simply the best. the lead starts right now. what s love got to do got to do with it remembering an entertainment legend. tina turner dead at the age of 83. plus, ron desantis bucking the trend. less than two hours to go before the florida republican using twitter and elon musk to launch his campaign for president. coming up, how donald trump, the front-runner, is responding to desantis unconventional approach. and we re not going to default. we re going to solve this problem. oh, really? how s that fwgoing to happen. only eight days until the u.s. possible default. negotiators on both sides go back to the drawing board to try to avoid economic catastrophe. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with sad news in our pop culture lead. music legend, tina turner, has died at the sage of 83. a post on her verified facebook account says today we saw good-bye to a dear friend who leaves us her greatest work. her music. tina, we will miss you dearly. you re
the idea he endorsed him and he s just calling him a swamp creature. he s playing every card. attacking him on his positions on social security, sales tax plan. everything. that is one of the reasons, probably a leading reason, that desantis is entering this race in a weaker position. there s a sense of arrogance around the desantis team. back when i was in tallahassee when he was being sworn in for a second term, that is gone. the reality is he is i guess you can look charity bly on this, his expectations are now in check. the reality here though is there is still a hunger for republican voters for an all ternative. the pie is sliced up a bit and helps donald trump. we have to see how the governor does once he is out of the friendly confines of twitter this afternoon, this evening, after his fox interview.