We like to get right into it and what we're going to get into today is the Republican presidential

stature gap, yes, there is such a thing now, there are now five candidates who have either

joined the 2024 Republican presidential race, or they've taken official steps toward

doing so. They're candidate adjacent candidates. The five are former president Donald Trump,

Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and the UN ambassador, Vivek Ramaswami, who's the

entrepreneur, former representative and former Arkansas governor, Asa Hutchinson, and Tim Scott,

the current senator from South Carolina. So, okay, so that's that's five. Now Scott became the

latest to join the group on Wednesday. He had a video announcing that he's formed an exploratory

committee for a presidential run. Now, it's not totally necessary. There are super PACs supporting

Tim Scott, wanting to run for president. They've already raised tens of millions of dollars, so

he's got money. But doing this elevates Scott status and the race without having to go through a

formal declaration of candidacy and all the paperwork and other stuff that that involves. But

anyway, Tim Scott, the latest to kind of join the race. And by the way, also the same day that Tim Scott

announced the Republican National Committee announced that they've chosen Fox News to host the

first Republican primary debate. Gonna be in Milwaukee. It's gonna be in the month of August. No

date is actually set yet. But it does, you know, raise the question. Your first sort of question

is, what is this debate going to look like? First of all, you know, we've, okay, we got these five

candidates. There are surely going to be more. The biggest likely entrant, you know, this is Florida

governor Ron DeSantis. Then there's Vice President Mike Pence. There's Mike Pompeo, the former

representative, the former CIA director, and the former Secretary of State, all in one.

There's Chris Christie, the former New Jersey governor, and there's Glenn Youngkin, the current

governor of Virginia. Now that is a lot of farmers, former this, former that. You know, if you assume

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