Day to election voting. Youre looking at a registered independent who is proud to vote again and again and again because im an american and that is what americans do. Early voting has already started in some states. The election is basically here. It is here. Candidates ask people to vote because that is the whole purpose of a campaign. Win more votes. And that is usually meant motivating people for Election Day which is why we hear so much about voting occurring on a single day. I like the part when you dont go to school on Election Day. The candidates an the voters cast their ballots. 81 Million voted four years ago, the population has grown since then and more than 81 Million ought to vote this time. Polls are open now. By tonight after the polls close, we will know who our 41st president will be. The emphasis there is on Election Day. But that framework is out of date. The most recent president ial election marks a shift that is still sinking in, 2020 was the first race where a maj
carley: voters have spoken and donald trump is winner of the republican iowa caucus by a landslide. former president is 20 delegates closer to clenching the republican nomination and ron desantis edges past nikki haley and vivek ramaswamy suspending his campaign and endorsing trump after finishing fourth. we will put america first and make american great again. iowa, we love you. go buy larger tractors and more land, don t worry about it. this is the first because the big night will be in november when we take back our country and truly we do make our country great again. we have our marching orders. marching orders to do all we can to preserve what george washington called sacred fire of liberty, same fire that burned in philadelphia in 1776 when our founding fathers signed declaration of independence. when you look at how we re doing, in new hampshire, in south carolina, and beyond. [cheering] i can safely say tonight iowa made this republican primary a two-person
interview as a contender. todd: the governor will become the latest candidate to throw his hat in the ring on heels of south carolina senator tim scott. ashley: lucas tomlinson has everything you need to know ahead of tonight. good morning. lucas: good morning. this move has been months in the making, now official, florida governor ron desantis will declare he s a 2024 presidential candidate tonight on twitter. here is elon musk with a preview. we will be interviewing ron desantis and he has quite an announcement to make. and will be for first time something like this is happening on social media and with realtime questions and answers, not scripted. lucas: florida first lady has a video on twitter showing the governor in front of a large american flag backstage with loud applause heard in the distance. they call it fate, in the face of darkness, you see brighter future, faith our best days lay ahead of us. is it worth the fight? do i have the courage? is it worth
buck? buck? bucshon? mccarthy. budzinski? jeffries. burchett? mccarthy. burgess? mccarthy. burlison? mccarthy. bush? jeffries. calvert? mccarthy. caraveo? jeffries. carbajal? jeffries. mccarthy. carl? mccarthy. carson? jeffries. carter of georgia? mccarthy. carter of louisiana? jeffries. carter of texas? mccarthy. casar? jeffries. case? jeffries. casten? jeffries. castor of florida? jeffries. castro of cicilline? jeffries. ciscomani? mccarthy. clark of massachusetts? jeffries. clarke of new mccarthy. comer? mccarthy. connolly? so we are waiting for the vote for michael cloud because potentially if he did decide not to vote for kevin mccarthy, that would have put them over the threshold but now we are waiting for andrew clyde. we have the fifth ballot for speaker and the fifth ballot that seems to be moving in the same direction as the first four? exactly. it was 21 on the last ballot. 21 republicans who did not vote for mccarthy. 20 voted for donalds. one voted present. a
i know that feeling. cats love, they just love differently. we have to go. the lead starts right now. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. a lot to get into ahead. for the very first time in american history, the daughter of a former president of the united states has been forced to testify as a witness in a case against her father, the former president. ivanka trump on the stand. testifying in the civil fraud trial against the trump family business. emails in court today show that ivanka once proposed that her father lower his net worth in order to get a loan. what might that mean for the case? that is coming up. and also ahead, a woman from new jersey who was trapped into gaza. she spent nearly a month trapped there with her three kids. the youngest just 2 months old. we ve been telling her story ins is the tuesday after that horrible october 7th attack by hamas. they arrived back in the u.s. just two days ago. he s back in jersey and giving the lead the first