this is going to be the demise of trump, but i think, you know, lots of folks have seen this play before, and they know how it turns out. so i think standby to standby. all, right alyssa, if past is prologue, certainly it won t have an impact or it will just be used for more fundraising or maybe even produce a boost in the polls. do you believe that overtime as this sort of, i mean, there is a long time between now and the actual presidential race. do you believe this could change? we are in the reality of august of 2023, the lead candidates behind donald trump and the republican field just have not taken advantage of the multiple indictments, enough for that we have in front of him. so i don t disagree with david orban, if those who are, you know, the iran desantis, is that nikki haley, start tim scott s, if they continue to actually defend him when indictments come down, i don t think you are gonna see his approvals with the republican base change. at the end of the day, voters a
juice. donors are not the sharpest knives in the drawer. it s the most fundamental thing in politics you define the difference and say, well, i ll take the original. and no one s looking the whole theory of these donors is people want an alternative to trump. there s no push to have an altenative to trump. he has 51% of the primary vote right now. i want to challenge tim scott s speak for yourself, buddy. but here s the thing that s so hard about this. oh, yeah, you ve got to take off trump. the large part and the republican base is so intense. i find myself intrigued. john ellis who s a very smart man in republican politics keeps saying you ve got to figure out a way to hug trump while you shiv him. beating him up is not what the
livelier candidate compared to joe biden. now obviously donald trump is not necessarily a young, agile candidate compared to ron desantis either. but i thought that that was notable. the other person that we re watching in terms of elon musk, of course, is tim scott, elon musk endorsed tim scott s one of his campaign ads earlier this week. it s an interesting time to see what republicans are going to do with twitter and how twitter ceo is going to handle republicans. and trump is allowed back on twitter but hasn t really been back on the platform. i mean, this seems to be also just desantis way of perhaps differentiating himself and maybe not being compared to trump on the platform. i think a couple of things about this moment. it s going to be pretty interesting. it s not risk free for desantis for a couple of reasons. number one, the technology. you know, the twitter space is often have and you would know better than i have, they re often glitchy. things go wrong. that s at th
he s always been someone who shied away from the mainstream media. this is a strong signal about his campaign is going to focus on. platforms that bypass traditional outlets, including fox news, to speak to voters directly. one thing i want to note, elon musk hasn t come out endorsing a specific candidate. he s the ceo of twitter. in the past, he said he would endorse desantis especially because desantis, from his perspective, is a younger, lively or candidate compared to joe biden. obviously, donald trump is not necessarily a young, agile candidate compared to ron desantis either, but i thought that was notable. the other person we re watching in terms of elon musk, of course, is tim scott, elon musk endorsed tim scott s, one of his campaign ads, earlier this week. it s interesting to see what republicans are going to do with twitter, and how twitter ceos are going to handle republicans. trump is allowed back on twitter, but hasn t really been back on the platform. i mean, this seem