the idea he endorsed him and he s just calling him a swamp creature. he s playing every card. attacking him on his positions on social security, sales tax plan. everything. that is one of the reasons, probably a leading reason, that desantis is entering this race in a weaker position. there s a sense of arrogance around the desantis team. back when i was in tallahassee when he was being sworn in for a second term, that is gone. the reality is he is i guess you can look charity bly on this, his expectations are now in check. the reality here though is there is still a hunger for republican voters for an all ternative. the pie is sliced up a bit and helps donald trump. we have to see how the governor does once he is out of the friendly confines of twitter this afternoon, this evening, after his fox interview.
of connection until last couple of weeks in iowa with voters. so one of the other reasons why i think it s fair to say that trump has gone up a little in the polls and desantis has gone down is because trump has been punching desantis and desantis hasn t really mentioned trump s name or alluded to him. the trump team is out with a brand-new attack ad calling desantis a swamp creature and using leaked video from one of desantis debate prep sessions from 2018. in washington, one was a leader and one let us down. ooechbl desantis admitted there were big differences. it is obvious, ron. president trump is the only one ready on day one to deliver for us again. so it s funny because it used to be that donald trump was playing the ingrate card. now he s completely memory hold
social media platform. casey desantis, the governor s wife, released this teaser video. our best days lay ahead of us. but is it worth the fight? do i have the courage? is it worth the sacrifice? america has been worth it, every single time. and joining us now with more is nbc s gabe gutierrez and former republican congressman will hurd of texas. gabe, what is the latest from the desantis team this morning? reporter: well, jose, this has been highly anticipated as you know for quite a long time. right now in desantis team the super pac aligned with him hosted another new ad this morning and they are saying that this is the start of something huge, a huge ground game, one of the largest in history. and they say they plan to have 2600 field operatives by labor day, spending an incredible
they were doing this audio only conversation but they needed him in an on camera appearance to roll out this video of him stating to camera for all to see that he s running for president and it s not a mistake that rolled out at the same time as this twitter interview. so alice, is desantis doing what he needs to do? that remains to be seen. i m old school politician. i like the fact of big rally with your supporters. a big announcement. it is kind of like a pga champion michael block hole in one kind of day. the crowds are roaring. you re pumped up and you get to generate a lot of media. he is missing opportunity for a great deal of earned media. all cable would have covered this announcement live. but i have confidence his team has a plan moving forward. after this announcement, how he does it in the form and fashion of his announcement will be old
forward. of course, he and his team believe they are positioned to make a big ripple in this race to come in strongly. to capitalize on $100 million they ve got behind them and come out with more money. they are hosting donors here in miami over the next couple of days to put on a fund raising blitz. then we are expecting him to hit the road aggressively in those early states. that s where his team believes they can really provide some contrast. that they can show him as a young governor who is running around, that is nimble and really contrast him both with the sitting president, joe biden, and also his chief republican rival, the former president, donald trump. of course, both of them much older than ron desantis. he is really seeking to contrast himself with them and what was interesting, wolf, is earlier today, we saw the superpac that is aligned with desantis releasing a video that was heavy on his biography but also targeting president biden. not his republican rival.