languishes on capitol hill and americans struggle with sky high gas prices. we are all paying the price. i m sandra smith in new york. great to be back with you. john: john roberts in r washington. the president will speak in massachusetts, stop short of declaring a climate emergency. biden facing pressure from the far left to get something done after senator joe manchin shut down his plan in congress. sandra: and a drain on wallets every time they fuel up and gas prices in massachusetts have more than doubled since the summer before biden took office. rick scott will join us in moments. john: jacqui, why did the president not use the trip to declare a national climate emergency? jacqui: we don t know. speculation maybe it s tough timing to roll out the announcement on the trip to the middle east, and concerns about gas prices, state of the economy, recession fears. even some talk and speculation maybe they are holding off with some shred of a hope to get senator joe
john: bring in karl rove, fox news contributor and former white house deputy chief of staff. what are you picking up across the country, karl, do voters believe the democratic party is out of sync with what they think is important? well, this is not happening today, it started some time ago. we saw in the 2020 election southern florida, miami-dade, palm beach, broward counties, a lot of hispanic voters, a lot from central and south america, and a lot of cuba-americans moved pretty precipitously in the republican direction. same thing in south texas. 1920 last voted for a republican president, and we saw throughout south texas. so, this is a thing that s been in process for a while. take a look at this, this will blowdown mind. new york times siena poll just out, generic ballot for the 2022