Things in new polling. No surprise here that trump remains the run away frontrunner. You go deeper in the numbers, guy requests, you have to wonder if there is a ramaswamy revolution going. Trump pain maining his lead while dropping 3 points from june, he is still ahead 37 points of his nearest competitor ron desantis, who fell 6 points, you see, from june out of the 20s, now in the teens at 16 . With Vivek Ramaswamy coming to life as a potential g. O. P. Breakout star, more than doubling hits position. You see he climbed 6 points to 11 . No indication, by the way, that his surge is directly connected to that ability to Rap Eminem Songs at the Iowa State Fair. Former mike pence gaining a point in the middle of the pack with nikki haley also take the 1 point climb as well and trumps most vocal critic Chris Christie seeing some growth up 2 points, 1 to 3 . But, obviously, still 50 behind the frontrunner. Finally, i want you to take a look at the small slip senator tim scott took down a p
for the first time in this new light about how he is surging in the polls and people are interesting in hearing what he has to say. if donald trump chooses not to show up, there s going to be a lot more about the other candidates and i wouldn t be surprised we know a lot about ron desantis. we know a lot about tim scott. he has been on the program a million times as well. vivek has been on but the people watching haven t seen him. i bet he my prediction is will vivek could actually be the breakout star of the debate. ainsley: i think you might be right. how about what he said? he said they have all done this before. they have all debated before. i have never down this. this is going to be my first time. the first debate is not the end. it s just the beginning. this will be something of a warm-up for me. warning all of us if i don t do great, this is just a warm up for me but i m not overpreparing for this. steve: he is a guy who has actually done something. he has built a busin
feet sometimes. and he put sean spicer in a horrible position, once again, as the press secretary, where sean keeps answering, we have nothing further to say to that. now, already, we ve come out and say it was ant threat. there ll be another change in the story. i just wish we had some presidential actions in this with mr. trump. it s been horrible, so far. okay, so you all watching haven t seen the tweet, this is one of the tweets from this morning from the president. james comey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. sabrina, what do you think? well, look, i think that it s remarkable that when asked repeatedly if the president is secretly taping conversations in the oval office, sean spicer wouldn t respond and he was very sensitive to this idea that the press is parsing these briefings and the words that he projects from that podium, but this is not the first white house press