Stay updated with breaking news from Pilot fish. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Are competitive now that should not be on paper but democrats are seeing an upsurge on the down ballot races. it s a grim year again for republicans. i say this all the time. presidential re-elections are an incumbent referendum on the incumbent. all these guys who made themselves pilot fish are facing the same problem with that referendum with their campaign. rick wilson, you re welcome on this broadcast any time. pleasure to have you. thank you. thank you, sir. hours before joe biden takes the debate stage. all eyes will be on his son, hunter biden, because hunter biden asked them to be. more on that, when we come back. ....
Them politically. i think they ll want low-hanging fruit in the house is gone from 2018. you ll see another half dozen, ten to half a dozen additional retirements and some seats that are competitive now that should not be on paper but democrats are seeing an upsurge on the down ballot races. it s a grim year again for republicans. i say this all the time. presidential re-elections are an incumbent referendum on the incumbe incumbent. all these guys who made themselves pilot fish are facing the same problem with that referendum with their campaign. rick wilson, you re welcome on this broadcast any time. pleasure to have you. thank you. thank you, sir. hours before joe biden takes the debate stage. all eyes will be on his son, hunter biden, because hunter ....
His campaign tonight? i don t think he can save it tonight, but i think the path for jeb bush is to show strength by attacking the person who is seen as strong. this is a barroom fight, you walk into the bar, find the biggest guy and you hit him. 350e78 are drawn to the shark, not the pilot fish. you got to go in there and show strength. i think it s as good for jeb bush to do it. he ought to keep doing it. and you ve got to put donald trump under pressure. pressure, pressure, pressure, and see how he responds. you know if you ve ever watched twitter, the guy responds to everything. if you re a 14-year-old in a basement in moscow, you could start a nuclear war with this guy if he was president. so i think you have to just keep at it. ....
That is basically, explicitly, the ted cruz strategy at this point, and i think it s a pretty smart one. well, look, i think that ted cruz has a couple of really strong assets about his personal conservatism and his record as being a guy who is a very iconicic person in the senate, which means he s hated in the senate. and largely for reasons having to do with launching these shutdown fights without a real plan to win them. just to do them, but right now, he s trying to leverage his position as a very hard conservative, by being donald trump s pilot fish to the great white shark that is dronald trup and hopes to catch the scraps some day when donald trump gets harpooned. i don t think it s the worst strategy in the world. for me, here s what i would say, just as a sort of coronunt. look, you ve already seen two ....
Trump moe jjo. well, rick perry attacked us and he s gone now. those folks on the stage tonight, except for ted cruz, he s the pilot fish to donald trump s shark, none of those folks on the stage tonight were intimidated by donald trump. he seemed smaller. he seemed less poised. he let out with a joke that went over terribly, attacking rand paul. and then george pataki. the first rule of politics, don t punch down. he seemed very petty. i ve got to say, for anyone who read your article about how to handle trump and watch this debate, you knew the smart candidates read your article. we ve got to take a quick break here. we ll be joining chris matthews in the coverage after the debate. right? we ll hear the rest of what you re thinking about. coming up, how the party of reagan is becoming the party of trump. that s next. ....