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Debates, at least one of them needs to be a commanding performance i think. and because you've got a bunch of donors now -- the reason he has to do what he is doing is there are a whole bunch of establishment-type donors, big romney donor set, some of even his brother donor set waiting on the sidelines and may go and if they decide bush isn't going to be able to work they may go to rubio. i think he has about three weeks to prevent some sort of mass exodus of some sort of sideline mayor do nors and players suddenly shopping around for the establishment alternative to jeb. >> but here's the thi...

Doing well in the polls right now. he's a washington guy who spent his entire life working in government as well. >> marco rubio got a big bounce out of the debate. >> he's a lifelong politico. so this idea that scott walker, they can't win because he's been elected. these other guys are doing okay with it and he tried as hard as possible to run as an outsider. >> at the same time he's been an elected official all his life. maybe not in washington but he's been on the public till shortly easter got out of college. that's all he knows is the world of politics. i agree with you. we're certainly ...

Possible to run as an outsider. >> at the same time he's been an elected official all his life. maybe not in washington but he's been on the public till shortly easter got out of college. that's all he knows is the world of politics. i agree with you. we're certainly seeing the case that the outside candidates are very hot right now. but you need an establishment aufrkt. and he could have been that establishment alternative. he has a great track record for republicans. a republican who's governed a blue state. he could appeal to christian conservatives, business conservatives. he had the whole...

>> one group i'm matching on that stage, ben carson, mike huckabee, ted cruz. all those on the hard right of the gop. ted cruz has even gone up to trump tower to sit with trump to kiss the ring. they're all waiting to see, maybe trump is a summer fling for the gop, but they want his bloc, if he gets out of the race. whether they're combative or not, that's going to be something i'm watching, because those conservatives are really, they know they can't be the bush alternative for the establishment alternative unless you find some way to put these blocs together. >> so do they get into a deep po...

He will still have problems with some of the base. the question is ultimately if he is the establishment alternative, whether there's enough establishment republicans to overcome the conservative alternative which will likely be governor walker. >> some of those establishment folks are willing to get behind scott walker. it's not like jeb bush is going to have -- >> that's what i mean. when they looked at santorum in 2012, this guy lost in pennsylvania by 20 points. look at scott walker, he survived a recall. >> that's true. notice we're not talking about governor christie. >> we are later in ...