DeSantis at risk of losing it all 'in the next couple of weeks': former GOP House member
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has struggled to explain why he's still considered a viable candidate when his poll numbers are sinking despite a heavy campaign schedule. Headlines all include words like "stalling," "sagging," and "struggling to find its footing," MSNBC's Alex Witt explained at the top of the hour.
She played a clip of DeSantis appearing on Fox with Maria Bartiromo, who asked how he can still justify his campaign when he's such a failure. DeSantis blamed it on the media.
"These are narratives. The media does not want me to be the nominee. That's very obvious. My reelection in Florida, we had the greatest victory that any Republican governor (sic) candidate in the history of the state had, and yet, a few months before the election, I had media saying, somehow, my reelection campaign was stalling that we weren't doing anything."
DeSantis certainly couldn't compare his Florida win to other states where Republicans were as successful or more. Next door's Alabama governor, for example, ran as even as DeSantis. Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) was reelected in Arkansas with 65 percent. Gavin Newsom (D) won California with more than 61 percent. Governor David Ige (D) of Hawaii scored more than 62 percent.
Speaking to former Republican Rep. David Jolly (FL), Witt wondered if DeSantis was still a formidable challenger to Trump.
"Sure, if Donald Trump wins himself. Ron DeSantis is wrong. He's lying. It is not the media putting him 30 points behind Donald Trump. It is Republican voters in the primary who have gotten to know Ron DeSantis and his agenda. And they've said, I'd rather go with the former president and his agenda of retribution than your culture war agenda. And that's where the numbers come down."
He went on to call this "the worst week of the campaign for Ron DeSantis," thus far.
"He is at risk of losing it all here in the next couple of weeks because the narrative has shifted that he can't actually win," Jolly continued. "And Ron DeSantis knows that, and what's telling is that a week ago he said if Donald Trump doesn't join the debate then DeSantis probably doesn't either because it's a two-person race. This week he's saying, 'I'll be there in August.' And he knows he has to be there because he is losing relevancy fast."
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