and president biden neck in neck and next year s general election. the subject of trump s continued political strength was reportedly the topics of discussion between biden and former president obama in late june. according to the washington post, factors such as trump s intensely loyal following, a trump friendly conservative media and a polarized country are underlining his worry that trump could be a more formidable candidates than many democrats realize. joining me now tara setmayer, linking project senior advisor and former gop communications director and resident scholar to the uva center for politics. and sarah longwell, publisher of the former national chair of orville gantz and host of the focus group podcast. thank you both very much for coming to the sunday show. tara, how concerned should democrats be with trump s that he is to be gaining momentum?
that s double his take in the first three months of the year. joining me now, terrace at meyer, former gop communications director lincoln project senior advisor and resident scholar at the uva center for politics, and former republican congressman and msnbc analyst david jolly. he is no longer with the party. tara david thank you very much for coming to the saturday show. so david i ll start with you. governor desantis brought in $20 million in the first six weeks of his campaign. that s not is that a sign he s doing better than the headlines suggest? no, look. i think ron desantis s fundamental strength has always been around the ability to raise a lot of money you organize, and honestly to execute the things that top tier presidential candidates do. he s in all the early states. he has a robust digital campaign mail campaign. door knocking campaign. so to see $20 million come in what come as a surprise.
people. that is historic reductions in spending, consequential forums that will lift people out of poverty into the workforce, right in government overreach, no new taxes, no new government programs. there is a lot more when the bill s. house speaker kevin mccarthy says the tentative agreement to raise the debt ceiling is worthy of the american people. but what is still unclear is whether his republican caucus will follow. the house speaker is expected to make a statement at the top of the hour, and as of now, we are just going to go to my sound off panel to discuss this and more. joining me, now terrace at meyer, lincoln project senior advisor former gop communications director and resident scholar at uva center for politics, former congresswoman donna edwards an msnbc political analyst and eugene daniels an msnbc political contributor, political white house correspondent, and playbook coauthor. thank you all very much for being here. okay, let s just go around, go
loves guns. . stephen spain are thank you for thank you for what you did for, the what you try to do for the people there, and allen texas on the scene. thank you very much for coming to the sunday show, and telling us what you saw and sharing your views. well, the media is an important part of making sure the story gets told. thank you for what you do, in your position, do ensure that we affect shades in our country. it s very much appreciate your time, in the questions. thank you. joining me now, msnbc political analyst and former maryland congresswoman, donna edwards, and lincoln project, senior adviser, former gop communications director, and resident scholar at the va center for politics. there s only one question to ask both of you. tara and donna, i ll start with
project senior adviser, former republican communications director and uva center for politics scholar. and charlie psychs. editor at large for the bullwork and msnbc columnist and contributor. i ll start with you, charlie. we lived in the world of talk radio for a time. and there is a certain amount of outrageousness in talk radio that is encouraged. on fox, the level of it was it was rush limbaugh times ten. he was saying stuff that used to be considered just straight up white nationalism. and they didn t have a problem with that. why do you think this one text about him saying that s not how white men don t fight, which is a very odd thing to say, by the way, in the 21st century. why do you think that got him bounced? yeah. i m not buying this actually, joy. i think you laid out the reasons why. you know, i think ari made the point in the last hour. so we re supposed to believe that fox executives and board members were shocked, shocked to find out that their leading star was a r