but that core base, they still want trump. well, gen that, senator romney put o a new op-ed in the wall street journal speaking to everyone who is not nameld trump and essentially saying if all these people stay inheace, you ll see a repeat of 2016. donors who are backing someone with a slim chance of winning should seek a commitment from the candidate to drop out and endorse the person with the best chance of defeating mr. trump by february 26th. i mean, how are you going to convince those candidates, hey, you need to drop out. here we go again. i feel like we ve been through this story before. okay, if ted cruz wins texas, and marco wins florida, we can look, i will say, it is true. it really doesn t matter how many candidates are running. what does matter are when they do get out. so, but how do you tell somebody they re the one to get out? that fundamentally was the problem in 2016. i m going to stay in but you get out. no, no, you go and i ll stay.
the right word here because regardless of what happens, we want the best choices for american voters and trump is quite certainly not one of them. jonathan: garrett, i want to point out to our viewers something i m sure you re a wafer. mitt romney said in a wall street journal washington post op-ed quote, donors backing someone with a slim chance of winning should seek a commitment from the candidate to drop out and endorse the person with the best chance of defeating mr. trump by february 26th. so in other words mitt romney is saying everyone else should get together and rally around one opposition to donald trump in the primaries. do you see that happening? and is it a good policy anyway? well, i will think republican voters have stopped taking mitt romney s advice a long time ago. that s number one. but number two is this. the data just doesn t show, the environment doesn t show that as well. again looking at the polling,
winning should seek a commitment from the candidate to drop out, and endorsed the person with the best chance of defeating mr. trump by february 26th. how are you going to convince those candidates, hey you need to drop out? here we go again, i feel like i ve been through the story again, where if daegu s wins texas, and mark owens wins florida, we can i will say, it is true, it doesn t really matter how many candidates are running, what does matter is when they do get out. but, how do you tell somebody they are the ones to get out? that fundamentally was the problem in 2016. that is going to be the conversation. you go, and i ll stay. you jump off the bridge, also. you can see how the conversation goes, and again, this is a difference between the establishment donors and the base, where the base is saying, we want trump. we can see it in his fundraising. the establishment they get together and they re trying to reboot around desantis. there s some real disconnect there. let s
campaign donors are the only people who can get a lost cause candidate to exit the race after february 26th, they should start doing that. that s the only way he sees getting voters to pick someone other than trump to be the nominee. the senator and former president have a bitter relationship. both men criticize each other constantly. bill: mark thanks, nice to see you in washington, d.c. the first debate for the republicans is here on fox. bret and martha will moderate august 23rd. wednesday night 9:00 eastern time. we have pre-game action in milwaukee and very much looking forward to it. the countdown is 29 days. not that we re counting. dana: i m definitely counting. i ve never been part of a pre-game show. i m excited. we might read sports. dennis raider a btk serial killer looking at the facts nft gilgo beach murders and calling
saying donors backing someone with a slim chance of winning should seek a commitment from the candidate to drop out and endorse the person with the best chance of defeating mr. trump by february 26th. that s after iowa, new hampshire, nevada and south carolina all vote in their primaries and caucuses. so february 26th, that date. do you see that happening, people dropping out then? i think donors should also ask if a candidate is going to basically say it is okay for donald trump to be indicted or make excuses for him or validate donald trump, do not give money to that candidate. if you re not going to challenge donald trump, then don t at all endorse that candidate at all. i think that is even a more important thing, so that s why somebody like a chris christie or asa hutchinson or will hurd, who is saying it is not good for the republican party to have an indicted candidate, we should not be in any way validating