hello, i am tomi laren along with mollie hemingway, charlie hurt and griff jenkins. the big story tonight is a fox news alert. the girl in close as we await results of the state democratic primary is the first time the race for democratic presidential nomination is kicking off. we will have the results as soon as a comment and president biden is expected to win. he s banking on south carolina voters to cement his campaign but finds actions don t really because he is nowhere in the state to be found senate. instead, he s going to i like to mingle with donors from the entertainment industry but someone who is in south carolina at fox news correspondent mark meredith. good evening, president biden is not in south carolina, he touched down in l.a. a few moments ago the polls closed a minute ago in south carolina. what s notable is not who s on the ballot but it s the first time south carolina has gone on the democratic presidential primary calendar this is a big change from w
some 2.2 million people movedas to the southeast in just over two years. that s roughly the population of houstonroughly . and according to a new report in bloomberg, six fast growing states in the south have now added more to the national gdp than the northeast. states those six states florida, texas, georgia and the carolina, fls and tennessee, arn the middle of a $100 billion min wealth migration as the us economithc center moves sout. according to the irs. ds $100 while the south adds $100 billion in wealth, the northeast has lostlth, 60 billion. president joe biden spent today in south carolina celebrating his green energy and money printing approach to politiccelt and economics. and he says this is why theroeda is growth in the south. am i made a commitment and i d be president for all americans, whether their election officials voted foed officir or wherever you voted, visionary or not, i kept my promise. in fact, some analysis has said that as long as i ve seen you do
sending controversial cluster munitions to ukraine. what that could mean for the war. also today, extreme weather. millions are at risk of record-breaking temperatures and severe storms as well. and then in washington, new fallout from the discovery of a bag of cocaine at the west wing of the white house. what congress is now demanding. and a medical breakthrough, the fda gives full approval for a new alzheimer s drug, but it comes with a serious warning about potentially deadly side effects. we begin this hour, everybody, with another sign, the economy may in fact be cooling. the government reported that employers added just 209,000 jobs last month. below the 240,000 the economists had expected. and the unemployment rate fell slightly to 3.6%. when you break it down by race, black unemployment rose by .4%. and hispanic unemployment rose by .3%. the president reacting to the news in a statement saying in part this, we are seeing stable and steady growth. that s bidenomics,
of building. have a good weekend, my friend. see you next week. all right, we are now the unofficial start of the 2024 presidential campaign season, six months out from 2024, and in a confluence events this week, yesterday in fact, rex exactly two and a half years since the january 6th attack on the capital. it s humbling for our country, for our democracy, that the twice impeached, twice criminally indicted so far donald trump is the undisputed presidential front runner of the republican party. i don t know that on january 7th, 2021, right after all the republicans who mattered had condemned donald trump s role in the attempted insurrection, that we thought we would be here a year and a half later. we are very far away from the republican party returning to normal, perhaps even knowing what normal is. we are very far away from an america where both of the two majority political parties respect the system and stand up for democracy. we know where donald trump stands on demo
scuttle the remaining 48 state primaries. it s a bid by republican elites to kneecap the republican voters that exist throughout the whole country and that they will need in november all to try to stop any potential long primary by nikki haley waged against trump. maga allies were floating an rnc resolution to declare trump basically the nominee to put a thumb on the scale before the rest of the votes come in. there s only been one primary. they ve backed down from that in public. new reporting says the rnc s call was well received by trump aides. now one of the top ranking house republicans is pushing basically the same discredited message as the rnc did but this time trying to corner trump endorsements in the house by arguing that it is all owed. the national party s purpose and their requirement is to empower the party s voters, whether it s democrat or republican in this country, right, any kind of party, to empower the voters to choose nominees. if they fail to do that,