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Supporters according to the campaign here cheering him on. so if there is a teleprompter for the president, expect him to say what s on his mind tonight. thank you very much. i want to tell you we re looking at the president s family and adult children are attending this rally. donald trump junior has already spoken. with us for the hour in washington, cnn political director chief political analyst gloria borger and jeffrey toobin and u.s. senator rick santorum and in charlotte, north carolina all by himself, former south carolina democratic state legislator bakari sellers. they are cnn political commentators. as we ve been looking at the stage here, what do you think is the president s main goal besides g besides ginning up the energized base. theat is no doubt goal numbe one but to drive home the messages, promises made and kept and make sure he s telling the story how he delivered on the promise of that spectacular 2016 ....
Democrats. he didn t like that programming. he wants the spotlight back. he ll get it this evening. this is his kick off rally. as you point out, he s been rallying since the day he s got elected and raising money since the day he got elected during the midterm elections, there were a lot of candidating complaining that the president was out raising money for his own reelection. again, we re watching this live as we speak. the president comes up and speaks we will take that. senator santorum, do you ginning up the base is something you need to energize the base pleasing the president that s something also. you want the candidate in a good mood and the campaign wants to do that but persuading more how does the president reach more voters than the ones he already has? he can talk about his record of success and helping americans, people who he said he was going to help. if you look at wages in this country, they have grown now for lower wage workers, ....
And booming and called it perhaps the best economy ever. that message lasted about 30 seconds. yeah, if the test tonight was is donald trump obviously nobody expects donald trump to change. i don t think anyone will be surprised. is donald trump going to seize this moment to frame his argument to the american people as to why they should renew his contract for another four years or is he just going to present us the trump show, you know, and air his knee vengrievances and e bashing of the free press and he shows no desire whatsoever to try and actually seize this moment to do something different. again, i don t think that s terribly surprising. i will note this one thing, john, he said that i think is interesting. he said that 2016 was not your typical election, that it was a defining moment in history and it just struck me when he said that because that is exactly what the biden campaign put out in a statement in advance of this framing this as make donald ....
Run that he had for the presidency and we ll see as you know one of the great frustrations of a lot of republicans on capitol hill, even some people inside his administration has been not to have a relentless focus on the economic good news day in and day out and i am curious to see if that becomes a major thread in this speech as he tries to frame the reelection argument. gloria, one source told cnn campaign officials are hoping this event will satisfy the president s thirst for the spotlight and reset the campa n campaign s efforts. this is the 60th campaign rally for the president. so is there any reason to think that this event could move the needle? not necessarily. i think it might make the president feel a lot better. he s been upset lately because there has been a lot of attention on democratic candidates. you know he s been taking on joe biden every single day and he s upset at fox news because they have the tenacity to host town halls with all people, ....
Campaign slogan, promises made, promises kept and the latest on the chaos on his cabinet or acting cabinet as the case may be with the acting secretary of defense departing even as the confrontation with iran grows more serious. plenty to talk about. plenty that matters. let s go first to kaitlan collins down in orlando. kaitlan, what do we expect to hear from the president tonight? well, john, the president has been sitting back for the last several months watching this expansive democratic field go out and launch their campaigns and now he wants some of the attention to be back on him. so the president is going to do that tonight. the campaign has the official launch of the reelection bid but john, the president has been running since the day he was inaugurated. the question of what you ll hear from the president tonight and whether that s anything different is another question and saying to expect essentially the same playbook from the ....