minutes, then she steps back down into the audience, and he continues on with the rest of his speech. it s a different it s stylistically different. the audiences like her. you know, she has all of the charm and the savvy that he doesn t always appear to have. i think he understands that she is a very potent weapon for his campaign. i think that s why he is involving her the way he has. she s definitely an asset to his campaign. david, you know, the book on ron desantis, not just from the national media, but from the media in tallahassee and politicians, republicans included in the state of florida, he is, as you eluded to, not real company in that room, doing the retail politics and the glad handing and the schmoozing and things you have to do to earn votes in a place like iowa. as you watch him on the campaign trail, is that a fair assessment of the politician he is? well, it s a fair assessment of the kind of politician he has been up until recently.
you know, jeb got up and talked policy, man, like, you knew exactly where he wanted to take the state. people really responded to that in a big way. i have to say, with ron desantis, i think sometimes we re focused so much on what he can t do, which is he can t glad hand like w. he can t glad hand like reagan. we don t focus on what he is doing and what audiences in iowa and new hampshire and the early states are going to see. that s a guy who is smart, a guy who can actually deliver a speech and answer questions in a way that resembles, again, some semblance of logic. that s something donald trump just still to this day can t really do. he insults somebody. he has a little punch line, and that s about it. yeah, if you look at a transcript of a desantis speech, it is coherent. transcript of a trump one, very different.
to stand up and just be blunt and honest about it and not shy away from that. that s what the governor is doing so far. look, he s got to come from behind. we ll see if he can run a competent campaign. we ll see if voters really take to him. so far, it s been really interesting to watch in two ways. one, he s not a very dynamic speaker, but the audiences are eating up the content of his speeches. what he is able to do, which is different than a lot of senators i ve covered, instead of saying, i propose legislation, he s able to say, i signed this into law. that carries a lot of weight here. secondly, this is just very different, usually, when a political spouse is involved in a campaign, male or female, they will introduce the candidate, then they step to the side and they re done. so far, what governor desantis likes to do with his wife, the first lady of florida, casey desantis, she comes up in the middle of his speech. he invites her up. she gives a mini speech, a riff of her ow
trump at this particular point polling where he is wins the nomination about three quarters to 4/5 of the time. someone like ron desantis wins it about a quarter of the time. so the fact of the matter is when you look at those numbers, donald trump is a clear favorite. but ron desantis still has a real shot, jim but harry the problem for trump is the general election, right? i mean, that is that is where he s always had a problem. you know, 2020 lost by seven million votes. these midterms that never really works out for him. um are we looking at the same picture again? yeah, this to me is the fascinating number right? if, in fact, you know joe biden is on a collision course with donald trump in the general election. take a look here. trump underperforms in the general election. so if you take buying against the generic republican candidate, the generic republican beach, joe biden by six points if you take biden against ron desantis desantis speech, trump beats by an excuse me by three