The state secretary in germany actually told me in a year where billions of people around the world will have the opportunity to vote, the one election everyone in europe cares about and is paying attention to is the american presidential election. the other thing that struck me is that almost every official i spoke to believed that donald trump was going to win again. they say that with a sense of dread, in some cases, bordering on panic, honestly. you know, the word that i heard most often in these interviews was existential. they said if donald trump comes back you know, we made it through the first trump term, right? it took a toll on the transatlantic relationship. but they made it through. they said if he comes back, given what he has been saying about nato, given what he has been saying about russia, the war in ukraine, they re really afraid that it will be the end of nato and the gunning of a new stage of russian aggression, that europe, frankly, isn t
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Is ready to take on biden. ron desantis will do that. neil: to your point, he hasn t yet. he s shuffling people and sinks more and more in the polls as a result even with that. that could change. you re right. plenty of time for things to change. but he s going to be a target tonight. he s the number 1 polling guy tonight. they re all gunning for him. word is that chris christie particularly will try to marco rubio him. what do you think of that? the entire field, ron desantis has had more negative ad monday including seven dwarfs on stage tonight. the left and the establishment knows he will do what he says if elected. donald trump knows he s the one person that can beat him what you will see tonight, governor desantis is the clear person to
um, okay. so, yes, desantis is down 20 points in national polls since march. that s a ski slope, it s a downward ski slope. do you think this debate could be the moment that completely ends it for desantis or, conversely, do you think he can turn it all around in this moment? well, he certainly has the chance to do either. there s blood in the water, everybody knows it. obviously chris christie s gunning for him. but, at the same time, a lot of what voters have heard about ron desantis have come from other people. they ve come from trump. they ve come from never trump. they ve come from the media. they ve come from $20 million in attack ads that have been run against ron desantis. this will be a chance for him in his own words to lay out who he is and why he is running and to, you know, obviously have a few moments of combat with some of these other republicans. so, yeah, is there risk in this? absolutely. but there s also opportunity to try to finally break through of