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presidential campaign sure was good while it lasted, and now he s getting buried a couple of months before he even announces. so trump turbo-charged by his indictment in the stormy daniels case has been rising in the polls, and desantis has been sinking. i ve argued for many weeks now against my guests that desantis needed to respond to trump s assaults rather than largely ignore him because he s busy with the florida legislature. now that s becoming the media s conventional wisdom. throw in the journalists who say ron desantis lacks charisma, and you have a whole new landscape at least for this week. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. howard: when it comes to ron desantis taking knack over his war on disney flak over his war on disney, it comes from the left and the right. governor desantis is trying to stop bleeding on what s left of his unofficial presidential campaign. it s going to start to wilt a little bit. you just see he s got no answers, he s ....
So i think it s appetite of the media that is iger to get eager to get these things started. howard: for the record, we still can disagree [laughter] leslie, the guy hasn t even gotten into the race yet, and yet the media seem to relish using him as a pin yacht a. to you look piñata. it s really striking. it s fun. no, i m sorry. [laughter] the media i couldn t help myself. i don t know what media you guys are looking at, i haven t seen a lot of favorable stuff, honestly, about ron desantis. and and i have to say i didn t agree with you at first, howie, but i do now, and this is the reason why: there are two names out that i see rising, if to you will, a bit and getting attention because they are hitting on trump, and that s governor sununu and chris christie. and ron desantis, it s not the media pulling away from him at least from where i sit as much as the voters. i think the love fest even with his own state of florida, ....