join. carlos, fernando you honor the bet. i honors a bet. u honor the bei also honor the t desantis was still had a political career if he listened to me, or had the wisdom to announce on the show, katie. there would be five times more people watching their than that debacle on twitter spaces. a horrid debacle start. let s not mock the katie phang viewers. cheers to you. fernando, i mean i start with you. let s do this. the desantis campaign spent the day after that failed launch trying to woo donors right down the street in downtown, miami. this is they re saying it s a 2% contents retweeting desantis and donald trump. they said they re going to focus on positioning the census as a, quote, values candidate over trump who is going to be bogged down by his legal troubles. has never cared about donald trump s legal problems, so why does desantis think this will be a winning strategy? i just don t think it is, he says he s going to run to the right of trump, easier to out tr
see for that seems to be a growing chorus do you see that in terms of political thinking? quickset certainly is going to be desantis argument. he does not believe trump is going to be electable in a general election. they question for me here, isn t desantis going to attack trump right out of the gate? is he going to make it a major centerpiece of his campaign? that obviously remains to be seen. we are also going to see, will desantis be able to court some of the trump of voters? obviously it desantis is not going to be able to win republican presidential primary ip is not able to pick off some of those supporters. therefore it cannot offend them. i guess if he offends them he would alienate some of them. absolutely. that is a very tight rope to volunteer. but, desantis does of the
from his move to hand pick a state board overseeing disney world operations. joining me now is my good friend, senior correspondent, dominic paton. thank you for joining us. here as you know, you ve written about, it desantis took desantis to federal court for launching a targeted campaign of government retaliation against disney basal look companies opposition to florida s so-called don t say gay law. then you have, last, week disney announces it s pulling the plug on the development plan you orlando. the ceo, bob iger, question to desantis, does the governor even want disney s huge business and tax revenue? tell us how the counsel disney campus in pucks florida, and do you think it could hurt desantis politically? well,, alex let me be clear, governor desantis has a unique ability of making president biden the walt s knee company donald trump, and the two republican senators from florida, and above allows. all of whom, agree has vendetta
over the last couple of months whether it desantis is going to pull the trigger on this it s pretty hard to envision he s not going to pull the trigger on this. he delivered his remarks in iowa i thought were very good. he focused on the area where i think donald trump is weakest by talking about the distractions that come with a donald trump. there is hysteria, this vitriol especially in political circles around washington of these people who really do not like donald trump. that s a pretty smart strategy. the problem wasn t anyone who who watched the cnn event the other night saw a very disciplined, committed, balanced sort of candidate. he was just talking about the issues. now obviously have the moderator who was desperate to drag trump into talk about the past and a
hit desantis on disney. i i was kind of wondering how long it would take in that donald trump just can t rebrain from joining in a retrain from joining in a good kicking, and he was going to join the press. but this does put him to the left. he s essentially side ising with a company that has really upset a lot of parents over its opposition to the parental rights bill that desantis put through florida. and this does seem to be, though, what donald trump is doing, as you said, on abortion, on foreign policy, in terms of the issue of ukraine, in terms of entitlements, suggesting that desantis is going to the strip seniors of their social security and medicare. i m assuming that he feels as though this is an effective way to beat up on desantis, but it also, it also, i think, really underlines the problem he s got here, paul, because it s tricky. if he continues doing this to the left, he risks alienating a lot of the base out there that