it is sunday, july 9th. i am ali velshi. the field of republican presidential candidates is growing. a date has when lockdown for the first republican primaries and caucuses. yesterday, the republican party of iowa announced that it will hold its first in the nation caucus on january 15th of 2024. momentum will pick up next month when the party holds its first primary debate in milwaukee, august 23rd. there is going to be a problem for the country to receive most or some of the candidates together. at least one dozen republicans should be competing in 2024 but only five of them declared candidates have met the requirements to qualify for the first debate. ron desantis, nikki haley, revak wamah swami, tim scott, and donald trump, the undisputed front runner in the race right now. it s difficult to overstate how unusual this race is turning out to be. the republican party has been impeached twice already. he s running for that position again. he is leading the pack. he has been
public schools in a pre k through eight great. a new measure that expands this bill was just passed by the republican state legislature last may. it restricts the way teachers and students can use their own preferred pronouns in school. we are about a half step away from the thought police at this point. ron desantis wants to expand it from florida to the rest of the country as he runs for president. his agenda and tactics are not original. long before rhonda scent has declared his war on wokeness, back in the 1950s and 1960s, a group of florida lawmakers battled with the end w acp and got these lawmakers, like desantis, disrupted life for countless floridians and hurt their own careers because they were so caught up in the cause. i happen to know all of this because my msnbc colleagues rachel maddow and isaac davy harrison have launched a new podcast called déjà news that reminds us of the forgotten