quickly heating up this week as republican candidates begin firing shots at one another over who is the right person to lead the party against president biden in the 2024 election. but is the gop primary already shaping up to be a two-person race before former president trump and florida governor ron desantis? or is there a dark horse candidate voters should pay closer attention to? we re going to discuss that coming up. speaker mccarthy and i have had several productive conversations. our staffs continue to meet, and they re making progress. it s crunch time. it s not easy. we re going to make sure we re not just trying to get an agreement. we re trying to get something that s worthy of the american people. i thought we made progress yesterday. i thought we d make progress again today. i want to be able to solve this problem. we begin with the debt ceiling negotiators trying to finalize a deal with six days to go before the u.s. government faces a potential default.
both south carolina senator tim scott and ron desantis of florida making their bids official. the florida governor showing off his fundraising prowess, raising $8.2 million in his first 24 hours as a candidate, a stretch where he repeatedly sparred with former president trump on a wide range of issues. let s bring in karl rove. the let s put up the latest fox news polling on the republican race. trump way out in front with 53%, followed by desantis at 20%. everybody else is down in the single digits. karl, it sure looks like a two-person race at this point. what do you think? well, i think it s premature. it does look like a two-person race. it may be a two-person race. it could be a two-person race. we ve got a lot of time to go between now and when people start voting in iowa and new hampshire, nevada and south carolina. key to this is going to be how the candidates campaign in the early states, whether they are able to spark large public