expected to give the former president his toughest primary challenge of 2024 makes it official. florida s governor ron desantis getting into the race, taking on his fellow floridian, launching in a streaming event with elon musk on twitter. trump used it to pummel the republican field, including marco rubio and jeb bush who he turned into a campaign punching bag. in a moment, randi kaye looks into whether desantis will do better. first, the political waters he is about to jump into. in one way they may appear promising for a republican candidate. the current president s job approval now stands at 40%. new polling out late today shows this. with the debt ceiling crisis coming to a head, that poll shows 34% approve of the way the president is handling the economy. desantis enters a large and growing field. five more are known to be weighing a run, including pence and sununu and chris christie and youngkin. it s the large field that some experts say will favor the former preside
Roundtrip from last weeks big declines. The gains are back, and the stability is back, and the lack of volatility is back in the stock market today, as we see technology outperformed. That is a trend that has been in effect year to date, and we see it back in effect today. Weve seen the reversion to trend for the major averages. In terms of some of the individual stocks we are watching, we want to take a look at what is going on with altria group phillip morris. Bonnie herzog is saying that she thinks there is a deal in the making between two companies. It looks like we have a typo with our second ticker, but we can see that shares are trading up 1. 3 . We are also seeing some of the , some weakness. Amgen, the company saying a study of an experimental osteoporosis medicine did show success amongst 4000 patients in reducing the incidence of bone fractures. However, 2. 5 of the patients who took the drug developed serious cardiovascular side effects. That is why shares are down. ,his wa
Roundtrip from last weeks big declines. The gains are back, and the stability is back, and the lack of volatility is back in the stock market today, as we see technology outperformed. That is a trend that has been in effect year to date, and we see it back in effect today. Weve seen the reversion to trend for the major averages. In terms of some of the individual stocks we are watching, we want to take a look at what is going on with altria group phillip morris. Bonnie herzog is saying that she thinks there is a deal in the making between two companies. It looks like we have a typo with our second ticker, but we can see that shares are trading up 1. 3 . We are also seeing some of the , some weakness. Amgen, the company saying a study of an experimental osteoporosis medicine did show success amongst 4000 patients in reducing the incidence of bone fractures. However, 2. 5 of the patients who took the drug developed serious cardiovascular side effects. That is why shares are down. ,his wa
Roundtrip from last weeks big declines. The gains are back, and the stability is back, and the lack of volatility is back in the stock market today, as we see technology outperformed. That is a trend that has been in effect year to date, and we see it back in effect today. Weve seen the reversion to trend for the major averages. In terms of some of the individual stocks we are watching, we want to take a look at what is going on with altria group phillip morris. Bonnie herzog is saying that she thinks there is a deal in the making between two companies. It looks like we have a typo with our second ticker, but we can see that shares are trading up 1. 3 . We are also seeing some of the , some weakness. Amgen, the company saying a study of an experimental osteoporosis medicine did show success amongst 4000 patients in reducing the incidence of bone fractures. However, 2. 5 of the patients who took the drug developed serious cardiovascular side effects. That is why shares are down. ,his wa
in florida. so far, he sees desantis as more challenging than he did bush. trump is laser focussed on desantis, because he does have desantis has high name recognition, he has been able to raise big money, get good endorsements, had major policy accomplishments. reporter: a florida political analyst says trump does have the advantage of a new angle. taking credit for desantis rise. every day trump reminds whatever audience he is speaking to that he was responsible for desantis election to governor. welcome to florida, mr. president. it s one of the skills that donald trump has is that he is able too find a candidate s weakness and able to exploit it really well. ron s foreign trip was a total bomb. reporter: exploiting desantis weaknesses may be tougher. he doesn t have the family legacy bush had, nor does he come from money. desantis grew up middle class in a suburb of tampa bay.