at the university of arkansas. victoria is an msnbc analyst and axios political reporter alexi mccannon. talk about the significance of this event today. yeah, i mean, in some respects it represents a mail stone for the republican party. of course they ve never nominated or elected a black president before, and senator scott is reflective of a growing small momentum of black men not only running for office as republicans but winning their races and then finding spaces where they can try to ascend to even the presidency. now, of course he s been registering at like 3% in the polls up until now, but he s not an unserious candidate, and what s interesting to me is in some of his town halls in new hampshire recently, he kind of jokes with the audience and says things like, oh, you know, let me let you all in on a secret, i m black. he s already leaning into his race, and i think that s
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indoctrination. they spent covid locking kids out of the classroom, and now they re locking kids out of their futures. in biden s america, crime is on the rise and law enforcement is in retreat. the far left is ending cash bails, they re demonizing, demoralizing and defunding the police. i grew up in neighborhoods alongside people who ended up incarcerated or in the seminary cemetery, not seminary, seminary too but cemetery as well. we needed more public safety, not less. we cannot have innocent people at risk, police officers getting ambushed and attacked and seniors locked in their homes from the time the sun goes down until the sun comes up. joe biden and the radical left are attacking every single rung of the ladder that helped me
joe biden and the radical left are attacking every single rung of the ladder that helped me climb, and that is why i am announcing today that i am running for president of the united states of america! [cheers and applause] thank you. thank you. you see, they are attacking our american values our schools,
with what could be a critical day for efforts to raise the nation s debt limit and avoid a potential economic catastrophe. president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy will hold a one on one meeting at the white house at 5:30 eastern this afternoon, one day after mccarthy said the two leaders had a productive phone call as the president flew home from the g-7 summit in japan. this morning the white house negotiating team arrived at the capital to meet with their house republican counterparts. there are just a couple of days left until the june 1st deadline to prevent the u.s. from defaulting on its debt. a key house republican sounding upbeat about where things appear to be heading. i think the conversation the president and the speaker had yesterday was productive. it got us back in the room together. we have a sort of updated sense of our realities. we know the deadline. both sides are working in good faith, but we ve got tough issues. we ve got tough issues we have to deal wit