was not on my bingo card. thank you for that excellent reporting. here to share their reporting is phil mattingly. and leann caldwell of the washington post. as wdiussed this, let s just put up on the screen the latest cnn polling is. on the democratic field, first the president is at 64%. look in the middle. rfk is at 17%. really was hoping you were going to lthat. because of copious research, there needs to be more research. it did not draw the conclusions. the numbers you put up are important. you can t just laugh off or think, wow, that s totally bizarre and kind of crazy, those are tangible numbers.
and run for president. it is one of the questions that not only his team is asking, but his opponents are asking in the republican nomination. kristen, thank you so much for your reporting here, and to share their reporting at the table is cnn s jeff zeleny, sunmin kim of washington post and leann caldwell. jeff, i want to start with you, and i want to say i have had the experience i m guessing all of you had with the inbox infiltrated by the trump campaign s fundraising appeals. i mean, it just came coming last night. when you arrest your political opponent we no longer have a democracy. 400 years in prison. i thought this was from the son, my father has been arraigned at the miami courthouse. i mean, these were just coming nonstop. and they are, that s obviously part of the strategy
lopez, and leann caldwell of the washington post. it s an interesting day. the field will be of ten. we believe these are the the final two entries in the race. you have donald trump as the far away front runner. you have ron desantis who is a distance second. then you have eight candidates trying to breakthrough. the two making it official today, both from the heartland. mike pence of indiana. doug burgum of north dakota. a traditional reagan conservative. they believe in politeness, in conversation, they are very conservative views on abortion, lower taxes, less regular las vegaslation. can that brand sell in dth s republican party when you have trump and desantis to be combative? to be duking it out against each other as well. it s hard to tell. according to current polling, it seems like that brand is no
in alaska, senator lisa murkowski and her trump-backed challenger kelly tshibaka both advanced. and former governor sarah palin will also be on the ballot in november after clinching a spot in the state s ranked choice general election for the state s one at large congressional seat. joining us now to talk about all this, co-author of the washington post s morning newsletter, which is the early 202 as well as being anchor of washington post live, leann caldwell. great to see you again. first let s start and come back to the primary in a second. but let s start with the democrats. the inflation reduction act, as it is known, has now been signed into law and caps off what has been an undeniably successful month or so for biden and his party. now, these are long-time democratic priorities. so on one hand this is simply this is the party getting its agenda done, but of course they also hope that it has provided
id, begich. not with him but he has a long political alaska name as well. and there s two republicans in that race that could split the vote. and then there s a democrat. so potentially a democrat could do very well in alaska if republicans split the vote between begich and palin. i think it s a little too early to tell if there are some lessons to be learned from republicans there. lisa murkowski is her own political animal. sarah palin is a unique figure. then combined with alaska s unique voting system, it s just, you know, going to be really interesting to watch. yeah. i would say for sure. so many states to keep an eye on this november. the washington post leann caldwell. thank you. great to see you as always. still ahead here on way too early, facebook lays out its plans for handling misinformation ahead of those midterms. plus, a troubled summer travel season has airlines adjusting their schedules for fall and winter. we ll be right back with that. a.