from five swing states that is concerning for democrats and the white house. we ll go through those numbers on a potential 2020 rematch. and there is new reporting for donald trump s plans on revenge if he gets a second term in the white house. he has already figured out who he is going to arrest. wonderful. it s about as authoritarian as you can get. also, the biden poll numbers, they looked about as bad as barack obama s in 2011 at about this time. barack obama was losing to mitt romney in several swing states. we still have a long way to go. also ahead, we ll tell you about the potential key endorsement for florida governor ron desantis in the republican presidential primary, as donald trump will be on the stand today in the $250 million fraud trial against his company. plus, we ll show you what ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy had to say about the state of the war and his invitation to donald trump. and we ll have the latest on the diplomatic trip overs
just pulled out. the numbers are better in north carolina than they were for barack obama. inlorida we re off to a very good start. we re underperforming in iowa and ohio in ways that are troubling. joining me now deputy campaign manager for mitt rom y romney s presidential campaign and jason johnson, politics editor at the root. let s start with all this talk about how the this is an old trope. in some ways donald trump is bringing it to the fore. but the fact that votes have been rigged in the cities has been said for a long time. it s racial code. it s the cities. black people are cheating. like dead black people are going to come up. it s always the dead. no matter what you do. you hack them in the head and they keep coming back. the problem is this. from a political science standpoint, he s hurting himself. we have study after study that shows that if voters feel that their votes aren t counted, if
a republican losing kentucky would be interesting. have the tea party candidates these states more vulnerable than a more established candidate might have? i want to comment on a good example of the kind of people i think we will have coming into the senate. marco rubio inlorida, i was impressed with him from the beginning and was supportive of his candidacy. this was a guy that was speakera of the florida state house. he is going to come in and be a factor on the issues, but he also knows how to get things done. that critical. in those races you re talking about, i m surprised at that poll you just mentioned in kentucky, because the numbers i ve been seeing are very much in favor of rand paul. he you know, he came in there, he ran a good campaign. he beat the this is an s early september poll showing him tied. he beat the, i guess, theti anointed one. and he s still running a very strong campaign. i think he will win. but, you know, and he may win, i m not saying he won t.