quickly heating up this week as republican candidates begin firing shots at one another over who is the right person to lead the party against president biden in the 2024 election. but is the gop primary already shaping up to be a two-person race before former president trump and florida governor ron desantis? or is there a dark horse candidate voters should pay closer attention to? we re going to discuss that coming up. speaker mccarthy and i have had several productive conversations. our staffs continue to meet, and they re making progress. it s crunch time. it s not easy. we re going to make sure we re not just trying to get an agreement. we re trying to get something that s worthy of the american people. i thought we made progress yesterday. i thought we d make progress again today. i want to be able to solve this problem. we begin with the debt ceiling negotiators trying to finalize a deal with six days to go before the u.s. government faces a potential default.
the herman cain back at 4%. rick perry is the closest comparison to ron desantis. hugely popular. four-term governor. longest-serving governor in texas history, second longest-serving governor in u.s. history. everybody thought it was going to be president rick perry. then along came the debate, and good-bye went rick perry. desantis looks good right now, but could he be this year s rick perry? that was the moment where rick perry couldn t remember the federal agencies he wanted to get rid of. at this point there s the enthusiasm of ordinary republicans. you mentioned this in passing. president trump declared on november 15th of last year, he s had 136 days between his announcement and the march 31st fundraising report. during those 136 days, he raised $17.8 million. ron desantis on the first day he got into the race raised