but with all other republicans that could be exactly the kind of answer they want to hear right now. let s talk about ron desantis. margaret, desantis the super pac supporting ron desantis has a new ad out, one in iowa and one in new hampshire. listen to this part of the new ad out in iowa. joe biden is destroying america and instead of looking to america s future, trump is busy attacking republican governors. when i spoke to kim, i said, wow, you want to remain neutral. i said, that s strange. without me you know she was not going to win. you know that, right? trump, he s all about himself. that is not the way we win as republicans. donald trump recently criticizing iowa governor kim reynolds. ron desantis super pac, oh, so happy to point that out. what does this do? well, so far in the polling it hasn t done enough. it hasn t done what desantis wants to do which is peel iowa
by suspending you from office, but unfortunately he could not reinstate you is what that judge said. what do you hope happens from the appellate court at this time? we hope to be reintated, katie, so i can keep doing to job i was elected to dom we re going to keep fighting, fighting back against this illegal suspension. when i say illegal, that s not just my opinion. as you said, that s a fact. a court of law found that desantis violated both federal and state law in suspending me for political reasons and publicity. we re fights not just that i can do the job i was elected to do, but make sure to rule of law and elections and free speech still have meaning in our state. authoritarians augment their power by capturing the referees, the press, the judiciary, and the legislature and rewriting the rules. this sounds exactly like what
tied with george pataki, and speaking of polls, fast forward to right now. you see the numbers show that republicans, they smell blood. president biden s approval rating just hit 40%. the lowest number since last summer. it s also lower than trump s approval rating at the same point in his term. joining me tonight, senior media reporter for axios, sara fischer, new york times senior political correspondent maggie haberman, republican strategist, rina shah, and democratic strategist, basil smikle. sara, the fascinating thing about this, we knew this announcement was coming. we didn t know it was in this way, but in announcement on twitter says, both about what desantis thinks he has to do, and it says a lot about twitter and where that platform has gone after all of these months. yep, twitter has become the center of gravity for the republican party that used to be fox news, and ever since it fired tucker carlson, you are seeing a slew of conservative personalities, now candidates,
desantis is trump, but without the charisma, without the personality skills. how does that play? if you are nikki haley, and a lot of people in the snow burgeoning field to see ron desantis in front of them, and donald trump much further out, they have to find a way to try to gain ground. she can t get to trump until she can get to desantis. i think you are going to see a lot of that from people who are polling at a lower number. what i am struck by, the visuals in that video, more than really the message, which i m not surprised by, i don t understand why we re seeing his back going to a stage. that is the only thing i was confused by. it s incredibly dark, and you re right, he doesn t have the charisma like trump, she s right, that he doesn t have the charisma of donald trump. i do believe that presidential campaigns are about creating a social and political movement, which i don t think ron desantis can do. what he has done is try to say that, when you get chaos from donald trum