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Presidential hopefuls around desantis continues to trail far behind donald trump in national polls. the latest statistics from fivethirtyeight show that trump leads desantis by nearly 30 percentage points. an average he has more or less maintained over the last few months including from two separate indictments. the top spokesperson for the main super pac supporting descent to steve cortez says last week, quote, right now in national polls we are way behind. i will be the first to admit that. as the new york times notes, it was an admission notably at odds with the confidence that the governor...

Holds regular focus groups on gop voters. but he is undermining the electability argument by running to trump's right. he is alienating college educated suburban voters, who want to move past trump as well as the independents that he would need to beat mr. biden in a general election. our panel is still with us. and danielle moodie, we will this. why run to the right? >> because it's the only place that desantis knows where to go. i mean, he has been using the state of florida as a petri dish for the republican party, testing out some of their most cruel policies. right? you have the attacks o...

Those are two areas he sounded more strong than most people expected. what i would say is don't count out trump's ability to shoot himself in the foot. but also at the same time, look at this field. who's going to be able to really attack him? >> yep. and the attack from desantis that originates this is that trump would be a lame duck if he were elected, that he couldn't run for re-election in 2028. i've got to wonder how many voters are really that strategic. i mean, that seems like it's a play for a group of very long-term oriented activists. and i wonder how many people that really represen...

Desantis is trying to draw contrast between himself and trump. >> yes. and i think one way that he is trying to do that is the electability argument. you know, him saying that there's culture of losing right now. that is a correct, fair point. i am a republican who is tired of losing. trump lost us the house in 2018. he lost us the presidency in 2020. and his hand-picked candidates in the 2022 midterms all lost. but i think you're going to have to differentiate yourself more than just an electability argument for trump voters to want to switch over to you. and it is going to be interesting to ...

Trump called too harsh. desantis can say i fought disney to keep porn out of elementary schools while trump criticized me for taking the fight to disney's door. and then will the electability argument make a difference? desantis says he knows how to win and polling shows him performing better in swing states than in the general he says. tim scott makes the same argument. he says fighting is good but winning is better. and then there is, perhaps, the biggest question of all. how is desantis going to respond to the endless trump investigations? when you look at the trend lines you can see trump'...