twice. those are the despicable words he will not walk back. it s easy to walk up his failings as being bad at retail politics. that s not this. this is a person that s dark, paranoid and angry, and angry, somebody who has now burnished that image of such darkness that the contrast with donald trump, who gave us the american carnage speech, makes the former president look like sunshine and rainbows. ron desantis is going to have a hard time losing this image he s created. i guess what strikeses me in this moment, this was the campaign that was supposed to be going for a reset. reintroduce us to ron desantis. so is this the reboot? a darker, broodier, more violent version? i thought we were supposed to be getting more of a policy wonk who was going to do more retail politics. well, no, it s just like rebooting your cable box when it doesn t work. you get the same damn thing.
but i think what he will have to continue to work on is the message that he talked about which is one in his argument the reason why he is running he doesn t think trump can win. i thought it was powerful when he made the argument and said he is running to be president not just for the title but that he felt like now was time. the issue that he is going to continue to have and i have seen this campaign after campaign after campaign, he put out very detailed policy proposals to you. he put out a 10-point economic plan today, which as a policy wonk, i read it, i loved it. i was going through the policy stuff. but that still has to translate to voters and they still have to feel that emotion coming from him. and you re going to have to here s the tall order. you re going to have to convince 37, 35, almost 40% of the republican party that you can beat donald trump and you are a better general election candidate than he is. that s going to be tough whenever some polls are showing that tru
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plane from iowa. the big criticism about desantis is that he s not a good retail politician. he doesn t do the elbow rubbing and the happened shaking and other politicians but you were talking to voters. how do you think he was received? i heard none of that. that is criticism in washington. in iowa, those who saw him in daven port and at private meetings there between were thrilled to see him. this is a group of republicans that appreciate and admire the policies of donald trump but are ready to move on. so they were happy to see the florida governor, who they see virtually every day, sometimes several times a day in their living room on fox news. he s become ubiquitous there and they like what they saw. i thought he was warm and engaging and he s a policy wonk and to some that is refreshing at this point. so at this point, he was introducing himself. but i also heard again and again, this is not a two-man
tail s wagging the dog. it s bassackwards. don is making my morning. don always makes the morning. this is the fundamental problem that we see in the politics. the power has been pushed to the extremes. it s unrepresentative of the public at large. this isn t just bad for the republican party, it s bad for the republic. who would want to be speaker? why would he want to be speaker at this point? you re asking the same question as t the wall street journal editorial board. who s crazy enough to be a republican speaker? this is what we re talking about going into this. john boehner couldn t control this crazy caucus and he resigned. paul ryan, widely respected policy wonk continually had problems with his far right. kevin mccarthy is operating from a position of ptsd because he tried to get this job. narrator: 2018 when they had