presidential campaign sure was good while it lasted, and now he s getting buried a couple of months before he even announces. so trump turbo-charged by his indictment in the stormy daniels case has been rising in the polls, and desantis has been sinking. i ve argued for many weeks now against my guests that desantis needed to respond to trump s assaults rather than largely ignore him because he s busy with the florida legislature. now that s becoming the media s conventional wisdom. throw in the journalists who say ron desantis lacks charisma, and you have a whole new landscape at least for this week. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. howard: when it comes to ron desantis taking knack over his war on disney flak over his war on disney, it comes from the left and the right. governor desantis is trying to stop bleeding on what s left of his unofficial presidential campaign. it s going to start to wilt a little bit. you just see he s got no answers, he s got no
to stop bleeding on what s left of his unofficial presidential campaign. it s going to start to wilt a little bit. you just see he s got no answers, he s got no punches. he s fighting a fight he can t win. now, the has worried some about this late timing of desantis which they claim may leave him ill-prepared to defend against the former president s bludgeoning attacks. trump continues what to many seem like petty attack it is on ron desantis. he hasn t done anything particularly clever, that s staggering political malpractice. i think this plan of waiting til may, maybe even june did not take into account how much trump would be taking desantis. the hardest job in politics is running against donald trump in a republican primary. howard: joining us now to analyze the cover aage, ben domenech, editor at large of the spectator, and in los angeles, leslie marshall, both are fox news contributors.