put out to pasture is charlie crist. reporter: in past debates desantis has blamed the other guy even when defending his own policy. you are the one waging the culture war. reporter: and when things aren t going his way, there is apparently another tell tale sign. when he is irritated, his voice goes up and up and that is when you know you ve landed a punch. reporter: still desantis has been known to pivot. watch this when he was asked if donald trump is a good role model for children. i don t read the art of the deal to my son. he is a great kid, but that is not necessarily his cup of tea. here is what i know. i was passionate about moving our american embassy to jerusalem. reporter: and he likes to tout his record. he called for harsh lockdowns in july of 2020. i lifted you up. i protected your rights. reporter: and at his first presidential debate given
pnc bank. we re just hours away from the first gop presidential primary debate, but with former president trump expected to be a no-show, all eyes will be on florida governor ron desantis who is a distant second next to trum in trump in the latest polls. randi kaye looks at desantis past debating style. he is a failed mayor, he presided over a crime ridden city. reporter: republican ron desantis attacking andrew gillum at their 2018 gubernatorial debate. but according to one of his debate coaches, desantis is not always so confident on the debate stage and he has a move that is a dead giveaway oig. going into the debate, we knew ron had a nervous jaw. whenever he wasser at this timed, he would move it back and forth. reporter: a media consultant
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asking this all still the front-runner. so i m curious, do you think that anyone on that stage, been asking this all week, will try to go after trump besides chris christie or even criticize him at all? i think that that is a huge question especially as we re expecting that they get asked what they would do with these various indictments that the former president is facing right now. i m curious to see whether anyone else will decide to take a stab at trump. nikki haley is very careful in choosing her words. she is one person that i ll be watching closely. of course chris christie we re expecting to go pretty hard against the former president. and desantis already seemingly preparing to go on defense for trump. so i think that we re going to see all of these different strategies become quite clear. vivek ramaswamy has been very defensive of the president, promising to pardon him if he were to be in the white house, and so it will become clear what
that certainly is what we re expecting. certainly most of the candidates will see him as the target tonight. of course some might take an easier approach. tim scott has indicated that maybe he won t go quite as hard against ron desantis in particular, he wants to show himself as just his own candidate trying to show why he would be the best person to take on president biden in a general election. and there will also be some of the lower tier candidates who this is really their opportunity to let people know who they are. people like doug burgum and asa hutchinson. we might see them maybe take less of an aggressive approach and more of a an approach of showing people watching that this is who we are, this is what we would do and kind of distinguishing themselves, taking this as an opportunity to try to get some momentum that maybe they haven t gotten so far. but again, trump is still the front-runner. so i m curious, do you think that anyone on that stage, been