given the news around the world with the middle east on fire the border issue hasn t gotten the attention it needs. he testifies on the senate side. migrant encounters hit the highest levels ever recorded. we re monitoring that. we want to start with what has been a big blue night for the democrats. they overcame the president s dismal poll numbers racking up some big wins on election night. question, what does it mean for 2024? we ll chew on that for some time. good morning. dana: i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. chances are that mayokas will say the border is closed. bill: good chance. dana: i think he will probably say that again and again. let s talk about politics. big night for democrats. kept the governorship in kentucky. also in virginia democrats kept the senate and flipped the house. those results have denied republican governor glenn youngkin s bid to control government in the state of virginia. the commonwealth there. it was a race heavily de
$200 apiece. that s half of where obama was at this point in his re-election campaign. so there s no doubt that there s a huge lack of enthusiasm. and it feels in some ways like the president is one of the few people who haven t noticed that not a lot of people want him to run. dana: one of the main reasons that his small dollar fundraising is down is because of inflation. because people didn t have that extra the money that they had that they might have given to them on the democratic side and on the republican side has been going to pay for eggs. bret: there you go. harold: biden has 71 million on hand. martha: absolutely. bret: no labels movement. leave it right there. super star in one sport makes a big impression in another. meet the future. a chef. a designer. and, ooh, an engineer. all learning to save and spend their money with chase. the chef s cooking up firsts with her new debit card. hungry? -uhuh. the designer s eyeing sequins. uh no plaid. while mom is eye
else wins the nomination. we have to switch support. that s probably the safer move, then going out for someone like ron desantis and supporting him and then donald trump becomes the nominee and you have to deal with that fallout, and that s definitely something that s weighing very heavily on members . minds commercially. elena donald trump. obviously he has big donors, but he s been able to get a ton of small dollar fundraising in part because he gets how to speak to people like alison was saying he knows how to work it on facebook. he s back on facebook and youtube does ron desantis have that? is he going to be able to fundraise and make a ton of money off of everyday people? is he going to rely more on some of the rich donors now that are living in palm beach trumpster? like what s going to be his strategy to being able to compete with trump. financially he does have a massive war chest. i know that when we were going through the first quarter fundraising numbers he has about $110
is one of the rare members of that, you know, 20 that opposed kevin mccarthy that actually has specific policy things that he wants changed. a lot of the other ones are just performative, nihilists, and just wanted to get on tv. wanted to do small dollar fundraising. they re not interested in negotiating to get policies done. and so i think that is where chips, you know, kind of, argument breaks down. is the folks that he is fighting with are not on the same page is him. the question on the moderate republicans, on the other side, is, are there enough of them in the matter? you need five members of the republican caucus to stop basically anything. there are plenty of far-right magazines who might want to stop something going forward, they re already threatening that about the debt limit, for example, over the summer. are there five moderate republicans willing to stop anything? i don t think. so there were ten who voted to impeach trump, eight of them are gone, now so that leads to.
the draft opinion had been out there for about 55 days. there are state legislatures that are going to be taking up this issue. there are lawsuits already happening. also as people start to realize that, oh, as these decisions go back to the states, if you are in xyz state, nothing changes for you. now, is it possible that liberal women in new york are going to be really upset about the women losing the right to choose in a state like mississippi? it s possible. will that motivate them to vote? yes. but they vote in new york. i don t know practically how that turns out. this will help the democrats with suburban women and fundraising. this does not help republicans in the fundraising front. i did research into that today. inflation is starting to take a bite out of the small dollar fundraising on both sides, but really on the right. but this issue for democrats, they ll raise a ton of from celebrities. in march of 20 21, texas passed