John welcome to the journal editorial report. Im Edward Lawrence, the general Election Campaign taking the new cycle, biden trump rematches all but guarantee. Following the exit of nikki haley the former South Carolina governor suspending her campaign after donald trump swept all but One Supertuesday state, haley did not endorse a former president but urged him to unite and grow the Republican Party. It is up to donald trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him. I hope he does that. At its best, politics is about bringing people into your cause, not turning them away. Our conservative cause badly needs more people. This is now his time for choosing. Ed dan heninger and jason riley, the president ial landscape firmed up after supertuesday, we have a heavyweight battle between donald trump and President Biden in the ring, interesting mental note. What is the about of nikki haley due to the republican side of the ticket . It leaves part of the republican side of the ticket unfilled. Nikki haley, are shout out to what she accomplished. When she got into the race she reached polling of 1 and she was contending against significant and accomplished governess, chris christie, rhonda santos, asa hutchinson, doug burnham, she rose to the top, defeated them all. When she ran against donald trump she attracted 20 to 25 of the republican votes. What nikki haley has established is that there are 25 of the republican electorate out there at the moment does not seem to be prepared to vote for donald trump. Going forward, how many of them would come over . Nikki haley has carved out an area of the political spectrum on the republican or conservative side, that donald trump will need to address Going Forward if he is ready to build a coalition to get himself elected. Edward how does he get nikki brody nikki haley voters in his camp . One question is if he cares about the fact that she refused to endorse him. That was shrewd on her part. He is saying there are issues people were very attracted to me on. A Foreign Policy, greater focus on reducing spending and dealing with entitlements and the clear message is why dont you think about those issues a little harder, try to modulate your positions and then you can get my endorsement and i can bring those voters to your side. That would be the smart move on his part, the question is does he do it, or does he bull ahead. Hes looking at polls right now that show the vast majority, upwards of 90 of those who voted for him last time around say they will vote for him again. He has got to try to reach out. He might do that or he might go ahead with the idea that whatever he does people are going to care more about seeing a republican beating President Biden than the specifics of his policies or candidacy. Edward the people who wont support donald trump, people who will never vote for him sit on the sidelines or do they vote for President Biden . That is the big question. He will need those people. Even with nikki haleys supporters, they probably arent enough to put him past the finish line. He will need independence and some democrats and there has been polling out there that certain groups, hes doing pretty well with, nonwhite voters in particular, blacks and hispanics, people the Democratic Party can usually rely on are giving a look at trump. Hes got 25 , 1 4 say they will vote for donald trump and he is winning the Hispanic Vote against biden. That is good news for him and we will see if he can keep that up. The Republican Party decided on someone early and can try to rally behind a single individual. The bad news it is not trump the strongest General Election candidate. He did dominate the primary race, but the polls do show he is leading President Biden, but nikki haley in 1on1s with biden was leading by a much larger margin, 8 or 9 , the republicans dont think electability is an issue with donald trump but that remains to be seen. He may not be the strongest challenger standing. Edward how lucky will the election get now that we know who it is . Really ugly. A candidate on one side, donald trump calling his opponent crooked joe, and joe biden on the other side saying his opponent, donald trump, is a threat to the future of american democracy. Put that down as a baseline and there will be a lot of mud slung in this campaign. Edward Still Rapidfire around here. Gavin newsom, does President Biden need to be on the ticket or is there a change . We saw and invigorated president in the State Of The Union. President biden and donald trump have a codependency. Both getting their nominations because they both knew the other side was weak within their party. Think of where President Biden will be looking if he nominated a more youthful, dynamic person. Nikki haley was dominating in the polls and vice versa. I have always thought the party that decide they are going to switch it up and go in new direction is going to have an advantage in this. At this point its getting harder to either party get rid of their front runner nominee. Edward i wish we had all day to talk about this but we have to move on. A series of recent poll shows trouble for the 80 whenyearold Commander In Chief as he prepares to faces 2020 rival. The last clinton pollster, mark penn, what President Biden needs to do. With moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, my skin was no longer mine. My active Psoriatic Arthritis joint symptoms held me back. Dont let symptoms define you. Emerge as you. With tremfya®, most people saw 90 clearer skin at 4 months. And the majority stayed clearer, at 5 years. 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President bidens pitch seemed to be elected me and i will bring a host of tax increases. Is that the right message . I was puzzled by that is a matter of economic policy, he didnt really propose antiinflationary plan. He said the economy is doing well and it is time the rich pay their fair share of taxes and he had an array of tax increases. I thought that was one of the Weaker Sections of the speech, since it didnt make sense in terms of economic policy. Edward the administration is shying away, the president announced a strike force, the doj, talking about illegal pricing after the Cookie Monster posted on x shrink Inflation Hit his cookies. Why did it take Cookie Monster to speak up during an Election Year for the strike force to do that . Why not do that a couple years ago when inflation was 9 . I disagree with the premise of your question. It did not take Cookie Monster. It feels like Cookie Monster is responding to us and what we have been saying. The president is blaming companies for inflation and it seems weve heard that over the last few years. China is to blame. Our voters buying this . Voters are not buying the president isnt responsible for this economy. After these years you own the economy. In 96, we were successful in reshaping peoples views of the economy. People think it was bad to people thinking it was good. They tried that. Hasnt worked yet. It is a little late because 2 thirds still think the economy is in the wrong direction and the whole junk fees shrinking package is saying while fun and bite sized which we used to do a lot of, i dont think it deals with the big issues people are dealing with which is housing, food, gasoline. Edward former president clinton did it. Is there still time for the president to make a pivot and people around him are willing to do that . He could make a pivot about the economy. Things are pretty good. Once the fed starts to cut interest rates, declares inflation over, if it happens in the next couple of months may be immigration will still be a big issue but the economy could fade or move to a more neutral position. Reporter look at this poll. 61 of registered voters think the president mostly failed on the economy and this is the big one. 58 of voters think the Biden Administration mostly failed in helping the Working Class from a president who talks about an economy from the bottom up in the middle out. Is this a perception thing or middle to low income families truly feel this . Middle to low income families feel the wages have been going down, inflation and cost of been going up and they feel the administration has not sufficiently addressed it. That is where the president was in danger of being too pollyanna shed his approach to Working Class is typically to push unions and unionization and they are only a small part of the Working Class. Eric did the president adequately layout a future vision people can grab onto . What i think he did in this address was to deliver a Democratic Convention speech very effectively. He gave lots of democratic red meat, Prescription Drug benefits, all sorts of new programs. More taxes on the wealthy. Democrats received it pretty well. He went specifically to bring women and suburban women and was careful to talk about abortion and steak those out as democratic issues and to show that he was vigorous and can handle the campaign. Those were his goals come bring in the base, vote for the women who are in the suburbs and show you are vigorous and he accomplished those goals. Edward it wasnt a speech about unity. Just talking to people he needed to reach in its base. Its a very divided Democratic Party. It was not aimed to that. It was aimed to shore up the base and in many ways it was a political speech but that is what they decided to do, waiting until after supertuesday, going after their opponent, leveraging this opportunity. It moved away from being president ial into being political but maybe it is just what he needed to do. Edward great insight, thank you for the conversation. When we come back, with americans in a sour mood headed into the general Election CampaignPresident Biden calling for reset in the State Of The Union. See how he did next. The right s without over or under investing. So you can feel confident in your financial choices. Voya, well planned, well invested, well protected. Oh what a good time we will have you. Can make it happen. Try Dietary Supplements from voltaren for healthy joints. On medicare . Have diabetes . When enjoying lifes special moments, are you left guessing which foods are right for you . 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Edward the highstakes state of the Union Address as President Biden attempted to hit the reset on his election bid, delivering a speech that sounded more like a Campaign Rally as he attacked the former president , donald trump. President biden my predecessor, former republican president tells Vladimir Putin, quote, do whatever the hell you want. My predecessor, and some of you here, seem to bury the truth about january 6th. I will not do that. Predecessor was determined to see Roe Versus Wade overturned. He was the reason it was overturned and he brags about it. Predecessor failed the most basic president ial duty that he owes to the American People, a duty to care. Edward 13 times President Biden said my predecessor was the most partisan state of the Union Address i have ever heard. What is your take on it . This is going to be about character assassination. Thats the lane President Biden is going to run in. I dont know how much more hes going to get out of that. All the faults with Donald Trumps character at this point, it has been public life for years. Not sure how much mileage President Biden will get out of it. We saw some things that will hit on january 6th, trump wants to run on his prepandemic record. President biden cannot run on his record so he wants to run on donald trump being a threat to democracy. We will see what prevails. My guess is voters, you are not going to learn anything new about january 6th and donald trump from President Biden. Hes got to address these Economic Issues that is really driving and motivating trump voters and supporters and even some democrats in terms of switching sides from november. Edward independents are upset about prices. There was not a lot of unity in the State Of The Union speech, he was mainly talking to his base, trying to hold voters, right . It was a Campaign Rally speech, no question, rather than State Of The Union but there are political applications. One of them is President Bidens presidency has effectively stopped as of this moment. There are Foreign Policy issues, the war in the middle east, he has to deal with directly, but domestically, it is over. He spent so much of that Speech Baiting and insulting republicans, these are the republicans still in congress who he presumably needs to vote for the aide for ukraine bill and i think he put that at risk. Secondly, immigration. He touted the compromise, the way he talked about it guaranteed the Immigration Bill is dead. President bidens for better or worse spend the next 8 months of his presidency in reelection mode because he is not going to get report cooperation from the republicans in congress after that performance. Edward there was a subtle shift about his age. I want you to listen to this. He started to talk about his age. When you get be my age, some things are clearer than ever. My lifetime taught me to embrace freedom and democracy. A future based on core values the defined america. Honesty, decency, dignity, equality and other people my agency it differently. The american story of resentment, revenge and retribution must not be. Edward the message started with Hillary Clinton saying instead of bringing President Bidens Mental Fitness up, they are trying to tell people donald trump has the same issues. That and they are trying to turn this for President Biden into some sort of benefit for him, that his age is not a problem for him. It is not dealing with his competence or undermining his term in office but turns into the Wise Old Statesman who has seen it all. Poppa joe up there leaving everything and letting us know how to find the best way. I think theres a couple problems. I give him credit. One big question in the State Of The Union was how was President Biden going to perform. He had energy. Not sure yelling at america for 66 minutes is the right tone. It certainly looks like he was alive and awake. The problem is that has to be contrast