To flow along with millions of illegal immigrants. The cartels threatening our National Security reaping billions in profit. A nonstop surge turning every state into a border state and making it a critical issue on the campaign trail. Wars against the mexican drug cartels. They are foreign Terrorist Organizations. When im president that stops. They try to break into our country with fentanyl. That will be the last thing they do. They will end up stone cold dead. No nation can survive unless it controls its borders. Even more concerning is the humanitarian crisis this is causing in cities across america as these immigrants land in those cities with no means and no legal way of making a living. Dana fox team coverage. Madison in New York City. Plans are underway to build something for migrants. Bill melugin is in mission, texas. A major update to a cartel story we brought to our viewers last week. Lets get into the photos which we showed last week showing several armed Cartel Gunmen cros
welcome back to the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. just minutes from now former president donald trump will be less than ten miles from the u.s. capitol, addressing a crowd of his adoring supporters as for all intents and purposes the front-runner for the 2024 gop nomination. despite his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, trump has been loading in several polls of republican voters as he delivers the keynote address at the annual cpac gathering later on this afternoon, even though other gop contenders are warning the party to move on from trump. his maga faithful have come to dominate the republicans long-time event. at any moment they will release the results of their straw poll. trump has won the last two with florida governor ron desantis coming in second. both times desantis has not formally announced for 2024 and is skipping this gathering. kristen holmes joins us from cpac where they re gathering in maryland just outside the nation s capital. kristen,
excitement about a potential trump/biden rematch. there is a lot of people wishing they had some other choices here. of course, they may. especially on the republican side. we don t know that trump will be the nominee. caucuses are five months away. the race in iowa is known for dramatic changes at the end. that candidates polling in single digits in the summer times win this thing. so we all have to keep open minds on this. we ll see what happens. trump does look dominant and much better organized in the state than he was eight years ago. he had volunteers all over the fairgrounds. talked to one woman spending 10 out of 11 days at the fairg fairgrounds volunteering for him. the first republican primary debate is fast over a week away on august 23rd. fox news is hosting the event in milwaukee and you can be sure
a lot of trump-backed republican candidates did poorly in the midterm elections and i think republicans turned against him while desantis rose from 23% to 31%. look what s happened in the first two months of this year. what have we seen? we ve seen donald trump kid kind of rise again and his advantage over ron desantis which was ten points at the end of last year has risen back to 15 points. it s not the same level that it was when it was about 30 points but still 15 points is higher than 10 points. jim, there s nobody else who s anywhere close. everybody else is in the mid to maybe high single digits. at this particular point donald trump is the favorite for the republican nomination in 2024. that s just what the numbers say, jim. and there doesn t seem to be anybody at this point, maybe ron desantis, who is anywhere near front-runner status at this point. harry, correct me if i m wrong, how often do candidates polling
and the moment, the candidates polling between 1% and 2%, julian castro, cory booker, senator amy klobuchar. can any of them seize on the opportunity provided by the national spotlight. let s bring in nbc news white house correspondent peter alexander. he s made his way to houston, texas, to cover the debate. peter, what should we expect to see in the match-up between biden and warren? reporter: you summarized the likely story lines pretty well. this is notable. the first time in the course of this democratic campaign that we ll see joe biden and elizabeth warren on the same stage together, as you noted. ten candidates on stage, one night, three hours in all. biden will be flanked by sanders and warren. it s the first time he and warren have been on together, they have sparred in the of the pa. it goes back 17 years, she called him out by name in 2002