how de tesantis has been fighti. reporter: that s right, jake. a source inside the desantis campaign today told me they re feeling confident about tonight, telling me that the candidate is feeling good. he s apparently already here at his campaign party upstairs, watching coverage with his wife. we ve been told a number of times that desantis has tried to cast himself as a trump acolyte, somebody very closely aligned with the president on a number of issues, including immigration. you remember that commercial where his kids are building a toy wall and reading the art of the deal. a source inside the campaign said they re watching several areas very closely, including the i-4 corridor from daytona, orlando, and tampa, as well as the panhandle, which you noted is closing polls later than the rest of the state. that s an area where president trump saw an overwhelming amount of support in 2016. they re also looking closely at miami, where they re counting on cuban-americans who also vo
this, because florida is always a swing state. in this case democrats were probably a little excited that desantos gets this nomination because they can paint him as a trump acolyte. on the other side you do have a candidate on the democratic side, andrew gillum, who was not really expected to win. this is possibly the upset of the night. oh, yeah, absolutely. it s a major victory for the bernie sanders more progressive wing of the party which has been short on victories this cycle. they put up a lot of candidates and most of them have lost. i think it will be a fight between the hearts and souls of each party. on the one hand you have ron desantos who did everything but take a blood oath to donald trump during this primary season, and you have, in the democrats, a big city mayor who supports $15 minimum wage sin e single-payer health care and
that kind of divisive rhetoric to american politics, he is fully prepared to do that between now and november. i would expect that it will escalate. it will get actually worse. jeremy, taking a look in florida again, where do democrats push back against this, because florida is always a swing state. in this case democrats were probably a little excited that desantos gets this nomination because they can paint him as a trump acolyte. on the other side you do have a candidate on the democratic side, andrew gillum, who was not really expected to win. this is possibly the upset of the night. oh, yeah, absolutely. it s a major victory for the bernie sanders more progressive wing of the party which has been short on victories this cycle. they put up a lot of candidates and most of them have lost. i think it will be a fight between the hearts and souls of each party. on the one hand you have ron desantos who did everything but
to american politics, he is fully prepared to do that between now and november. i would expect that it will escalate. it will get actually worse. jeremy, taking a look in florida again, where do democrats push back against this, because florida is always a swing state. in this case democrats were probably a little excited that desantis gets this nomination because they can paint him as a trump acolyte. on the other side you do have a candidate on the democratic side, andrew gillum, who was not really expected to win. this is possibly the upset of the night. oh, yeah, absolutely. it s a major victory for the bernie sanders more progressive wing of the party which has been short on victories this cycle. they put up a lot of candidates and most of them have lost. i think it will be a fight between the hearts and souls of each party. on the one hand you have ron desantis who did everything but take a blood oath to donald trump during this primary
going to push back on the globalist ideas and increasing the foot print militarily. but he s going to do it communicating directly to the people. they are more aggressive now that bannon is back. is this going to be one of those relationships that president trump seems to have with people that have been fired or resigned. there was corey lewandowski, has he really been fired? he s still receiving calls from the president. is steve bannon one of those people? here s the difference, i think, that makes steve bannon s situation unique. steve bannon was never really a trump acolyte. corey lewandowski and others were cultish followers. he saw donald trump as a vehicle to get his movement out there. and steve bannon is very much a true believer in that world view. so a lot of this was self-interest for him.