away from donald trump? is the only other alternative to try to go after him? i understand chris christie s logic and i know it is a long shot, but i understand that more than i understand what ron desantis might be doing. because if it is not donald trump, then i mean, it will be donald trump unless he is taken out of the field for some reason. or decides not to run. what is the point in trying to be the runner up to donald trump? i think that the zike heist of this republican race and even with donald trump not on that stage, it is really about him and his leadership. and let me just run one other polling number by you from our most recent nbc news des moines register poll of iowa, and that is 41% of likely republican caucusgoers want donald trump to continue as their leader. that almost matches perfectly will his first choice in our poll with 42%. and you have 57% say maybe we ll consider other leaders.
and it s almost as if the record does not register, that the emotional connection is so deep and so profound that nothing can break it. and i wonder if that is at the root of these republicans not even bothering to try to go after trump on the record. i think. so clearly, they have a reality distortion feel that they are operating against. but if you keep talking since two enough trump voters, eventually, something is going to get through. and the other part of the record that people really talk about he just frankly, his won lost record on losing reelection to joe biden, losing the senate, losing the house, which is something that no incumbent president has done in 100 years. so, i mean, he has quite a record. and, you know, the republican party has lost quite a bit on his watch. so, look, the record can cut any number of ways. but it does not get you anywhere if you don t talk about it. i have to ask you, mark, about the ways in which what do we call it? lower card candidates a
distortion feel that they are operating against. but if you keep talking since two enough trump voters, eventually, something is going to get through. and the other part of the record that people really talk about he just frankly, his won lost record on losing reelection to joe biden, losing the senate, losing the house, which is something that no incumbent president has done in 100 years. so, i mean, he has quite a record. and, you know, the republican party has lost quite a bit on his watch. so, look, the record can cut any number of ways. but it does not get you anywhere if you don t talk about it. i have to ask you, mark, about the ways in which what do we call it? lower card candidates are trying to get into the first debate of the season we know they have to meet a certain polling number. but they also have to get 40,000 individual donations. and at this point, the dog burgum s of the race, the vivek ramaswamy s of the race are literally paying people off doug burgum offe
kennedy in the race at this point, rfk junior and day i had, i will come to you. i have heard people in your party call him all sorts of names and blah, blah, blah. the fact of the matter is if you get 19% of support, they aren t votes, but support. is that a cause for worry? i don t think it is a cause for worry. biden is well on his way to secure the democratic nomination. the poll mentioned earlier, 58% of democrats want someone else. well once you put a name and face on that person, those numbers start to plummet. rfk junior, i believe that his 20% polling number that he got, he got that number before he even opened his mouth and said any bit of his platform. it has to do more with the fact he is a kennedy than anything else. but once people actually see his platform i don t think any democrats will actually vote for him. i think rfk junior would be better suited to run in the
ever to serve in history we re gonna be digging into some of those polling number when it comes to republica potential folks that are running for president as well. monika alba, thank you and coming up with that despit expectations of florid governor ron desantis would be a front runner in the residu if he decided to jump and th polling now putting a large ga between him and former president trump. plus, about georgia american saying that abortion should be legal. something we knew, despite the wave of abortion bans push throughout republican le states how this could hurt gop an future elections, coming u next using the services you want in the clouds of your choice. with flexible multi-cloud services that enable digital innovation and enterprise control, vmware helps you innovate and grow. meet the future. a chef. a designer. and, ooh, an engineer. all learning to save and spend their money with chase.