you by meso book.com. former president donald trump speaking tonight in iowa. his 1st trip to the crucial campaign state. he is announcing his 3rd white house run. rival candidate nikki haley and likely contenders ron desantis and mike pence also making trips to iowa. the base wants to move on from trump. here with me now karen, bob, mona, tia. i m glad you re all here tonight. let s begin with what trump is saying about governor ron desantis. i know you re saying what is he saying? he is what he is had to say. ron desantis red sanctimonious. ron desantis strongly opposed ethanol do you know that? we don t even know if he is running. if he is not running i will say he was fine on ethanol. don t worry. he also fought against social security. he wanted to decimate it and vote against it 3 times. voting against social security that s a bad one. he is under his skin. he hasn t announced his run yet but he is focusing on him. he has no one else to focus on really because t
ron desantis red sanctimonious. ron desantis strongly opposed ethanol do you know that? we don t even know if he is running. if he is not running i will say he was fine on ethanol. don t worry. he also fought against social security. he wanted to decimate it and vote against it 3 times. voting against social security that s a bad one. he is under his skin. he hasn t announced his run yet but he is focusing on him. he has no one else to focus on really because there aren t a whole lot of candidates number 1. and of those who pull, ron desantis is the one that kind of keeps pace with donald trump the most. i think it s interesting because ron desantis is taking the opposite approach. he doesn t talk about donald trump at all.
because right now, trump keeps poking him and i think it s effective. you know what ron desantis has the trump does not? that is and is higher legislative session that can take place while he is the governor of the state. the media focuses on him for all of his, woke culture. it might as well be click the for people who want to know what he has to say. he has this whole. of time before he might declare. do think that s part of the strategy? it certainly seems that way. it also seems the strategy is to not talk about trump directly for as long as he can. i agree it that they have to make the calculation when can you avoid him? can you throw a punch at donald trump? a lot of folks have failed. between the book tour in the legislative session. we are already seeing this. even over the weekend he said that the failure of the silicon valley bank was about woke
how other states had operated. yes, and we re seeing, and whether it is court challenges, or legislation in florida knowing that there is a build of threshold in the six-week. so this is going to continue, as karen said. and, listen, the republicans running for president, they may even go further. they may say, well, the women should be liable. so, they are courting the base. and this is going to be a huge issue as it was in 2022 and next year it s going to be a bigger issue. they have to then go to a general. and, the polling says otherwise. right, i, mean we have the senate bill eight of texas is working the way it was intended. and so, in a case like this in texas, it might play well for republican primaries, for that far wide ultraconservative base. and, it s probably going to be fine in a solid red state like texas. but, is this the conversation republicans want us to be having as a nation when it
if he does it s only to say he was an okay president. it s almost like he was acting like donald trump is not on his mind at all. meanwhile donald trump is on ron desantis. there will be more nicknames to. sgot a fine want to stick. you re not moved by it. he has taken the role that you can probably tell your kids when there s a bully. ignore him. whether it s effective or not in the long run is a different story. in his ideal universe he would be able to say i am the ideal successor to trump and so on. the problem with this strategy is that trump is standing there like a brick wall. he is going to have to deal with that. trump is going to attack and attack and attack and eventually ron desantis is going to have to take him on it directly. he cannot ignore him or go against them.