement, robert gibbs served as white house press secretary under president obama. he s an msnbc political analyst. and host of the big technology podcast. good to have all of you here. what more can you tell us about what we should expect from this announcement tonight? reporter: well, chris, look, i think we should probably expect the unexpected. elon musk is a man that is fairly unpredictable. and this is, like you said a departure from a traditional type announcement. that is sort of the point. this is a soon to be candidate who has looked for ways to
style, desantis can t win a game when he s playing 4 corners offense. something has to change in this race, not sure what it is. trump gets the indictment in new york, more indictments coming. any other candidate that would spell disaster for him. this as he gets stronger dollar doesn t appear the field, the rest of the field is sort of on eggshells with trump. this is the best attack desantis has, you can t win, i can win. my question, we don t know the answer yet, that did not work in the case of senate nominees in 2020, the midterms, unelectable candidates got the primaries. maybe the electorates is not this time but i see no evidence of that. from where i sit, donald trump has a stranglehold on the nomination and something dramatic would have to take place that i can t foresee. griff: we showed the declared candidates, nikki haley out there, tim scott is going to
around with which george santos let s keep that in mind. that s who she surrounds herself with as far as her description, donald trump reminds me more the tasmanian devil in goofy that in any real life person because she is such a fraud. he s getting caught in his lies which is a good thing. that is what s important wit what s happened with the indictment against donald trum i think trevor brings up a goo point. we re talking about a lot of important issues i m very concerned of what w see from republicans going so extreme for 2024. suzanne, can anyone sto what appears to be donal trump s inexorable role to winning the republican nomination folks thought i was gonna be governor desantis of florida that doesn t look like it
happening. governor desantis can t win a general election even if he did beat donald trump, either one are gonn lose it seems to me right now donal trump s best bet is to fin someone who can win in the general election he may need a pardon ver quickly. from the doj investigations. there are ways, there are we need to see people step u but also you know who needs step of, jonathan? former republicans they need to re-register and get involved in the primaries. we always hear that every vote counts so make it count and try to ge someone who s worthwhile susan, trevor, we are way overtime susan del percio, trevor honeycutt, thank you for comin to the sunday show that will do it for me thank you for watching the sunday show. we ll be back next saturday at 9 am eastern right here on msnbc. don t go anywhere. my friend ali velshi is up nex
it was trump that got jeb bush kicked out of the republican party, so he s gonna do try to do the same thing with desantis. what do you think of jeb bush being a fan of desantis. i think he knows sees the writing on the wall, he knows that trump can t win, and you think that desantis can t. trump is the human hindenburg floating over the republican party. and they all know, people have half a brain in the republican party know that trump is a loser. not only lost in the presidential elect, but he lost in the house and the senate for the first time in 100 years. let s talk about another candidate, that s joe biden. there s an interesting piece in the atlantic, and the headline is a case for the primary challenge for joe biden. we must be some free thinking democratic was to get in the race. and he? thoughts i love that i,