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welcome to in inside politics. i m john king in washington. releasing right now, a brand new snapshot of the republican presidential race. our new poll finds donald trump up big, but it s an important but. voters say they are open to supp supporting ron desantis, who presses the start button on his campaign tonight. the former lawyers want an audience with the attorney general to complain about the special counsel and his investigation. and just moments ago, the house speaker saud he s sending negotiators to the white house. he insists he s conceded a lot. this happening as they pull back the curtain on how the former chief of staff is steering hard right conservatives in this fight over whether they pay their bills. we begin with a big day in the republican 2024 nomination chase. the florida governor ron desantis officially enters the fray tonight. anunsing his run in a conversation with the elon musk. it s a big play on the social media platform critical to donald ....
top of the hour on cnn newsroom. so good to have you. i m victor black well. i m bianna. less than two weeks until election day and new twists may shake up some key races. in georgia where the tied u.s. senate race could determine which party will have future control, republican candidate herschel walker is facing a second allegation that he paid for an ex-girlfriend s abortion. walker is calling this a lie. the unnamed woman says she is an independent who voted for donald trump and was walker s mistress in the early 90s. he has taken the position that he is, quote, about life, end quote, and against abortion under any circumstances when, in fact, he pressured me to have an abortion and personally ensured that it occurred by driving me to the clinic and paying for it. and in arizona, phoenix police say they ve made an arrest at a democratic candidate s headquarters specifically here, we re talking about the campaign office of ka ka katie hobbs, the democratic n ....
Chase. the florida governor ron desantis officially enters the fray tonight. anunsing his run in a conversation with the elon musk. it s a big play on the social media platform critical to donald trump s rise and some brand new poll numbers we are releasing now tell us a ton about the current republican mind set. ron desantis is a very distant second to donald trump. but he runs way ahead of anyone not named trump. when you dive deeper into the numbers, you do see a potential ron desantis pathway for the nomination. david chalon is with us to walk through the numbers. what do we know? as you noted narcotics n, in that overall horse race, donald trump has a big lead at 53% of republican and republican-leaning independents, first choice for the 2024 nomination, donald trump. this is a national poll. 26% say ron desantis. he has half the support of donald trump he s in a universe ....
Pickup. as you noted that gubernatorial race between kathy hochul and lee zeldin is uncomfortably close for democrats in deep blue new york, but that is where the president can sort of go and show up at this moment because then a lot of the true tossup races, he s just not being welcomed there right now. david, let me stay with you and talk about the rallies announced by the former president, donald trump. he s got four rallies, iowa, pennsylvania, ohio, florida, put an asterisk behind florida because he s not campaigning for both the top republicans there. some of these are really tight races. candidates who have been trying to moderate their positions or messages since the primary. does he help in oz in pennsylvania? does he help a vance in ohio with it so close in their attempts to kind of play to those independents? yeah. the trump team as you can see ....
A republican rival kari lake mocked the camp for tying the crime to the election calling it jussi smollett part two, which refers to the actor convicted of lying to police. we re also watching president biden this afternoon. he is expected to speak this hour from syracuse about the economy and the election. and joining us now is cnn political analyst and david chalon. good to have both of you with us. this herschel walker news and i ll start with you, margaret, he s now making jokes about it. he says that, well, i didn t kill jfk either. it doesn t seem like it that the voters in georgia, the republican voters are making any moves based on this, and the republican, i guess, establishment didn t make any moves because it comes down to an equation and they need georgia. yeah, victor. i think that s right, and i think the calculation in terms of the gop is that this is sort of baked in now, and it s not, ....