paul: welcome to this special edition of the journal editorial report as we look back at the highs and lows of 2023. president biden s poll numbers sink as the year comes to a end. gallup s final poll of 2023 find 39% of americans approve of the job he is doing. the lowest of the last 7 presidents in their first term. the president has become frustrated with his low approval rating and polls that show him trailing donald trump nationality. can he turn those numbers around in the new year? let s ask fox news contributor karl rove. these numbers have been persisting for a while, the president is going down. s it too early to conclude that americans have made a judgment that this has not been a successful presidency? they have made that judgment and they made that judgment about the president himself three quarters, more than three quarters of the american people think he is too world to seek a second term. two thirds of the american people think he lacks the stamina and ment
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$31 trillion in debt. and that massive tally continues to grow even after this bill. still, small government, congress, like steve moore, support the bill, calling it a step in the right direction. republican congressman on the other hand, chip roy, is referring to it as a turn sandwich. the washington times describes it as a win for the gop. trashing the deal for normalizing record spending with the president who can t find his parents. now some republican lawmakers, they are infuriated that the compromise maintains what is an unacceptably high level of covid era spending. and, in recovery purposes nearly $100 billion in spending instead of making outright points to the budget. this is a bill that pushes any further negotiation back into those until after the president election, which is a very key points of contention. many republicans want to get another negotiation for next year s presidential election. they fear handing democrats a blank check if they keep the white hous
american comeback. we know the country s on the wrong track. we see it with our eyes. we feel tonight our bones. what i will do is help restore normalcy to our communities, integrity to our institutions, and sanity to our society. we need to win again as republicans. we ve got to dispense with this culture of losing. and if you nominate me, i pledge to you that on january 20, 2025, at high noon, that i ll be the guy on the west side of the capitol with the left hand on the bible and the right hand in the air taking the oath of office as the 47th president of the united states. why now? i think it s because the country s going in the wrong direction. we have another four years of the biden administration, i think some of the damage is going to be irreversible. sean: that was governor desantis right here on fox just moments ago. earlier today his live twitter announcement with elon musk, that did not go well after twitter had one technical glitch after another, but ron desant
baseball diamond to make it to gail, university where he capped into the baseball team. and while at yale he signed up for the navy, serving in uniform and a number of capacities and stayed in the military until shortly after he was governor of florida. and as governor, he led florida through the pandemic earning praise from the rights and derision from the left. and the people of florida seem to like his first term, he was reelected in welcome numbers last fall and today he announced his candidacy to be an ex-president of the united states and he joins us now for his first television interview since that announcement. and we will keep him longer than most guests so that we can ask him about his plans for the country as well as how he will address the issues confronting our culture and our country. i can t promise you that i won t crash, but fox news will not crash during this interview. governor desantis, if you broke twitter, my daughter and the kardashians are going to be