kate lynn huey burns is a political reporter with real clear politics. david avella is the chairman of go pack. msnbc political analyst joan walsh is also editor at large of salon. katelyn, let me start with you. do you think there's a cohesive plan or unified effort within the republican party right now to ice out trump? >> well, they've tried that in the past and it hasn't worked. remember the rnc chairman called trump. you had some of these rivals going after him directly. it kind of helped to propel him. i do think though we're seeing a little bit of change in terms of the supporters of trump. they want someone that is serious about this. the frustration is real. he has tapped into that vein. but they want someone who can, you know, take this all the way. and i think they're starting to see, as we saw in the debate the other night, that he may not be as serious as they want him to be. so the question is, which of these candidates sees that, embraces that opening? we've seen a couple of them kind of competing for that lane. do these supporters move on