the new york times trump leads florida governor desantis in that one. all other candidates, well, they earned less than 5% of support in the poll, which we should note was conducted before new charges were announced against trump in the classified documents case. so on desantis he is opening up about his struggling presidential campaign and recent staff shakeup. over the weekend the florida governor held an event are voters in new hampshire inviting them to have a beer with him. but his campaign had to slash ticket prices from $50 for the general public to just $1, and even then only about 30 people showed up. now, this comes as his advisers have been trying to make the governor seem more approachable through retail politicking. in an interview on fox news last night, desantis spoke about some of the changes that he s been forced to make to his campaign.
investigation is in its final stages saying, quote, we re ready to go. one wonders if that august 10th hearing will have to happen first before any indictments are issued there in fulton county. there are also growing questions this morning about donald trump s save america pac and how much money it has spent on legal fees to defend trump, his advisers and others. according to a new campaign finance report filed yesterday the pac spent more than $20 million on legal fees during the first six months of the year. that is half the amount that the washington post and the new york times reported over the weekend. they reported the pac spent $40 million during that time. nbc news has reached out to the trump campaign about the discrepancy in these numbers. according to the federal election commission filing the $20 million sum included payments doled out to more than 40 different law firms as the pac covers legal expenses for
did not win the 2020 election, they did not take that chance. so since every republican candidate who s now running for president continued with the falsehood that trump won in 2020, now it s a lot harder for them to turn around and say, yeah, he won in 2020 but actually i should be the president starting in 2025. so i think that trump has just solidified his grip on the party over the past three years, and now these other candidates are realizing they can t keep up. yeah, so the polling certainly suggests that. and grace, as you talk to some of these campaigns, is there any expectation they ll pivot and take a different strategy in terms of attacking trump with this next indictment believed to be coming down any day, or do we think it s more of the same? well, a few of the campaigns that i have talked to such as will hurd s campaign, he is a former congressman, and he s also one of the few republicans who s affectively attacking trump. you re also seeing that from
former new jersey governor chris kristi, and you ll see that a little bit from desantis, a little bit from former vice president mike pence. but really they re unwilling to challenge trump to the extent that they think they might anger his voters. so we re not i don t think going to see candidates really going head to head against trump. i think it s more likely we see a 2016 scenario where by they try to take out each other, all polling below trump, and then we could see a fight to the death while he continues to glide to the nomination. it s still very early, but i think that the rest of these candidates may not be willing to take on trump to that extent. and yesterday on truth social trump all but said that he will indeed skip the first republican primary debate being held in just a few weeks time. grace, let s close with some new reporting you have about the democratic attorneys general association, thinking you can
letter, there are signs all along that yucil taveras having received that target letter and seen the initial indictment against trump and walt nauta decided he had what to provide to prosecutors. we do know he s an extremely valuable witness without whom the details then superseding indictment would not have been known. and nauta continues to follow the former president around the country for his campaign. but, lisa, you know, there s a lot of speculation that today could be the day for the indictment of donald trump in what has been short-handed as the january 6th investigation, which of course includes all his actions after the 2020 election, and we should note we don t know for sure it s today or it would come this week, but as soon as that target letter was sent, the clock started ticking. walk us through what today would look like for this grand jury in