let s go, tim scott! let me let me close with this. as much as i m excited about this journey, i simply want to say this. it s really not about me. it s about that 7-year-old girl named jordan who brought roses to the station, it s about 12-year-old sutherland surrat who came on this stage. you see, america is a city on . we are the beacon in the midst of darkness. we have an unusual respon responsibility. we have the responsibility to prove that self-governance works. we have the responsibility to share for a thousand generations what america has done for me, she can do for you. this can t be another presidential campaign. we don t have time for that. we need a president who pe persuades not just our friends and our base. we need a president that persuades. we have to do that with common sense, conservative principles. but we have to have a compassion for people. we have to have a compassion for people who don t agree with us. we have to believe that our ideas are so s
Republican hardliners are claiming to bring a motion to the floor for ignoring the spending cuts requested in the package. I think we need to rip off the bandaid. I think we need to on with new leadership that can be trustworthy. The one thing everybody has in common is that nobody trusts Kevin Mccarthy. He lied to biden, he lied to house conservatives. The only way Kevin Mccarthy is speaking of the house tend of this coming week is if democrats bail him out. They probably will. I actually think when you believe in nothing, as Krevin Mccarthy does, everythings negotiable. We have a team covering the story for us. Arlette saenz is at the white house. Lets begin with eva mckenna in washington. What kind of tremors on capitol hill are being felt with threats against Speaker Of The House Kevin Mccarthy . Reporter fred, the speaker is clear eyed about what lies ahead. He says hell survive challenges from the rightleaning members of his conference, all but daring him to bring it on. Lets lis
who think they might be having a good night. easy, easy. right. easy but but but. a court leaving the ballot open, diane, saying there are lines there in this race that we know is unusually competitive. it means you keep watching it. now let s come back to where we are as we wait. we still have no votes in in mississippi. we do here for another one. again, in this tough national climate for democrats, you have an incumbent democratic governor in a very red state, 56% of the vote in now. right. i told you earlier, watch down here. and a lot of them are starting to slowly fill in. right. these are the conservative counties. but daniel cameron getting only 51% of the vote there. let s just go back in time to 2019. andy beshear getting 46. so the incumbent did a little better. but here s what you look at here. go back to the presidential race. donald trump getting 74% here. and so the margins, the margins are not going daniel cameron s way. if you know that in the urban areas tha
of america! reporter: so there you get a sense of how he plans to run this race, really focusing on his personal biography, inspiration and reticent to do a lot of mud slinging when it comes to his fellow republican rivals. no real references to the former president or governor desantis. the closest he got to that was when he said grievance over greatness. eva, that s not easy to do, appreciate your perspective being there on tim scott s announcement day. let s bring the conversation in studio. with me, manu raju, katherine lucy, and aiyisha rascoe. just listening to senator scott, the far away front-runner is donald trump. that is z to trump s a. that is optimistic, that is
thank you for your time today. first, what you re just watching there in that rowdy hall in charleston, south carolina, a big bet that republican voters are worn out by donald trump s politics of anger and of grievance and they want hope instead. just moments ago you were watching live here on cnn senator tim scott officially announcing his entry into the 2024 republican primary contest. he joins with a not insignificant amount of cash and with a message centered on hope and faith and opportunity. eva mckenna is right there for us. eva, a great crowd behind him cheering him on, now the challenge. he s been testing the water for months. now that he s officially in, can he climb from the bottom of the pack to the top? reporter: that s right, john, it will be a challenge indeed though hard to tell from the excitement from his supporters in this room. at times it really felt like a church service but really was a speech in two parts. you know, he began talking about