these big crowds are a strong show of support as the president kicks off his campaign in a critical swing state. he won this state. he won florida by a small percentage back in 2016. heading into 2020, the latest polls just out from quinnipiac university has him trailing behind many of his democratic rivals. so he s likely going to hit some or all of those rivals very hard tonight. he will be talking about the good economy and immigration. so neil, it s interesting. he s catapulted his campaign in 2016 at that kickoff rally by talking about immigration. here we go. four years later and once again, the dominant issue that he s will likely talk about tonight is immigration, neil. neil: kristin, thanks very much. kristin fisher in florida. his dispatched jeb bush and marco rubio.
acting secretary will become a category. if it s tuesday, welcome to meet the press daily. i m chuck todd here in new york city, in just a few hours, in florida, florida, florida, president trump will formally kick off his re-election campaign in one of the weakest political positions we ve seen an incumbent president in modern history. therese by conventional metrics. the public numbers look ominous. the internal numbers look ominous. there s already been a shake up in the campaign team. and the president s actions look desperate, from inviting foreign powers to help his campaign to threatening to round up millions of undocumented immigrants on the eve of his kickoff rally. here s what he said about that deportation threat just moments ago while speaking with reporters as he departed the white house for orlando. immigration officials say they don t know anything about a planned roundup of millions of people next week. well, they know. they know. they r and they re going to start
his favorite network, a poll that shows him trailing five democrats at this point. yes, it s early and these polls are perhaps more an indication of name recognition and so forth. one reason they re important is because the president considers them important because he focuses on this type of information. he looks at this stuff, consumes all this stuff. that s one reason why, based on what these polls are saying, you can almost predict how the president is going to react. he s going to go after joe biden. he continues to, as one example of what we re going to see from the president in the coming days. that kickoff rally is in the key state of florida in orlando. thanks to ron allen. we want to bring in the panel. joining me daniella gibbs, senior vice president for communications at the center for american progress, rena shaw republican strategist along with curtis lee, national correspondent at the los angeles times, all-star panel. thank you for being here.
there, the president plans to have his kickoff rally for his 2020 re-election campaign with the slogan keep america great. boots on the ground in key regions, major backing this time from the rnc. how do you expect this campaign strategy to work out? it s definitely different than it was four years ago when he launched his campaign. i don t think there s any real science or polling behind the strategy. they re going to go at it like they did last time which is shoot from the hip. that s what works for this president. they re relying on that. when i say they, i mean the republicans. they like about this president that he s still in office, push through the noise that republicans believe the democrats push at him constantly. all this talk of impeachment really helps republicans. we talked about this on this network time and time again. one thing for sure, this really
crime bill which critics say led to mass incarceration that disproportionately effected minorities. the president said he agreed with north korean leader kim jong-un s branding of biden as a, quote, fool of low iq. biden s deputy campaign manager released this statement before trump returned to washington. the president s comments are beneath the dignity of the office. to be on foreign soil on memorial day and side repeatedly with a murderous dictator against a fellow american is part of a pattern of embracing autocrats at the expense of our institutions, weather taking putin s word at face value in helsinki or exchanging love lurs with kim jong-un. biden prepares to make one of his first campaign appearances since a kickoff rally ten days ago. the former vice president will have a town hall meeting with teachers in houston where he is expected to outline a plan for