but your thoughts. look, here s the challenge for anyone thinking of taking it to donald trump on the republican side. any time he faces a legal issue, whether or not that is guys in windbreakers raiding his house or an adverse court ruling, it seems as though the base of the party rallies around him and it will be difficult from what we ve seen in the polling-whether his name starts with run or not, to challenge president trump on his legal issues. because there s a rally around him. it s not rallying around the flag but rallying around a member of the republican team that republicans feel has been unfairly prosecuted that is a pickle for all the candidates going forward the next few months, candidates on the republican side, especially as trump s legal problems aren t or at least don t appear to be finished. one thing we ve seen of donald trump, he s a great counter puncher. in many ways, he enjoys the
operative, and he ll make desantis twist i have a theory about how to win a campaign you have to have magic barack obama has magic donald trump is the best counter-puncher we ve seen i was with desantis at a conference, and i watched him work the room. willie, there is no magic here he is one of the most overestimated politicians of the recent past. i think the national stage is starting to become hard for him. john, let s take a look at his trip to washington the last couple days. if jim messina were running the operation, you have the endorsements wired before you get to washington. you shake hands, have the photo-op afterwards. he comes out of the meetings, and a bunch of them endorse trump. he had one endorsement with a congresswoman who he appointed secretary of state and who owed him a favor. he s not in the race, but he doesn t appear to be good at this. amateur hour so far as you say, he went to d.c. he snuck in a back door, one wave to a camera, met with
in a fistfight with donald trump. he understands donald trump is a better counterpuncher, and he wants to be inaugurated as the republican nominee without getting in a fight with donald trump. that s not how presidential politics work. to beat the king, you have to hit the king he s just trying to avoid this and get all these endorsements and try to stay in florida and become the nominee the problem, jen is exactly right, the problem is, this race is going to go through donald trump, whether we like it or not. ron desantis doesn t have the guts to get in a fistfight with donald trump at this point in the presidential campaign. until he does, his numbers will continue to go down. mm-hmm. sorry to jump on you there, jim. the supreme court has delayed making a decision on the abortion pill, mifepristone, by extending a temporary block on a lower court ruling until friday. that means the drug will continue to remain widely available, at least until tomorrow, as the high court continues
trouble maker. it s okay if he s not allowed to defend himself. cnn can attack him but he can t fight back. maybe this will awaken people to how immoral this is. i think the idea that they might gag donald trump is really a testimony to his effectiveness as a counter puncher. he s used social media and his interviews to very effectively question the falsity of these charges, question the political motivations and funding of district attorney alvin bragg and question the bias of this judge. but more importantly, not only do i think the gag order would be unconstitutional, nobody where does it say you lose your free speech rights if you re charged with a crime. but more importantly, it s election interference. he s a legal candidate for the 2024 republican nomination. he s leading by closer to 40 points in the polls and this is a very clear effort to try to break his momentum. you can see in the polls a in