cue the music. there it is. the election music. love it. only two months until the first republican presidential debate, seven months until the first in the nation iowa caucuses. today, mike pence formally entered the presidential race to run against his former boss. before all the fanfare planned for later this week, including a speech and a cnn town hall with my colleague, dana bash, today, he quietly filed his paperwork declaring his candidacy. last night, the spotlight was on nikki haley, trump s former u.s. ambassador to the united nations. jeff zeleny takes a look now at what is bound to be a very busy week in the 2024 race. reporter: the republican presidential contest is expanding and intensifying. we ve let guys do it for a while. it might be time for a woman to get it done. reporter: as the anyone but trump lane grows even more
cnn is on the scene. back here in the u.s. on the road again today. cue the 2024 election music. president biden headed to florida, where he is expected to drive home his pledge to protect social security and medicare. we have a preview of the trip ahead. we want to begin with the latest on the chinese spy balloon, jessica dean is on capitol hill, national security reporter natasha bertrand also with us with reporting. lawmakers, of course, wrapping up this classified briefing. what more do we know about what they may have learned? i was just down there jim and er erica, i talked to dan crenshaw of texas, a republican, asked what he could share. he said he didn t feel like he learned anything new from the briefing. there were nuances he learned. and i asked if it changed his thinking on this, he said no, his thinking remains the same. but that is just starting to break up so we ll hear from
wait a minute. where s the election music? dom, dom, dom-dom-dom. similar. it s the morning music. we are a little unstruck. already on the air two hours. mcdonald s coming, because you order us breakfast. doesn t count on election day. it is election day in america. so happy you could join us this morning again, we have been here two hours. a lot to get to this morning. soon the polls will open in ohio and pennsylvania and georgia. three very critical battleground states with extremely tight and consequential senate races. when all votes are counted the races that decide control of the house and senate. a very busy show today, and we have you covered all morning with everything you need to
speaker office, we used to think he s unbeatable. fetterman has a lot of questions. a history of offending his own party. and i think they re running a big risk by nominating him potentially, and now coming out with a health concern, you might think that potentially could change the game for him. brendan and ashley, thanks to both of you. tune in tomorrow night, election night in america. there s that election music. primary races in five states. special coverage starts at 7:00 eastern on cnn. what happens if states start targeting women? prosecuting women for crossing state lines to seek onbortion? a look at one proposal that would do just that. stay with us. i ve been everywhere, man. crossed the desert s bare, man. i ve breathed the mountain air, man. of travel i ve had my share, man. i ve been everywhere. i ve been to: pittsburgh, parkersburg, gravelbourg, colorado, ellensburg, cedar city, dodge city, what a pity.
the pick by president trump is getting leverage there. here s. biden s new numbers at record lows today. approval according to quinnipiac at 33%. that is not a good number according to gallup. he is leading support from a reliable voting block less than seven months to go to the mid-terms here. young voters definitely losing the luster with regard to the president. down 20 points in both of the millennial group and the gen z group. something to turn around. let s bring in marc thiessen, fox news contributor and mark penn, former clinton adviser and chairman and ceo. great to have you with us. i hear that election music and gets me pumped up. we ll get closer to looking at these closely. so let s look first at this number. i want to go to mark penn on