CNN Inside Politics

For DeSantis, reality bites

Ron DeSantis wants you to ignore his current predicament that he's spending too fast and furious and is cutting staff and that seven weeks in he can't cut into Donald Trump's lead. 

Plus: Backlash ... then backtrack. A top Democrat crosses the line into anti-semitism, earns a rebuke from her own party and then revises her words. 

And: Does Joe Manchin want to run for president on a third-party ticket? Today he makes a splashy appearance in New Hampshire alongside a group that some worry might cut into Biden. 
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