take a listen. all republican governors should immediately go for paper ballots, one day voting and voter i.d. until that day comes, republicans must compete using every lawful means to win. that means swamping the left with early votes, mail-in votes and election day votes. for donald trump among a great share of republican voters there s adoration. for donald trump, it is a matter of making the case that he would be able to win in a general election and what you heard from him there, was essentially endorsing mail-in and early voting which not only largely cost him in his 2020 presidential election but numerous republican candidates for governor and for the u.s. senate and u.s. house last year, andrea. yeah. and ashley parker, so while donald trump was at cpac, we saw governor desantis not yet a declared candidate, but giving a
new orleans. he is polling or among the top contenders, seen as that. he has been endorsed by the chicago police union, the fraternal order of police that hosted ron desantis last week. and some critics, including lightfoot, have jumped on that, saying that even an association with a group that s hosting desantis shows that he s not the democrat he says he is. but we ve also got brandon johnson, a cook county commissioner, endorsed by the teacher s union. jesus chuy garcia, who got to the runoff with rahm emanuel before losing, and is now a u.s. congressman. and now, moving forward, because of the number of candidates, no person is expected to get the 50% threshold needed to become mayor tonight, essentially. and so what that means is the top two candidates will go to a runoff. but critically, i talked about those mail-in ballots, we ve still got 100,000 ballots, mail-in, who were requested, but haven t been returned. and because we re now at election day, those ballots can t been coun