Let's move on to the president.
The incumbent president
who announced his candidacy
yesterday took questions in the Rose
Garden with the South Korean president
who is here
visiting is the first time
the president taking questions
from reporters in a while
and certainly the first time
since he officially declared
his candidacy.
He's looked at the polls.
He was asked about the polls.
Even a lot of Democrats say
I think he's maybe too old to run
the president says I'll prove them wrong.
How old I am.
I can't even say the number I've done.
Don't register with me.
I'm going to judge
whether or not I have it
or don't have it.
I respect them taking a hard look at it.
I take a hard look at it as well.
I took a hard
look at it before I decided to run.
And I feel good.
I feel excited about the prospects.
And I think we're on the verge of really
turning the corner
in a way we have in a long time.
That's the president's answer.
Here are two of the Republicans
at the bottom of the pack,
Nikki Haley
and Tim Scott, former governor
and the current senator
from South Carolina.
They every day
take issue with the president's age.
If you vote for Joe Biden,
you really are
counting on a president Harris,
because the idea
that he would make it
until 86 years old is not
is not something that I think is likely
That should be a scary proposition.
The only thing worse than a Joe
Biden presidency is a Kamala
Harris presidency.
It's an interesting tactic
in the Republican primary.
Look, general election voters
will settle this.
The president has no serious
primary challenge at the moment,
but the Republicans
making it about Harris
as much as making it about Biden.
And look,
the polling has shown
that Democrats, in terms
of those across
America,
are not necessarily enthused
about another Biden campaign.
But what I hear from liberal groups
and progressive
is that they're their members understand
what's at stake
in this election in their words.
And you can see that
President Biden's
first ad,
it takes aim at that argument
that you have a choice here.
Democrat see freedom.
If these are things that you care about,
then vote for Joe Biden.
And that's certainly a case
we continue to expect him to make,
but also
look for him to focus on the economy.
Tonight, Donald Trump is in New Hampshire
looking to cement his Republican
frontrunner status
by courting voters
in what
on the Republican calendar
is still the first in the nation
primary state.
New campaign TV
ad spending shares that same goal.
The sharp attack on Trump's closest
campaign rival,
Ron DeSantis, was
struggling big time in his primary race
for governor of Florida.
Polls reveal
dissenters was feeling so bad,
he was losing by a staggering 17 points.
Then DeSantis was saved
by the endorsement of President Trump
instead of being grateful.
DeSantis is now
attacking
the very man who saved his career.
A great report is back
to the table with us.
Trump has a formidable lead.
If you look at the latest Fox poll,
it's even going up.
He was at 43% in February.
He's a 53% now.
DeSantis goes from 28 to 21.
Everybody else is way down.
And yet they've decided
that's Trump campaign money.
It's not super PAC money
to essentially try to push to Santos
even more. Why? Right.
Because they feel that he is their most,
most formidable
threat in a Republican primary,
which is why they're going after him
so aggressively.
I mean, you've talked
there's been,
you know, months ago
when we sort of started to talk
about the 20, 24 conversation.
People characterize Ron DeSantis
as sort of the Trump
penis without the Trump chaos.
So of course, he would start to become
a viable alternative.
To the former president.
The former
presidency recognize it
and are trying to bludgeon him
as much as possible,
even before he makes the decision
to formally run,
which we expect to happen
sometime next month.
And the problem for DeSantis right now
is that he can't really fight back.
You know, he is not an official candidate. He does.
There is an affiliate of super PAC
defending him and promoting him.
But that's not a campaign operation.
So perhaps
if and when he becomes a candidate,
the numbers do change a little.
He is able to fight back, but he hasn't.
And no one has really taken
the opportunity
to bludgeon Trump
because they're
all afraid of the Trump voters,
afraid of angering the base.
That's the key point.
If you're trying to be Trump
without the drama,
which is the DeSantis M.O.
in this campaign,
attacking Trump
might cost
you more votes than it gets you,
which is why it's hard.
He's also in this big fight with Disney.
He's trying to take away
essentially government
autonomy Disney has over its land
that's a bit of an overstatement,
but it's the relative autonomy
Disney has over land.
DeSantis says it shouldn't exist anymore
because he doesn't like
some of Disney's policies.
He calls them to Walt.
Disney is now suing the governor
Governor Santos is in Israel
today, part of an international tour,
and he says the suit is bogus.
I don't think the suit has merit.
I think it's political.
They're upset
because they're actually having to live
by the same rules as everybody else.
The idea that somehow
being pro-business means giving companies
their own governments
that is not what a free
market is all about.
That is a response
to a lot of the conservative
criticism have said, why,
governor,
are you trying to use the power
of the government
against this private business?
There at least
is an attempt at an answer.
And I mean,
I think the answer makes sense
until you realize that Ron
DeSantis was fine with allowing Disney
to have its own government
until Disney started
doing things politically
that Ron DeSantis didn't agree with.
Florida Republicans and Democrats
have for decades been
okay with this set up
that allows Disney
to essentially govern itself
in its own properties.
So the lawsuit that Disney has filed
is basically
saying that that the new policies,
the new oversight
the new structures
that Ron DeSantis has put into place
is not about good government.
It's about punishing the company
and its leaders
for having a political position
and expressing
their First Amendment rights.
And so that's their argument,
why they say
what DeSantis has done
is politically motivated,
not about good government.