spending pools, that move is gonna force desantis to file paperwork within the next 15 days. that s officially acknowledging his intentions to run for president for the first time. even though he hasn t officially announced yet, he has been acting like a presidential candid for several weeks. yesterday, travel to the early republican primary state of iowa. where he attended a pair of events and met with voters. super pac backing him had to santa s 2024 signs, merchandise available yesterday s event and during a speech, he turned his attention to the election. as bad as things are going right now, if things do not go well for us republicans in 2024 it s gonna get a whole lot worse. we must reject the culture of losing that isn t affected our party in recent years. the time for extra races is over. we gotta demonstrate the courage to lead and the strength to win. if we do that, if we make 2024 election a referendum on joe biden and his failures. if we provide a positive alt
that number has already more than doubled a similar letter bills passed in 2022. as you can see, the number bills introduced this year exceeds the number of bills totally in the past four years. or the four prior years. so far this, year more than 50 anti lgbtq bills have passed nationwide. anti-trans rhetoric and, subsequently, anti-trans legislation have become central to right wing messaging among those passing laws at the state level. advocates for trans rights have been saying for a long time that anti-lgbtq policy, and specifically, this focused, excel or the attack on tribespeople is actual part of a political strategy from the right. and the political right lost same sex marriage as a central rallying point for the socially conservative christian right. they needed something else to chin up support. and, moral panic. and they are admitting it. the new york times spoke to some people involved in the, effort quote, we knew needed to find an issue that the candidates were comforta
the white house, thank you. we are digging deeper on the threats and we are joined by a white house correspondent for the guardian and another reporter for the washington post and both are cnn political analysts. sabrina, i ll start with you. this is absurd, isn t it? the president punishing mexico for immigration, something that mexico may not necessarily be equipped to handle and he is doing it at a time when he is trying to get a trade deal he just spent two years working on gratified. does the timing of this make sense? it certainly doesn t make out. sarah pointed out this came against the counsel of the president s own advisers. when you step back and look the way he has approached immigration, he often put moves towards these very abrupt moves and tactics that are more designed to perhaps chin up support with his base, that he is being tough on mexico. remember he also threatened to close down the u.s./mexico
saying that the agenda of the alt-right movement, white supremacist, neo-nazis is not an agenda and work with us on an agenda that addresses systemic and institutional racism, work with us to get rid of this bogus voter whatever the president has in terms of his voter suppression efforts. they need work with us to create good paying jobs for everyone, work force training. help us with our education, public education. stop mounting efforts to prives it our public schools. i m on the appropriations committee, don. i see this each and every day in terms of the budget cuts and how they re severely impacting african americans and low income. they need to work with us to create an america that everyone can uphold as their america. but when you look at a legislation-based support,
actually acting on behalf of the broadest possible constituency, like donald trump said, even though it wasn t always taken as sincere that he wanted to represent everybody, then you should be enacting an agenda for everybody. but what s become clear in the last six/seven months, so far he s enacted an agenda catered to the core 35% of support that he is hanging on to and that s reflected in the fact that their influence is shrinking, people don t feel like they ve had success. margaret, does this help with this week? no, it doesn t help but it is worth mentioning. i mean, look at this white house, this west wing. this is not a diverse group of individuals ethnically or in terms of their backgrounds. but this is also an administration that s advertised