making a statement as much to fox as he is the rest of the field, and then the debates held in the early voting states. if you skip the debates in the early voting states, it can look like you're slighting sponsors and disrespecting the voters in those states. it will be harder to stay out of the debate in iowa, new hampshire and south carolina. i'm just back from iowa, like every other political reporter in america. at that state fair and otherwise, there is a sense among some iowa voters despite his big lead in the polls, there's no doubt that there's a level of exhaustion with trump and there's an opening for an alternative. institutionally desantis is the one who's gotten the most support from other conservative leaders and so forth. didn't find that much interest in him among voters on the ground, but there was definitely a sense that these controversies are never going to end around trump. and whatever you thought about the way he performed, the desire