across 50 countries expected to go the polls this year. and, of course, they include the us, where presidentjoe biden will deliver his first major campaign speech of 2024 in the next half hour in philadelphia. we ll bring you that live as soon as we get it. biden s speech comes a day ahead of the three year anniversary of the insurrection at the us capitol, where supporters of former president donald trump attempted to stop congress from certifying biden s 2020 election victory and president biden is expected to refer to it prominently. last night republican presidential hopefuls nikki haley and ron desantis went head to head in a debate on cnn. this was seen as one of the final chances for the two candidates to make an impression in a race which has been dominated by one man.
and that man is of course donald trump he s leading the polls for the republican presidential nomination by a massive margin. in just under two hours time he s expected to give a campaign speech in iowa. let s go live to washington and speak to our reporter will vernon. hello, well, thank you forjoining us. let s talk about the speech by presidentjoe biden. everything about it is symbolic, including the timing and location. timing and location. that s right, this is joe biden s timing and location. that s right, this is joe biden s first timing and location. that s right, this is joe biden s first campaign | this isjoe biden s first campaign speech of 2024, and i think he would use it to try and refocus his campaign. last year, the messaging, the narrative out of the biden campaign was very much about bidenomics, the economic achievements under this administration. but that hasn t been