or loathe the price, it s a big deal. it sets the tone in washington for two years with direct payments going to about 90% of households and money for the unemployed and those who have children and can t pay rent or bills. this is the most kcons consequential legislation many of us will ever be a party to. what knows what the future will bring but nonetheless on this day we celebrate. now, whether it s a success may depend on what happens next. though, a massive messaging blitz and sales pitch is underway. tomorrow president biden holds the first prime time address and next tuesday stops in the home state of pennsylvania which he narrowly won last year and republicans today rolling out their counter arguments, as well. we re doing damage to the future of this country spending dramatically more money than we obviously need. we re about to have a boom, and if we do have a boom, it will have nothing to do with this $1.9 trillion. not a single republican lawmaker voted fo
his guilty verdict. a jury is caseated for the federal trial of president biden son hunter. bankrolling election deniers. the companies backing lawmakers who push the big lie is the 11th hour gets underway on thist monday night. good evening once again. i am stephanie ruhle. we are now 155 days away from the election. americans have had a few days wa to face the reality that one of the two major candidates is now a convicted criminal. 50% of all americans think the verdict in donald trump s trial was correct compared to 27% to think it was wrong. that s according to a new abc news ipsos poll. 49% think he should end his campaign now. when you look at independence, the percent of people who believe the verdict is correct was up to 52%. meanwhile, donald trump, no surprise, continues leading the republican party in a revolt against conviction while attacking the entire justice system. donald trump himself is openly asking the supreme court to intervene by annulling the gu
our latest polls on the republican race, they are just coming out this minute andy sho stunning change in fortune for two of the republican hopefuls. mitt romney still plead leads in iowa with 21%. ron paul is right behind at 22%. but look at this. rick santorum has jumped into third place with 16%. tripling his shows just three weeks ago. meantime, newt gingrich has fallen off a cliff. at least it seems like it now. he s at only 14% down from 33% in our last poll. rick perry is at 11%. michele bachmann, still in single digits, followed by jon huntsm huntsman, who has written off campaigning here in iowa. there s less drama in romney s backyard of new hampshire. he s at 44% there, followed by paul at 17%, gingrich at 16%. the rest of the poll in single digits. joining us now from des moines, candy crowley. candy, i guess the headline here is not necessarily that mitt romney is number one in iowa, although he is even though he really hasn t spent a lot of time here. but all of