with two more hopefuls officially launching their bids. the florida governor ron desantis and senator tim scott. mr scott has represented south carolina in the chamber since 2013, promising to revive america s culture of greatness. at a launch event in his hometown of north charleston on monday, mr scott used his personal story as an embodiment of the american dream. this was shortly followed by ron desantis long expected entry into the race and, while he trails donald trump in the polls, he is widely seen as his main rival. but his launch made headlines for other reasons. he chose to announce on a twitter livestream, which was hit by technical glitches. let s listen to how they both announced their candidacy. iam running i am running for president of the united states to lead our great american conduct. look, we know our country is going on the wrong direction. we see it with our eyes, and we feel it in our bones. our southern border has collapsed. drugs are pouring into
There are people like that. He has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people. Now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive, hateful, mean spirited rhetoric. Some of those are irredeemable. There are the others that feel the government has let them down. The economy has left them down. Nobody cares about them. Nobody worries about what happens to that you are lives and futures and they are just desperate for change. They dont buy everything he says but he seems to hold out some hope that theyre lives will be different. That they wont wake up and see their jobs disappear. Lose a kid to heroin, feel like theyre in a dead end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well. Clinton is now apologizing for part of what she said last night. Let me read you part. She said last night i was grossly generalistic, thats never a good idea. I regret saying half. He said its deplorable that trump has built his campaign
to invade ukraine. you hear from these traditional republican voters that they felt safe under trump, they felt safe under trump, they felt that trump was keeping our enemies and defeat. that is the one thing that i continued to here to this day since 2016, that people support trump. it is true that the maga faction is true that the maga faction is waning and has gotten much smaller as a faction. we had the empirical evidence these past midterms that they are not the demographic that have this power in the it is the after trump s, people that voted for him at 20 feet 2016 and pinch their nose and did it again at 2020 or didn t. these people are willing to take the risk on a state executive like dissenters looked really strong during the covert shutdowns. he was really seem to lead followed covid shutdowns. lead florida. it is going to be economy, looking strong in the economy, looking strong in the economy, looking strong in the economy, looking like you are standing up in th