it might be that ron desantis is more in touch with the working and middle class voters that populate the republican party under donald trump. >> the question is, are those voters still with donald trump or are they willing to vote for a ron desantis? i wonder what you made of that argument, not only that you definitely saw ron desantis making that appeal. but the question of whether or not nikki haley herself, who some argued had more to lose this debate, whether or not she made up the ground that she lost in some of the recent town hall. >> this more populous return to the republican party is not new. it was donald trump in 2016 that heralded the beginning of that shift that saw the market out there in the gop electorate and tapped into it. the problem that desantis has run into is he is trying to run as trump but slightly not. and most voters that like trump wanted the original formula. what's fascinating is that in