Good morning to you. It's Sunday, May 14th. I'm Ali Valshi. After months of speculation, Florida,

Governor Ron DeSantis is just days or maybe even just hours away from making his 2024 presidential bid official.

According to NBC News, DeSantis is on the verge of announcing his presidential bid as his political

team moves into a new office in downtown Tallahassee tomorrow, which will house his campaign.

But because of federal election spending rules, that move is going to force DeSantis to file

paperwork within the next 15 days, thus officially acknowledging his

intentions to run for president for the first time. Now, even though he hasn't officially

announced yet, he has been acting like a presidential candidate for several weeks. Just yesterday,

he traveled to the early Republican primary state of Iowa, where he attended a pair of

events and met with voters. A super PAC backing him had

DeSantis' 2024 signs and merchandise available at yesterday's events, and during a speech

he gave yesterday, he turned his attention to the elections. As bad as things are going right now,

if things do not go well for us Republicans in 2024, it's going to get a

whole lot worse. We must reject the culture of losing that has infected our party in recent years.

The time for excuses is over. We've got to demonstrate the courage to lead and the strength to win.

If we do that, if we make 2024 election a referendum on Joe Biden

and his failures, and if we provide a positive alternative for the future of this country,

Republicans will win across the board.

Now, before calling it a day, DeSantis made a last minute unannounced stop in the city of Des Moines, which is significant because that's where Donald Trump was supposed to hold a rally last night before it was postponed due to bad weather.

DeSantis, impending entry into the race comes at a time when some elected Republicans have signaled that they're looking for an option other than the former president.

And this past week showed just how

fallible and vulnerable Trump remains. On Tuesday, a jury in New York held him liable for sexually

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