Second here they can use into a springboard in new hampshire. i do think the striking thing for me though, especially starting debate night with the news of christus dropping out, you effectively watch the former new jersey governor implored his fellow candidates and republican race to please show that they are willing to take on the front-runner, and almost willing to acknowledge the reality that they have to go through trump if they think they are going anywhere near the oval office. and despite the fact that christy left that the wide open for desantis and haley, you really did not see any of them change the posture of their willingness to go after the former president, and in the form in fashion in which they did. it surely if it-ing him on tone and chaos, desantis hitting him on electability, some of his failures as desantis sees them during covid, but nothing really changed that much. i think as we head into this final stretch in iowa, so much of this debate, massage the factors less people on the stage, guys, was mired in buzzwords, and sort of