and that s in large part because ron desantis, who was initially hyped up as the candidate has seen his poll numbers tank. just look at the polling averages since the start of this calendar year. desantis should come with its own slide whistle. he s almost 30 points behind trump and the average of the national poll. even a top official at a pro-desantis superpact recently conceded his campaign has been a bust so far. right now in national polling we are way behind. to be blunt and honest, it s an uphill battle. i don t think it s a winnable battle but clearly donald trump is the runaway front-runner in the first four states which matter tremendously. polls are tighter. we re clearly still down. we have work to do and wood to chop. it does seem like a bad sign when one of your top surrogates has to admit that but it s true at least and a lot of reasons the desantis campaign is doing so poorly. one reason is what some are calling a lack of charisma which seems to be alienat
was the direct of election day state state officials in all the battleground states, you ve got potentially mark meadows, white house counsel, mike pence, you know, if you have his inner circle, you re really, i think, at that point nearing the end of the investigation. all right, kristy greenberg, as always, a pleasure. thank you very much. still to come, three years after america was swept up in a summer of protests following the police murder of george floyd, how has the country changed. wesley lowery jeans me on his new book ahead. good thing the general gives you a break when you need it. yeah, with flexible payment options to keep you covered. just tag us in. ouaaaahhhh! [bell dings] for a great low rate, go with the general.
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More than a month after Election Day State Rep. Regina Goodwin (D, Tulsa) says she doesn’t believe that happened in Oklahoma and she didn’t expect it.
“I don’t think that the George Floyd death had anything at all to do with the elections in Oklahoma, because Oklahoma is a red state and they went overwhelmingly with Donald Trump … and that was not surprising to anybody,” Goodwin said.
President Donald Trump has called the words Black Lives Matter a ‘symbol of hate.’ He called protesters terrorists and the demonstrations violent. An independent group that tracks political violence around the world found 93% of nearly 8,000 protests were peaceful.