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Celebrate that we brought an american home. we brought an american home. >> if you look at recent polls, governor ron desantis is emerging as the new maga air. the latest wall street journal survey gave him a 14-point lead over donald trump among republican primary voters. and while desantis has not announced whether he plans to run, he has been working hard to win over his party's far right base. this week, the florida governor called for a grand jury to investigate quote, any and all wrongdoing related to covid vaccines. as we all know, revving up his supporters by playing into culture wars,...

National political reporter for msnbc news. mark, welcome to the sunday show! okay, so what can we learn from the latest polling that has desantis surging ahead of donald trump? >> best available evidence has just been a lot of republican voters are weary with trump. your prior segment about all of the different problems from january 6th is having an effect, when you talk to people who talk to republicans. when you talk to republicans, among republican voters, there are constant problems, he did not have a very good campaign push thereafter, for three or four weeks. he has kind of stumbled aro...

Mandate the vax on people. i protected people from having that happen and made sure floridians could make their own choice. from the very beginning, we were helping people make their own decisions, but not using the coercive power of the state or allowing big corporations to condition those choices. >> one call it a shot across the bow for the former president. presenting donald trump with a tricky political problem. how to get credit for operation warp speed and the vaccines that clearly saved thousands of lives without losing anti-vaxers who make up so much of his ways. that's far from his o...

Reminding them even it is a historic race two of black men, that he needs them to push the community forward. in the final hours before they give their sendoff, the countdown begins and they're pushing into their bases. >> thank you very much. joining me now, the atlanta journal constitution's politics reporter, and senior national reporter mark caputo. thanks for being with us. these walker allegations, the latest allegations, and the sit-down that my colleague vaughn had with his ex is, that being heard by georgians? is it making a difference, shannon? >> boy, it's hard to say. we're right...

And as big as they expect, it doesn't mean it is going to happen. it obviously helps to have every extra vote. when we're talking about razor thin margins in the senate currently. so every extra vote certainly helps. now, if we're talking about 2024, and you look at joe biden, he would rather have an extra democratic vote in the senate, and to a degree, having a republican house run by kevin mccarthy, who is essentially going to be hostage to his own caucus, assuming he even gets chosen, is not a bad thing for biden to run against. and that's according to biden's own people. >> and we also hav...