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over an online marketing video featuring a transgender influencer that was less than a minute long. governor desantis wasn't very concerned about the pension fund when in april he said that he would never drink bug light again. he only brings the issue up now, as he is slipping in the polls and thirst-ing for a headline. all of this sounds like a desperate candidate who knows the last call is coming for his campaign. governor desantis hoped to be sensible alternative to trump, instead he has revealed himself as an impersonal politician whose only play is to push culture war grievances that appeal only to the most angry and bitter of american voters. a writer for the atlantic puts it this way, quote, the florida governor is in trump plus confidence, he is trump minus jokes. that is no laughing matter.
i look forward to that. we can talk about her expert demonization. we can talk about assault on free enterprise. >> jesse: desantis has been ignoring gavin treating him like a chihuahua nipping at his heals but that ended today. >> it's interesting. he has huge problems in his stage like huge problems in his state. we all know that i mean, you see it in san francisco. you see it in l.a. you see it in the people fleeing. california from its inception gained population every single year until he became governor. california was probably the height of opportunity for middle class americans for many, many decades in this country. no one would leave there. you know, you would go. people were drawn to there, and, yet, he is the first governor that's overseen a massive exodus out of california. >> jesse: desantis wasn't finished. he issued a direct challenge to the governor of california.
tomorrow new hampshire and then south carolina. then he agreed to go back over the weekend. we interviewed joni ernst and she was talking about roast and ride. traditional annual event. and all of the candidates usually go. so far we haven't heard if trump is going to be there or not. at the time when we interviewed her desantis wasn't on the docket now he has decided to go back to iowa over the weekend. shows you how important this state is then you have got trump who going to be there tomorrow for the town hall at 9:00 p.m. even though desantis has got -- his never back down which is his super pac and ted cruz is supporting that. he has hired political operatives in iowa to build up the field operations and he sent out mailers and showcased events and endorsements by the state lawmakers. when trump was asked about this. when his adviser chris loss vida, he said anyone under estimating president trump's willingness to campaign is making a huge mistake. people will see plenty of donald trump. >> brian: yeah. i don't think there is any question. governor christie got a super
i did better than cuomo and when ron desantis talks about spending and the former president, that was on congress, too. the forme president had an omnibus jammed down his throat. that was given to him by paul ryan as speaker and mitch mcconnell as majority leader. >> ainsley: trump has been going after desantis and desantis wasn't going after trump and now he is. trump said he raised taxes and desantis is not loyal and he talked about new york had fewer deaths than florida, but desantis said, i will fight back, hell, his whole family move to florida under my governorship, and criticized him for not finishing the wall. >> brian: i don't blame trump on that, he had to repurpose spending to do it and got criticism for it and it is
is this a wise move on desantis' part to attack trump right out of the gate? >> you know, i'll be honest, i don't know if it's the wise move or not but it's the necessary move. what we've seen as people try to draw comparisons between 2016 and 2024 and talk about there are too many candidates in all of this. the reality is it's a different race. donald trump starts as the favorite and what that means is you're not going to win the republican nomination by going around donald trump. you've got to take him on directly. it may or may not be successful but if you don't do that, you're guaranteed to fail so desantis coming out of the gate after absorbing blows from trump for a long time when desantis wasn't yet a candidate starting in this posture is the necessary posture. no one is smart enough to tell you whether or not it's going to be successful. what we've learned is a lot of the political gravity how we define things don't apply to donald trump but desantis is doing the necessary thing to take him on directly. >> karen, i want to play something else desantis said after he asked why he's running now. here he is.
and party leaders that alice referred to prefer desantis over trump is because they think desantis has a better chance than trump of winning back those white collar suburbs outside of philadelphia and detroit and georgia and atlanta and phoenix and milwaukee that proved dispositive in the 2020 race that cost reins 2020 and was a large reason why they didn't do as well as expected in 2022. but the dynamic that's already developing is trump and desantis to the extent they're dealing with each other are each attacking each other from the right and pulling each other further to the right. you see trump there basically saying desantis wasn't right-wing enough in resisting covid shutdowns. you've had desantis saying that trump was too kind of conceding so the biomedical state by promoting the vaccine. you had trump last week put out this really striking, extreme education agenda that had language like pink-haired communist as teachers in an attempt to outflank desantis on kind of the woke ideology
soil and green. the website wasn't supposed to say that. how did that get into the press release. kat, i love this idea, been talking about it for a while. there are people who choose to live a certain way and we should let them live a certain way but not among us. meaning, if you want to be homeless you don't live among the homed. [laughter] kat? [applause] >> greg: i'm saying that with the pre-ample of people who are mentally ill need to be institutionalized, people with problems need hope but the people i see and the people that you see, they ain't interested in your help. they are interested in your money for drugs. >> yes, i think that this won't work, though. >> greg: why? >> because of one line they put in there, the way they would do it would eliminate red tape which to all of us sounds really good but the government knows that means eliminating a lot of
american transwoman, you're in luck. congrats. skates in circles with penis tucked. that's the name. thank you. [applause] i'll take it. basically they welcomed everyone except one obvious group but desantis wasn't having it and after he condemned the prejudicial policy the nhl backtracked which is hard to do on ice skates, martha, said the event was open to everyone and they were merely trying to reach people who may not know about jobs in hockey. yes, sure, it was all a big misunderstanding. what do i know about hockey? i thought face-off meant the lass thing nancy pelosi does every night. that was too easy, joey. you know what i noticed? i think desantis is like the reigning king of taking free money off the table. he sees these opportunities,
rubio has an average lead of seven points there. if this goes that way it is almost like you take florida off the map. we've been watching it for 20 years and if these results come back that way, florida has gone red. >> yeah, you think about states like new york, california, this current climate we assume there will be big democrat prizes with electoral votes and house seats and all those kinds of things. florida as a totally red state potentially is leaning that way but it has vacillated so much. democrats have had strongholds. we'll see after the round of mid-terms but interesting looking to the 2024 picture. so much of what happens in florida will have national implications whether former president trump there or governor desantis getting into the race, whether the former president having this rally with senator marco rubio and desantis wasn't invited.
record and their accomplishments because there aren't any, and their record is places like philadelphia and chicago, which are nothing but pure misery. >> laura: yeah, the party of fdr and jfk now has abortion. that's what they're offering the country. abortion. mollie, back to their efforts, though, to swamp desantis, politico writes, desantis has been a persistent critic of president joe biden on nearly every policy front as he moves toward a likely 2024 presidential bid but the florida republican likes one thing about the president. his wallet. mollie, talking about the hurricane relief and pointing out that desantis wasn't for the hurricane sandy funding and so they were kind of throwing that at him. but taxpayer funds are now biden's wallet? that's what politico says? >> they're referring to your money and our money and federal taxpayer dollars and they're redefining it as president