none of the undecided voters are going to break to trump. if they re not with trump now, that i going to break to folks like governor desantis and i think he will build support and i think you ll see trump leak. why is he avoiding going after trump at this point then? what does he have to fear. i think he decided to not go into the gutter he s decided into the to go into the gutter with trump an some of the divisive personal attack and he hits back on policy. he said these are trump policies an he didn t get the wall built and added trillions in debt to the national deficit and didn t solve the immigration problemment desantis has hit back on policy and it is substantive and it shows real americans what he will do for folks and not just sound bites and that is how governor desabt desantis is. we talks about policy and trump
67% said trump would be the better nominee and dans trails at 22. d at about electability. republican voter again think that donald trump is better ited to take on joe biden. 58% think he would be able to beat joe biden to 28% for ron desantis. now, it is early, we re still in july here. and that is something that the desantis campaign has stressed. they said that he is just started to speak to voters one-on-one. but it shows the difficulty that he s going to have and the uphill climb he faces as he reboots his campaign and tries to look ahead with a more forward-looking vision, bianna. steve, thank you. let s discuss more with ashley allison, and former national coalitions director for biden/harris 2020 and dan everhart and ceo of canary. thank you both for joining us. dan, in an interview with rolling stone, ed rawlins is
melting ice cube and governor desantis is going to build support and he s going to add lego blocks to his base of support and we re going to see we re going to see him be victorious in iowa and new hampshire. ashley, how do you see voters responding to the news that trump s leadership pac has spent more than $40 million on attorneys fees for him sx and his associates. he s saying i m taking the incoming for you. they re coming after you and i m standing in the way. is that resonating and selling? well, look, i think if you support donald trump now, you want him to be able to defeat the legal challenges that he has. so, you are donating to the victory of donald trump, whether that be for president of the united states or whether that be to overcome his legal challenges. so i think people will continue to donate. he s raising more money after every indictment. so i do i don t think that voters or donors are going to turn their back on them. the one thing about the debate stage, d
not to come to this republican debate in august. and so it is really anybody s game at that opportunity to come out as the front-runner who can beat donald trump. and so, while you have people like a nikki haley and a tim scott who are trailing ron desantis. they have an opportunity, they have a real opportunity to shock on that debate stage and become the person that will take donald trump down in a republican nomination. ashley allison and dan, thank you. if i could quickly, quickly. dan. look, as a republican donor, i think the fact that he spent $40 million on his own legal defense is galactically absurd and offensive. all right. we ll leave it there. thank you. up next, what we re learning about an american nurse who was kidnapped along with her child while working in haiti. that story is up next. that s why subway s proffered by this champ. and this future champ. anand if we proffer it, we know you ll proffer it too.
talks about side issues and who he hates and has grudges against and i don t think that will fair well. trump hasn t faces primary voters in seven years and i think when he does he will be in for a rude awaking. and another bad sign in the poll. 58% of republicans say trump has better odds of beating ben and 28% said of thatestis. electability was a key argument so how should he be selling himself, if you were advising him, if this argument now isn t holding. well, let s give get ashley to weigh in. well right now it doesn t seem like ron desantis has a very clear strategy. even though he attempted today to introduce a new economic message, he still continues to go back to his what seems like to be his core around the