good evening, everyone. i am ayman mohyeldin. is seven pm here on the east coast, which means the polls are now officially close. tonight s primary contests, marking the first official primary for democrats and in the first time that president joe biden s name appeared on a ballot this election season. now, alongside him on the ballot, democratic rivals, congressman dean phillips and marianne williamson. steve kornacki is live for us from washington prepared to break down the results for us. any moment now, as soon as we get them. however, to be clear, the nights outcome is all but decided. biden stands as the overwhelming favorite tonight in the state. and what we really want to watch out for you tonight is how many delegates he leaves south carolina with. a total of 55 will be awarded proportionally based on tonight s outcome. a candidate needs a total of nearly 2000 delegates to capture the democratic nomination. meanwhile, breaking news overseas tonight. the u.s. and uk l
time. it is and it s really hot the left is telling us because of climate change the rest of us are saying it s because it is july. look at the counter younger answer as to why top. i wish i was going to the beach and a drink in hand if you are doing that down in florida or anywhere, kudos to you it s a great way to spend a july saturday. you actually could do that will be done at 10:00 p.m. there s a bradley beach isn t that in new york? long beach, nature new york. long beach, new jersey. i think a psychotic i m not going to but i could. are welcome. happy to hear it s always fun. five we talk this hour who left a bag of coke and the white house. the press secretary seems fed up with the questions already. alexandria hoff joins us from washington with the very latest, alex good morning. good morning carla, well, pete. question to shut down for that the family had cocaine in their possession at any time was to enter this definitively such as no. we make sure to check
his mountain of legal troubles. new reporting from the new york times revealed the ex president has spent a staggering $50 million of donor money on his legal bills and he has a lot of legal bills to pay. he faces 91 felony counts in four cases. a lawsuit that threatens to take down his family business. not to mention the millions he owes e. jean carroll after losing two lawsuits. from that new york times reporting, quote, mr. trump has used funds in his political action committee known as save america to underwrite his legal bills. the account was originally flooded with donations that were collected during the period immediately after the 2020 election. he was making widespread and false claim of voter fraud. with save america s coffers nearly drained last year, mr. trump sought to refill them through a highly unusual transaction. he asked for a refund of $60 million that he had initially transferred to a different group. a pro trump superpac to support his 2024 campaig
what could only be described as a wild day for the 2024 presidential campaign. what was once a pretty crowded republican field, only a couple of months ago, is now down to a two-person race. as of today. after florida governor ron desantis dropped out and endorsed donald trump, immediately, basically, just hours ago. now this was a rocky road for desantis from the very beginning, i think it was fair to say. because remember back in the spring when he kicked off his campaign with a glitchy twitter live stream, we all kind of remember that, it turns out things never went up from. there i know it may be hard to picture, especially tonight, before he entered the race, desantis was thought about as the next great hope of the republican party. he was the big story of the 2022 election on the republican side. and he was thought of as donald trump s biggest threat. but from messaging mistakes to money issues, his campaign quickly, and i mean, quite quickly fell apart. he was a bit of
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