officially. once he gets in, what are the focal points? not just desantis but everybody who gets in, what are focal points of the primary? how does it shift in the general and how different are those general platforms? of course the primary the candidates, the base turns out during the primary, you tend to get candidates you more toward the base and the argument goes well, those of the voters, candidates who may have a harder time in the general election so the talk about desantis trump fight, some people think desantis would do better in the general election than trump but trump may have an advantage with primary voters because of the people who show up. now enter . arthel: but hang on for me, what i m trying to get at we are just talking about base and numbers but what is the platform? was going to get them to get from the primary into the primary and also the general?
he s talking about the pace of what he s done. he s really been do something governor, he s been out there passing legislation, conservatives rocksolid conservative legislation and popular. that s what he can run on. the president, former president what he accomplished during the first term which was quite a bit. i think where he may stumble and weave talked about this a million times, if he relitigate s 2020 when he makes his campaign about, i think it weakens him, you may have a base between him and desantis. he s still the leader, no question about that. you see desantis breaking through and now that we have other candidates getting involved in voters are interested in them as well, potentially mike pence, nikki haley and others, that could break up the non- trump field and make it harder for desantis. arthel: nikki haley, she s strong on foreign policy. see how the others can hold up to that.
most polls leading all candidates, former president, he won the primary twice and he s a leader and now we have ron desantis, popular florida governor and polls, is leading all other trump alternatives and some polls leading trump as w well. he s a top candidate not only for national name recognition which is really important if you are going to be a non- trump candidate running in the primary but also donors the previous package you were talking about donors and trump and desantis, he s got a lot of mega donors behind him. they were behind him during his race for governor, he raised to $17 million, more than 70 million left over he can use in super pack if he wants. he s sitting ready right now in terms of trump alternative candidates with polls suggesting he can win potentially and also the money to do it. arthel: but he s not in yet
detectives reportedly sound footage sh shoeg the suspect s car around the home. authorities tried to arrested medina yesterday. in a standoff him taken into custody by a tactical team. robert luna told us the motive is unclear although reports of some type of financial dispute between the suspect and the bishop. the sheriff says his investigators have not drawn any conclusions. i m not standing here in front of you telling you it s a dispute over money yet. it s something we ve heard to this point and that is something that the detectives will go out and validate and see if it s true or not. based on what i know at this time, the suspect had been at the bishop s house before, doing work, so there was some kind of a maybe a working relationship, but we re still trying to figure out what that relationship was. reporter: now medina has not been charged and cnn is
things. if you look at his truth social page it s often what he s focused on and posting about, and the last couple weeks a relentless attack regiment on ron desantis. yeah. i mean, even just a few minutes ago, yet another attack on him. i mean this is happening in the context of there really being only one declared candidate in the race right now, nikki haley. you have others like former vice president mike pence tiptoeing around running and around trump. none of them seem to be willing to criticize him. what did you look at the desantis-trump relationship. do you believe desantis plans at some point to be a lot more direct about dealing with trump and really taking him on directly? well, it s hard to know. he s played his cards close to the vest. i don t report to have insider knowledge on what his strategy is going to be on trump. if you look back at previous had