And the So, first of all, thank you for joining us. We know your daylouged after your performance

last night and we appreciate your taking the time to talk to us.

I want to delve in a little bit to some of the topics that got raised but not very in-depth

which is the nature of the format.

First of all, the pundit expectation, the consensus, was that everything was going to focus

on Governor DeSantis. Everyone was going to go on stage, attack Governor DeSantis, given his status apparently

as the obvious alternative to Donald Trump.

That most definitely did not happen.

He was essentially ignored and instead the focus of the attacks

almost entirely was on you.

I know the obvious answer is, it's because I'm rising in the poll I'm

considered a threat but beyond that was there something else going on that

caused there to be so much hostility and focus on you from the other candidates?

Yeah I mean it's a little bit inside baseball but I think hostility and focus on you from the other candidates?

Yeah, I mean it's a little bit inside baseball,

but I think if you look at certainly what our campaign is seeing,

when you're looking at actually understanding

who the likeliest voters are, who tend to be the most informed.

The trends are very sharp in my direction and so I think if the other candidates, the one thing

it did teach me is that the other candidates are serious about at least

trying to win. Right, if they weren't serious, if they weren't serious about

actually trying to win they wouldn't have even bothered. But I think their

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