paul: welcome to the journal editorial report. president biden celebrated his 81st birthday as concern grows among democrats that the incumbent president could lose to donald trump in a 2024 rematch. nbc news survey finds biden trailing the former president in a general election matchup for the first time in that poll as his support among younger voters plummet in what could be a warning sign the key group is peeling away amid the israel/hamas war and doubts about his age. the string of bad polling news for the president. karine jean-pierre says the white house is not worried. no alarm happening behind the scenes and i m not going to comment on everybody who has something to say. our perspective is it is not about age. it is about the president s experience which i would put the president s stamina and wisdom and ability to get this done on behalf of the american people against anyone. paul: let s bring in fox news contributor karl rove. the white house press secretary can
who think they might be having a good night. easy, easy. right. easy but but but. a court leaving the ballot open, diane, saying there are lines there in this race that we know is unusually competitive. it means you keep watching it. now let s come back to where we are as we wait. we still have no votes in in mississippi. we do here for another one. again, in this tough national climate for democrats, you have an incumbent democratic governor in a very red state, 56% of the vote in now. right. i told you earlier, watch down here. and a lot of them are starting to slowly fill in. right. these are the conservative counties. but daniel cameron getting only 51% of the vote there. let s just go back in time to 2019. andy beshear getting 46. so the incumbent did a little better. but here s what you look at here. go back to the presidential race. donald trump getting 74% here. and so the margins, the margins are not going daniel cameron s way. if you know that in the urban areas tha
biden can be a better cheerleader for himself? i think that s one of his challenges. the white house is not necessarily upset to see the chaos on the republican side. they like the contrast between watching president biden govern and watching former president trump deal with his troubles and dealing with the chaos within the republican party. and what is in that primary. all of that said, our whole segment has been about his polling. his polling is not as strong as it needs to be if you want to assume a reelection victory. he is god s work cut out for him. i suspect if you had the two hands that are being dealt for president trump versus president biden, president biden was sam amhappy with the cards and got. arthel: speaking of those two hands, if the choice for president come november 5, 2024
20 minutes because it was not working. so that is probably something that gave him a fair amount of heartburn. that is not how they wanted this rollout to begin. i think that for those of us who hyper and wise this stuff and live, eat, breathe politics will be talking about it and there will be jokes and memes about it. what happens is what happens for the first 48 hours and the first couple weeks to see if desantis can start to on the ground eat into some of those leads for president, especially in the early states. trace: you heard karoline leavitt say blood in the water. there s seven candidates now in this race and they are going after desantis. i m going after tim scott. says, he punches back. but he is going after desantis. there s clearly a little bit of concern there about that. reporter: i mean, a look, donald trump has been attacking ron desantis since before desantis won by 20 points. his reelection victory in florida. he coined the sanctimonious
new hampshire state representative jason osborne joins us now. you jumped on the desantis endorsement train. tell us why. republicans are looking to reverse this trend of losing we ve been doing the last couple cycles. we need a proven leader like governor ron desantis to lead the charge at the top of the ticket. this guy is able to secure reelection victory by historic margin in the state of florida and bringing along super majority legislator along with him, someone from purple state like new hampshire, this is attractive proposition to someone like me. ashley: this is month after former president trump said, our support is universal in florida and throughout the usa, why desantis over former president trump? i just think that is not true. one of my jobs as majority leader is to help republicans get along and work well