languishes on capitol hill and americans struggle with sky high gas prices. we are all paying the price. i m sandra smith in new york. great to be back with you. john: john roberts in r washington. the president will speak in massachusetts, stop short of declaring a climate emergency. biden facing pressure from the far left to get something done after senator joe manchin shut down his plan in congress. sandra: and a drain on wallets every time they fuel up and gas prices in massachusetts have more than doubled since the summer before biden took office. rick scott will join us in moments. john: jacqui, why did the president not use the trip to declare a national climate emergency? jacqui: we don t know. speculation maybe it s tough timing to roll out the announcement on the trip to the middle east, and concerns about gas prices, state of the economy, recession fears. even some talk and speculation maybe they are holding off with some shred of a hope to get senator joe
things happen in special elections that don t necessarily happen in general elections. but she won a dramatic victory. three seats in south texas in which the republicans have latinas running, hispanic women running for office, one is an incumbent, and i would not be surprised if the republicans came out of the election, at least one and all likelihood two out of those three districts and the last time that part of texas was represented by a republican was in 1872. and we are seeing it also with hispanic candidates for the state legislature in south texas. most of the time republicans in the past have not mounted serious challenges. now they are mounting serious challenges throughout south texas, including and in one instance a long time democrat hispanic legislator switched parties and is running for re-election as a republican. so, this is real and it s going to continue as long as the democratic party continues to flow left and republican party keeps an open door to hispanics