DeSantis plans speech for Chicago police union amid talk of possible 2024 run – live

• Address will offer a platform for the Florida governor to detail how he’d take his approach to law enforcement
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Good morning, US politics blog readers. Donald Trump is running for president, and so is Nikki Haley, but what about Ron DeSantis? The Florida governor has been seen as a potential replacement for Trump at the top of the Republican ticket ever since the former president left the White House. DeSantis is keeping mum about his plans, but Politico reports he’s heading next week to speak to a police union in Chicago. It’s not as big a tell as a visit to Iowa, but the address will nonetheless offer a platform for DeSantis to detail how he’d take his approach to law enforcement – including, perhaps, an armed election fraud taskforce that’s made high-profile arrests at gunpoint but had mixed success in court – national.

Here’s a look at what’s going on today:

Kamala Harris is at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, where she’ll meet with German chancellor Olaf Scholz and British prime minister Rishi Sunak. A big congressional delegation is also in attendance, including the Senate’s Democratic and Republican leaders, Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will answer reporters’ questions at 1:30pm ET.