Chris Christie has known him for decades, helped him prep for debates, and is willing to take the fight directly to him like no one Trump has ever faced.
Down that elevator and no one really took him seriously as a candidate, and he went on to obviously win it all. rick tyler, vaughn hillyard, great to see both of you, thank you, and happy friday. up next on ana cabrera reports, the first drug to slow the progression of alzheimer s, how it could transform the fight against this disease. plus, an escalating battle of the billionaires as elon musk accuses mark zuckerberg of, quote, cheating with his new threads app. ads app.
But he really needs to be much stronger on this because he s got to convince people and embarrass people when they don t know and understand their other constitution of their own country. and so ron desantis on the other hand has remained solidly in second place behind trump in most polls. i want you to take a listen to desantis being asked about his poll numbers on fox news last night. we ve got a huge amount of support to be able to take the case to the people. we really haven t started that yet. we re in the process of building out a great organization, and i think we re going to be on the ground in all these early states. it is three yards and a cloud of dust type situation. what do you make of that answer, rick? not exactly encouraging. i mean, look, desantis was at one point ahead of trump, if not marginally and he demonstrated that he could beat joe biden in
That category. it is not something to be weaponized per se. so that is part of the reason, and in addition, they are trying to get forensic evidence off this small baggie, and if they are not able to do that, sources are telling us it will be very difficult for them to link this to a specific person. ana. kelly o donnell, thank you so much. now let s head to the 2024 campaign trail where this afternoon former president donald trump is back on the trail in iowa for what is expected to be his biggest campaign event in month and several of his rivals including his former vp mike pence have spent significant time in the hawkeye state. let s bring in nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard, he s covering trump s rally in council bluffs and taking cover in his car because of some lightning moving through. also with us rick tyler, republican strategist and msnbc political analyst. vaughn, thank you for still joining us, making this all work. what are we expecting at this trump event today?
Conversations within his community of other republicans that there are too many republicans. when i was following rick tyler and the ted cruz campaign back in 2015 i went back to an old article i wrote, and it was in october of 2015 in which i wrote at the time that ted cruz was sitting humbly at just 6% in the polls. so look, there is still plenty of time for other candidates to make ground. at the same time here, donald trump continues to attract despite thunderstorms thousands of events. vaughn, you don t look old enough to have been on the campaign trail in 2015, and i mean that in the most complimentary sense of that word. reporter: i appreciate that. so rick, vaughn mentioned pence has spent a lot of time in iowa where a voter pressed him a few days ago about his actions on january 6th. i want to play. if it wasn t for your vote, we
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no. one of the candidates that acknowledged having some frustrations with the requirements is asa hutch chin son, former arkansas governor who has been a loud trump critic. there s a requirement that you have to get 45,000 donors to qualify for the debate stage. that means you have to get 45,000 folks to donate to your campaign. it s not easy as a baseline to get on the debate stage. chris christie, doug burgum, that s going to be a challenge for them. chrisie has said he wants to get on the debate stage with drum. that may be difficult. he s got a lot of work to do. that s why the summer is so important for these candidates. there s been some love lost for these candidates, especially towards donald trump which is another part of this debate requirement, rick. there s this loyalty pledge where the candidates have to pledge that they will ultimately support whoever ends up winning
She can say where she fell along that timeline you just laid out in terms of what she would support and whether a ban itself would be supported if it were a president nikki haley. i think there s more to be determined in that part of the conversation. got to leave it there for now today. thank you, guys. appreciate it, rick tyler as well as our vaughn hillyard. one democratic contender down in the polls but looking for any spotlight is turning to elon musk for help today. again, talking about a democratic contender here. this is robert f. kennedy jr. he s going to appear on twitter spaps with musk in a few hours. aside from his famous last name, he s perhaps best known for his barrage of unsubstantiated conspiracy theories about vaccines. he s also made baseless claims that the cia killed his father, robert kennedy and former president jfk. up next on ana cabrera