pompeo delivered more presidential cpac attendees. even donald j trump who drew the largest audience over the weekend can fill the room. look at the crowd sizes. despite a lackluster show the ex presidents demanded to deliver his usual demagoguery. in 2016 i declared i declared i am your voice. today i add, i am your warrior, i am your justice and for those who have been wronged and betrayed. i am your retribution. . they now, let s be clear about something. what trump said it s undeniably, unquestionably, but cystic rhetoric. the idea that you vote for me and i will be retribution. that is straight out of the authoritarian playbook. all the way back into the 1920s, 1930s. however, just because that
narrowing down the race to one on one, when as we ve discussed on the show frequently the best thing that could happen for trump would be if it was a large field. he should be attacking a bunch of folks, not just desantis. and not elevate him. yeah, and that s the thing. i mean, rule in politics, one of the first rules, especially if you re in a strong position you don t punch down. donald trump like you said, president of the united states, was president of the united states, you look at every poll, he s, i think, ahead in most polls in the republican party. every time he punches down at a guy that s below him in the polls, a guy who wasn t president of the united states. a guy who doesn t have the following that donald trump at least once had, he s just elevating him. and it s also you know, when he starts talking about crowd sizes, that immediately takes you back to south carolina. oh, no. where he was supposed to have have huge rally, it ended up being something where, peop
so there s two militaries. donald trump is in charge of the good one. yes. biden s in charge of the bad military? that s exactly right. all right. i ve got my bottle of advil somewhere close by. this always happens, jordan klepper, when we have you on. my head starts to hurt. he joins us now. jordan, two militaries? where does this rank in terms of the more bizarre moments you ve encountered at trump events? you know, it s up there although, you know, we ve brought people back from the dead. there s been body doubles out there on the road. two militaries, it s definitely creative, but we haven t summoned people back from death. so progress? maybe so. and what was it like? i mean when you were there. you know, trump is talking about these smaller gatherings as if it s a plus. you know, we know trump and how he likes large crowd sizes, and we don t need to go down that road. but what is your sense of how his campaign is shaping up so far? well, it was interesting.
at a south carolina ice cream shop and hamburger shop to meet with voters is notable. is this a new strategy and does it tie into maybe he is struggling to fundraise? i don t think it is a deliberate strategy or something that trump who loves the big rallies, who loves to brag about how big his crowds are, is eager to have, but i think that that is the situation that he is dealing with right now and he is first to have. the crowd sizes i think are some kind of indicator of his support. i m always a little cautious to say that there was a direct one to one ratio between the size of a crowd and voter support at the ballot box simply because joe biden didn t have gigantic crowds in 2020 and now he is president. at the same time though, i think that it is an indicator that as of this moment, trump has a long way to go to the presidency. all right. daniel strauss, we ll talk about
so warnock did receive a boost at least in terms of crowd sizes from former president obama on thursday. ep has stay add way from president joe biden as he did throughout the general election. biden narrowly won the state two years ago. the presidential election still is not popular in georgia. nor is former president donald trump. both of those politicians are people that neither much these candidates want to be tied to right now. biden because his policies right now and his incumbent status isn t a great sign for warnock. but donald trump because he has a really complicated relationship with the state even republicans in georgia, maybe people who had, you know, fully supported him in 2016, a number of them didn t do that in 2020. and donald trump in some ways caused republicans in that runoff election where there were two seats up for grabs this time two years ago. so the strategy by walker has been to focus on much safer,