John B. King Jr.: “Some first debates matter, some don't. But political scientists generally agree that the first debate in most campaigns…”

He was not afraid of going outside of orthodoxy and taking heat for it and taking flack for it.

The material that has come from the administration so far has been chaotic and also vague and confusing.

This is a moment where it is refreshing to hear Speaker Johnson right here, you know, Republican, Democratic partisans, the president of the United States, saying, everybody take a step back, everybody take a breath.

He was willing to break with his party and do things that got him in trouble and stand up and explain it.