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hung on and so I want to get Paul's phone call out of the gate. Welcome to the show, Paul.

How are you?

Great.

Thanks for taking my call, Eric.

Sure.

I just wanted to add Governor Junkin, in a sense, did the same thing that Kempted in keeping Trump pretty much at an arm's distance.

But, you know, the one thing with DeSantis that I think is absolutely amazing that Trump can't do is

DeSantis has been able to get right in the middle of some really tough cultural issues and not have it backfire on him.

And Trump can't do that.

Trump screws up every time he gets in the middle of it when it comes to social or cultural issues.

You know, Juncker actually is interesting on how he's been able to navigate.

And you know, like Trump, for example, said he was endorsing Yon and Yonkin's response was,

we appreciate the endorsement.

We're doing this ourselves and didn't have Trump on the campaign trail, didn't want him on the campaign trail,

thought he would hurt Yonkin on the campaign trail, and he handled it very well.

He did a very good job. What's so intriguing here, and Paul, thanks very much and for your patience as well,

is so I'm meeting with these donors and some of them really want Yonkin to run for president and you will note how quiet it has gotten out there.

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