news contributor. marc, walk us up to tonight, what should the announcement look like to get the most attention for him and his campaign. i think the way we need to look at this, there are two gop primaries. there is the gop primary for the nomination to challenge joe biden and then there s the gop primary to challenge donald trump and right now desantis is receipting that gop primary, and they have to fight it out, one person has to emerge to challenge trump or else it s like 2016 all over again when he presided, one with the plurality, never reaching above 50% until the new york primary. desantis is leading in the primary and a reason for that. after the 2022 midterms, republicans were told essentially you have to choose between two different types of republican candidates. forward looking, reform-minded governors who deliver results for their people and appeal to swing voters and the populus who appeal to the maga base and maybe they don t have to choose.
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the judicial reforms, it seems that prime minister netanyahu and his critics agree on some key things but not others. how do you assess the situation? we are glad they are talking. the president was encouraged by the efforts by the president to come up with alternatives. we are going to let israeli leaders speak to the details of that. this is for them to work out. one of the messages president biden had when he spoke to the prime minister, it s important for the efforts to be fully explored and compromises to be made. beauty of democracy is, in fact, compromise, and the strength of both our democracies, we believe in checks and balances and also in a consensus among the populus that, to make these changes, whatever changes they are, to make them sustainable. all that has to be factored in. just a couple follow-ups here.
what do you make of this growing divide and rift within the republican party over the future of aid for ukraine? so interesting. first of all, it is a reflection of what i was saying a moment ago, that desantis steems to hae made a calculation, he will get to his populus right on any issue where he can help it. it was surprising to a lot ofci enthusiastic about them that he moved so far in the trump direction, skepticism toward aid of ukraine, not only for the specifics but as a signal of this broader dynamic that trump may be exerting a magnetic pull on him in a way that weakens him as a candidate. but this is where the ukraine fight is going to be fought out initially. you might see it with the senate republicans being for supportive and the house republicans being more skeptical.