republicans in the legislature live doing what they were doing in the midnight hours of the closing session of that legislature which doesn t meet again until 2025. they re out. two years. two years. thanks, chris. you bet. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. so today was the big day, the day the man who was widely seen as the strongest potential competitor to president trump in the republican primary, today was the day this guy entered the race. it is the biggest day of florida governor ron desantis political career so far, biggest day certainly since he first stepped out onto the national stage in 2018 as a candidate for florida governor. everyone knows my husband ron desantis is endorsed by president trump but he s also an amazing dad. he loves playing with the kids. he reads stories. then mr. trump said you re fired. i love that part. he s teaching madison to talk. people say ron s all trump, but he is so much more. big league, so good.
enjoying this. you did say, look, there s no trump onsie was seen anywhere. we didn t see what he was wearing, and it does seem like this was a big gift to donald trump, and it seems also he knows exactly what to do with it. so this is rough start for ron desantis. i m not sure elon musk and his charisma is going to sort of help him get out of this, but obviously there have been better ways to begin his presidential campaign that was going to challenge the incumbent or de facto incumbent. there are definitely better ways to launch. jonathan, but there s obviously the technical glitches and the decision to do it on twitter to begin with, right? the preoccupation of this campaign with kind of the elites that are you know, business elites, sail convalley elites who feel somehow left out in the
and they can t get a glove on him in those forum, it s going to be that much harder. yeah, it s just a connection these voters feel to trump is so visceral, so emotional, it is deeply personal, and so will this campaign be. two great gents to start this evening off with. thanks for your time. we have lots more coming up this hour including trump s former chief of staff mark meadows. where is mark meadows, and is he a criminal target or is he a cooperating witness in the special counsel s probe of the former president? that s coming up. but first donald trump and ron desantis. is a messiah complex a prerequisite for the 2024 nominee? we re going to talk with michelle goldberg coming up next. talk with michelle goldberg coming up next helps restore gum health, and rehardens enamel.
right wants whereas donald trump is running himself as an object of worship. and trump believes in himself. he has gotten high on his own supply, to put it in common parlance. and you get the sense ron desantis is sort of terrified of having to speak from anything beyond the script. i mean even today he s like you could almost hear him shuffling the papers talking about the woke mind virus. it was so weird when they finally got him on that disastrous twitter spaces the first thing he does was read what sounds like a campaign speech that just sounds so terrible coming out of this tinny, twitter audio. it was so prepared, even in the ultimate safe space he barely seems he can speak off-the-cuff. and when he does speak off-the-cuff i can t imagine what any quasi-normal person listening to this they re
level, or does the sure to be awful coverage we re going to see here in the next day just alienate him further from the mainstream press and drive him further away? i think this will be a good test in that sense of this candidate. yeah, there s so many tests that ron desantis has to pass, and i guess one of the things that was reported at the new york times, mark, was the army that pro-desantis super-packs are assembling to basically get out support, get out the vote for ron desantis in early primary states. they re planning on spending $200 million to beat donald trump. and they are trying to build a political apparatus with 2,600 field organizers by the fall which is double the peak of bernie sanders entire 2020 campaign. my question is who are the 2,600 people going to be door knocking