he could win. when we started focusing on mitt romney it brought the party together in an important way. i expect that s what you will see this time as well. mitt romney is not the pugilist the former president is and he has been on the campaign trail and speeches in recent weeks saying joe biden is the threat to democracy. it means he is using that language, right, that i expect to hear from joe biden. yeah, you re exactly right. donald trump s superpower is he is the best counterpuncher in modern american politics. but the fact is, he is in biden s wheelhouse. when you run a presidential campaign, what but want to do is control the narrative, and if donald trump wants to fight about who is best for democracy on the third anniversary of january 6th, have at it. he is going to lose that fight and he is letting the biden campaign decide the tone and tenor and the biden campaign should get credit for pulling
trump has repeatedly described how he responds to challenges like this. we re counterpunching. counterpunching. i m a counterpuncher. i hit hard, but i m a counterpuncher. you have to understand, i m a counterpuncher. he appears to be swinging pretty wildly these days. it may be because of how many people he is fighting. jack smith, both florida and washington, d.c., fani willis in atlanta, as well as alvin bragg in manhattan, the new york a.g. s lawsuit against his business, and e. jean carroll and the defamation lawsuit. that s before you count the more than a dozen people running against him in the 2024 nomination. let s get straight to the source tonight, barbara res tower of lies: what my 18 years
for him to avoid the debate, although i have to say i would love to see the gop fireworks as i think we all would, but i think that no matter how good he is, he s one of six voices on the stage, and you know, he s a great counterpuncher which makes it be a great spectacle to watch but ultimately he s tens of points ahead of his nearest rival and he has no need to do this. he is the ex-president and they are simply sprinting behind him trying to catch up. howie: it is true, robbie, that he has no need to do this , certainly don t see president biden debating but you seem to feel like in the end, or you seem to be suggesting, implying, he s not going to be able to resist the lure of the cameras. he s a tv personality. howie: i forgot that. that s what brought him to the attention of so many americans in the first place. that s why so many people initially said this should be the guy to fix america s problems. he s particularly good at using the medium of tv and he s talent
rachel: i m not call out to it concern. pete: i didn t mean that, we all are. oh, another indictment. what we are seeing is absolutely unprecedented targeting of a political opponent. rachel: it s interesting, this week also we see alexei navalny, putin s biggest critic and opponent, getting put in jail. britain, the e.u. all issuing statements about how bad it is that putin is trying to jail his opponent. wonder if those same organizations will come to the defense of donald trump. probably not. will: it s almost like the slightly indirect shots of an indictment of a president are so loud and explosive that the direct shots go unnoticed. president trump saying if you come after me, i come after you and it s a direct shot and in surprise. it s sort of been his ethos. if you after me, i go after you. pete: i m a counterpuncher.
points over the last couple of months. there s a big difference going from state level campaigning to the national level, and to go up against someone like president trump, you have to have a theory of the case. right now ron desantis theory is he s going to outtrump president trump with all these trump victories is a pathway to voters is a pathway to victory. that s not going to happen. 95% of republican primary voters believe that american men and is women were better off financially under president trump. howard: well, he s certainly far ahead right now, as everybody knows, trump has always been a counterpuncher. i get it. what does he gain by calling jack smith a thug and deranged? this is his political pushback. we see the attacks that are coming from the doj and, again, the way these leaks are happening from the doj and also the fbi, it s not always the doj, sometimes it s the fbi that s leaking as well.