especially on january 6th. there's not much you could say to counteract that, especially for someone like mitch mcconnell, who we know was worried about the impact on january 6th, saying donald trump had something to do with something we saw on january 6th. the folks you are hearing say this is -- for ron desantis, these are folks who have been around for a long time. they are trump supporters. they probably vote for him if he was the nominee for the republican party. this has been going on since 2015 when donald trump started running for president. the republicans keep hoping someone else takes donald trump out when it comes to his political ambitions. you kept seeing republican after republican in that primary hoping that one of the other nominees, or one of the other candidates was going to make him go away. that has never happened. that is continuing partly because of the blow back -- hoping that it's going to happen shows you that the