talks like a campaign, and this week, florida governor ron desantis could make his 2024 campaign official. after a weekend of trying to steal the spotlight from donald trump, putting the former president as a loser. a night witness alligator boots and all road trips across the state taking advantage of trump being forced to cancel a planned rally due to bad weather. desantis flipped burgers and it did all he could to call out trump s effect on the gop but did not dare call out trump by name. as bad as things are going right now, if things do not go well for us republicans in 2024, it s going to get a whole lot worse. we must reject the culture of losing and that has infected our party in recent years. the time for excuses is over. i mean, the courage! clearly talking about trump without saying trump s name. here s the thing, desantis might be younger, he might be more into politics and then donald trump, at least on the national stage, but there is little daylight betwe
underestimation of speaker mccarthy that has paid off for him here, but the task that he s up against remains so difficult because, as you keep going, and as donald trump becomes more of an imprinted figure in the republican primary, it will be harder and harder to keep that wing of the gop silent. that s my big question, right, unquestionably more votes than anybody would have expected on that deal. he got a deal. there wasn t a default. he s kept his conference in line for far longer with far more unity than anyone suspected after the 15 votes it took him to become speaker, but the feeling almost constantly that s pervasive, you have until tomorrow. what about the next day? are people persistently underestimating him in a flawed manner, or is eventually this all going to come to a head? the next day they have to pass spending bills by the end of the year or a continuation resolution they have to have an agreement and basically with the last agreement on the debt ceiling he really
there. santos it has not have to resign. i think kevin mccarthy will say, as he has said, i won t support him for reelection, but let the process play out. mccarthy is saying that because he needs santos as much as santos needs mccarthy right now. eugene, i want to ask you, you ve covered this story before in different contexts. this idea of a potential government shutdown of the debt ceiling. i think a lot of times when i talk to voters and they are, like yeah, i have seen this before. i ve seen this before. i wonder if in your sense doing the reporting in washington on the hill that this is like before, or the contours of this feel fundamentally different to you. i think where the voters are concerned is very similar. but the contours does feel different this time. when you talk to people who were around in doing the negotiations in 2011 when there wasn t a default, but there was indeed a credit downgrade, they say this feels even scarier