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So we had the Newsom-Dissantis debate last night.

Oh, we'll get into it.

I just want to say first, watching the Newsom DeSantis debate struck me, why can't we have

a Nikki Haley-Rond DeSantis debate? I mean, at this point, it's very clear that they are the two

alternatives to Donald Trump given the polling. Why can't we? Listen, you know, I've got a fantastic flagship station set up.

I've got a TV station connected with our radio station.

And why?

Listen, Nikki and Ron, if you all want to come to Atlanta and have a conversation with me on stage,

you all know me, I'm happy to, like, sit in a room with

the two of you without the cacophony of Vivek and everybody else on stage and actually ask

substantive probative questions of the two of you in a room together. It just seems like the

Newsome DeSantis debate gave us a taste of

what we might potentially be able to have in a DeSantis Haley debate is kind of the conversation

we need for the direction moving forward. They very clearly have charted different paths forward.

Haley very clearly has momentum right now in the polling.

DeSantis, despite having more money spent against him than anyone else, is still hanging on to number two.

He's the governor of Florida.

She's the UN ambassador, former governor of South Carolina. They've got big ideas.

Can we not have a conversation with just the two of them on a stage together?

You don't need an audience, the rabble and the mob.

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