Perception. Flake's approval number is 18%, Trumps approval number is somewhere between 37% and 43% depending on who you read. And yet Flake is the man, because of what? He not standing for this principle, he's cutting and running. The simple reason Jeff Flake isn't going to run is he was going to get his butt kicked. And he decided he needed to be stoked by the media, because he wasn't going to win, and the easy way to be stroke by the media is criticize Trump. Same with Corker and McCain.