for him. he has a path in new hampshire. it s not huge but he s neck and neck with ron desantis right now so he s getting attention in that lane. he s saying i m in that lane with those 63%. those are my people. the people who are already in the trump category, they aren t interested in me and that s fine that s why he s not even going to iowa, so i think this story is far from written, howie, and i think that chris cristi is one of the interesting people to watch in it. howie: yeah, absolutely, and it s also interesting and we have that leaked memo from desantis pack saying don t attack trump, in fact defend him , if cristi asks a question, so he s got his or her own strategy and some of them just don t want to offend trump s loyal base thinking they can peel off some of those voters. how many of the barbs do you think will be aimed at president biden or do you think we ll see a lot more republican on republican violence? well they have to get through both hoops right? the first hoo
state desantis positive vision two to three times. hammer vivek ramaswamy in a response. four, defend donald trump in response to a chris cristi attack and the key part, take a sledgehammer to vivek ramaswamy, vivek the fake. he dismissed the attack by robot ron and a new country erupted when desantis said this. if all we are is listless vessels that are just supposed to follow whatever happens to am come down the pike on truth social every morning that s not a durable movement. howie: okay, rich we ll come back to vivek ramaswamy later i know you have things to say about that but the desantis campaign tells me the dishonest media are distorting the facts and that the governor was referring to trump and d.c. insiders who feel entitled to vorticity your vote, but it sounds like hillary integrating trump voters as a basket of
haven t seen in a long time. i think those institutions should really be asking themselves how is this happening how have we allowed this trust to deteriorate? it s a very serious issue in the country so i think that s why you get a little bit of tune -out to the details because people are not trusting it which is something that i hope these institutions start taking very seriously at some point. howie: we re just in a hyper partisan situation. chris cristi may be the toughest debater on that stage and he laid out for me what he was going to do when he was on immediate mediabuzz and he s moved up a little bit in the polls but many republicans believe he s just trying to tear down trump in other words some of that support may or may not go to him. we ll see. yeah, he s a fighter, and he, it s very interesting to me that chris cristi story, because he had an opportunity to run for president and that turned out to be romney s rom it nation and he decided to wait and be governor again so
very good at. love him or hate him, he s good at retail politics. ron desantis isn t. i think the big question about the debate for ron desantis, because he s the second candidate under trump, but for all of them, how much do they actually want to talk about trump versus how much do they want to talk about their vision, their policy ideas? if they spend this whole debate defending donald trump or attacking him if you re chris cristi, none of them are going to benefit from that in the poll s, i don t think. howie: there will be some questions about trump but i don t think bret baier and martha maccallum will let it be about the guy whose not there. rich, here is what i wanted to ask you earlier. you wrote about a month ago in a column in politico, get ready for the vivek ramaswamy moment and two days ago, time had how vivek ramaswamy became 2024 s breakout candidate. what gives the media the magic power to declare the moments for candidates? well what else is the media going to do? th
something happening, but people believe joe biden is the president, of course he is. are the rivals lee started to be more vocal about the dangers of trump s legal woes overshadowing the race? some are and some aren t, chris cristi is leading the way but there is concern about the focus on trump rather than the by the administration, here is a sample of what some gop candidates are saying. this is a preview of the election coming up with donald trump is the nominee, he will be talking about donald trump rather than joe biden. talking to voters and i wanted hampshire, they are not talking about the indictment. january 26, 2021, what document was left at mar-a-lago, if it is a referendum on that we are going to lose. that is the point here, so much talk about the general election, that s the ultimate goal, the republicans winning back the white house for the party, there is very deep concern that the former president may complicate that. i m sure there s a lot of