All right, well I am going to make a really bold prediction in fact my most iron cloud 538 prediction

I have ever made which is that we're gonna be back to next Monday talking about this in the meantime

Tuesday, Galen Tuesday, oh, yeah, it's Memorial Day. Wow. Wow your prediction is already wrong

Prediction is already wrong. Okay next Tuesday damn you got me

Hello and welcome to the 548 politics podcast. I'm Galen Druke and get ready for a big week in politics

So for starters South Carolina Senator Tim Scott officially kicked off his presidential campaign in North Charleston

Monday morning

He's starting the race in the low single digits in national polls

But he has a lot of campaign cash and plenty of goodwill amongst Republican lawmakers donors and media

So will he be able to convert that potential energy into something more say kinetic in the polls?

We also expect the long-teased

Rondis Santos presidential campaign to become a reality this week

According to reports you could make it official as soon as Wednesday

Trump's lead over the Florida governor according to our polling averages has doubled from 15 points to 30 points over the past few

months, so we'll making it all official give to Santos the momentum to turn that around

Find out and lest we forget according to the Treasury Department

We are just a week or so away from a possible default on the nation's debt

President Biden is back from the G7 summit in Japan and he and House Speaker McCarthy kicked off new negotiations on Monday

So what are the sticking points and what do Americans actually want out of all of this here with me to kick things off talking about Scott's presidential campaign

Is national politics reporter for the AP Meg Kinnard?

She's a longtime South Carolinian and is joining us after just leaving Scott's kickoff rally

Welcome to the podcast Meg. Hello. Thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate it

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