DeSantis Warns That Trump's Legal Problems Will Crush Republicans This Year

Ron DeSantis finally said something that was actually smart this week when he told an audience at his CNN town hall event that the Republican Party is going to lose this year if Donald Trump's legal problems get put front and center in the election. He's not wrong, either. Polls have shown that a felony conviction will turn off enough voters in swing states that President Biden would coast to a very easy reelection in November, and the odds of a single conviction are overwhelming at this point. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Something very remarkable happened this week, something that I'm still a little bit shocked about, because Ron DeSantis, the authoritarian governor of Florida, the failing Republican presidential candidate, actually said something smart. He said something that was true. He said something accurate, and it blows my mind that Ron DeSantis is actually capable of telling the truth. Here's what happened during a CNN Town Hall event on Tuesday evening after DeSantis, and of course, Nikki Haley got their butts handed to him by Donald Trump in Iowa. Ron DeSantis told the crowd at that CNN town Hall that if the 2024 election becomes about Donald Trump's legal problems, Republicans are going to lose. Here's what Ron DeSantis said. If Donald Trump is the nominee, the election will revolve around all these legal issues as trials, perhaps convictions. If he goes to trial and loses there, and about things like January 6th, we're going to lose. If that's the decision voters are making based on that, we don't want it to be a referendum on those issues.

Well, I mean, Trump's still crushing you in the Republican primary. Let's not overlook that. But DeSantis is right. If voters are voting based on Donald Trump's legal problems, you got a majority. 56% of the country, according to the latest poll, supports the indictments against him. You know, those horrible New York time polls that, by the way have not been replicated by anybody just saying, uh, but even those horrible polls show that Donald Trump's winning in all the swing states unless he gets a single felony conviction. And then suddenly Biden wins every one of those swing states. So DeSantis is right. If voters see that Trump gets convicted, Biden wins in a landslide. And, and I don't just mean Biden, you know, wins, he wins in a, in a landslide victory, the likes of which we have not seen in modern times. So DeSantis again is right.

I'm just as shocked as you to hear those words coming out of my own mouth. But voters have made it clear, even Republicans, hell, you've got a, a little under one third of the MAGA Republicans who say that they're probably not gonna vote for Trump in the general, if he has a conviction, he can't win with a conviction. Now, what he does have working in his favor in terms of convictions, uh, you know, the, the problems seem to be mounting for Fannie Willis in Georgia. You know, there, there's no way to sugarcoat that things are looking bad, I mean, didn't want, uh, to think this was gonna take her down, but it's actually starting to look like it might, and that could kill that

Georgia case, or at least postpone it to the point where it doesn't happen this year before the election. So we might not get those convictions. And that, to me was probably the strongest case against him. Uh, if the Supreme Court gives him immunity, there goes pretty much everything else too, except of course, the New York charges. But the New York charges against him, the felony charges against him are the weakest. They're, they're very hard for people to understand on the surface of it versus, you know, hey, he stole documents. Hey, he incited a riot and tried to steal the election. Those are pretty easy to understand. What's happening in New York is a lot more nuanced.