Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s politics chat. The transcript beneath has been frivolously edited.

nrakich (Nathaniel Rakich, senior elections analyst): It looks like that is the week the 2024 Republican presidential number one truly began in earnest! On Monday, Sen. Tim Scott introduced he used to be operating for president, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is predicted to officially bounce into the race on Wednesday night time as smartly. So we figured it used to be prime time for every other 2024 Republican presidential number one draft! The final time we did this used to be final December, when DeSantis used to be using prime at the polls and no main applicants rather then…

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