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Good morning. It is Tuesday, May 30th. It is five minutes after 10. You're listening to Kendall and Casey on 93 WIBC.

That's Rob Kendall. My name is Casey Daniels. You can find us both on Twitter. He's at Rob M Kendall and I'm a Casey Daniels 317. Okay. So it was May 24th when Ron DeSantis announced he was running for president on Twitter with Elon Musk stumbled just a bit. But now he plans to kick off his campaign in Iowa today. He's going to visit 12 cities and three states. It's like a standup comedian, you know, when they work out the material, they got to go on the road.

See what works. What doesn't work? He's going to start in Des Moines and then end in Cedar Rapids. Isn't it a pretty flawed process, though, that so the governor of Florida has to go halfway across the country and spend the majority of his time in a state that maybe or maybe not he could have found on a map five years ago. Right. I mean, obviously Ron DeSantis probably could have found Iowa on a map. But the point in this is the whole process to me is just stupid.

That Iowa and New Hampshire, in the case of New Hampshire, not even a Republican state. At least Iowa is now a reliably red state. I mean, it wasn't. It was Obama wanted. You know, that's how recent that was. But at least it is now, you know, it's got two Republican senators. It has a Republican governor. It is, you know, for whatever that means.

But New Hampshire is not even the Republican state. It is mostly Democrats in terms of elected office. And yes, South Carolina is a Republican state. But it's like, you put all this effort into this one state.

And everybody else just kind of gets ignored. I mean, in my life, there's only been one time, Indiana has ever had any sort of

meaning. And that was 2016 where both the Democrat and Republican races were still left amazingly undecided. But you cut literally. I mean, it's so rare that thing goes past Super Tuesday. You're cutting half the country out of the process.

Yeah. On election night, Indian is always one of the first ones to be called. We're calling Indiana for.

Yeah. But in terms, I'm saying even in the primaries, like there's no, at least not in terms of governance, but in terms of actual voting. Indiana is one of the most red states in the entire country. And we have no say in 90, 95% of the time on who the president, not the presidential nominee is. I mean, to me, this is just a ridiculous way to pick a president.

Okay. Well, a lot of people are saying that round of Santa says a big hill to climb to get people to overcome Trump to pick him. Did you see Mike Pence, by the way, he was in Iowa, he's back in Indiana. Apparently, he spent Memorial weekend riding his motorcycle around the state.

Well, good, good for him. Hopefully he keeps riding his motorcycle around the state and is not just not believe these idiots around him, the gravy train people who tell him that he has a chance to be president of the United States.

And he just continues to just ride his motorcycle and maybe he'll just go in a straight line to the Pacific Ocean and he'll just keep on going.

Well, in Florida, Ron DeSantis, he's made some moves. He's in a virtual dead heat now with Trump in Florida.

Isn't this fascinating? So it turns out he's again, least favorite part of every show where you have to tell people what I have to tell people what I'm right.

But what did I say for weeks on in you mean the guy who's not yet running for president isn't doing as well as the guy who has been campaigning for the past two years.

What? And so within basically a week in this same poll of DeSantis declaring he's running for president less than a week. That was Thursday.

I think he declared this is Wednesday, whatever this is Tuesday. He has now made up that there was a 14 point lead. Trump had in Florida.

Now according to this new poll, it is a dead heat. That's a lot of ground that the guy has made up, but it turns out when you actually start running for president, people will say that they will vote for you for president.

Okay. So are these going to stick? Are these numbers going to stick for DeSantis? Is this just the knee jerk? Is this the bump he's getting? Or will it continue to grow over time?

Well, it's his home state. And he's done a great job. He just overwhelmingly won real elections. So people clearly like him. So it makes sense that he would make up ground in his home state.

Is he going to be tied or leading in national polls? No. But what do we say, Casey? Wait till father's day.

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