welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. joe biden maiks his argument. he enters the 2024 campaign. his video makes clear he expects to stair down trump in a rematch. the president s election now mirrors his message back then. when i ran for president four years ago, i said we re in a battle for the soul of america. and we still are. plus nikki haley tries to change the conversation about abortion her message calls for more compassion. where she delivered that speech highlights the states that decides the electoral map. and today donald trump on trial. jury selection conducts off on whether the former president defamed a writer who awe accuses had him of rape. the president s four more years bet. this morning joe biden making formal another run at the oval office. the method, 6:00 a.m. video release. flashes of violence from one of the darkest days. that announcement video calls back to his 2020 campaign launched
she s running a very distant third or fourth. it s donald trump and ron desantis and then there s a giant gap and a bunch of people in the single digits in a republican primary. consensus is not what you talk about. you re trying to appeal to people that most to be the conservative voters. she s trying to say if you stay hard right, we ll lose in november. it appears her message is, but without providing specifics about exactly what she would endorse or not. we have seen a number of republicans in the field, tim scott included, dance around this issue. all while ron desantis passed a six-week abortion ban in florida. and when it comes to the general and the overwhelming majority of the public about 6 in 10 americanss support legal abortion in most cases. so where republicans are headed, whether it s at the state legislator level or even what some of them have proposed nationally is not where the majority of americans are. if you listen to the sound
warned that freedoms are facing threats by what he is described as maga extremism. you saw the image are you in that video from the insurrection on january 6th. he also tried to highlight efforts to limit access to abortion, an issue that has really been a galvanizing force for democrats during the mi midterms and around all of these abortion fights around the country. additionally in that video, they specifically included images of two men that he could face-off against in a general election. that s former president trump and ron desantis, who has yet to formally enter the 2024 campaign, but ultimately, president biden is hoping that voters will side with his record. looking at his achievements when it comes to infrastructure and climate change and also efforts to restore american relations around the world. now advisers say that because biden is entering the campaign, it doesn t mean we re going to immediately see him on the campaign trail. they believe one of thus selling points is
she s tapping into voters of divisive politics, so that could be helpful, but these candidates are going to have to routinely talk about abortion throughout the primary season and the general because it s going to be an enduring issue. can you shake the mind set of primary voter who is might be looking on the democratic side. can you shake their minds. joe biden did that. he did that in 2020. this is about winning. she mentioned bill clinton talking about abortion. he challenged his party by saying it should be about winning. in today s trumpy republican base k you do that? we ll see. she s trying to test this. but the primary is a challenge on this issue, particularly because of where it begins. iowa is the beginning of this. many evangelical voters are strong opponents ask critics of abortion at anything. she s going to be pressed to be