Speaker 1: Ron DeSantis is in involved in a presidential campaign that is all but dead.
He had a completely whacked appearance yesterday on NBC's Meet the Press.
He was interviewed by Kristen Welker.
I'm not going to play the entire thing.
It's quite vomits, but I'm going to play for you a really funny 50 seconds from this thing.
Ron DeSantis cited the usual stats about how low crime is in Florida, how much lower crime
is in Florida than when he became governor.
Kristen Welker predicting obviously, that the Senate, DeSantis would go this route was
prepared with the numbers.
Firearm homicides are actually up in Florida.
I don't know if DeSantis pretends not to be able to understand what she's saying, but
this goes really badly for him.
He looks visibly confused.
Check it out.
This is basically the embodiment of the entire DeSantis candidacy.
Speaker 3: You can look, you know, in Florida, our crime rates are at a 50 year low and our
violent crime rates down 30% since I've been governor.
So so we're handling it strong.
Speaker 4: Governor, actually, statistically speaking, the CDC says that the firearm mortality
rate is actually higher under your administration than it was under your predecessors administration.
But I do want to move on to the campaign.
And just so.
Speaker 3: What mortality rate?
No, no firearm.
Speaker 4: Mortality.
Speaker 3: Rates, but.
Speaker 4: Was actually.
Speaker 3: First of all, I mean.
Speaker 4: When then your predecessors that's according to the CDC.
Let me come on to the campaign.
Speaker 3: Go Right.
Because.
Well, because you had COVID and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Right.
COVID and all that stuff increased the firearm rate mortality.
What is he talking about?
Speaker 3: Excess mortality?
Is that what you're saying?
That went up everywhere in the country from 2020 on, all on.
Speaker 4: The fire, on.
Speaker 3: Anybody.
Speaker 4: The firearm mortality rate?
Let me move on to the campaign because I want to let you I.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's pretending not to know what she's talking about or if
he genuinely doesn't know what she's talking about.
If he doesn't know the owns his own statistics of what's going on.
And I don't know what the explanation is.
The entire interview went about that poorly.
And when you see that any normal person would say, how is this guy even running for the
Republican nomination?
How is this guy still a contender?
And the answer is he's increasingly kind of not.
And if we look at recent polling and we'll do a deeper dive on polling at the end of
the week or something like that.
DeSantis his campaign seems dead.
DeSantis is the green line down the middle of your screen here and where he was once
polling more than 31% among the Republican primary.
He's now been stuck between 12 and 13, going all the way back four months.
Nikki Haley continues surging.
Nikki is now at eight and Desanctis is at 12.
It very well may be the case that in a month, as I said, Nikki Haley may actually be the
one in second place.
So the DeSantis campaign, no momentum, no charisma, no common sense, no factual basis
for even saying I should be the next president of the United States.
That's how poorly it's going.
And he may genuinely find himself.
People were talking about DeSantis pushing into first place when it was, you know, early
January.
The difference between Trump and DeSantis was only about 12 or 13 points.
DeSantis is now almost 50 points behind Trump and risks falling into third place.
He doesn't seem to be ready to end his campaign.
Mike Pence did end his campaign, and we'll talk about that later.
But the Santos may soon find himself even lower than second place.
I don't see any path to this nomination for him.
If you see a path for DeSantis to the nomination, I'm curious to hear what it is.
Let me know.
I don't know which early primary state DeSantis is well positioned to overperform.
That will then, I guess, give him some momentum into subsequent primaries.
I'm just not seeing it.
If you see it, let me know and I'll gladly follow up about it.
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