president is encouraging to me, but i also am worried about incoherence and his lack of study and interest. i still think we have a long way to go here before we can anoint donald trump as a foreign policy leader. again, i go back to one of his great challenges, dealing with russia and the clear eyed way that he s starting to deal with some of these other challenges. that, to me, is the greatest short-term test. if you go back and read his foreign policy speeches, one in april and one later in the campaign, what he s done so far is broadly consistent with both of those speeches. deeply inconsistent with the inaugural speech. it s inconsistent with the tone of the inaugural speech, if you go line by line, he talks about how he is going to honor and build our alliances and we re going to be strong. this is a consistent theme of this. jon: will have to leave it
cory gardner, joni ernst, monica webbe and tom cotton will fly to tampa. the fund-raising may also benefit the winner of the august 26 republican primary in alaska. this week was not so bright when it comes to jeb bush s iowa prospects. he was tied with christie for the highest negative rating of any republican tested in a new quinnipiac poll. his positive rating was even lower than christie s and he fared the worst against hillary clinton, trailing her by double digits. it s pretty clear, though, that jeb has a tough time. speaking of florida republicans, let s move to marco rubio. it s pretty clear these days that he s putting together the issues section of his presidential website. i d argue no potential 2016er has been more methodical about delivering policy speeches than rubio. started in january, february and march. rubio gave six big foreign policy speeches. in may he laid out his social security plan. this week his focus was economic policy and his pitch wednesday.
arab spring? how has he handled all this? a foreign policy debate in a campaign that s been all about the economy. by the way, we know what s striking about hearing mccain say this, he did it out of frustration, our producer was saying there were constant questions about this and he was basically saying look i ve asked mitt romney, it was more of john mccain going, i ve told mitt romney he ought to lay this out in a vision speech type of thing. he s given two big foreign policy speeches. the one before the overseas trip, the vfw, again at the american legion right before his convention speech. but neither one of them seemed to be the sort of big vision speech about america s role in the middle east and all of that. i do know talking to campaign sources they know they want to do a big policy speech before the debates to try to maybe force the instead of them chasing headlines, force the obama campaign to chase him a little bit. and i think it is going to be in foreign policy. at t