'Truly confused': ABC News' Jon Karl stunned that Trump seems 'out of it'

ABC News' Jon Karl on Monday marveled at the fact that Trump has made multiple slipups in recent days, including in a speech where he seemed to confuse GOP rival Nikki Haley with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

"Donald Trump is truly confused about who Nikki Haley is, thinks somehow that she was in charge of security at the Capitol on January 6th," Karl said during an appearance on "Good Morning America." "We've seen him confuse Joe Biden with Barack Obama, he thinks that he beat Obama. We saw at one point, he talked about how Biden was going to get us into World War II... There have been several moments on the campaign trail where he has seemed, quite frankly, out of it."

Elsewhere in the segment, Karl talked about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who exited the 2024 presidential race over the weekend and gave his endorsement to former President Donald Trump, the same man who promoted baseless allegations about DeSantis being a "groomer" just months before.

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Karl didn't pull any punches in his analysis.

"This was a spectacular failure, one of the greatest in all American politics," Karl said. "DeSantis, if you go back to about a year ago, was actually beating Donald Trump... He spent some $150 million, if you count the money from his super PAC, and he did nothing but go down and down and down."

Karl went on to argue that DeSantis' big flaw was that he "never took the fight to Donald Trump" until Trump had left him "mortally wounded."

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