Saying that he will talk about the criminal charges he faces just as the judge in the January 6th Case sets a new date for his lawyers and the Special Counsel to appear in court. Plus, a big win in ohio. Voters overwhelmingly reject efforts to make it harder to change the states constitution. What this now means for the upcoming November Ballot measure on abortion. And a major Leadership Shakeup in the president ial campaign of Florida Governor ron desantis. Well tell you who he just replaced as he tries to reboot his struggling 2024 bid. Good morning. Welcome to way too early on this wednesday, august 9th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. And weve got a busy show of news. Lets get right to it. Donald trumps lawyers have been called to appear in court later this week after a judge rejected their apparent attempt to delay what is normally a routine procedure in the 2020 elections case against their client. After days of back and forth regarding a protective orde
hill. tell us the early thoughts as to why this matters and will it make any difference. yeah, jonathan, i think a lot of republican sources inside and outside of florida are telling me desantis campaign is essentially trying anything and everything to see what works at this point because right now what they ve been doing isn t helping him gain traction in the polls. and i had one republican source tell me that it s not that donald trump is getting stronger even though he is, but what s also important is that a number of other republicans running are starting to gain some traction. not particularly in the polls. we ve seen it s remained relatively stagnant, but they re getting some big donor interest, and i thought it was notable earlier this week when you saw one of desantis biggest donors, roy bigalow, said he s consider stopping donating to the