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mike pence and nikki haley next up at 6% support. but your caveat is very important. we asked people in addition to your first choice, who would you be open to supporting in this race. take a look. you see ron desantis and donald trump are running even here with overwhelming majorities of republican and republican leaners saying that they would or could support ron desantis or donald trump. republican and republican leaners for nikki haley, tim scott and mike pence are open to supporting them, even though they are not necessarily their first choice in this race. this shows potential for growth for those candidates. we also asked the flip this is a warning sign. who do you rule out right now. who would you not support. among republican and republican leaders, 60% say chris crhristi is not an option for them. that's a rough play. and mike pence, who we saw a slim majority say might consider him, 45% said they would not. i want to show you where this race has done overtime. you remember back in our march poll, they were running neck and neck with each other. trump still

he was pintappointed to this sey nikki haley.age, he hasn't gotten into a tussle yet. he does have an optimistic message. when you're in crowds, republican crowds really like that message. but when you talk to republican primary voters, and when you talk to republican political strategists, the mood of the republican electorate is dougher. trump is talking about fighting. so tim scott, he's bringing a completely different approach much it's one of the reasons that almost everyone running for president has tim scott on their list. he he brings a different balance to a ticket. i don't think you should discd discount nikki haley. you can make the strong case that tim scott's rise was a dog fight. you know, city council, congress for being the son of a single mother. that is a dog fight. the fair criticism, i think, is that he hasn't had executive experience. and the presidency an executive job. and i think we often overlook that. but he could make a really major impact on this race in a positive way. not only for the republican part

ron desantis has similar message and nikki haley and tim scott, nikki haley has a well rounded great resume, tim scott is doing the reagan thing, tapping into vision, love of country and tapping into being conservative and his own life story, which is very unique and i think he has a lot of goodwill. i don't know if there will be an attack plan from the trump team on tim scott. the more people get into the race issue the theory is the better donald trump does and i think he likes a lot of people in there. >> steve: that is what kellyanne conway is suggesting. listen to this. >> kellyanne: probably donald trump's anthem right now, he's front-runner beating closest competitor 56-20, donalron desa. competition is for him. there were seven in 2016. >> interesting. >> steve: seven or eight republicans in by the end of the week and it will be interesting to see what donald trump, if mark meridith is right and he's spoken to the trump campaign and they'll come out blasting at tim scott. interesting to see what they go after him upon. >> brian: what do you have, too nice approximate of a guy

we have nikki haley, who was the first official to declare against trumpet.ow is what i call the revenge of the moderates, people who think they are more palatable than donald trump and want to try their hand at this. asa hutchinson was somebody very critical of trump, now you are seeing senator tim scott, who was also critical of trump at times but also looked like he was with him in the senate. 0ne was with him in the senate. one thing that stands out to me about tim scott, which has been made of his announcement and how it was far better than florida governor ron desantis', is that he has a challenge. everybody in this gop primary has a challenge of ringing in new voters under the republican banner. we have heard so much made of this, in teachers to class, the pandit class, about how there is this all—important independent voter investment states to get, that is going to be the key demographic for victory, when it comes to election day 2024. the tim scott brings evangelicals with him, much like former vice president mike pence, who hasn't declared, but is

nikki haley, i'm sorry. it is not the ad.antis of copying trump. >> you look at the fact the way he speaks, the way his hand gestures are, the fact he's moved his policies, ukraine and russia to entitlement reform, he's copying trump. h e needs to be his own person. >> there are policy differences she's talking about there but she's basically saying 2that hes not his own machn. >> in the ad, they actually show him side by side doing the hand gestures she's talking about or the imitation. again, the goal here it seems is to narrow ron desantis' ability as best she can to reach out beyond the trump base. >> do you think that will work for her? and the idea that like, it's a way of diminishing desantis to say he's copying donald trump. >> it's pretty much one of the most important plays she has right now. because nikki haley is like tim scott. like others who are not donald trump. they are in the hunt for voters who just don't want donald trump. they just don't want donald trump. and right now, ron desantis is at the top of that

i want to ask you about the fact that tim scott and nikki haley, both from north carolina. both firsts. tim scott, the first black republican senator and nikki haley, the first asian american governor of the state. just curious if you think that that is a problem. in other words, that they're going to step on each other's toes, the ability to get the gop to support them. what happens? >> no. they won't step on each other's toes. like i said earlier, this race is donald trump and to a lesser degree ron desantis and everybody else. even in south carolina, the race between nikki haley and ron desantis is a race for third place. one of the larger things that scott mentioned about the people who want donald trump to be the nominee, he forgot that 35 to 40% of the republican base also want donald trump to be the nominee. what tim scott's campaign will do, though, and what nikki haley's campaign will do is a larger conversation we're going to have in this country, a larger conversation we'll have throughout the campaign, particularly tim's campaign. because it's going to go a long

nikki haley, thank you for coming on today, making your case. we're going to go to republican congressman tony gonzales with more on what he is seeing at the border. good morning to you, congressman. >> good morning, margaret. >> i know you have shared with us some videos that you filmed friday inside a customs and border patrol facility in el paso. i want to show them to our audience now. i want you to tell us what we're seeing here. why do you think this is significant? >> yeah, first i want to thank nikki haley for coming to my district a month ago and spending the day with me and seeing it firsthand. this is what i'm hearing on the ground from mayors, border patrol agents, embedded media. everyone is saying it's not that bad. so on friday i visited el paso and went to the central processing center. you're seeing these videos. and this is what not that bad looks like. in the el paso sector, there's over 6,000 people that are in custody. in this particular facility, it's meant to house 1,000 people, it's housing over 3,000. in one of these roo

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:

i love nikki haley. i have not been quiet about that. the only person to endorse me in my election last year and i want to see a woman on the ticket. i want to see who jumps in and give everybody a shot. i'm cheering her on. she's a constituent and i love what she's doing and she gave a speech last week on women's issues. that's very important. women are watching. >> do you want her to go farther and be more specific? >> i would love to see her move on. >> can a republican candidte who supports or signs into law as governor desantis did a six-week limit to abortion -- >> in the dead of night, by the way, yeah. >> can he succeed in running for the presidency? is this going to be something that -- and people are in republican districts have to make this calculus? you say you're in a purple one. >> it's the number two issue in my district. number one is inflation, debt ceiling is an important issue, number two is abortion and find finding a ground. signing a six-week ban that puts victims of rape and incest in a hard spot isn't the way to c

nikki haley in "focus" now. great to see you. all right. so how are the two arguments different? is this about age, is this about competency or both? >> you know, it is not about age, sexism or anything. it is about transparency and about the fact that republicans and democrats deserve to know whether the people they send to d.c. are at the top of their game. look at the decisions being made. this is about the national security of america. this is about economic -- the economic future for our children. it is about the educational future. we need to know people are up at the top of their game. here you have biden last week, harris, he didn't even know where he was the week before. a little child had to tell him that. he doesn't know how many grandchildren he has. now we see hunter is not paying child support and i get why he is confused about that. this is about the fact that we have to make sure that people are up to their mental fitness to be able to make these decisions. i don't care if you do it at 50 or over. don't the american people deserve transparency to say they're at th

nikki haley's campaign says this, while other candidates struggled to launch, nikki haley worked the granite state and showed how to campaign the new hampshire way and tim scott, i know you're going to be speaking with, offered a different take. >> i think the road to socialism runs right through a divided republican party. everything we say about each other the democrats will weaponize against all of us, no matter who the nominee is. >> you mentioned the poll. former president trump leads with 53% among primary voters and then desantis and then former vice-president mike pence and he has not announced a bid yet, neil. neil: thank you for all of that. have a safe weekend. i want to go to karl rove or should i call him chris? you heard the former president call him rob. and what do you think of rob desantis' launch and glitches, 8.2 million raised in the first hours. >> a pretty impressive amount. donald trump announced last year and 136 days between his announcement and the end of the filing period, march 31st, he raised 17.8 million dollars in 136 days. ron desantis gets in, first d

out just moments ago from former south carolina governor nikki haley.it, she paints desantis as an echo of trump. >> whatever i want he wants. >> you're fired! you're fired! >> then mr. trump said, you're fired. i love that part. >> make america great again! >> make america great again. >> so that's haley comparing desantis to trump, how will trump himself and his supporters deal with ron desantis today. cnn kristen holmes, you've been looking at her right there waiting patiently. you have the answers and the trump team, what do they plan to do today? >> one thing i do think is very interesting is months ago when desantis was soaring in the polls before trump had that recent surge, his advisers told me that they believe that these other candidates would go after desantis and not donald trump, and so it's interesting to see that starting to happen with this desantis announcement. in terms of the former president, his campaign and his allies, there is a coordinated rollout, i am told by advisers to bracket desantis' announcement and do what trump seems to

let's listen to nikki haley here who says he is anti-abortion.ign a state law signing abortion. but if she's question, the federal question is very different. >> we have to tell the american people the truth. in order to do a national standard, you'd have to have a majority of the house, 60 senate votes and a president. we haven't had 60 pro life senators in 100 years. so the idea that a republican president can ban all abortions is not being honest with the american people. we need to do this from a humanizing sfientd and not a demonizing standpoint. >> she said we need to be polite and respect people with different opinions. is that haonesty or a dodge in way? she's also saying in the moment she doesn't think it's going to happen because you can't get 60 votes in the senate. >> it is an interesting dodge because she's basically saying it's not me who is for a federal ban or against it, it's just that it won't fly in the senate. so she's not saying fully where she stands on it, but how will that argument that she just gave play out in state legi

when you hear nikki haley say that, is this fight worth picking a fight with them?ki haley is doing anything to be relevant in a failing presidential campaign. when she tries to talk about it, we're talking about it. it is fu tile, disney is not going anywhere, i have said it once and will say it a dozen times, bob iger is in a hole, he needs to stop digging, this will not end well for anyone. suck it up and know his team was wrong and bob chapex's scalp is on the wall. stop with the lawsuits, you're being ridiculous. >> ashley: where does it stand? >> yesterday a counter suit was brought to light, having to deal with what florida statutes require sunshine and public notice, things that i have to abide by and have a meeting. these are things we have seen the oversight board has seen, observed broke florida law. filed in circuit court in florida. the disney lawsuit is filed in federal court. >> ashley: we'll stay on it, it's been a big story. 27 states including florida are urging the biden administration to end a mortgage policy that has people with good credit subs

let's listen and we can show you the republican presidential field, donald trump and nikki haley, vivekred. some potential candidates. asa hutsa hutchinson says they s to be plain. here it is. >> i would support the restrictions and i would advocate for the exceptions of the life of the mother and the cases of rape and incest. i believe that's where the american public is. i don't think anything will come out of congress without those exceptions and i certainly would sign a pro-life bill but i would expect those exceptions to be in place. >> it is fascinating he states his position clearly, mike pence has always stated his position clearly, again, parts are unpopular in certain parts of the country even lindsey graham who had a federal ban at 15 weeks he is not even sure he will push his own bill. >> it's not even clear that's going to get a vote even in the republican-controlled house. kevin mccarthy has -- didn't say explicitly, he was asked directly whether he would support putting a federal ban on abortion on the house floor he said it's going to go through the committee process. mi

there is nikki haley.icy speech, their definition, not ours last month and promising to talk directly and openly about abortion, this was the best she could do. >> i do believe there is a federal role on abortion. whether we can save more lives nationally depends on doing what no one else has it on to date and that is define consensus. that is what i will strive to do. >> that is neither direct nor open nor an actual policy proposal. when she was asked about her position again this morning, she gave an equally confusing response about trying to find a national consensus. there is also senator tim scott who was recently asked a pretty straightforward question. >> do you support a federal ban on abortions? >> i would simply say that the fact of the matter is when you look at the issue of abortion, one of the challenges that we continue to have as we have these restrictive conversations without broadening the scope and taking a look at the fact that -- i never walk away from the. when you look at the issues o

i have been on the state legislator with senator scott and with nikki haley, iserved in with senatorse with ron desantis, and with mike pence in the white house. they are friends, it is usual when you have been in politics as long as i have, i'm not endorsing anybody, i was impressed with what tim had to say yesterday and with what ron desantis has said. there are 4-5 desantis has said. there are 4—5 legitimate contenders for the republican contenders. but you are kidding yourselves if you are kidding yourselves if you don't say donald trump is by far the prohibitive favourite right now, a 20 point favourite right now, a 20 point favourite right now, a 20 point favourite right now. you'll several months before the first debate, six or eight months before the first ballot, so a lot can change, but i think the smart money right now is on donald trump being the republican nominee. you mentioned _ republican nominee. you mentioned those - republican nominee. you mentioned those numbers. we have looked at the average, and donald trump has an advantage, 56.3%, and the florida governor who

he was then tapped by former governor nikki haley, and now tim scott and nikki haley will be running against each other for the presidential nomination. >> and obviously, tim scott, if he is going to get the presidential nomination, he has to run through donald trump, and now joining me is david chalian host of his own podcast, and how does he get through that? >> well, his challenge similar to every other candidate not named donald trump which is the belief that roughly half of the republican electorate which is not interested in having donald trump as the republican nominee in 2024, and so the play is to becoming the half of that republican party with the support that he has amassed, because he is the front-runner the race. the way in which the scott campaign is believed they are to do that, they believe that he is the best messenger that the republican party has. we have seen some of this in moments of the state of the union address, and the high profile convention speech, and he had a big splash when nikki haley appointed him to the senate in 2013, and so he is hoping to deliver

nikki haley announced in february. lawmakers have really come up on similar tracks in south carolina. they overlapped in the statehouse and haley was the one to originally appoint scott to his senate seat. and they have had a positive relationship and now are officially rivals. and republicans in south carolina told me that now they are being faced with different situations of who they will support in the race. >> got to be interesting launching a campaign with donald trump looming over everything. he still has so much of the energy of the republican party. >> absolutely. desantis is seen as the most viable to take on trump, but trump is really the party leader. especially in the key early states. and that will be a challenge for anyone to overcome in this field even someone like ron desantis who comes in with a lot of name identification and a lot of work done in florida that appeals to the same republican base. >> dylan wells, thank you so much. >>> and quick hits across america. state attorney general's report finds

nikki haley is still, apparently, in the race.ike pence is still apparently thinking about it. but none of them have had much to say, at least nothing critical, about the front runner. at some point that is going to have to change if any of them want to beat him. my first guess is something someone that is deciding in the next few weeks if he will jump in and in the run up to a possible announcement governor chris chris sununu has not been afraid to throw a punch, or two, or three. he certainly didn't hold back when i sat down with him this week. >> the former president was, of course, in your home state for a town hall this week. he repeated the big lie, called january six a, quote, beautiful day. mocked a person who he sexually assaulted according to a jury. i know you said you would vote for him if he's the nominee, but watching that, hearing that. is that still? -- >> he's not going to be the nominee. i used to say that is a hypothetical but everyone is reassessing, even some of his supporters are saying this can't be the mess

nikki haley was on hugh hewitt this morning and said i'm not going to weigh in on that.table for the republican candidates if they do weigh in on that. >> can i say something? nikki haley going after don lemon for his comments, i get it, i understand why nobody liked those comments. but that's more offensive to nikki haley than a jury finding donald trump liable for sexually assaulting her? >> she worked for donald trump. >> is there no sense of standards and proportion here? >> i don't think there is a sense of proportion when you're going to face him in a republican primary. i think that's the problem we're talking about. and, remember, when you take on donald trump frontally, as chris christie is doing, and we know he's very capable of doing that, asa hutchinson as well, marco rubio, in 2016 did that. and it backfired. >> he did it late. >> yes, but it backfired. >> and poorly. >> and poorly. but the question is how do you do it well. and that question has not yet been answered, really. and maybe chris christie will be able to do it, but will he be considered a bully

tim scott joining nikki haley in the race today. who is your favorite?they are both residents of the low country and my district. tim scott is the eternal optimist. i love his positive message. and nikki haley has always been a fighter, who has never lost a campaign. so as a fellow south carolinian, i stand very proud today to see both of my constituents in the race for president. it's an exciting time and an exciting day in south carolina. >> i like how you refer to them as your constituents. >> they are. it's wild. >> how do your constituents, how can they get attention in a contest where we're seeing the front runner, donald trump, d dominate the race to such a great extnt and he's so ahead in the polls. >> we're still early on. we haven't gotten to summer yet, but donald trump is the man to beat in the republican primary. and we saw the report recently where we saw folks of the administration target him without any evidence. you're going to see that really see him rise because of the way that maga republicans feel that he was targeted when he was pre

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i think a real uphill battle for nikki haley. >> dana: there you have it. we're getting ready for a big week. >> i think so. you look at tim scott, the potential for chris christie even this week. you've got ron desantis. the field is starting to fill out. then we have that debate. we have the first debate gop primary debate in milwaukee in august. by that time, who knows who will be in there >> dana: i'll be there with you now this. >> we expect to be unable to pay all of our bills in early june and possibly as soon as june 1st. i haven't changed my assessment. so i think that's a hard deadline. >> janet yellen reminding us that time is of the essence for the federal government to raise the debt ceiling. ten days to go. president biden and kevin mccarthy are set to resume debt limit talks today. both sides conceding they are still far apart. gillian turner is live on the north lawn of the white house with the latest. good morning, gillian. >> good morning, bret. this week is make or break time for the debt ceiling talks as secretary yellen reminded everybo

i also think that nikki haley will play a prominent role when it comes to foreign policy.mebody that i think, eventually, as time goes on, she will be speaking more and more, coming more forward. >> well, i hope so. >> she is an impressive person, no question. so far, i have not noticed anything, she did have something quite interesting to say about abortion, but she needs to step it up. >> step it up with china. we have a lot of adversaries, a lot of threats looming on the horizon. the american people are smart. the american people are very aware of what is going on. i choose to look at the glass as half-full. i do not want to see it as half empty. we are not going to give this up. >> brilliant. we will see you a bit later. i want to cure your thoughts on memorial day and what this holiday really means. just so you are aware, we have repeatedly asked ron desantis and tim scott to join us for an interview but so far they have not accepted our invitation. we will keep trying. ♪ here is a positive impractical take on a topic everyone is talking about. artificial intelligence

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nikki haley was here had 6 events. she's been here many, many times.whoever comes here has to do with the new hampshire way. it's the old story, what you think about mitt romney?at the gates great. he did a great job in massachusetts. are you gonna vote for him? i need to see him 5 or 6 more times. that's what they needed new hampshire. it starts here. people are gonna weigh and measure all the things president trump has been hammered for. we sleep we all know about it. they will compare to the other people in the race. ultimately as you referenced earlier, if we don't come together after the fact we sulk and we moan and we groaned we don't get behind who the ultimate nobody is. we will have a repeat of what just happened. >> doug, let's go back to that pole. 66 percent of americans are saying it would be an unmitigated disaster if joe biden were reelected. he's not on the ballot in the new hampshire primary. i guess he's banking strongly on south carolina. his strategy is not really paying off. if rfk junior with 20+ percent of the vote now? that's a

candidate nikki haley blasted the governor of florida, ron desantis over his tug-of-war with disney.ntis took $50,000 worth of contributions from disney prior to this. he took their executives and lobbyists and put them on prominent state boards. passed the largest corporate subsidies in florida history right before this. suddenly they criticize you and you have thin skin and do a lawsuit the cost taxpayer dollars. stuart: democrats are salivating at this, warfare among the gop. >> i have to call nikki haley out on this because it wasn't actually that they criticize ron desantis but a bill backed by floridians that was interested in defending, they view, their children, from the kind of woke left as they are tired of. they decided to wait into an area of politically fraught culture wars they've not engaged on before. let's not talk about who shot first in this situation. it's a situation where disney got involved in something they shouldn't have. it was a mistake and ron desantis and floridians are pretty united in the front that says the war on disney, got to back off, stick to what

the big question is who is nikki haley?ghting against the confederate flag and stood up against the base of her party and have not seen that yet in the primary, and it could get interesting even starting on the audible and awkward conversation with elon musk. the race is now beginning. we will see if desantis hits his high or will have another resurgence in the case. >> yeah, and many pitting desantis as an alternative to trump. he trails, depending on the poll you look at, he trails donald trump by 30 points. donald trump is the runaway favorite at this moment. >> i said it earlier, but desantis has only gone down since his peak in november. you look at where he sits. he's closer to nikki haley and closer to mike pence and candidates that are single digit than he is donald trump. i think you don't want to have the expectations that are so huge for ron desantis right now that has been this imaginary two-person race. it really is just donald trump right now. >> all right. we will have much more on donald trump's legal woes,

i do think tim scott, nikki haley and ron desantis are all good folks and what they've done.f where they stand. i'm not sure that i believe politicians can get it done, republican or democrat. that's probably why the one person that stands out to me is vivek ramaswamy. i've listen to multiple podcasts on him. he's trumpesque on his policy, but very ronald reaganesque on his delivery. >> martha: interesting. last question to you. in our new polling, 51% say that they see donald trump as a strong leader. 33% see president biden as a strong leader. does that -- do you feel that way? do you feel like in these times we need something who has had the experience of being in the office? >> well, i feel that biden is an awful leader. i feel that trump was a better leader but i think ron desantis will be better than that. >> martha: thank you all so much. as we said, 18 months or so to go. i hope you join us again as we move through this really important process for the country of picking the next president of the united states. rick and johnny and rya, thanks very much. >> thank you.

nikki haley made that comment without a single shred of evidence.p in a joint session of congress for the state of the union before the whole world and joust without a script and keep up? of course not. he's a pretty hard-working guy. it's a strong day and a strong week and a lot of travel that he does. >> some democrats don't have a problem with his age. others say they wish he was younger, but they'll vote for him. some said his age is an issue. some because they believe in a mental decline, physical decline. others for these reasons. here they are. >> i think across the board everywhere we need younger people to be in charge. >> i feel he's too old because he'll be too disconnected with the younger generation. that's a factor. >> of course that would apply to, if trump is the nominee, trump as well. what do you say to that? >> i think that's, again, nonsense and bias. benjamin franklin was 82 years old when he pulled together the great compromise. abraham haryman was in his 90s, our best statesman had wisdom and age. those folks, who would they r

just ask my wife, nikki haley, what she said. need one of those but i'm take the same one that the other guy took. i don't care. remember that one, the person, woman, man, cam remarks tv, repeat that back. person, radio, record player, phone graph. my wife's a doctor, you know the thing. done. look. put that in your pipe and stuff it down and meet me behind the five and dime, jack. [cheers and applause] >> greg: kayleigh wouldn't it be great if publicly, because we know it's going to be trump versus joe, to do ken situate tests on tv. >> kayleigh: that would be fun. i heard trump talk so many times about taking one of these steps, he's clearly confident beyond bounds and knew what he was doing with it in command unlike joe biden. i never thought i would have bernie sanders on my bingo card today. he talked about letting the american people make that reputation. and it's kind of right because it doesn't take a rocket sigh activities to look at joe biden and say he's not competent, he shakes hair with air. he takes on a guy like co

so i think that i saw that nikki haley came out. a republican presidential candidate.es that so i thins realizes the ball is in their court, from what i can gather, there's movement to create bipartisan legislation and i will be, you know, there doing everything i can to push for this legislation and advocate. and i think it is actually going to be easier to get something like this done than it will be to pass new gun legislation. so i'm hopeful. listen, congress has been in a tizzy about a.i.? well, a. irgs is already here and it is called social media. >> you just mentioned nikki haley. let's listen to what she had to say and talk about it. >> you go to those tech companies and you say, because they said we can't control what other people say. we can't be held liable. but now we see, they decide what gets pushed. they decide what they do. it's not about free speech. so i think we pull section 230 back. >> andy, i talked to somebody in big tech recently about some of the this. this person said, criticism from some saying we have too much content on these websites, and

mike pence at 7%, nikki haley at 3%.ormer governor chris christie 2%, former governor asa hutchinson 2% and about 4% mentioned someone else. recent polling shows biden and trump leading voters as their respective parties nominees. the question for you come are you prepared to support biden or trump, or would you prefer someone else? if you think biden should be president, we want you to call us at (202) 748-8000. if you think trump deserves to return to the white house, call us at (202) 748-8001. if you support another candidate or think another candidate should be president, we want you to call us at (202) 748-8002. the next caller is dennis from garden city, michigan. you are a biden supporter. caller: i am. you know, i prefer may be somebody else to run that is a little younger for democrats, but the republican party with trump, i cannot support them at all. they have no credibility. they did not believe election results. he is murdered and all kinds of legal issues and -- he is in all kinds of legal issues and he is

nikki haley and asa hutchinson. i am told to expect some presit trump mike pence sometimes in june.r tim scott may be earlier. we'll see some movement inrema when does ron desantis gets in and if he gets in. he spent the last week traveling abroad going to japan and the u.k. and israel. he now comes back to florida for the final week of his legislative session. we are told here at abc news to expect the presidential explorer committee sometimes next week. >> it is a rough few weeks for desantis it looks for trump for all his legal woes is as strong as ever. >> i want to hone in on the last three months of fox news polling on the presidential primary. donald trump only gaining strengths since february. now, the choice of a clear majority of republican primary voters. resantis, dro t a cple s been losin tt voter share, the only candidate who seems to be gaining ground is donald trump. the other candidates stuck in the mid or low single digits. despite that fact, it is ron desantis who's taking the brunt and the harshest attack in the republican primary field as it is emerging. disney

when you look, at let's say tim scott, nikki haley, what are they thinking about tonight? the debt ceiling or desantis? >> i agree with sam on this. i think this race is gonna be more defined and unpredictable external events than anything a campaign does tactically. i think donald trump is for all intents and purposes the incumbent. though he doesn't hold the office, he is the incumbent. and the only way you beat an incumbent of your own party is that some external events happen that disrupts the race and array that to our opportunities a chance. so that's really the only way. that could be the debt, sealing we don't know how it plays out and we will talk about that in a bit. but it also could be, who knows what. illegal structure and illegal cases surrounding donald trump over the next year and a half are gonna do to him fundamentally. so i think this race is much much much more contingent on external factors than it is on internal dynamics. >> sam do you think the biden white house is counting too heavily on trump being the potential opponent? >> maybe, yeah. there obvi

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he's not quite as advanced in that process as nikki haley or mike pompeo or mike pence. but i it certainly looks like he's interested in that and very well may give it a go. he i think he filled fills and occupies a similar space to glenn youngkin that governor of virginia right now, you know, an executive leader, somebody who's a little bit more business oriented, not not the bomb thrower, sort of trump republican, but rather like a restoration of like an old republican party. so we'll see if he can build a following on that. i don't know if he's actually going to run, but he's certainly is in the mix. andy read light is flashing at me, which says our time is over with, but thank you so much for being

ask yourself, can that be undone by a nikki haley or tim scott? can you reverse the pull and attraction towards in-your-face republicanism. this isn't about a morning in america conversation. the base is looking for someone who will break things and tear things up. i'm wondering how they juks pose their morning in america message against a base that is like, okay, when the sun comes up, we're taking on everybody. what do you do with that? that's why i say in order to deal with this in the first instance, you've got to go with it. you can't wish it away or create a positive narrative and think that's going to be enough. just my view. >> wasn't the line "i believe in a place called hope." that was a long time ago. michael steele will be back with me. >>> ten days until the default deadline and hours between a key meeting between the president and the house speaker. how both sides are preparing. we've got it in just 60 seconds. . ♪ tourists tourists that turn into scientists. tourists taking photos that are analyzed by ai. so researchers can help lif

. >> tim, i want to bring to your attention nikki haley. she's been so cautious about criticizing donald trump. she's been going to the primary states, the republican primary states. she's got a new ad up now, 30 seconds. let's watch. >> make america great again! >> make america great again. >> instead calling the russia invasion a territorial dispute. some republicans on the hill with tough words for desantis. >> do you want ukraine to win this war? >> i don't think in terms of winning and losing. anybody here would do it. judges are a priority. >> honestly, we have businesses that have been locked down and lives destroyed. ♪♪ >> a choice not an echo. tim, you and i have heard that before. >> yeah. >> this sints interesting afterm scott jumped into the race. >> i find that to be a compelling ad for reaching me as a never trump republican. i don't know how well that's going to work with republican primary voters who like donald trump. the core voter, the swing voter, if you will, in the republican primary is someone that likes donald trump,

. 53% of republicans see trump as their top choice, desantis about half that and then pence and nikki haleyis is about name recognition and having the money to convince voters that you can win here. >> right. and that to me is the test for ron desantis as well. as he gets out there, he's an official candidate because his hands were tied in the recent months. now that he's actually campaigning, he's going to show up at these rallies. will he be able to increase his support? right now trump is besting him in the polls 2-1. he's got a lot of ground to make up. will he do it once people get to know him or his retail politics aren't the greatest and it could turn voters off. that will be the test in the coming weeks. >> this race just getting under way. >>> next, california senator dianne feinstein returned to the capitol but questions remain if she will finish out her term and what california voters are saying and for the race to replace her in 2024. helping them achieve financial freedom. we'rere investing for our cliens in the projects that power our ececonomy. from the plains to the c coast,

nikki hanikki haley. she might have to duke it out with senator scott for kamala's job. she him pressive moments, i love her idea of mass competency tests, but i don't think she will find the traction in a field growing more crowded by the day, chris sununu seems nice and tough, great, but the later the long shots wait to declare, the less ink and oxygen awaits them when they enter the race here, met with desantis last week, in live for your die state, i would love to know the contents of that powwow, he won't win but he will boost his profile, maybe get a sick ass cabinet post, and our 45 president donald j trump, i don't disagree with desantis he probably can't win general but precovid economic record is untouchable. candidates would be smart to pick apart his covid response, and all other deficits that drive independents away from him, he may not be discipline enough to talk about anything but his on i on going legal woes, we're lucky to live in the most interesting political age, so much could ha happen between now and next fall, until then i demand liberty from anyo

nikki haley, 36%.guys with that much smaller pool of republican voters to build off of. at the same time you're talking about lightning in these presidential races. you're looking at potentially this field growing even more. i asked what are they doing? this looks like 2016 when essentially they diluted the field. he said, look, if you believe you can change the united states of america for the better, you're going to do it. you're going to run. if you get lightning to strike, you're in good position. a couple years ago, pete buttigieg and amy klobuchar? i remember when it was kamala harris and others who outlasted them all. if you have pride, hope, belief that you can make the difference in the country, you get in the race. >> a lot of people have done that and a lot of them have failed. lightning striking is a really hard thing. can you manufacturer it? can you plan for it? strategize for it? do you have to count on the fact that both donald trump and ron desantis are going to implode? >> i think the

i think ron desantis, nikki haley, mike pence, they sail easily to the white house in a binary choiceand joe biden. i think with donald trump on the republican ticket, it becomes a referendum on him, and he could lose that race as he did in 2020. that's why i say he is the only republican who could lose. any republican running against trump, you have to convince people that if you really want to beat joe biden, the person to do that is someone other than donald trump. it's hard to do, he is a former president, a commanding lead in the polls, but you have some very talented republicans, it might take something unique, say tim scott and ron desantis teaming up early on, president and vice presidential ticket, which would be unusual but it's an unusual time in american politics, so who knows what could happen? i think we will see a lot of strange things before voting starts in iowa injanuary. do you think republicans want to elect someone other than donald trump? i think 60% of the nation wants somebody other than trump and biden, so the answer is yes but that's not how we elect a presid