Welcome to Meet the Press Now.

I'm Kristen Welker.

All lies are on Texas, where we expect to hear from the president in Corpus Christi this hour.

He has just landed.

It's his first trip since Tuesday's State of the Union and his

first chance to sell voters on his affordability message from that night. His visit also comes with

the first major primary of the midterm elections just days away and still no endorsement in the

closely watched Republican Senate primary in Texas, as Democrats see an

opportunity to flip that seat blue for the first time in more than three decades. Today, all three

Republican candidates are expected to be at the event with the president, hoping to boost

their Maga Bonifides just days before voters head to the polls. Senator John Cornyn is defending his seat from a two-pronged challenge from state attorney

general Ken Paxton and Congressman Wesley Hunt.

The latest polling shows Paxton ahead, but not with an outright majority, which could

mean a runoff for the top two vote getters in May.

But as he departed the White House, the president dodging

a question on whether he would endorse in the race, instead focusing on energy costs, a key

part of his affordability pitch, and expected to be the top issue in November's election.

We're having tremendous luck with oil. We've got more oil than anybody, and the prices are gasoline are coming way down.

And prices generally are coming way down.

The pricing is, it's been amazing what we've been able to do in one year.

Prices are way down, led by energy, led by oil.

So where it's sort of expected, it's a little bit of an oil meeting.

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