inflame and divide. stuff that s gotten press. stuff that s gotten his name out there. just having a great idea and getting a great direction doesn t mean you re going to be successful an influential gop donor told ali vitali. you ve got to bring people together and get them to buy into what s going on. so far it appears to be working. desantis is decidedly trumpian politics have turned a once swing state into a deep red incubator for conservative policy. and it s made him a gop star. back in november, desantis won reelection by a margin of nearly 20%. all while as nbc news points out, imposing restrictions on classroom education and vaccine mandates, that infuriated progressives. the question on everyone s lips is when is he going to announce, and when he does, can someone seen as a more competent donald trump have the same success as the original. the divisive policies worked in florida, yes, but can they work nationally or to butcher the words of shakespeare, would a trump
he s got an e-mail out, patriots, you deserve the facts, i promised i would give you the truth regarding january 6th, and now i m delivering. he s using it to get money, garrett. reporter: yeah, katy, absolutely, and i think the answer to jeremy s question is this is part of the bargain mccarthy had to make with his base. one of the first reactions i saw anywhere to this news that mccarthy made the tapes available to tucker carlson is marjorie taylor greene, this is why she stood by mccarthy in the speakership fight, echoed by donald trump jr. saying this was weeks in the making a process to get this information out. there is a portion of the party that firmly does believe there s something nefarious about january 6th that isn t widely known. they want to push this stuff out here. as jeremy pointed out, it s been a loser electorally, at least it was in the last midterm. mccarthy is too far in the arrangement to see it through, and put this information out there. jeremy, there s ano
gun control was a loser electorally. 16 years later, evolution and attitudes in country, and evolution who votes for democrats, i think you re going to see rhetoric like that from the republican nominee but you re going to see more on the other side than we ve seen in many years with democrats like hillary clinton making a stronger case for this. you have been digging into the numbers and looking for that explanation for why trump continues to dominate in the polls. and it is very much this issue of blue collar, noncollege educated voters, correct? at this point you could reduce the republican race to two sentences. donald trump has coalesced the blue collar wing of the republican party around him to a remarkable extent. and no one has coalesced the white collar wing. the white collar wing of the republican party is still fragmented. donald trump is winning 40% in some polls in a field with 15 candidates, 40%. but on the college side, much