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And fox caught up with him as he was at the donor event in florida and he said he s still not sure if he s going to run in 2024. we think we ve got time to be reflective, to be discerning and listen, and my wife and i believe we will have a clear sense of our call sometime this spring and i promise to keep you posted. as i mentioned, trump is going to be the final speaker at today s event, but just a few hours before he comes on stage, we re going to get the results of the cpac straw poll. the people that come to this conference they have a chance to pick out who they would like to be who they would like to see as their 2024 nominee. given the crowd i ve seen so far, i would imagine that trump is absolutely going to come out ahead, maybe just ahead of neil cavuto there, neil. neil: i don t think so. and not for just even for being on a list like that. thank you, mark meredith. ....
all right. duelling presidential candidates, you re going to have donald trump speaking at cpac tonight in maryland and also, ron desantis at a club for growth private donor event in palm beach, florida. so, he, that is governor desantis is not opting to attend cpac. don t know whether that will hurt or health. but now the latest from cpac in maryland. good morning to you, former president trump is likely to get a warm welcome when he takes the stage behind me later on this afternoon. he is the final speaker at this year s cpac event. as you mentioned there are notable names missing, including florida governor ron desantis. he decide today skip the conference. he s spoken to it in the past. i would say we ve seen a smaller turnout this year compared to the last two years. this is the first time it was in maryland since it was in florida during the pandemic. organizers say they re with the ....
Board and do their own race while donald trump is looking at a potential challenger and he s the one playing defense. neil: you know, you don t put a lot in polls at this point, but i m wondering if there s a risk to desantis not answering some of the attack lines from trump, and his own poll numbers look pretty good. what do you make of that? well, i m looking at it neil from a fund raising point of view, obviously. what i would do if i were advising desantis, i would have told him do what he s doing, not sunny cpac, skip that, go to the club for growth. as we all know, we re familiar with that pac, they like to play in primaries. they re not scared of anything and they have got some of the major bundlers in the united states that will put up hard cash and you know, some of the club for growth super pac ....
Open border is the right policy for the country and you can see the effects of that, the results of that and it s pretty staggering. neil: not all on the same page there. senator, always good seeing you. thank you for telling us how the visit went and what you discovered. thanks. neil: in the meantime, former president trump is going to be speaking at cpac tonight or late this afternoon, actually. no visit with ron desantis. none. at least at cpac. tion is to pf your high-rate debt to lower your monthly payments. at newday we make it easy. our newday 100 loan lets you combine your first mortgage, your second mortgage, your high-rate credit cards, personal loans and car loans into one, low monthly payment. so you can save hundreds every month. and at newday, there s not one dollar upfront to apply. give us a call. ....
People that they ve produced, have been people like senator tom cotton. senator cruz, so they have been disrupters in the fund raising world. so, like i said, i would have advised desantis to skip cpac, all it s going to do, neil, is put trump versus desantis and people are going to, in the media, see how that they re, you know, treating each other, and did they say anything, whose speech was better. neil: yeah, maybe. and the straw polls. we predict trump at cpac to probably win the straw poll there. neil: you know, phil, i m just wondering, we re following the money guys, as we should, that can lead to who is getting the original early on bets. but i remember, eight years ago, jeb bush was getting a lot of that money and we know what happened there. are we putting too much, no pun intended, stock in that? i think that noelle is absolutely right. ....