the trump/desantis battle evolved into a schoolyard brawl. you don t change your name in the middle of the election. his whole family moved to florida under my governorship. are you kidding me? what is the desantis plan to convince voters he s not just a better nominee but a better president. plus the gop field keeps growing. three more candidates will jump in this week including trump s former vp. republicans have to offer a positive vision grounded in conservative principles. but how many of them will make it to the republican debate stage? and disaster averted. no one got everything wanted but the american people got what they needed. the president said it is proof his brand of politics still works. i know bipartisanship is hard but we could never stop trying. welcome to inside politics sunday , i m abby phillip. thank you for joining. it is all about iowa, iowa. and yesterday marks the first start of the caucus season with eight presidential hopefuls
[ applause ] and that was just the beginning. are you really going after the one who is second and i think the one who is second is going down so much and so rapidly, i don t think he ll be second that much longer. i think he ll be third or fourth. he used to say how great florida was. his whole family moved to florida under my governorship. as you know, i call him ron desanctimonious. i think it is so petty and jewelry. i don t think that is what is voters want. let s discuss this with eli stokols and leigh ann caldwell and marvel talev and daniel strauss. this is pretty intense at the get-go. i think the question from the get-go, was is desantis going after trump or going after the people polling beneath him and