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hello and welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. volodymyr zelenskyy's tour ends with a promise of more missiles and more drones but ukraine's big skiz still tbd. he wants fighter jets. plus ron desantis plays the every man in iowa while neither snow more rain nor heat does not apply when it comes to scheduling a trump rally. the former president does find a way to remind us who he is and what he believes. and real or not real. the white house sounds hopeful about avoiding a debt ceiling cliff and the president calls the...

Picked for vice president. and you have to wonder if that's the calculation for former governor perry or nikki haley or any of the other candidates, which is why they aren't necessarily coming out punching trump in the face because they think they could end up in a trump administration or on the vp list. >> okay. it gets complicated before it gets not complicated. up next, north carolina's democratic governor vetoes a 12-week abortion ban. will a new republican super majority override the governor? might this debate impact how the state factors in 2024? to finally lose 80 pounds and keep it ...

>> a republican told me conversely, jose, that it looks like the first black women and the first latino had been elected to statewide office here and they are republicans. and one final note, you mentioned that statement that was put out by terry mcauliffe, a concession. i just heard from his campaign. they say that is his concession. do not expect a formal concession speech or to see him on camera today. jose? >> chris, thanks. and larry, what were the issues, the main issues that made a difference in virginia? >> well, it was a combination of national and state factors. the national factors ...

Lieutenant governor also currently republican bill bowling, thinking about jumping in to the race as an independent. once he's in, terry mcauliffe with a slight lead and then the bigger question. we have had several high level business leaders in virginia coming out saying they're uncomfortable with ken cuccenelli and broader concerns his policies moves virginia out of the extreme or not electable in virginia. are you concerned about that? >> let me put it this way. gubernatorial races in virginia are 80% national and 20% state. the last election follows the presidential election by a year. th...

Mark kirk has to be in good shape. >> well, look, sam's right. there are a lot of local and state factors that may not be part of the national scene. the reality is 2010, illinois is a purple state like it used to be. that is danger for the democratic party. they can't afford a state that had become solidly blue in the clinton years going back to purple. >> and mika, we talked about, last week, beau biden deciding not to run. we have a very real possibility. it's a long way off. a long way off. but a very real possibility that the senate seats that were held the night barack obama was elected ...