nikki haley or ron desantis? then an issue affecting many of you watching right now, to bundle or not to bundle? what does the future of streaming look like? and take out your funny hats and glasses we re giving the yea or nay to the biggest new years tradition. the panel is here and raring to go. so sit back, relax and let s talk about it. up first, what is likely to be the story of 2024, the race for president. if you believe the polls, we re looking at a biden/trump rematch. in a world where people say and do pretty much anything and can still get elected, we re left asking, is a surprise still possible? the next few weeks may answer that. in politics, the new year means, after months of candidates talking, voters finally get their say. donald trump is still the clear leader, with nikki haley and ron desantis vying to become the main challenger. voting kicks off in iowa. on monday, january 15th, we re going to win the iowa caucuses. where trump is way ahead in rece
i m christine romans. cnn this morning starts right now. good morning, everyone. it is wednesday. kaitlan is back. that makes me very happy. we re back. and so much going on today. and what s going to come. let s hope a deal. yeah. let s get started. i do sense a skeptic? i believe it. let s get to the five things we need to know for this wednesday, may 24th. ron desantis set to announce his 2024 white house run today. there is nothing conventional about this. he s going to make the announcement on twitter with elon musk. the once favored platform for his rival donald trump before he got banned. and speaking of the former president, he now has a court date in the stormy daniels hush money probe here in new york. he ll stand trial in march of 2024, right in the middle of the campaign for the auto term. and a super typhoon is lashing the american territory of guam right now. it is expected to bring a triple threat of heavy rains, hurricane-force winds and life
and so i should respect the heck out of the other candidates including president trump who was an outstanding president in my opinion. the positive alternative platform is paying off big time for senator tim scott. and ron desantis taking a softer approach sitting down with wife casey as he tries to re-set his campaign. i would describe him as the love of my life, the father of my 6, 5, and 3-year-old and the fighter that we need to turn this country around. it was nice to see both of those two together. gillian, if you are wondering about that no labels party the monmouth poll tested a joe manchin and jon huntman ticket the results not great just 2% of voters would definitely vote for them. 44% definitely not. but i would say they are not going away any time soon. gillian: no. we are about to hear a lot more from them in august during the first presidential debate. looking forward to that.
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political king maker. yeah. the question i heard is the trump aspect of this. obvious obviously, he was banned from twitter. he hasn t returned yet. he has his own platform, truth social. i do think some people in trump s world and the circles yesterday were wondering, does this drive him back? yeah. i don t know. it s a little bit of a mystery why trump has not tweeted on his favorite platform since he was reinstated in november. maybe it s because of the competition and truth social, his alternative platform which may be loosening up this summer. so maybe this will be the day that he surprises us. that could be an issue. it is interesting though. tucker karlsson said he is going to launch a show on twitter. interesting. we ll watch and listen. i think musk is making this a platform to compete with other upstarts like rumble who are starting to take the market in