Welcome to the dispatch podcast. I'm your host Sarah Isger joined by David French and Steve Hayes

We'll start with some politics

Trump's polling decline

And then what's Ron DeSantis up to down in Florida?

We'll also talk about Sam Bankman freed his arrest his

congressional testimony post-poned the legal political and cultural aspects of the crypto collapse and

We'll end with a little was it worth our time

Let's dive right in

First things first Steve. I'm curious. We're you familiar with the Mendoza line

From Seinfeld no baseball reference obviously not

There were a lot of stories this week looking at Trump's polling decline

I wrote the sweep on it last week as well

There have been we're closing it on 40 polls just since the November election

Looking at the 2024 Republican primary

most of them

Looking at Trump versus DeSantis and head-to-head or Trump versus a field of Republicans

Some are all voters registered voters etc. But I thought Axios Josh Kraschauer and Axios did a more fun write-up in some ways

He was looking at Trump's approval number and noted that for the first time really in Donald Trump's

Emergence as a serious person on the political scene

He has fallen below the 70% favorability among Republican voters

Which is viewed as the Mendoza line for support

within a candidate's own party

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