but a lot of republicans are wanting to see if he is a strong enough candidate. but at the same time the race is now under way. it s not at the end or in the middle, it s just under way so a lot of voters will take their time to size up these candidates and see sort of who in the never trump lane looks good, but that lane is getting pretty crowded, which helps the trump lane. and iowa is getting crowded too if you put that map up on our screen. you see the number of candidates that will be in iowa. just this week alone. desantis has his kickoff rally in des moines. there s a trump event on thursday in iowa. joni ernst is hosting several of potential candidates like mike pence, tim scott, nikki haley, asa hutchinson all in iowa. i want you to listen to how ron desantis is trying to separate himself, saying that he is a winner not just one term, but
kickoff rally in his hometown in florida. that s apparently being scuttled. when will we see him on the road interacting with voters? that s the great question. as the previous reporter touched on briefly, the knock on desantis has been, how is he doing in retail campaign politics? he s done a couple trips to iowa and new hampshire. there are voters who say he is great, it works out. others say he seems wooden. some of his delivery is not great. retail campaigning is the bread and butter of the primary in the early states, and that s what we re looking forward to. remember, you can t just run for an election by appearing on youtube channels or twitter with elon musk. you have to go to the states and shake hands. that s something in the fix for desantis coming up. debt ceiling now. axios has reporting on why congressional democrats are not only dreading a possible default, of course, but apprehensive about a possible deal with republicans. tell us why. yeah. as negotiations ha
because we chose patriotism over pity and to be victors, not victims. peter: for governor desantis, there will not be a big kickoff rally on campaign launch day. instead most people will consume news of his announcement on their phones. back to you. steve: all right, peter, it is your mother s birthday, wish her happy birthday. peter: happy birthday mom. steve: like that, cheaper than a card. ainsley: let s bring in kayleigh mcenany. what is your reaction to this? two new people probably getting in the race. kayleigh: i talked to a senior official on the desantis campaign and laid out what we can expect to hear tonight and going forward. apparently the case is truth is under assault, decline is a choice and success is attainable.
president, or vice president? that is a really good question. i mean look, her chances, i think she has a difficult road in the republican primary. she is a candidate who i think is probably going to appeal mostly to college educated republicans, the half of the party that is college educated a supposed to the half that is not college educated. that could be a crowded lane. many of the candidates who are looking at the race, glenn youngkin, larry hogan, governor of new hampshire, mike pompeo, many of them would have more appeal on that side of the ledger, and of course if you look back at 2016, donald trump won the nomination by nominating among the non-college half of the party, and he was pretty significant resistance all the way through among the college educated republicans. haley held her presidential campaign kickoff rally in her home state of south carolina wednesday, we saw the pictures there as you were speaking to us, what did she say that would
to the united nations holds a kickoff rally in charleston, then two other key early voting states, iowa and new hampshire, later this week. joining now to share reporting and incites, dana bash, jeremy diamond, and tia mitchell. so donald trump has his first declared opponent. he was the only, until today, the only declared candidate for president. the question is, we roll back the tape pre-trump, you can make the case for okay, here s nikki haley. she s interesting, a governor of south carolina. in the post trump republican party, what s the lane? i was actually in south carolina pre-trump when then governor nikki haley endorsed marco rubio and she stood on the stage with marco rubio and tim scott and said this is what the new republican party should look like. that was before she became donald trump s u.n. ambassador and kind of went back and forth many times when it comes to supporting or not supporting him. that was one of the things that was most fascinating about her video. by