this dynamic will change a lot more. arthel: will watch for it is quite interesting. meanwhile, was it president biden s hard sell to democratic voters? is going to be the hard sell only a sitting president can pitch from the presidential seal that is the big advantage. it s incumbency, you know me you know what i am going to get paid to democratic voters it s his policy record which is the same things republicans will attack. i think when people talk about biden s age and his acuity and it is absolute truth is given fewer press conferences and interviews that his present predecessors. in fact the new york times had a report out showing he has talked less to reporters in any president since reagan. those things are fair. but when republicans come after him it will not only be because of his policy record.
here trump will also be in iowa tonight. seems he s playing catch up to desantis on the issue of education. that desantis is sort of playing for all its worth. yeah, clearly the last two years, desantis has built a policy record in florida. it s a very controversial one, but it s a record and it positions him out front on this esh of education and the cultural wars over schooling and books et cetera in a way where trump has been sort of a distant opener the last two years. he s no longer in office, but he s also not really doing anything on the policy front or advancing any ideas other than sharing his grievances on social media. clearly, he s trying to catch up to desantis when it comes to some of these policy ideas phil, michael, and robert, thanks to all of you the showdown why donald trump says he won t
trump. talk about that. what put desantis on the map in a big way on the right side of the spectrum. catapulted into rock star status, his response to the pandemic or lack thereof, depending who you ask. keeping schools open. resisting vaccine mandates. you know, resisting calls to sort of shut down the florida economy, even during spikes in outbreaks. that really, you know that catapulted him into the spotlight. so if you re ron desantis and you need an issue to use to sort of differentiate yourself from donald trump, in a way that s not going to immediately turn off a republican voter base that s still very loyal to donald trump that can be a very useful foil and a very concrete policy record that you can point to do say, you know, i did this right. the former president did it wrong. that s why you should give me the presidential nomination. hard to imagine going to the right of trump on a pandemic.
a christian conservative in the house has a policy record that appeals to many republican base voters, a record that appeals to republican base voters. if you re an anti-trumper he was on the trump pence, he was on the sign with donald trump. if you want to move on completely, why would you what s the lane? it seems like there s a new lane developing. trump policies without the trump chaos and mike pence is trying to plow that lane, kind of the ron desantis lane. it s not so much never trump, we liked what he did policy wise, but we re ready to go maga without, you know, king maga. is that the mike pompeo lane, cia director, secretary of state for donald trump says listen one of the reasons i think we didn t do as well on tuesday is we didn t make the case that we were the trusted hands, the serious leaders who had real answers for the american people. people are starving for real leadership that is serious. they re not looking for
showing up any kind of gangster and thug mentality. you can wear all kinds of colors and be us thug. we should not be surprised when we see police officers act like police on the street. steve: think - gangsters and thugs and bullies? police officers as far as i m concerned that alone would disqualify the disgracefully pro- crime policy record as a tenant governor when he has recommended commutation 46 times more than ten times the average amount. unbelievably 13 were convicted murderers. many times the only vote to release the criminals.