the finish line. hey, guyms, not let them get away with that. and that s the angle. prjoining me now is tom bevan, president and co-founder of real clear politics, and matt towery mat, chairman of insider advantage. tom, you cantom, c react to the advice i gave both candidates. maybe i m totally off basef bast i want to first get to this. every poll shows that trump is the y favorite inlls to the primary, the gop primary from the nationa t tl to the ste polls to even the delegate fight. but what s going general on in thesel, general election trends? incre nall, i mean, as you mentioned,i trump continues to show incredibletien a at the national level, even at the state level. desantis has been bumping around at about 20, 21%. the movement actually has beenwy happening in the in the sort of lower tier where vivek aly is has already jumpedcontin ahead of nikki haley in the national polls. and ifue in third the trends continue,pe will be in third place. he s going to a clip. mike penceiny
he is getting some traction where other candidates have not . le is part and parcel of.ea what you just mentioned, the angle heking t speaking to . voters. he s not attacking he i trump. he s not degrading those voters. he s trying to actually win ron desantisdoing thr. ron desantis is not doing that. and i think that s one of the reasons that his campaiged d thus far has failed to move the needle in the upward directio.n. now, matt, what about this? i mean, the wake is really impressive. his ability to articulate issues mirrors really the thinking the populisth conservative thinking of both trump and desantis. soansantis all three candidatesf the more populist variety. obviously, ramaswamy is way down, but still he has moved, .as tom said. what s going on here? well, for one reason that ramaswamy moved up is because he was full in his support of donald trump with regard to the indictments and said that herdo.
turnout, tom, you agree? i do. i think republicans, again, especially those in thoseblican eight battleground states, republicans, have to really get their turnout operatios n up and running and find those votes and harvest those ballots . they will lose again. and that includes early votes. don y voting.ou earl lauy tom and matt, thank you. great to see you. now, while everyone has been talking about gaviingn newsom replacing joe biden at the top of the ticket, we re goinging ka to explain why his replacing kamalaa much is a much more liky scenario. stay there. lti-vi ageta related macular may led to severe vision loss. and if you re taking alone, you maymmende be missing a critical piece. preservation. preservation. preservationd the only clinically proven 20 by the national eye institute to help reduce the risk of moderate to advanced amd ask yo. progression. preservation is backed by 20 preservation is backed by 20 years of clinical studie ask your doctor about adding preserva