Michael Steele

We're still Americans, right?

Bought that.

They also bought that idea of affordability, which is why Donald Trump stopped making fun of the concept because his own base believed in it.

They thought it was a real thing for them because they're looking not just at this before gas prices.

They're looking at the grocery bills.

They're looking at, you know, how much it costs to put clothes on their kids' backs.

They're looking at this fact that the tariffs were in fact a tax.

And so, yeah, and Florida is not immune from that.

And I think David Jolly has been making a good case.

Now that has to translate, as again, you and I both know, into how you turn that vote out.

Right.

Sure.

And how you sustain the momentum that has been gained on a win like we saw this week, not just in Florida, but in other wins around the country, tapping into that idea.

It'll be interesting to see the turnout of of this weekend of the folks on the No Kings rally at the No Kings.

You know, what what does that look like in a state like Florida?

Because that also could be a leading indicator of where the people in that state are.

How do you get led into a war with a partner you can't control?

I mean, the conceit about this war, the lie about this war was told to us within the first 24 hours by Marco Rubio himself, who could not explain with a straight face or with any credibility as Secretary of State what the...

hell, his Department of State was doing, who's been largely cut out of any negotiations.

Why is it, Marco, are you sending Witkoff and Jared Kushner?