He is laughing him off, mocking him, taking him on a little bit more at least than he has, still trailing trump by double digits in the poll. there in lies the problem. the trump base is a solid base. how does he tactfully go into that pace and pull some of them and hold commensurate publicans together? let s take these in quick succession. you ve got the reboot on putin and crimea, ukraine. that is because he did not expect the blow back that he got from senior members of the party, especially in the senate. they started raking him over the coals for something that was absolutely asinine, this was some territorial disputes by russia and ukraine. ....