this sunday s new york times. in it he writes, to once again these successful governing parties, we must move on from mr. trump. he also takes aim without naming him at florida governor ron desantis and what he refers to his quote, angry, divisive and performative politics. now, in hawkins view the party needs someone other than trump or desantis. non divisive, common sense conservative who convert brought in the parties base, someone he argues is just like him. the irony is, he is writing those words in an op-ed explaining why he is not running for president. which, with all due respect, candidates nikki haley and ramaswamy leads the fields as the trump and rhonda santos. each spoke over the weekend though governor desantis at the reagan library was more measured in tone than the former president at the conservative political action committee, both portray themselves as leaders in a culture war. we will demolish woke tyranny. they should not be teaching a second grader t
run, if he does here s a question, does the republican party, as he wishes it to be, bearing resemblance to the party as it actually is? joining us now, cnn chief correspondent and cnn this morning, cohen kirk kaitlan collins, also cnn political commentator feng jones, former and scott jennings, former special assistant president george w. bush. you clearly, ron desantis and the former president, rod sentences more dancing around trump not wanting to directly engage. how long can it go on for? not much longer. but i think, as long as he is in this audition to be president, until he formally announces he is running, which we are not expecting until at least may or something, you are going to see more of this. him kind of testing his message out, on the road. and it was a pretty large audience. the rain gun sold out, he is doing the stops as part of his book for. he is