at some point he can t get in the race. that s true. we talked about this. getting into the debate getting into the race before now means that he would have had to debate. i don t think he wanted to be on that stage with all of them. i don t think that her having a bad night would keep him out either. outside of any personal considerations that we can t get inside his mind or his heart and what he s going through. if there are no personal considerations, there is nothing he could have seen that would say, okay, i m jumping in. there is one personal consideration called ambition. he has wanted to be president since he was 28 or 29. of course, yes. he has been running for president since nineteen eighty 8. since he ran for the senate at the age of 29, before it was legal to be a senator. i am talking about what about just after getting into the race? the reality is, if he was waiting for a moment of weakness, or if this debate would you rate a setting where all of a s