target is in the spotlight now. register every voter that comes into target. register them. if you re in a state with a strict voter id law, figure out how to get that voter id. they have enormous footprints. rather than putting money into little states which is what these places are becoming, put the money into all the ways that help every day citizens, your employees, your customers, be lifted in our democracy. there are so many people purged. that will help get them back on the rolls. target, this he can play an enormous role. and that way they re not getting into this back and forth of who they re giving to. they re doing a much broader purpose of lifting democracy. the book goes through so many specifics of how individual nonprofits and individuals and companies large and small can be playing a huge role in lifting democracy. and the importance of local media, by the way, helping that to build up these we have to go. top of the hour. but to building up and coveri
the left hand on the bible and the right hand in the air as the 47th president of the united states. no excuses, we have to get this done. todd: detailed image of ron desantis. you re watching fox and friends first, i m todd piro. ashley: i m ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. todd: doug luzader live in washington with more. doug: this was supposed to be an innovative campaign launch on the twitter space platform, but it quickly went south. the platform got overwhelmed before it got underway. i m pleased to introduce two individuals who have done more sorry about that, we ve got so many people here that i think we are kind of melting the servers, which is a good sign. let s see, are we on? i think so. doug: okay, elon musk having to vamp there, as well. desantis tried to make light of the situation and turned focus back to his campaign on fox news last night. we know the country is on the wrong track and we have a listless vessel, not energetic and no
numbers soaring and think the race is over. how about the year 2000. fighting for the nomination texas governor george w. bush. out of nowhere maverick senator john mccain. people were surprised when the bush coronation turned into a cage match. if you don t take care of social security, my friend, that s all hat and no cattle. that s cute. they are always cutest when they are true. it s not true. brian: bush would get the nomination and face al gore. it was not a tough battle. bradley would not win a primary. so much for the so-called experts. who could forget 2004. howard dean led john edwards, richard gephardt and john kerry in the polls. people would love howard dean but he finished almost as fast as he rose with the dean scream in california. we are going back to washington, d.c. to take back the white house. brian: former new york mayor rudy giuliani was leading in those polls. governor mike huckabee stole into prominence from behind. remember tv start fred thom
a superstar for the ages, and we reflect in a moment on one of the biggest voices and losses in music history. but first, we begin tonight with the breaking development in the 2024 presidential race. the man who is viewed by many pundits as the biggest threat to donald trump to the republican nomination. he just made it official in a post on trump s old turf, twitter. righting the ship requires restoring sanity to our society. truth must be our foundation. and commons s can no longer be an uncommon virtue. we need the courage to lead and the strength to win. i am ron desantis, and i m running for president to lead our great american come back. but ron desantis s big announcement tonight went a little bit south from there. a very rocky start to his formal bid, with major glitches plaguing his planned conversation with twitter spaces ceo elon musk, an audio form that had some major technical difficulties, and the moderator blamed heavy traffic. the florida governor s campai
i m christine romans. cnn this morning starts right now. good morning, everyone. it is wednesday. kaitlan is back. that makes me very happy. we re back. and so much going on today. and what s going to come. let s hope a deal. yeah. let s get started. i do sense a skeptic? i believe it. let s get to the five things we need to know for this wednesday, may 24th. ron desantis set to announce his 2024 white house run today. there is nothing conventional about this. he s going to make the announcement on twitter with elon musk. the once favored platform for his rival donald trump before he got banned. and speaking of the former president, he now has a court date in the stormy daniels hush money probe here in new york. he ll stand trial in march of 2024, right in the middle of the campaign for the auto term. and a super typhoon is lashing the american territory of guam right now. it is expected to bring a triple threat of heavy rains, hurricane-force winds and life