and if early on donald trump knocks out ron desantis, i think that he s on a glide path to the nomination as opposed to republicans turning their lonely eyes to mike pompeo or nikki haley. it can t be said enough how early we are in the process but suddenly feels like trump has momentum again which i guess we shouldn t find surprising considering he seems to be always there. charlie sykes, thank you. we appreciate your analysis. still ahead we are going to go live to abu dhabi where forbes know your values 3050 summit is getting under way. we re back in a moment. summit is getting under way. we re back in a moment don t just connect your business. (dock worker) right on time. (vo) make it even smarter. we call this enterprise intelligence.
republican party, it s it is certainly possible that donald trump could be indicted and that it could actually strengthen his hold on the party in part because his opponents have decided they re not ever going to break with him. there was a dark speech the other day at cpac and i think people ought to pay attention to it when he talks about, you know, i am your retribution. he uses the word retribution twice. he basically is saying, look, i stand for vengeance. this is not a morning in america campaign here. this is donald trump i am nemesis. and if you re running, you know, on that with that kind of a persona, indictments will actually just simply feed into that sense of victimization in the republican base. so at this at this point it s hard to say but i just don t see the republican party moving away
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from him even if he is indicted at this point. yeah, trump, of course, also down-played january 6th again deeming it a very important day. certainly as you say a very dark speech. let s get your analysis where things stand right now. he did win the cpac poll, that s no surprise. that was a maga gathering basically. desantis we discussed him earlier in the show right now at least he s the guy that seems to be coalescing the anti-trump forces but hasn t been nationally vetted. give us a sense where you think desantis stands right now and is there any other republican out there, someone else not on the radar right now you think could actually make a run of this? right now desantis has the best position. he is broadly acceptable at the moment to much of the maga base, not obviously all of it but much of it. he s also acceptable to the so-called normies. i think the business community seems to be, you know, open to him. many of the, you know, major donors are open to him.
we ll eliminate america from these vilrenes and scoundrels once and for all, there s never been anything like this. we had a republican party that was roused by freaks, neocons, open border zealots, and fools, but we are never going back to the party of paul ryan, karl rove, and jeb bush. i think the president s speech was a good one but not a great one. he has he s now begun to emphasize issues but some of those issues are a little weird. building ten new cities around america and having people elect school principals just strike me as fanciful ideas. at least he was talking mostly