might be that ramaswamy is coming up and that haley is coming up, i think there are four candidates, throw pence in there. look, nikki haley and pence showed the strength of experience, kind of a steady hand, pence still probably out of touch with most republican super voters. but it s always hard, even with all the experience at this table, to transport yourself to the low to medium information voter. and i think what they heard from desantis is exactly what they wanted to hear from desantis tonight, even though it was awkward, just as they did from vivek. you know this reminds me a little bit, was ted cruz in 2016, totally that s not a comparison anyone wants. ted cruz finished a strong second last time, a distant second, but a clear second. he did better than jab. but ron desantis was saying the things that maga people like, a bit awkwardly, delivering his talking points, but he was serviceable. i just want to play this soros clip, where he talks about soares. because the
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also a presidential candidate. senator, i want to start with you because what s notable about these 27 states who were refusing this white house request is that many of them are, in fact, republican-led states. mississippi is republican. secretary of state released a statement saying in strong terms that he s not going to comply. he is going to tell the president s commission, quote, go jump in the gulf of mexico. is this request from the commission a fair request in your view? i think a lot of people are concerned about this social security number that even the last four digits. that s certainly privacy information and certainly raises concerns i think from a lot of privacy advocates. a lot of those are republicans. how about voting history, too? voting history is available. i mean, you can usually check voting history. campaigns use voting history all the time. we use it for super voters. so that doesn t concern me so much. but the one thing that jumped out to me was social sec
political autopsy and that seems to be in hindsight a perfect word. people forget trump is a brand. he s not a politician which is part of his appeal. but he has probably been testing that brand the trump name for decades through polling, focus groups. he knows where it will hit, it knows where it will work. so this shouldn t be a surprise to anybody. but the political field did not anticipate his activities and his strength. frankly the media was a little behind the curve, too. he ll be out there, he s doing his thing. he s appeal to ing to a very, v narrow slice of republican super voters. it s enough in a very large field to keep him with the latest poll which i think is 25%. do i think he ll fade is this y? yes, but if people understatement his impact, absolutely. look at the behavior of jeb bush who is having to act in a very different manner. he s stuck in the year of 2000 and that type of politics. this is not his father s