Okay, America, it's Biden versus Trump again, but will 2024 look anything like 2020?

The lead starts right now. The time has now come to suspend my campaign.

Nicky Haley exits and clears the way for a Biden Trump rematch. The president is making a play for her voters while Donald Trump is

racking up some new GOP endorsements including a big one from Senate Minority

Leader Mitch McConnell who hasn't even talked to Trump in more than a year.

And the chances of a third party candidate jumping into this race, this hour I'll speak with the

chief strategist for no labels,

plus facing the hard truths about the fentanyl crisis

one state's change of heart after becoming

the first in the nation to decriminalize possession

of certain illicit drugs.

And welcome to the lead.

I'm Abby Philip.

In for Jake Tapper today, we start with our 2024 lead.

The rematch is officially set.

Joe Biden and Donald Trump are almost guaranteed

to be their party's nominees for president

after Nicki Haley officially dropped out of the presidential race earlier today.

But the former South Carolina governor did stop short of endorsing Trump.

Instead, she said, it's up to him to win over her supporters.

It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him.

And I hope he does that. At its best, politics is about bringing people

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