Today on inside politics, reality bites. ron desantis wants you to ignore his current predicament that he s spending too fast and furious and is cutting staff and that seven weeks in he can t cut into donald trump s lead. plus, backlash, then backtrack. a top democrat crosses the line into anti-semitism, earns a rebuke from her own party and then revises her words. and does joe manchin want to run for president on a third-party ticket? today he makes a splashy appearance in new hampshire alongside a group that some worry might cut into biden. let s go inside politics. up first disappointment has
Stage as you mentioned but you dropped out of the race even before the first votes were counted or taken in iowa. you mentioned that desantis has a huge fundraising haul in q2 and that is true but he s also spent a lot of money, ju to be specific, hed $20 million last quarter, again, that was a lot but he already spent 39% hat has raised and 15% of that funding that s it, just 15% comes from small donors which as you ll know means that those are the donors that you can go ck to over and over again, it s the big donors that have given to him and they maxed out. yeah, that s definitely the case and that s one of those where i think for him or anybody else to go even further in terms of being a true challenge to president trump they ve got to go beyond just having a good organization and having a good track record but step out and make some really bold proposals out there. i would say that even for
Fundraising numbers show he s doing decisively well, very well-organized in that regard, even outpacing former president trump and the rest of the field in that regard but the two have to go hand in han. one of the lessons any of the candidates governor desantis or anyone needs to know from what i went through eight years ago, even if you have a great record that only gets you on the stage. you have to be equally as bold when you go out and make the case to the american voters and donald trump did that eight years ago, it was clear whether you agreed with him or not he was going to build the wall, he was going to drain the swamp, these things were clear whether it was on the debate stage or at one of his campaign rallies. nobody else could break through the way that he did. i think in the 2024 cycle in ron desantis or any of the other candidates will have any shot against donald trump, president trump, they have to make a really powerful case that they re going to be even more bold tha
Among other things, if you are talking about donald trump you are not helping yourself and desantis is talking a lot about donald trump, that may be true that a lot of this money was spent defining him, but that s not to take away from the real structural problems in his campaign that go back frankly a couple of months. i talked recently with a top donor in the republican party who said, look, it was two months ago that a group of pastors came into a room in south carolina to meet the guy that they knew was going to be their guy, this alternative younger alternative to trump and they just left him cold. that s been a slow burning problem within the party as well that they are starting to view desantis as just not as strong a candidate. it s not just that trump has spent against him and he s kind of like not had his moment yet. it s real problems with the donor base. that s interesting. sorry, manu, i want you to come in. that is true, the flip side of
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