presidential debate is august 23rd. you have qualified for that debate stage, and the second debate as well. how are you preparing for the first debate? well, i m traveling eight states in seven days leading up to the debate. i want to be careful not to over prepare. i ve done my best in this campaign, the weight paid running this campaign is by speaking the truth. in a way that is unconstrained by members of the donor class or the political consultant handler class. my bet is that s going to be a competitive advantage on the stage, but the truth is that every other candidates in this race has been a professional politician for a long time. they ve been in professional political debates and primaries and general elections before. i haven t. and so i think the first debate is a bit of a warm-up. i ve qualified for the next few, we re doing great in this race, i think my honesty and transparency and the fact that i m actually able to speak freely in a way that many other established pr
suggestion from others outside the desantis campaign, outside the orbit, that it doesn t make a whole lot of sense for people who support him to go out there and lay out a debate strategy, which he either how now has to follow for following the debate strategy or separate himself from it, potentially not to take the best tack. it s not surprising, considering that the florida governor kind of refuses to take down the front runner for former president of the united states, donald trump, because he s worried about possibly losing any kind of trump vote he may get, although it doesn t seem to be like that strategy is faring very well. you did have some, though, reporting about when the former president was thinking about turning himself in, in georgia, that may take attention away from what s actually happening on that debate stage. and your reporting initially indicated that would be maybe wednesday, right? the day of the debate, to kind of shift the storyline away from the debate st
tsunami s. so, his, in effect, he was nervous about the idea that somebody would run into the fire. maybe uphill, where the fire was burning, because they hear a siren that they associate with the tsunami. all of this, under the states attorney general, assigning a third-party investigator to look into this and the answers, i think, are going to take way too long for some of these families that are just waiting to hear where their family member is, at this point. with 1000 people still unaccounted for, yasmin. unbelievable. steve patterson, thank you for your continued reporting down there, we appreciate you. straight ahead, a no-show. what the former president will be doing instead of debating his opponents this week. and another embarrassment for florida governor ron desantis. a leaked memo lays out his debate strategy. we will be right back. egy. we will be right back. we will be right back. and mine s unlisted. try boost® high protein with 20 grams of protein for muscle health v
ramaswamy, who is gaining traction among gop voters. there is at least one major problem. this debate strategy is out in the open for everyone to read. well desantis now claims he hasn t read the memo, while we all have, it comes the fallout rights, a candidate trying to forge a more authentic seeming persona and overcome labels like robotic an unlikable, this is a body blow. it goes on to say, will all be listening for the echoes of the words that a super pac all but dictated to the florida governor. back with me, mo and david jolly. moe, i ve got four highlights. it was laid out in this memo by the desantis super pac. at the top of the list, attacking president biden and the media up to five times. i m interested to see who is going to be counting. fifth in at least two positive visions for america, that is the bare minimum. quote, hammer opponents vivek ramaswamy, and defend donald trump. that is the game plan, it s now on the internet for anyone to
. you got to do the same thinghe here. you can t tie your hands behinrd your back, let them punch you in the face and throw you in prison and say, well, you know, i could respond, but that would be icky and it wouldn t make me feel good. you re interested in winningther as a politician and putting points on the boar intg as a pd. a loser. and for too long, republicans have been contenngt to be loser. they re happy to beat the spread, but they don t really want to win. don t rand i think the time fot kind of stuff is over. yeah, i couldn t agre e more.ointin i think they think that just by pointing out the hypocrisy thatk. at will do the tricg e hr it clearly isn t. and i think you re absolutely right. you laid it out perfectly. ht. i want to move to something else, which is the gop primary debate, which will be on fox next week. we re getting a little previewek of the fireworks. a consultant for desantis s superpac laid out his debate strategy and it got four basic must do s. it said