whole campaign is staked on taking trump on head on as a path to victory for him and this faith and freedom conference was supposed to be an early test of whether or not this is a viable strategy for him or any of trump s rivals. that did not go over well with this crowd. trump is closing out this conference. he s the headliner tomorrow night at their dinner gala. even the former president mike pence chose to play up the years he was loyal to trump as his vice president totally avoiding january 6th and the fact the president was literally going to leave him hanging. for now christie and asa hutchinson, very much out on a limb. that s not a strategy that is sending him to a debate stage any time soon. i want to talk about kevin mccarthy for a second. you ve worked at the how the, kurt, so you ll understand this. the kevin mccarthy could be doing other things this week, right? he could be taking on joe biden