re-election in november by nearly 20 points. now he is aiming for the white house and taking on the last republican to hold it. florida governor ron desantis will declare tomorrow evening he s a candidate for president. part of a campaign rollout that includes a twitter conversation tomorrow with ceo elon musk. paperwork filing with the federal election commission. and an overhaul of ron desantis.com which went from a florida based political page to an alligator. rising from the water. i think what we have done in florida should inspire people. defended fight against disney. touted run as governor. he sparred with the naacp after the organization issued a florida travel advisory, claiming the state has become hostile under the governor s leadership. desantis called it a stunt. and republicans noted the chair of the naacp s board of directors lives in florida. the white house has even weighed in. republicans in florida have attacked diversity, administration for the pa
hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. volodymyr zelenskyy s tour ends with a promise of more missiles and more drones but ukraine s big skiz still tbd. he wants fighter jets. plus ron desantis plays the every man in iowa while neither snow more rain nor heat does not apply when it comes to scheduling a trump rally. the former president does find a way to remind us who he is and what he believes. and real or not real. the white house sounds hopeful about avoiding a debt ceiling cliff and the president calls the negotiation a negotiation. a first for us, though, two pleas from ukraine s president to the west. the first for patience and for trust that a big counteroffensive is coming. we will be ready, you know, in some time. i won t to be honest with you, i can t share with you some days. i just don t want to prepare not for our friends, secrets from our friends, but secrets from our neighbors. the
even say i guess how old i am. i can t even say the number. it doesn t register with me. and only thing i can say is that, one of the things that people are going to find out they re going see a race and they re going to judge whether or not i have it or don t have it i respect them taking a hard look at it i would as well. i took a hard look at it before i decided to run. paul: let s bring in poll strer strategist doug served as advisor to former bill clinton doug nice to see you again. good to be here, paul. polls say majority of democrats would prefer another candidate to be their nominee in 2024 can you remember a case when that was the true incumbent? i can t remember a case where that was true of the incumbent or case where the field of perspective challengers to the president was as frankly limited as the field would be. there s an old adage in politics you can t beat somebody with nobody. that s what we re facing. paul: is there a doubt about him related to his
and a sober newsday with us. a source telling cnn criminal charges are coming this afternoon in memphis in connection to the beating of 29-year-old tyre nichols and we also are told to expect tomorrow the release of the video of that police encounter and we are told that is three minutes of savagery. memphis police officers brutalizing nichols. right now that city fed up. it could have been your son. it could have been you. don t gavel me. i m here to let you know. i can see without we want it now. plus, the new temperature check of the u.s. economy. new data gives president biden reason to brag. the economy growing faster than expected. it is more proof a recession is not inevitable but it also comes as some big name companies slash thousands of jobs. releasing right now brand-new cnn poll numbers, here s what they show. you think leaders in washington, especially house republicans, are out of touch with what you think, your government should be doing and doing first
provisions. so that s what s going to happen here, too. i think the fundamental issue is democrats, this is a first really big thing that has happened since they lost total control of washington, house, and senate, and they are having a hard time adjusting to that fact. bret: there are some scary headwinds on the economic front. if you look at gallup poll. good time to buy a house that s to the a good signal, susan. clearly, we could face a recession. there s no question about that. it looks a little less likely than it did maybe a couple months ago. it s definitely a risk. it s especially a risk if we go up to this fiscal cliff, this debt ceiling cliff and it s not clear where we are going to throw ourself over the cliff. we saw some market effect today that could get worse. this reminds me a lot of 2011 where they went right up to the edge and finally made a deal that made no one really happy.