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c-span.org. c-span, your unfiltered view of politics. >> host: we are back and returning to the question about the 2024 presidential election. polls show the president biden and former president trump are leading for the parties nomination, but polls also show there are a lot of voters who don't think biden and trump should be running again. our question is, who is your candidate of choice? if it is bident call us at 202-748-8000. if it is trump, 202-748-8001. and if you prefer any other candidate call us at 202-748-8002. we are ready to take your calls now. let's go to belvedere illinois first. i think we just lost her so instead were going to go to

arizona, trump supporter. >> correct. >> host: tell us why. >> caller: i like his values. i think it's more honest. >> host: say that last part again. he what? >> caller: he thinks morecambe he's concerned more about americans. >> host: understood. all right. appreciate your call this morning. that's a call for trumpier i want to bring up, there is been a lot of speculation of course about biden and his age. he is 80. that means if you were to be elected he would be 82, retiring if he is granted another term at the age of 86. this is biden saturday night at the white house correspondents' dinner cracking jokes aboutes hs age. let's watch.in

>> i get that age is completely reasonable issue. it's on everybody's mind. and everyone, iis mean the "new york times." [laughing] headlines, biden's advanced age is a big issue trump's however is not.bi [laughing] that was i a "new york times," i apologize. i lovet. that guy. i should do an interview with him. [laughing] you might think i don't like rupert murdoch. it's simply not true. how could i dislike the guy who makes me look like harry styles? [laughing]tr [applause] call me old? he says i'm ancient. i iay say i am wise. he says an over the hill.

don limit would say that's a man in his prime. [laughing] >> host: again that was former president, current president joe biden at the white house correspondents' dinner last night. former president donald trump is leading in the polls but there has been some recent articles because trump has indicated he may not participate in debates against the of the republicans who are running ineb the primary right now. the other announced candidates are nikki haley, the former governor of south carolina, former ambassador as well as businessman vivek ramaswamy. but trump kirkby leads in the polls but we want to hear from you, who is your preferred candidate. let's go to hawaii, john. john come you on the line. who is your candidate of choice? >> caller: yeah, i usually

vote democrat. i voted for biden last time but, i mean, there wasn't really any choice. i would vote for aoc if she ever got in the mix, but i know that probably won't happen. i think that the country needs to go, needs a change. pretty much progressive would be the way to go, in my opinion. and i don't see how people can vote for trump. in' mean, you know, he is being accused of rape and you know it happens to people that go to jail for rate, you know, i mean they're definitely not the most popular person in the population, if you know what i mean. i mean, i don't know how people

could even fall for him, it's ridiculous. >> host: all right. john in hawaii. let's go now to coatesville pennsylvania. susan you on the biden line. >> caller: yes, good morning. thanks for adding my call. i will vote for biden again i think people need to realize come first off, he announced he's running so if you will be our candidate he is the incumbent president, so that teen biden-harris i as a democrat will vote for. it also these people who are climbing their independent or don't know, you got to realize this time like the last two elections, , there's so much on the line but if you look at what the republican party is going, it doesn't matter if trump is running or anybody else right now, you vote for basically fascism. look what's happening in florida

and so many other states that are republican-led. you've got to be careful and realize that. biden is my vote and yeah that's all you want to say. thank you so much for having me. >> host: thank you. jack is next up. he's calling from pennsylvania. trump is your preferred candidate, jack. >> caller: yes, thank you for having me. yeah, i will support president trump as of now. i think he's are only way back to getting a government of buy-in for the people. i don't believe our government is treating its citizenry fair right now and i think that's the case since the 2020 election. i don't believe the 2020 election was free nor fair. so my support will be right now for donald trump oror republican

candidate. i believe the democratic party with its mainstream media, big tech and big court has gone completely offff the rails. thank you. >> host: already here next up we have donald. donald is in jeannette pennsylvania. who is your candidate of choice? >> caller: well, first of all it's neither one. neither president biden or former presidentr trump. i would never vote for trump. my favorite is one of two sitting senators to i'd like to see on the democratic party. i am a democrat. i would like to see senator sherrod brown of ohio, senator chris coons of delaware, or senator sheldon whitehouse of rhode island. i think any one of those three sitting senators would make an excellent candidate for the

democratic party, allne right. donald with three senators on his mind. let's hear from marjorie now. marjorie in silver spring, maryland, on the biden line. >> caller: yes, i would definitely vote for president biden. he's had the experience. he's had the talent with foreign countries, with leaders. and he's honest. he doesn't tell lies like president trump. so my vote would definitely go for president biden. >> host: appreciate that call, marjorie.. next up we have wrought in kentucky. you say you are voting for trump. two that's correct. i will gladly vote for president trump again and just had to ask marjorie, i mean, if she doesn't think resident biden lies, i can't get that but hey everyone is entitled to their opinion.

but i just think president trump he was the best president that we had in my lifetime. i am 52 and you think he's the best president we've had. look at our economy. i just don't feel that other foreign governments respect president biden, and bless his soul i think it's just a little too old and has some cognitive decline. the man has through government. i think he is in some decline. good example is the cheat sheet will call it from last week. i i don't think that's good. i think china, i think china almost -- i think trump is the guy to get us back on track, to get it back to where we are at where we need to be. >> host: ron in kentucky. let's go to madison ohio now. don is on the line. you say you're voting for biden. >> caller: yes, i am.

i would never vote for that crook trump, never. and i want to see if c-span can check me. i found through my constitution of i the united states and nowhe in there doesn't say that president biden or any president has to come up with a budget. it's upwi to congress to come up with a budget and send it to the senate and then have them come back and work this out, then send it to the president when he signs it or i not, it's up to h. but it's not up to him to sit down with mccarthy and hammer out a deal. that's not the way it is supposed to work. congress comes up with a budget and sends it to the senate. thank you, ma'am. i appreciate you. >> host: all right. our next caller is josé in yuma, arizona. which candidate do you prefer, josé? >> caller: toto be honest i don't like either of the candidate. i did want upwa after that they

are both not a reliable choice and we should really process what we're doing right now with our economy and with our presidency. i mean none of what were doing right now -- america should rethink their priorities. right now we're kind of going off the deep end. that's all you want to say. >> host: is it someone else you have in mind, josé? >> caller: to be honest if i was being 100% honest i kind i kind of like to see if elon musk would run. he's a very genius man. he a kind soul. he has a good mentality for himself, and for people and that someone that should run. trump yeah, i did he's a businessman cool but he doesn't have a good heart or a good soul. doesn't have any good intentions. biden is a little no offense, too old. i know i'm probably one of the younger scholars being almost 30, but neither of them are going to get my generation out of it, i get the older generation but we need one of

these, too, but we need someone is thinking more on my page two of the generation that are to come and not the ones that are already here. >> host: all right. that was josé in arizona. want to bring a video. this is an yesterday on nbc's "meet the press." republican presidential candidate vivek ramaswamy presents himself here as a candidate of free speech and alternatives to both trump and biden. >> one of the things i say to conservative audiences is read to be the party of free speech andfr open debate. we can't be the party that says i won't talk, i'm here talking on nbc pictures of the can to say they won't talk nbc news. ron desantis is what i go to college campuses where others refuse to go. we got to practice what we preach. i'm in this race as a millennia as a young person who is live the american people who of walk the walk when it comes to free speech and open debate and other like to see of the republicans

rise to that occasion and to better starting with the debate stage in theirs own party this fall. >> if donald trump doesn't do debates, we do not support if he is the nominee? >> i'm not going to let them get away with that. but what do you mean? hehe can do what he wants to do. >> i don't think the other candidates including troubled relish being on that debate stage with me but i think the way he shown in 2015 when people give him credit for was he was outside, i disrupted on the outsider and if you want to be part of like abide in existing establishment doesn't want a debate i think people -- >> what should the party use leverage to force them to do to show up onle the debates to? >> it's the voters. it's my job and candidates to tell voters if you want someone sitting across a table from xi jinping, someone with the spy to take on the administer state, have by domestic agenda you better not be scared to show up on a debate stage with the new challenger. donald trump did a great job in 2015. i'll be the outsider in this race. >> host: that was republican presidential candidate vivek ramaswamy yesterday morning on

nbc's "meet the press." on to more of your calls about which candidate you prefer in 2024. pascoe in tennessee, you say former governor asa hutchinson is your choice. tell us more. >> caller: yes. i would vote for governor, former governor hutchinson because he has experience in both the federal government having served in homeland security department and also governor of arkansas, and i believe he's the type of politician, the type we used to have. and i believe just his commonsense approach to all the issues would make him the guy that i would want to vote for. >> host: all right. let's go to doris now. doris calling from texas. you are on the biden supporter. >> caller: yes.

i remember in the third grade with our wonderful democrat franklin d. franklin d. roosevelt passed away, and the republican party is not like it used to be. i would vote for biden again. i'm a democrat all the way, and even texas is, i'm a native texan, and they have moved so many republicans in that i'm ashamed of how they are making texas book now. they don't, they are only interested in being a one-party, and i'm surprise that trump with all of his charges against him is even being allowed to give speeches.

he i i hope will get what he s coming to him because our country was in a much better place before he ever became president. and vote for joe biden. the democrats have always been for the working class, and the republicans will probably take away our social security and all the benefits. that seems to be what their agenda is. thank you. >> host: all right, from doris in texas. now we're going to dora in greensboro, north carolina. youa say trump. >> caller: yes. because he's the number one guy to be president of the united states of america. anybody who would vote for biden need to go to an insane asylum because that man has been in there ever since he was 24. he neverer agreed on anything.

and everybody has been on president trump's back ever since he was voted in. they never gave him a chance to do anything, but he did it anyway. >> host:t:it all right. dora in north carolina. calling from st. petersburg, florida, bob, you said you at some of the candidates in mind, not trump for biden. >> caller: yeah. i mean, as a true independent, i would like to see a mixup. i would like to see somebody like say sununu, think that's his name. and tulsi gabbard i'd like to mix it up. i don't think there's any reason to where you should just have you know a republican and a democrat. i would say mix it up, you know? see what they can do to both

parties. >> host: did you mean former new hampshire governor chris sununu? >> caller: yeah. >> host: and then tulsi gabbard who is the former democratic member of congress try to yeah. now i believe she an independent i believe. >> host: i think, i think she might be a republican now but she stuff but no longer a democrat. >> caller: that i know, that i know. i think it would bring more common sense because they're both, you know, going way too far right of way too far left and nobody seems to stay in the middle and theyy keep worrying about independents. well, why don't they start putting independents in their primary elections? see if it works out better for them. >> host: allor right. that's bob in the st. petersburg and he's right, tulsi gabbard left the democratic party.

she's right now just not affiliated with any political party. let's go to casper, wyoming. beverly is on the biden line. >> caller: b high. good morning. >> host: good morning. >> caller: yeah, i would like to see joe biden run again. and all the people that keep wanting to boost up trump about his affairs, trump always meddled in everybody's affair, now he's got the people meddling in it, too. it's ridiculous. go joe biden and kamala harris. love you, two, we will bring up some video of another one of those alternate candidates. this a former arkansas governor asa hutchinson, a republican. on sunday he said he believes in providing an alternative to former president trump as the

candidates gear up for the 2024 presidential primary. here he is on cnn's state of the union. >> i wouldn't be in this race if i didn't believe it. whenever you talk about a brand of republicanism, , sure, we hae our principles that i believe in which is limited government, which is a strong national defense. but you also look at evolving the party to meet the challenges of today antedates the company. the american people trust republicans more to handle the economy than the other side, and that to me is a central issue of this campaign. whenever you look at donaldd trump yes, he is high in the polls. i believe in i this. i believe in providing an alternative to i believe an economic message of restraining federal spending, driving education in the sciences that we could compete with china with dean not an isolationist party

but one that can support both the american people but also our friends overseas like ukraine. these are messages that resonate. >> host: again that's former arkansas governor asa hutchinson who is running in the republican presidential primary. we are p going to get to more of your calls. again if you supportur biden, 202-748-8000. if you think trump should become president again, 202-748-8001. if there's another candidate who is on your mind, 202-748-8002. before we get to mark also want to bring up a tweet we received from hamlet who writes leiden may have been a politician on his life, all his life, but trump has been a crook and a criminal all of his life. that's what hamlet writes on the topic. we're going to go to dave in pennsylvania now. dave, you are on the trump line. >> caller: how is it going?oi good to be you.

i was going to vote for trump and then i found this great note regarding biden and why i'm switching my party. may i? a part of the plaintiff course is to induce the gradual surrender of american sovereignty piece by piece and step-by-step through various international organizations of whiche the united nations is outstanding. but fared from the only example. we want greatly expand government spending for every achievable means of getting rid of even larger sums of american money as possible. much higher taxes. three, and increasingly unbalanced budget despite the higher taxes. four, while inflation of her country. five, government control of prices, wages and materials supposedly to combat inflation. six, greatly increase socialistic controls over every operation of our economy and an

activity of our daily lives. this seems to be accompanied automatically by a correspondingly huge increase in the size of our bureaucracy and involves -- our domestic government. for more centralization of power in washington and the practical elimination of state lines. -- within the nation that our country does little now within the states. a steady advance of federal aid and control over our educational system leading to complete federalism of our public education. a constant hammering into the american consciousness of the horror of modern warfare. the beauties andne absolute necessity of peace. peaceun always on communist ters of course -- >> host: dave, i know, i hear -- date, i hear your tongue-in-cheek kind of playing devil's advocate of their

supporting trump. let's go to another trump supporter. die gant in new jersey. you're a trump supporter as well. tell us more. >> caller: yes, , yes, i am. thank you for taking my call. think that it is a travesty was happening on the border with the girls that are coming over, the things that happen to them and how the children are lost, you know? inen this country we adore our children i don't care where they come from an for them to be lost is a a travesty. another reason is, sorry to say that mr. biden is owned by china and bought with h his son hunte. the price of gas alone would make it so that anybody who voted for him is giving this country away. we have to stop giving a country away. donald trump never gave our

country away to china. he would never allow this, these things to happen to where children are being sold off to slavery. these children mean everything to me. the accusations against donald trump, we are all entitled to liberty and justice for all. accusations are not convictions. i know there's's a lot of africn american people who don't like donald trump, but just think back in time to jim crow. two wrongs don't make a right. thank you for taking my call. >> host: all right. that was diane in new jersey. we will go to gold breeze florida now. teresa you say yes, and of the candidates in mine. tell usr more. >> caller: yes. thank you for taking my call. i think it's time to wrap a couple of good communicators, strong women take over the republican party, and i would vote for nikki haley with tulsi

gabbard. and if she's interested in becoming a vice president i was like tim scott. i loved tim scott. i likee his energy and his optimism. so i think it's time for a change here the whole world is changing. our parties are changing, and to go back to two drama kings, you know, as presidents, it just doesn't make any sense however, if the voters decide, if the majority of the people decided biden and trump, i'm going to have to vote for trump. i just can't continue with what's going on, and the thought of having kamala harris as president, it scares me even more. i think we need some really good communicating smart, tough women. they represent that to me and

thank you for taking my call. >> host: and we're going to end with a young in texas. biden is your choice. >> caller: yes. biden is by choice because i don't know, he's a really cool dude. h like he's been in the news and i honestly think that the news is like making more of an issue of his age and people that are out there. i mean, he's the type of person that he gets to work. so i don't know, i think there's immediate component to the way they are portraying him. and i would vote for him because if trump runs he's going to remind all the women from the united states of the supreme court that he put in there that took away their rights. so i'm voting for biden because he's going to restore our freedom. he's notot going to and books.

he's not going to appoint judges that are going to take freedoms away from a women. and he's going to be there. he's going to have the power of the pen to make sure that we restore our freedom. because, because right now they are under siege because of the republicans. >> host: miriam in texas. we will end it there for "washington journal" today. now, i'm going to start off by showing you just a few headlines on this topic of the potential trump anda biden rematch. there's an abc news article that says biden versus trump 2024 would be the rematch. nobody wants. fox news headlines, biden versus trump, americans weigh in on possible 2024 rematch. axios headline, most americans

don't want biden or trump to run. and one more from the guardian, the headline, biden versus trump, u.s. is unenthused by likely rematch of two old white men. and all of these articles are referring to this st. paul, a poll from nbc news. i want to bring up a few results of that poll. this is a poll that was published last week, april 23 favorability ratings biden, 38% favorability, unfavorable 48% that's a ten-point favorability deficit for trump. is favorable 34% of the voters polled had a favorable opinion of trump. 53% had an unfavorable opinion.

that's a 19-point deficit. let's look at the question of should they run. in the question should president biden run for president again, 70% of respondents said no. only 26% said yes. and on the same question should former president trump run in 2024, a littleli bit better, 60% of respondents said no, 35% said yes. again this is a poll from nbc news that was published on apri. again, the question is for you, do you think biden or trump would be your pick for president in 2024, or would you support another candidate? we want you to call in now, give us your opinions and will start with sheila. sheila is calling

from carrollton, georgia. sheila, tell us why biden is your choice for this presidential election. >> caller: he's always been my choice, that the think about his age and he's not quite up to it. i watched the correspondents dinner saturday. there's not a thing wrong with him.hi at all. i think, i've seen some little shots where he's kind of stammered here and there, but don't we all do that from time to time? at his age, i don't have a problem with it. i'm 72. the only thing i kind of am worried about is harris. but -- >> host: can you explain? what do you mean by that?

>> caller: it'll give her enough coverage, the media doesn't, about what she's actually doing. ands i know this is always been a problem with the vice president andre news media, but, yes, i voted for joe biden. thank you very much. >> host: sheila in georgia. let's go to chris in delaware, ohio. you are a trump supported. tell t t us why. >> caller: good morning. well, you know, joe biden has been a politician all of his life. donald trump and his family, they work for a living and i think trump is more qualified than biden because he knows, he actually signed checks to people and biden has never done that. he's been a politician all his

life, so yes, i am a trump supporter and thank you for taking my call. >> host:u absolutely. up next, jim. jim is calling from hattiesburg, mississippi. you say there's another candidate you have inca mind, j. >> caller: yeah. good morning. i've never voted third party, but i feel like this might be the election where i might do that. i voted for biden in the last election but this time around, after the withdrawal from afghanistan which i thought was a nightmare, i feel like andrew yang might be a viable candidate for a third-party run. >> host: why andrew yang? >> caller: i really like his idea when he ran last time back in 2020, about universal basic

income. i think that something that eventually we are going to need. but beyond that i think his foreword policy, his forward party as wed put together, it's progressive in a lot of ways but it's not lockstep with the doctrinaire. it's kind of more central, centrist with the very pro-business attitude as opposed toa the more i guess antibusines attitude a lot of the left has nowadays. >> host: okay. thanks for your call this morning. next up we have great in new york state. ray, you say you are undecided. >> caller: yes. i believe both biden and trump, they are too old. they should retire and collect

social security. >> host: so your choice is ron desantis. tell us more why he would be your choice. >> caller: because he did an outstanding job with florida. he could do the same with the country. >> host: alli right. ray, appreciate that call. teresa, teresa is calling from columbus, ohio. you say biden has your support. >> caller: absolutely. the man has been in congress a long time. he's been able to reach across the aisle and get things done. we have seen things done in the last couple of years that he's been president, andha is also ld our country for the world in ukraine. we definitely needed to have that done. and also the only thing i would ask more for is maybe get ohio on the map with a few democrats in the cities running the cities

because we're such a republicans run state and it's very disheartening. thank you. .. and trump rematch, they are leading in the polls. we want to know who you would vote for. let us look at some video, this is former president trump from a campaign event in new hampshire on thursday night. he taps the fact he is leading in the polls and explains why he thinks perspective voters are supporting him. [video clip] >> today is very very important. 62% desantis and mike pence iss seven. obviously people dreaming of energy independence strong military like you had an borders and low taxes strong, we want strong borders and low interest,

we want to be respected throughout the world, not laughed at. they said somebody said what do you think about him? is that he's a powerful strongman. big news media out there they say that? he controls 1.5 million people. his outfit at the top of his game. the same thing with other leaders, they are sharp, smart, top of their game and we are the only one who has one who's not and he never really was of the top of the game if you go back 25 years. another big one, trump is leading by 37 points. [cheering] i don't know if you've seen, it makes the job easier. they just keep working because under the campaign poll, i lead by 45 points 65 with desantis at

20%, pence and four and nikki haley at four and sloppy chris christie that less than 1% which by the way better than he did seven years ago on the same stage against me here in new hampshire. he was less than 1% so now hen still less than 1% but he's doing much better. he's got big mouth, that's all he's got. >> that was former president donald trump up again pain of it in new hampshire. the call he's referring to was conducted by emerson college, another poll that came out last week. i want to go over the results of that poll. one of theve questions was about biden, it says democratic voters who think biden should be the nominee was 55% but that was a decrease from 71% from if it

were able but 65% of voters pull said to be the nominee but i will go down to this, when presented with announced candidate, biden williamson and robert kennedy junior biden supports increase to 70%. kennedy junior, the son of a former attorney general, 21% and williamson received 8%. now the republican primary this is what trump was referring to when pulled up against other candidates who were potential other candidates, some received 62% support as he mentioned, ron desantis florida governor has notth yet officially announced that he had 16% of support. mike pence at 7%. nikki haley 3% so former

governor chris christie 2%, former governor hutchinson was announced candidate 2% and 4% someone else. recent polling shows biden and trump leading voters has the respective parties so many. the question for you today, are you prepared to support biden or trump or would you prefer someone elseef? if you think biden should be president, ready to support, call (202)748-8000. if you think trump deserves to return to the white house call us at (202)748-8001 but if you support another candidate for think another candidate should be president, (202)748-8002.

our next color calling from garden city, michigan. you are a biden supporter. >> i am. i prefer maybe somebody else to run who's a little younger as far as the republican party with trump, i can't support them at all, they have no credibility. didn't even believe their election h results, they had trf legal issues and to me he's a businessman, he's not really a businessman because he'sno had n currencies, all kinds of legal issues.ov lawsuits he's had over his lifetime, he has no credibility, the united states any good and divided the nation more than any other time than probably the civil war is my opinion.

>> in michigan, let's go to north carolina, donna is on the life. you say trump should become president. >> absolutely. this guy goes nonstop and age is not a factor with this guy. he doesn't sleep, he gets things done and if any listeners deny that trump doesn't get things done, i don't know where they are getting their news but this guy, he's not a politician, he is a businessman and a lot of people don't like him because of how he looks or his attitude but sometimes you need someone with his personality to get things done he lives up to his promises. he's probably the most healthiest man after start as we ever seen in a politician so age

is not an issue so if you're taking a poll on age, that's not an issue with trump. he's got my vote hands down. >> all right. let's go now to dan going from -- michigan, am i saying that correctly? tell us who you support in the 2024 election. >> thank you. i would prefer john casey is who i would like to see. i voted joe biden last time, i voted for donald trump time before. remember favorite joe biden's assessment is more of a vote against donald trump last time this time coming up i don't want

to the country going more progressive get a don't want to see donald trump go back in the creek did some good things, i'll thadmit that but he did a lot of damaging things and january 6 is the bottom line for me could go like to see somebody a little bit not extreme right or extreme left, and there's another guy in the republican party, i keep forgetting his last name, his name is don. >> you can watch the rest of the program on c-span.org. right now will take you live to the antidefamation the national leadership summit. domestic policy advisers to summarize cap frozen on the left.