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there s more to do, so let s finish the job president joe biden makes his 2024 re-election bid official, vowing to finish the job we ll take a look at how his campaign has already hit the ground running plus, the former fox news producer who s now suing the network weighs in on tucker carlson s ouster what she had to say about the hostile work environment that she faced at fox and during closing arguments in their seditious conspiracy trial yesterday, attorneys for members of the proud boys put the blame for the january 6th capitol attack squarely on donald trump we ll have the latest from the courtroom ahead of jury deliberations. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, april 26th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning in washington where just hours after announcing his re-election bid president joe biden gave his first campaign speech yesterday and was greeted with this warm reception. four ....
Somehow left out in the cold by the woke mind virus. i mean, i just thought the choice to begin with was a bad one, or a questionable. and then the execution obviously had plot blooms. your thoughts. yeah. i think those announcements are typically done with two things in mind. getting good coverage in the press and raising a lot of money, both online and also via traditional big dollar phone raising asks. and obviously the first part is going to be terrible coverage. curious to see how this shapes the fundraising as well. but there is a third thing that i am really curious about, alex, that is that desantis has kept the press at arm s length, florida. and up until the launch today, it has tried to do things similarly as he sort of eyes the national stage. is this the kind of thing that is going to make him realize, i can t go around the media, i m ....
The news cycle was better for trump. so yeah. look, there is no question that trump has been hilt from desantis s electability to leverage the midterms for his benefit this calendar year. and it was helps, yes, by the indictment in manhattan, there is a rolling effect. this, i will skip to the heart of the challenge they re trying to beat trump in a primary. if you are a republican, and you cannot attack trump frontal with traditional attacks. because that is going to remind republicans of the kind of criticism that they hear from democrats in the media. so that is the challenge here. that is kind of, can you go after trump in a way that we consume in the eyes of gop primary voters, but doesn t remind those voters of the last eight years of attacks on him from the left. and boy, that is going to be really challenging. but they are going to have to try to adhere soon because as ....
Kids. build the wall. he read stories. that mr. trump said, you are fired. i love that. park he s teaching medicine to talk. make america great again. people say iran is all trump, but he is so much more. fake lead. so good. that ad was from way back in 2018 when desantis was trump understudy. someone who knew all the lyrics, who had studied all the lines, just hadn t gotten the lead. yet. and that ad very much encapsulates the essential problem desantis faces as he tries to beat trump in the primary, something donald trump himself seems to recognize. now, think back to the republican primary from 2016. you had jeb bush and you had john kasich and you had chris christie and marco rubio, who like to think of themselves as sort of, the moderate centrists, pro business conservatives. you had mike huckabee, the christian social conservative ....
So god made a fighter. it november, rod visits argued that he was sent but god to fight for the state of florida as the governor for another turn. the story of creation apparently goes and then, ron desantis, the freedom fighter. his campaign released that ad on november 4th and four reelected its fighter 40s later by a landslide. desantis when you look 60% of the vote. there it was a political tko. it is hard to say desantis won because of his self promotion as a messianic fighter sent by god abortion bans, the history lessons, subjecting teachers to potential felonies, riding with this listens of god jobs, or because of those actual policies themselves. but desantis s fight list is long. and today he entered the republican presidential primary ring to spar with several declared republican contenders, ....