charges against donald trump, as happened in florida. that is probably less likely than charges against others because jack smith has signaled that he wants to move this case quickly. elie properly points out, whenever you supersede, you run the risk of slowing down. i think the defense thought of that. so probably not trump. they ve got a judge who s moving quickly. they re not going to want to do anything to slow it down, but others could face charges sooner or later in d.c. good point. all right, guys, thank you very, very much. we re going to have more on the breaking news coming up. we ll get reaction from a key witness in the january 6th investigation. the former chief of staff to then vice president mike pence, mark short, is standing by. fifth generation montana ranchers. there s a story in every piece of land. run with us on a a john deere gator™ xuv and start telling yours.
as well, i guess which could change the emotions of some voters. we ll see if it does. ba bakari, politico s jonathan martin made this observation on twitter about the turmoil in the desantis campaign. he said this. inviting a month of summer process stories by staggering three separate staff changes, that s a candidate issue, not a staff issue. is that ultimately how you see it as well? i think so. i think that a lot of republicans had some faith that maybe ron desantis was the next coming of ronald reagan or had the talent of barack obama. that s just not the case. he s more tim pawlenty and scott walker than anything else. i think what you re seeing is someone as they go out on the campaign trail, has a very, very awkward way in which he communicates with voters. the more voters meet him, the less they like him. they like him on paper a little bit, but they don t like him when they meet him. one of the things has to be said about this direction of the campaign. you re not go
he tries to win over the gop electorate. in fact, one of his biggest donors and biggest supporters so far, robert bigelow this is a businessman, entrepreneur in nevada he has said he s going to pause donations to desantis political efforts right now because he said, quote, he does need to shift to get moderates, he ll lose if he doesn t, extremism isn t going to get you elected. so wolf, it will be interesting to see how this change in leadership at the top affects the message of a candidate who so far has been running to the right of former president donald trump, wolf. steve contorno in florida, thank you. jo scott jennings and bakari sellers are joining us. other campaigns have made staff changes during the summer. they went on to win the nomination. this is historic. but given how far behind desantis is in this race right now i ll put up on the screen, you can see a recent new york times /cnn poll
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so do you see this as a defective message to convince trump voters not to support him again? well, i can only goo by what i m seeing in the polls. polls right now show that republicans still think donald trump is the most electable candidate, if you can believe it, despite the fact that he s lost the national popular vote twice. that was before january 6th and before all the indictments and before all the trials we have to come. so none of the other republican campaigns and this ad campaign, which i think this is their second ad, have been able to convince republicans that electability is actually a problem for donald trump. they think donald trump is the most electable candidate. i think they re wrong. i think donald trump in a general election is going to have a very difficult time with the kinds of voters who win presidential campaigns, which are not far right or far left but center cut independents around major suburban areas. right now republicans are not buying these argument