vision we have brand new reporting on what president biden s campaign launch could look like and who will lead his team with his re-election announcement expected to come as early as tomorrow this as a new nbc news poll shows a vast majority of republican primary voters stand firmly behind former president trump despite the criminal charges and the looming legal challenges he faces. are we headed for a rematch? steve kornacki is here to break down all the um numbers for us the race to evacuate is under way in sudan american forces rescuing personnel from a u.s. embassy in a nighttime mission, as fighting the africa s third largest country enters a second week we have more on the incredible mission to get them to safety. what about the 16,000 americans still on the ground there in sudan? an american travel writer stuck in the capital describes chaos in the country the city is so tense right now. a lot of people are fleeing left and right. i can see the cars outside i m just
this week on speaker kevin mccarthy s plan to raise the debt ceiling also ahead, the state department pulls u.s. personnel out of the embassy in sudan amid fierce fighting in the country we ll have the latest on the deadly conflict and what s next for thousands of americans who are still over there plus, we ll dig into new reporting on a possible spring counteroffensive from ukraine. looks like the russians are actually retreating or starting to evacuate people from areas around kherson, which suggests a retreat is coming up for the russians. ukraine, again, is trying to regain land controlled by russian forces, and that will ultimately, in the end, whenever that is, it s going to involve some very, very deep negotiations as it pertains to land they took. yeah. now opposed to crimea. good morning welcome to morning joe. it is monday, april 24th there s our good morning. good morning. happy monday with us, the host of way too early, bureau chief at q poli
compare that to just a couple months ago, this is a tick below where he started the year. he was 45/50 at the start of the year now 41/54. one thing driving this is you ask about approve/disapprove on the economy. biden continues to have a 38% job approval on the question we did the take the temperature of the republicans nationally. you see trump leading here you see desantis, the only one of the over at this moment potential of announced opponents of trump getting any traction here, desantis running 15 points behind trump everybody else, including mike pence, running back in single digits i think one notable thing we found in this poll is we asked republican leaning ing voters
political analyst. great to have all of you here. i want to get right to steve with first the outlook for president biden here obviously it s really early, steve, he s caught some headwinds. there are some troubling numbers here if you re joe biden and the democrats. of course, the silver lining would be there were troubling numbers last year heading into the midterm. they may need to pull off something similar in 2024. the bottom line, biden is poised to announce his re-election bid, job approval, just 41% approve of the job he s doing as president. a majority, 54% say they disapprove the trend, not favorable here either at the start of the year in january it was 45/50 he s further under water now than he was several months ago specifically you talk about the issue of the economy this one has been a drag on biden s numbers basically from the get-go you can see less than 40% continue to approve of how he s
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