Interesting. this is a large evangelical conference and donald trump was not invited. ron desantis is the biggest candidate that will be here later tonight we will see former vice president mike pence as well as former south carolina governor nikki haley. really these candidates are seeking to differentiate themselves from the former president. they believe that there is a section of evangelical voter which is a critical to republicans who are looking for an alternative to donald trump. so we will be watching carefully to see if they can make an impact with the crowd and also talking to these voters about their feelings about these candidates. kristen, that is very difficult to do. i know you are in a small room with a lot of people trying to focus on the speakers. well-done and thank you for that reporting. appreciate it. let s discuss this and more, cnn s phil mattingly is here, so a is heidi przybyla of politico and cnn s manu raju. happy monday one and all. let s start with the
Donors are big-ticket donors who had maxed out. you have to keep in mind just because trump is leading in the polls his team is still very concerned about the florida governor, they are watching him carefully and know there are republicans who are seeking an alternative. now, desantis himself went on fox yesterday, he defended the fact that he had raised all this money, burn rate he said that they raised more than biden, they had raised more than former president donald trump and he also sought to down play those polls that show trump leading. take a listen. at the end of the day the bragg indictment just elevated him. there was a lot of sympathy but then i think just dominating the media coverage. i had gotten a lot of coverage in the aftermath of the midterm election, we always knew with the national polls that was that a sugar high. reporter: interesting there, showing that he believes that this lead is coming from that bragg indictment that first indictment in manhattan. i do w
That is that you have the chris christie s of the world who tweeted welcome to the party because desantis is finally going to get to trump, saying the only way to get the nomination is to go through the front runner. there is a real hunger among republicans for a different candidate. yes, donald trump has a sizable vocal enthusiastic unmovable block of supporters but there are republicanser worried about the vulnerabilities, the criminal indictments and the fact that he has failed in recent election cycles, failing again if he is the no, ma am nay. not a candidate that has figured out the right way to prosecute the argument against donald trump, desantis suggesting that donald trump has not been conservative enough on key policy issues. a lot of voters don t believe that. rather than getting into the electability argument. it will be interesting to see that he is fitting down with jake tapper tomorrow, a shift in his media strategy, what does that mean for his messaging as well. that
Dug through the report. on the small dollar side and just the overall burn rate side. less about what arguments set aside from the general election, it wasn t money going to be fungible in a primary to begin with. the burn rate in terms of the speed at which they re spending money even as they re raising huge sums of money and that ties together with if you do not have a significant base of small dollar donors because small dollar donors is what they have become invaluable for is you go back to them again and again and again and oftentimes they don t often no he that they are constantly donating small sums of money. when you tap out huge donors and desantis has an impressive network it s the small donors that will maintain that pace and when you have a high burn rate you have potential problems in a near future. i want to play something else that desantis said on fox over the weekend about the fact that
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