Yes, he does reflect the attitude of the party right now and the anger about certain things. But there's real concern that he can't beat Joe Biden, because we know we already lost to him.
Scott Jennings
Pundit
American conservative political consultant and radio host
I think the core difference you're going to see unfold over the next few months is Trump on this vengeance tour. He wants to go out and get the people who he thinks persecuted him, and I think where DeSantis is laser focused is on trying…
He is the central witness in an effort to overturn the US election and overthrow the US government.
I mean, I don't think he wants Mike Pence to go tell anybody how he tried to pressure him into subverting the US Constitution.
I think if he runs and we nominate Trump, he's probably going to win again.
The American people don't want him to run. There are serious reservations about reelecting a president who will be 86 years old at the end of the next term.
If everything is going great, and he is doing everything bipartisan, and everything he says is true, why do you think it is that after everything we've seen out of Trump, which admittedly, some of which is really terrible. He is beating…
Sixty percent of the American people think he has done very little, 60 percent of his own party doesn't even want him to run again.
Why is it when something happens to Joe Biden, it's able to hold, inside these agencies, for a couple of months? When something happens to Donald Trump, we know about it within five minutes?
I think classified material ought to be taken care of. And I think people, who've been all over Donald Trump, about this, ought to have the wherewithal, to be all over Joe Biden, about it too.
This is - the political usefulness, of this, for the Republicans, as people attack Donald Trump, about his issues? I get it. And they're not the same. And yes, there'll be conflation here. But the political usefulness of this cannot be…
You know, honestly, if he had any shred of self-integrity, you know, he would bow out because he made up a whole story, sold it to the voters, and he got elected.