based on a fox news poll, the field has catching up to do. how is this race shaking up? let s go to julia manchester, kristen hahn and gop pollster lee carter. lee, start with you. governor desantis getting ready for a week where he will go to iowa, new hampshire, south carolina. they sound familiar. how important is it that he makes traction in those states? it s critical. he s message has to get big traction. it didn t last week. he s got a big job ahead of him. he has in many ways to reset his campaign. the last two months, he s been dropping in the polls. his excuse, he s not finally run yet. this is not official. now he has to make the case that he s the right man for the job. he has to focus on the economy, focus on inflation and stop focusing on the woke wars. that s what hurt himself the last two months and this will be chris call for people hearing him in a different way. julia, that underscores the challenge for governor desantis. the woke wars are probably crit
going to end up with a shortfall so that is one of the main reasons and the other is if you look at how the economy works, there is this huge informal economy that has grown up over the years, so people essentially cross the river into china, across the border, sneak out at night and sneak back in with things to buy and sell and they sell these things at local market prices and this is how the majority of north koreans make their money, it s thought that around 80% of north koreans rely on this informal markets trade, so by sealing the border and making it incredibly difficult for people to cross, it s also cut off this unofficial sort of smuggling trade making it very hard for people to get what they need and very hard to make a living, so people operating with much less money than they normally would have, there is much less food in the markets anyway, so therefore that situation has built up to what it is. tell us about your reporting. how did you gain access to these three voices?
of the main reasons and the other is if you look at how the economy works, there is this huge informal economy that has grown up over the years, so people essentially cross the river into china, across the border, sneak out at night and sneak back in with things to buy and sell and they sell these things at local market prices and this is how the majority of north koreans make their money, it s thought that around 80% of north koreans rely on this informal markets trade, so by sealing the border and making it incredibly difficult for people to christ, it s also cut off this unofficial sort of smuggling trade making it very hard for people to get what they need and very hard to make a living, so people operating with much less money than they normally would have, there is much less food in the markets anyway, so therefore that situation has built up to what it is. tell us about your built up to what it is. tell us about your reporting. - built up to what it is. tell us about your repo
the situation is 0k and certainly people we have spoken to have said this probably is more serious than we realised and the food situation probably is the worst now than it has been since the famine since the late 1990s which killed so many people and is widely regarded as the most tragic time in north korea history. what has made this situation so severe right now? enclosing the border, kim jong un not only stop people from going into the country, he quite staggeringly stopped trade and freight trains crossing the border, and that meant for a very long time vital supplies of food and medicine cannot cross into the country in north korea is a country that can t provide enough food for all of its people, so if you stock any food from entering you are automatically
korea but the fact that we went and spoke to three people and two of them were able to say to us that their neighbours had started out, i think shows you how serious the situation is and certainly people we have spoken to have said this probably is more serious than we realised and the food situation probably is the worst now than it has been since the famine since the late 1990s which killed so many people and is widely regarded as the most tragic time in north korea history. tragic time in north korea histo . ~ . ., , history. what has made this situation so history. what has made this situation so severe - history. what has made this situation so severe right - history. what has made this i situation so severe right now? enclosing the border, kim jong un not only stop people from going into the country, he quite staggeringly stopped trade and freight trains crossing the border, and that meant for a very long time vital supplies of food and medicine cannot cross into the country in