bully or get past the bully, you have to confront the person in front of you before you could talk about pivoting to joe biden. and they are not doing that. and this came up in the debate last week when it was put to ron desantis about the all of the candidates about the trump indictments and desantis wanted to move on. is this what we re going to be focussing on going forward? the rehashing of it. the democrats would love that and they will win if we let them. governor desantis, we spend an hour talking about policy and former president trump is beating you by 30, 40 points in many polls so it is a factor in the gop primary. do you think the dooepesanti campaign is handling this correctly. it is clear what he was trying to do in the debate. and move past the question. but that is the fundamental question of the primary and they clearly don t wan to deal with it. so until someone comes up with a way to go at trump, they all attacked vivek ramaswamy as a
killer, he was targing people based on their race. that is totally unacceptable. that is the language from ron dpoo desantis. we condemn what happened in the strongest possible terms. what kind of position does this put desantis in? in a good position and the experience and moves that he s made over the course of the election cycle. recall just two months ago we were speaking about the controversy that he made about defending florida s change in curriculum, saying that the slavery essentially was something that may have had a unintended benefit for black americans, right. before that the fight that he s waged over critical race theory as well. so this is a moment and his campaign sure better know that people will be watching to see how he responds to that. another point that i would like to make to piggy back off of ava, is that what we ve seen with the candidates of color on the republican side, a lot of the basis of their campaigns has been that race doesn t matter, right.
governor ron desantis is back in florida this morning. we re waiting to see if you plans to travel to jacksonville, at site of a racest shooting yesterday that left three black americans dead. but it was vivek ramaswamy that talked about race in america this morning. he reacted to the shooting in the wake of this remark he made on friday. i m sure the booking white supremacist exists somewhere in america, i ve just never met him. never seen one or met one in my life. maybe i ll meet a unicorn sooner. now ramaswamy sparred with dana bash this morning on state of the union over that comment. what do you think goes through the minds of the families of the three victims in yesterday s shooting when they hear you say that white supremacy is basically a fantasy? i m sure they re grieving for their loss and i don t want to politicize those victims, dana.
you didn t just say that they would be proud. it is the same spirit, dana, i think i m not sure how provoking of a discussion picking on some fringe comment in the context of a broader context that i was offering it in a speech. all riekght you just said th your comment was and again he s comparing a black democratic kogcongresswom to the kkk. he also is arguing that affirmative action programs are to blame for the racist violence that we see in this country. and that is just not bourne out by the facts. and this will put different candidates that will handle the issues of race and about mass shootings differently. governor ron desantis is now back there if florida. he issued a statement last night. he said he s talking about the
i saw it as sort of defensive also. and the polls also indicate what you were saying there, marg re margaret. and donald trump had a commanding lead and it s grown from february to august. 10 points he s up since then. you see ron desantis down 12 points. there has been an uptick among some of the other only vivek ramaswamy. and we ll talk about the race in the next segment. but what you i do, mario, about why the candidates are not making any headway in light of these indictments? well they re scared. they re scared that 30% of the republican base that donald trump wields, they see that base has been energized going back to the alvin bragg case and they re feared of taking a risk for their prospects. because in order to punch the