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Incentives that treat everybody fairly or we shouldnt have them at all. >> neil: governor, knowing i would have you today, its interested. fox has these power rankings. they show some of the battleground states, yours not surprisingly among them but the odds favor democrats right now in the 2024 election up all the way to the presidency. does that surprise you as things stands now? >> i havent seen the power rankings. i had a very successful 2022 re-elect against a very strong well-funded nation...

Significant day for the first time ever. were going to see a former president surrendered to authorities on criminal charges again. you can see katelyn polantz. the courthouse should be reporting. there it is. tuesday its april 4th 2023. were gonna get started with five things to know. for today. first of course, donald trump expected to be arraigned in the afternoon before returning to mar-a-lago for a news conference . he added a new attorney to his team just yesterday well discuss. and overni...

Cameras in court, but still photographers will be allowed to take pictures before proceedings began. but no tv cameras inside . also today 45 million americans facing the threat of severe weather, including tornadoes, threat spans areas that were recently hard hit. also today, voters in chicago head to the polls again to elect the citys next mayor. election officials report that turnout in this runoff is far ahead of previous run offs. and to basketball. the yukon huskies have done it again, win...

Tunisia opened polls on Sunday for run-offs in a parliamentary election that drew only an 11% turnout in the first round last month.

Runoff elections all together. if you watched this network, you probably know there have been a bunch of runoffs in georgia, three of them all together, and secretary of state brad raffensperger says this puts an extra burden on election workers and campaigns and voters and he floated three options that could replace the runoff, rank choice voting, a lower threshold candidates would need to reach to avoid a runoff and pushing third party candidates off the ballot all together. lets bring in a po...

Inefficient, and this is exhausting. weve had two runoffs in a row that have laxed over the thanksgiving holidays and back in 2020, nine weeks over new years and christmas and hanukkah as well but it is not easy to change, as flawed as the system is because you need buy-in on a new overhaul. and no one is quite sure what that replacement system should be. it raises debate over ranked choice voting. a debate of a plurality system and 45% and you win and some lawmakers who want to keep the current...

Call to change the run-off system. there are a lot of democrats who had called for changes as well before. it wont cut clearly along party lines. clearly though, what we do know is that not only did senator warnock win the last two runoffs, we have won in november had there been a plurality-based decision. because he actually got more votes than herschel walker, he just didnt pass that 50% threshold in georgia. >> greg, thank you. still to come, survivors of the club q shooting in colorado spr...

State. republicans had objected to the idea, which is being pushed by democrats. a section of georgia law says the early in person balloting is not allowed saturday because friday is a state holiday. democrats insist that applies only to primaries and general elections, not run-offs. up next, the panel on student loan repayments, the possible return of mask mandates and what president biden should be thankful for this holiday. first, here is what some of our fox affiliates around the country are...

Basis, hell be hard to speech. the speech tonight against the biden administration charts a winning path for him in the primaries and general election. democrats have a different perspective, the national committee writes, quote, "today is a kickoff to what will be a messy primary. the dnc will be ready for them all," many republicans had pushed the former president trump wait to declare until after the december 6th, georgias run offs. fox analysis had trumps success race in highly competitive r...

Possible, but what gabriel sterling and brad raffensperger have said is their attorneys reviewed the law, and they dont think its possible, and that they basically misspoke. this all, as you mentioned, comes as a result of that new election law, and we know, even when that law was being debated, reporters like me and my colleagues at the ajc asked republicans, why are you doing this? they didnt have a clear answer. it was apparent that a lot of the changes that republicans implemented in senate ...