2024. this is the party of trump and whether democrats understand what they are up against remains to be seen. with me to discuss eugene daniels and megan malloy, founder, and ben collins. eugene, trump just beat florida governor ron desantis 70% to 21%. desantis would hold a comfortable lead over the others if trump did not run. vanity fair says trump and desantis appear to be on a collision course as desantis explores a run of his own. cpac did a second straw poll that shows results if trump did not run. you mean, just talk to me about those dynamics, the fact that they feel they need to do two different polls. well, it shows at once they re not exactly sure what donald trump is going to do. they have no clue. he is giving them no indication, therefore kind of like the democrats in 2016 when it was like will she or won t she with hillary clinton, the will he or won t he with donald trump is making it really hard for republicans to do much of anything. it makes it so ron
cpac s straw poll one with trump, one without. trump is clearly their man. he won by 70%, up from 55% in the same poll in february. lingering over that straw poll, a report by vanity fair says republicans are preparing for a showdown, between trump and ron desantis, who is reporting to be considering a bid for the presidency in 2024. this is the party of trump, whether almosts in washington understand what they are up against remains to be seen. joining me, eugene daniels, he is also an msnbc political contributor. meghan millmilloy. and benecolens, nbc news senior reporter. eugene, trump just beat ron desantis, in a straw poll. desantis has comfortable lead over the others. vanity fair says trump and desantis appear to be on a collision course, as desantis explores a run of his own. the cpac did a second straw poll if trump did not run. talk about those dynamics, the fact they feel they need to do two different polls. it shows they re not exactly sure what donald trump
has already started too. stop the steal! stop the steal! this is it s a problem when you re arguing against yourself. so the vote wasn t safe when joe biden won this state, but now that they have got a couple of senate races everything is going to be okay. willie, that argument is so crazy on all points and then in the middle of it when he s trying to say, oh, your vote s secure after we have had crazy people running around this state spreading conspiracy theories for the month, in the background the chants start, stop the steal. stop the steal as the vice president of the united states listens to the chant. it s amazing. they have been saying for six weeks now that the deceased hugo chavez is tampering with voting machines and changing election results and that s what they think about elections in the state of georgia, which by the way, the vote has been counted three times. the republican governor, the republican secretary of state in that state has said, yes, every
djokovic as the tennis star waits to see if he ll be allowed to defend his grand slam title. a live report from sydney with the latest. and we re live at the cnn weather center where millions across the u.s. are under another winter weather advisory. we begin in the u.s. where the rampant spread of the omicron variant is hurting health care and education. a record number of young children are in hospitals, infected with the coronavirus. and the numbers you see there represent the number of kids under the age of 5 per 100,000 who are hospitalized. and with medical workers scrambling to deal with new admissions of all ages, the omicron variant is disrupting the delivery of routine health care. meanwhile, while the surge in u.s. covid cases has left school officials facing staffing shortages and dealing with concerns about whether in-person learning is safe. cnn s nadia romero looks at how cities and states are reacting from coast to coast. well, here in the state of georg
let me just conclude by saying that either we are going to come together as americans, which i hope and pray we do, to defend our democracy, and look back on january 6th as a painful low point in our nations history. or we can turn over power to a mob that is willing to do anything and say anything to dismantle our democracy and destroy this grand experiment called america. the january 6th insurrection tried to overthrow our capital, and their sidekicks in suits and ties are trying to overthrow our elections. just as we shored up our security here to protect the people s house, we need to upgrade our election laws to protect people s freedom to vote. today is a day to remember, to be grateful, for all of those who risked and lost their lives to protect us. to be grateful for all of those who stood up for our democracy, and continue to stand up every single day. today is a day to be grateful that we live in this great democracy called america, and it is a day to recommit our