shows that republican voters don t want someone that s gonna criticize trump. this is the problem, there was one issue related to covid war if he made the argument of what desantis did versus what the federal responses. three quarters of republican voters agreed with a. but if he said what desantis did was what on this issue on covid. it. emirates recorders of the republican voters now disagree. the voters like trump. i think it presents this big challenge for him. he s gotta figure out a way to walk the line. i was listening to a discussion with kevin and jarred earlier. one thing that may be more of a practical case against donald trump. can we really nominate someone that s gonna be in court for a quarter of the general election apparently. maybe there s places he can go. but it hasn t been what he s doing. let s be honest, what he has been doing has been. working being trump
are making contact. they re all gonna try to have their trump moment. the problem is i can tell you right now, donald trump s gonna win whether he shows up or not. and on thursday any tally you turn on siena show are real of what each candidate said about trump. and maybe if they re lucky another interaction that nikki haley had with the vice, former vice president pence. it s tough, it s not an easy process. the sinus shading out a lot of this as you gave an overview up there. if you re the biden team, they just announced 25 million dollar ad fight across the country. they ll be organizing fund-raisers. what else should they be doing right now? governing. and improving the economy, which they re doing. i think there s a lot of noise, it s hard to tell if that is down to their favor. i think right now they re getting ready. they re now in a sweet spot where they can continue to govern while they ve got this ten person circus going on.
you want to do it on the merits. the other guy is not even showing up. as we know, politics like half the job is showing up. if trump isn t here to own your vote, i am, as for that as a contrast message for them. karen, to pivot off of kevin was talking about, you ve prepared candidates for the debate. when it s working magically it seems like they re spontaneously coming up with things in the moment. talk to me a bit about how much of what we hear these candidates say it debates is prepared versus spontaneous in the moment? i want to blow the minds of your viewers. we re here to blow their minds, blow their minds. almost everything is prepared in some way. there is room for spontaneity, the questions of these debates are highly predictable. everyone knows the questions are gonna be asked. when you re dealing with the debate of many people as opposed to a one-on-one debate, one of the things are gonna be thinking about is who mike coming to this debate to attack. and who s comi
and what you re gonna do to address the big issues that the voters care about. ultimately, the debates that work the pastoralists where you have an opportunity to positively align yourself with the sentiment of voters. ron desantis s biggest problem is it necessarily leather that he s gonna win or lose a fight with chris christie. it s whether he can say mueller liable, whether he can seem strong, whether he can talk about some of the issues that they care about with clarity. those would be the goals that ron desantis s team will be preparing for him as a way to deflect any of these attacks. i started the show talking about this. the big elephant who won t be in the room shall we say, donald trump. what do you do if you are these candidates, how much do you talk about trump, how much do you talk about biden, what s the balance, karen? this will be hard, it depends on who you are on the stage. there s people coming on this case to just have people know they exist. at this point ther
campaign messaging could be is that the biden campaign isn t gonna be ambivalent about what the new take on the fact that donald trump is missing from the debate stage. he s planning his next arraignment. that s gonna be an easy mass. edge for the candidates on wednesday it is awfully hard. especially because some of the questions that they know that they ll get directly relate to donald trump, the last election, and to specifically his legal problems. the count avoid it, the moderators what to drive traffic to the debates, so they ll ask about all these things. i want to ask you about the second and third tier, however you want to categorize them. maybe they re all second here. who are you watching, kevin, you have a fine-tuned eye to these candidates and the potential that people are looking to. the greatest potential for this debate comes from vivek ramaswamy, if you look at is rapid fire approach, you look at how he s crystallizing the message in these tv interviews.