Frontally attacking donald trump, which, yes, hurts his numbers, but at least he s got something to say about the biggest question in the race. the other guys are basically walking on eggshells or say nothing at all and just buying time hoping against hope. chuck, we ve seen the movie, it s called the last seven years in the party. yes. what did he call it? listless vessels. speaking of the irony now, the toughest ron desantis has sounded on donald trump and it s going to weaponized because it did sound like he attacked the voters and not trump. this why the memo, the leaked memo about defending trump, that i found confusing because this is really an opportunity for ron desantis to do more of that. you re supposed to take out vivek ramaswamy. yeah. that was just consultants no pressure. it s somewhat bizarre in the sense that this is going to be the biggest opportunity for any of these candidates let me put that memo up, by the way, while you re talking about it
Sledgehammer to vivek ramaswamy and to defend trump when christie inevitably attacks him. the republican candidates are terrifying of alienating the trump-supporting voters that they ll need to win by criticizing trump. show us the campaign where an underdog beat a dominant front-runner by not taking on said front-runner directly. in an interview with the florida standard, desantis took a swipe at trump s cult of personality inside the republican party and the swipe immediately got trump and his allies to lash out. you could be the most conservative person since sliced bread unless you re kissing his rear end they will somehow call you a rhino. if all we are listless vessels that are supposed to follow whatever happens to come down the pike on truth social every morning, that s not going to be a durable movement. already this morning the trump campaign is trying to weaponize that phrase listless vessels, trying to compare it to the famous basket of
Hammer vivek ramaswamy, defend trump from chris christie. one of them is tried and true, attack biden in the media, and i get that. the notion that you would go after someone who would be an afterthought in the race. he might be the next prime time host and to jonathan s point, he s actually doing interesting stuff, not to do. he s the one candidate that s not like the others, and it is but fundamentally then the challenge becomes if you actually want to take out the king, you have to take out the king. right. so this will be the opportunity for ron desantis and for anyone else to sit in that chair to do that. what s interesting, for ron desantis, if i think if he weren t such a bad candidate, what he was breaking on there could have been a good thing. he could have said, i m