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columbia, the final flight premieres tonight at nine on cnn breaking point. >> these least a war against, humanity itself. >> biden puts israel on notice. >> we're looking to the accountability as pressure over gaza ramps up >> israel should not be getting another nickel, will >> the needle plus trench warfare? exclusive new details of democrats plan to take back the house >> the path is clear when you've four seats to win back the majority, that's it. where they're spending their million and as republicans tried to pull off a sterner in maryland, gone to the united states senate, tried to knock some heads together and straighten things out. governors a whole, another race then going the washington what i know is that money can't buy maryland. >> will it decide control of the senate this fall and total eclipse? >> how solar eclipse? >> does have captivated
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washington over the years. >> it'll be night birds will cerc, cricket swirl, crick is fantastic. >> inside politics reporting from inside the corridors of power starts now >> good morning welcome. politics sunday, i'm on a raja. today marks six months is hamas carried out its brutal attacks against israel, taking hundreds of hostages and now after six months of war, a humanitarian crisis in gaza and a turning point for president biden back home. the war has blown a hole and biden's coalition threatening to tank his chances and reelection. this november and now after tens of thousands of palestinian debts and israel's airstrike this past week, they killed seven world central kitchen aid workers biden is ramping up the pressure on israel like never before. but in this critical election year, will that be enough to satisfy the thousands of democratic voters who cast protest votes in the primary in states that
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will determine november's election or are biden's actions or too little too late for that? and today, we're watching whether israel opens up a key crossing into northern gaza. that's the erez crossing. you see they're allowing humanitarian aid shipments directly into the territory. and this comes just days after biden demand and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu improve the humanitarian situation and bacot immediate ceasefire the white house says us policy on gaza hinges on what israel does now. but as the war grinds on, biden remains under significant political pressure at home, as does netanyahu in israel. >> now >> cnn's nic robertson is live in southern israel near the gaza border. and nic, there have been developments in the war over the weekend. is that an indicator? you should all that this pressure campaign on netanyahu is working >> yeah, it certainly some indications, in some ways, look, we were expecting the erez border crossing to open for aid to go into the northern
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part of gaza. very significant. that's where the biggest level of starvation is among palestinians, 300,000 it's not an estimated that prime minister's office at indicated that that border crossing would lead aid through today. we're not seeing any indication that something entirely different, but perhaps even more significant in terms of the signaling of israel to change its footing in terms of the war inside of gaza the night the division, which at one time was the biggest division ever in israel's history, fighting in khan yunis in the center of in the center of gaza since december, the idf has just announced have pulled out those ground forces. you're looking behind me here, plasma tias can zoom in a little bit and see those tanks were just been taken a look at them. there are dozens scores of tanks, an armored fighting vehicles. they literally pulled out of khan yunis overnight or side. and what the idf is saying is this effectively marking an end of
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ground operations in gaza? in there? current form the caveat there. listen is distant machine gun face, we're not far from gaza right now. the caveat there is that significant forces still remained in the north of gaza. the hundred and 62nd division is there. the nacl brigade is there. and this net seem corridor that people talk about that separates the north of gaza from the south of gaza that the idf has created. the one that's so much of hamas is focus on the negotiations right now to get people displaced from the south back to the north that is remains intact for the idf huge explosion mission there in the distance detonation bomb possible inside gaza, not clear, but i think the message here is that the idf has made a significant pullback from khan yunis. it doesn't mean operations are over in gaza by any stretch and really they're keeping a big
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force in the north here. the jet fighter overhead now the question would be, what about their planned ground operation and raffa no word on that from the idf. but when you consider this weekend you have the side sitting down to negotiate about the ceasefire this dynamic, your we're witnessing behind me that that changes what's what's on the table right now? >> nic robertson, israel near the erez crossing. thank you. stay safe. thank you for your reporting on the ground. we are grateful. >> all right. let's break this all down with cnn's melanie zanona, a zolan kanno-youngs, the new york times, and the washington post. leigh ann caldwell. good morning to you all. thanks for being here. obviously, we have seen this shift in tone from the president. the question is, how much is the town impacting things and how his party will deal with it? and this is a real challenge for him. he had this message to netanyahu and they had that phone call. thursday called overall humanitarian situation unacceptable and said that there needs to be changes
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because the us policy will dictate how israel so x going forward. but the us is still supplying arms to israel. have we really seen any change inside the white house in his hand, in its policy towards israel, or what is happening right now behind the scenes, it seems limited to rhetoric thus far. for the most part, i mean, look, going back to the state of the union, you remember when the president it's caught on a hot mic moment and he was saying indicating, look there could be a come to jesus moment between him and netanyahu from all of our reporting that call that they had earlier this week was a bit more tense. it comes after months where this relationship was steadily getting being even more contentious as you have the number of civilian deaths in gaza continued to rise as there were challenges in getting humanitarian aid into gaza, despite the present binds, please, to netanyahu, to ensure that that aid came in. but you're right. look at this point, rhetoric only goes so
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far. i mean, there's they're going to face challenges and actually convincing the party that he's doing enough policy-wise when you are still sending not just de but to be clear, weapons to israel for this campaign so we'll have to see if the actions follow up to match the sort of tents rhetoric that you're hearing, the frustration on the lab about, just that as rhetoric so far, and that's clearly not enough for major influential voices, including senator bernie sanders one day, i'm angry >> the president is >> angry at netanyahu. the next is very angry. the next is very, very angry. >> so on, you >> cannot continue to talk about your worries about humanitarian situation in gaza and then give you another 10 billion or more bonds. you cannot do that. that is hypocritical >> and look, this is why it matters politically for the president. i mean, we talk about democratic primary
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results as a dane county wisconsin, 83% of part southern part of wisconsin madison, the greatest college down as part of that but then dane county, 83% voted for biden in this past weeks, democratic primary, 15% voted on instructed biden needs to do much better to their to carry that stayed come november and it also it was in michigan. also michigan and wisconsin both of them both states, real concerns over his coalition and his handling of this. how do you see that >> brian? >> yeah. so there's a faction of this uninstructed of the organization to not vote for biden in the primaries that are intent on making sure that biden does not win. in november, we'll see if that changes when it's just biden versus trump and how this policy where the war stands at that point and how the policies play out. but this is a huge challenge for biden also because dane county, this is
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the biden base what biden needs to do at the very least, if he wants to win, is turned out his base. and if you don't, if you have a base problem, he has a major problem. and so he has a lot of work to do. his campaign insists that over the course of the month, when it becomes a binary choice between biden and trump that those people will come back home and will not stay at home. and we'll go out and vote. >> but we'll see yeah, i look in biden is heading to madison this week to talk about student loans and loan forgiveness, trying to win back those college voters, young voters, which we seem paul's really shift towards trump in recent as we'll see that actually happens in november last i would say the warning sign here's another interesting data point that has come up about how voters view trump versus biden in the handling of the israel-hamas war this is in swing-state, so wall street journal poll that came out this past week biden is losing to
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trump across the board in all these states about who could handle so this situation better, that is among registered voters in these critical swing states. and the question is, how is trump? what is trump's strategy? >> this is what he said on the hugh hewitt show this past week they're losing the pr war. they're losing a big. but they've got to finish what they started and they've got to finish it fast. and we have to get on with life trump has an arctic has not articulated a policy, right? >> and that might be what we're seeing reflected in the polls is that he really has not taken a position or articulated what he's proposal would be for handling of the war, handling the hostage situation, and for trump, it's an interesting situation because he has been an ally of netanyahu throughout his presidency. >> what he's also taken kim is really anti-war america first stance on the campaign trail. but for now, i think he is content to be able to sit back and not have to take a position
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and just blamed biden for the turmoil in the middle east. >> this seems to also be a little bit of >> you're going to blame the person who's in office at this point there's always a bit of an advantage to pretty much not be in the white house and criticize the current policy without articulating actually what you would do, which we're seeing play out here in terms of the political implications as well for biden, just moving forward, look, we also still have negotiations going on on a temporary ceasefire for hostage, but haven't seen a deal that yet. and now what happens even with this tense rhetoric that we're seeing from the white house, what happens if there is an on-the-ground invasion into rafah? well, that could completely changed the dynamic years. >> one of the big question is what will happen to aid to israel? this has been stalled for months in congress over the back-and-forth over how to move ahead. and there's been a real shift among democrats about conditions, whether the place conditions on israel, which could mean it can even more difficult. and you're seeing even some of biden's allies call for conditions and others not so sure >> it
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>> should have present condition any aid to israel going forward? >> i am always concern when we talk about conditioning aid especially to an ally, especially as an important ally, israel is, i would just have to see what those conditions are if benjamin netanyahu, prime minister were to order the idf into rafah at scale and make no provision for civilians or for humanitarian aid that i would vote to condition aid to israel. i think what the president did and his conversation with the prime minister yesterday starts to move and israel did take actions, but we need to see a lot more i mean this is gonna be the challenge as they tried to pass all of this massive foreign aid package. now, democrats aren't there where they were six months ago >> absolutely when this passed the senate, it was just bernie sanders who voted against it because there weren't any conditions on aid as far as democrats are concerned now, this is still an open question in the house. you had a action of the most progressive members of the democratic caucus who
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had always been critical of the israel aid. but that is now growing. and this is presenting even greater challenges for passing this aid package with ukraine tied to it maybe there could be, there could be some sort of coalition that moves this forward. but we also don't know what you're johnson is going to do, which i'm sure we'll talk about later in the show, but things are growing trickier and trickier. no question about it. >> all right. donald trump racked up tens of millions of dollars during the mega donor fundraising last night but he's still scrambling to catch up to biden's huge money lead. what this means for his campaign next >> this is the big day >> that do >> it's a new day. >> one. were shared values
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>> flight premieres tonight at nine on cnn >> in just eight days, former president trump will make history, but not for a reason. he's happy about, he'll be a criminal well, defendant on trial first-time ever for a former president as he tries to fend now felony charges for allegedly falsifying business records to keep quiet in an extramarital affair with an adult film actress ahead of the 2016 elections. but it's not something that has heard his support with deep-pocketed republicans at least not yet billionaires flocked to florida last night for a glitzy fundraiser to bolster trump's campaign coffers and perhaps even help with those legal fees these were just some of the megadonors support in cash to help finance trump's campaign and pay for some of those legal fees. donors were invited to give upwards of $824,600 per person. trump's campaign said it raised a whopping 50.5 million last night alone. now, know reporters were allowed and trump didn't take any questions, but he did address the media before heading in.
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>> it's going to be a very spectacular evening and people are just wanting k, rich people want poor people wanted everybody wants change so like trump has been scrambling to catch up to biden is at a pretty aggressive money operations so far, just to show >> viewers on things, worse thing stands on the money chase, which is where this campaign, as at this moment, biden has significant advantage in terms of cash on hand that's like key number on your right. there are 192 million for biden compared to $93 million for trump. trump is going to close the gap, maybe not as much as biden. i mean, how much does that really going to matter? because there's let me gobs of money from outside groups and every single the airway is going to be flooded in all these key battleground states, no matter what so we'll see how much it matters. but being having half as much money as biden is not a good thing, especially when some of the money that trump raises is being diverted to his legal fees to pay off lawyers and
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defend himself in these criminal cases. >> but >> i was in nevada this week. first story and one thing that was evident is that biden has staffers in nevada. he has a campaign infrastructure in nevada, and trump does not. yet >> they have some office space embedded with a nevada republican party, which is absolutely dysfunctional in that state right now. and so the the money will matter if he cannot get a ground operation up and running by november. that's effective and that gets people out to vote. >> yeah. i mean, that's going to be the key question whether or not the organization really does matter. but as this is all going down, trump of course, but saif points get brings back the legal issues around him in this hush money case, and he went on to explain that he is like, yes nelson mandela. he compared them something. so if
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this partisan hat wants me to put in the clink for speaking, the avi open and obvious truth that partisan ag of course, is the judge in the case. i will gladly become a modern date nelson mandela, it will be my grade. >> honore your reaction >> quite the comparison to somebody that you know, them to tell us mendell there. i mean, i think it's it's emblematic of how trump has tried to basically use these cases in term the courtroom basically effectively into his own trump rallies. to galvanize his base to attack democrats in each of these cases for what we've seen for years now saying that it's a witch on same with system as against him in a way making a comparison to two international civil rights leaders like nelson mandela. i don't know how effective that will be for that cause. i do think it's interesting mat on the other side too, you are seeing the biden campaign's start to use rhetoric that i honestly didn't expect them to use, say a year ago when there
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was a bit more distancing from trump's cases now, you're starting to see the president himself poking fun at is trump's debt problems, his financial woes here his legal fees going back to the grid iron dinner, i've seen him on the campaign trail also talking even at student loan debt relief events, saying, hey, i do know somebody that's suffering from some debt issues right now. so you're starting to see also on the flip side democrats and the biden campaign start to attack him over some of these kids. yeah. and look, this all comes is the trump has been the nominee for several weeks. the presumptive nominee for several weeks, but he is still having problems in these primaries because these nikki haley voters, even after trump, henniker, haley's dropped out are still voting for her in these key swing states. look at just arizona and wisconsin it is will be central to the next presidency than this race here, 18% voted for haley. nerves are 13% in wisconsin. i mean, we talked about biden's problems in the last segment trump has his own
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issues in the base. yeah, as >> a problem, he has a massive problem with independence and there is this stubborn block of voters who have state after state been voting for nikki haley even after she dropped out of the race, there's a question though, of if and how trump is going to try to reach out to those voters. he has made no effort to reconcile with nikki haley, his team feels like the party is unified and lining up behind him. so perhaps he isn't going to try to reach out to those types of voters, but they do that at their own risk because when you break down those numbers, they're coming from very critical demographics and swing blocks that will determine who is the naacp president. >> it of course one of the big issues well, of course will be a bortion trump teased a big announcement this week only make it on abortion. he sort of set it in a was reporters were asking about is that there's gonna be something coming. he's been all over the place on this issue just take a listen on how trump has kind of gone back and forth on the issue of abortion since during the campaign i mean, the shanked is willing to sign a
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five-week and six-week ban to support that, you think that what he did is a terrible thing and a >> terrible mistake. >> now, i happen to be >> for the exceptions, like ronald reagan with the life of the mother rape, incest, with york five or six weeks, a lot of women don't know if they're pregnant in five or six weeks, the number of weeks now, people are agreeing on 15. and i'm thinking in terms of that, and it'll come out to something that's very reasonable. but people are really even hard-liners are agreeing seems to be 15 weeks, seems to be a number that people are agreeing at. but i'll make that announcement at the appropriate time. >> and >> this is one of the one issue that was given biden an advantage over trump on will it make a difference in november? >> and biden is out with a new ad attacking trump for his position and blaming trump for the abortion rights being taken away from millions of women across the country. we're going to see this is going to be a theme over and over again on behalf of biden and demo crowds
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first look at what its leaders see is our path back to power in the house. and they're enormous spending plan to pull it off. the longeing $186 million tv and digital ad by nearly 60 media markets with a major focus on the currently republican held districts were joe biden won in 2020. democrats are also defending a number of open seats as well as five districts. trump carried the last election. but the reality that both parties acknowledged there are so few competitive districts because of gerrymandering so the next majority could very well be razor thin no matter who is in charge. and as a house majority pac president mike smith told me this past week, that means the battle for the house will be an absolutely bruising affair. >> we are laying on the ground link in the market today. we're announcing $186 million in tv digital reservations are largest ever, nearly double what we did in the past across about 40 to 50 districts spread out around the country. it's laying on the marker, it's focused on everything from our
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incumbents, but it's incredibly offensive, knowing that we have to pick up seats to win back the house, their 16 districts right now that president biden, one that you can certainly have, there's only five that trump won but democrats currently have. that's kinda the marker. the majority of those 16 or focus in two states, new york and california. i think what you'll see a lot will be focused on reproductive freedom. we've seen it runs successfully in lieu districts, blue states, red states, the kentucky governor, i think we need four seats to win back the majority that's it. it's very, it's a very tough four seats. every single one of those is gonna be trench warfare. we're gonna have to invest a lot of money, hence, the, uh, hundred and 86 million. but there's a clear path to doing it. >> and the. fight for, the houses out a knife and a nice edge just looking at the cook political reports, 2024, house gradings, the way that this they ranked as 22 toss-up states and republicans, the moment slightly favorite according to cook and we'll see if the ads make a difference. look at the targets, the gop targets of as spending lot of these are in biden held districts across the country are seeing from everywhere from california to new york, some of
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these that are an asterix on your screen there represent democrats are defending democrats in those same districts, but there are possible, there's some other ones as well. they're looking at ryan zinke in montana believing the senate race there could help them then there's the defense minister to spent a lot of money to defend democratic held seats in these trump districts everywhere from alaska, they plan to spend later. they have not spent yet there. but also in washington state isn't ohio, michigan? virginia, they open seat there. >> this is >> going to be quite the battle, melanie, you're on the hill every single day along with leanna me. how do you see this playing out in? can then republicans even hold on despite all of this money that's being poured in, it's going to be a knife fight. i >> think both parties are going into this with the >> expectation that it can go either way, republicans feel good, but they also know that it only takes a few seats for democrats to win. and democrats are going in hard this figure, this number that you cited, it's even more impressive given the fact that there's a limited number of seats because of gerrymandering and
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redistricting that are actually in play. so there's gonna be a ton of money coming in. there's going to be campaigns about abortion gen. they're going to, democrats are going to try to tie everything to what's happening nationally with donald trump. so it's going to be a really, really tough fight. yeah. and you mentioned abortion. this is there are a ballot initiatives. some of these states where there are major fights that are happening right now for the house and democrats that will juice the turnout. >> you're also in the halls. i mean, how confident are democrats that they could take back the house. but look, it's possible, given as melanie was saying, that this is given, there are so few districts that republicans could stay in control here. and of course, a lot of it will be dictated by the presidential race. >> yeah, there's a lot of things that are going to come into play. abortion, the ballot initiatives that presidential, the states that have senate races as well. but one thing that republicans are excited about is that a lot of these toss-up seats are in blue states california, oregon, new
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york, where they think that democratic policies are going to help there republican candidates, voters will push back against those democratic policies with the republican candidates in these blue states. i mean, this is going, it's like heading into 2022 where democratic source that i spoke to the day of the election said, look, a lot of these seats are going to be decided by a point or two. and we don't know which way it's going to go and it feels like this is going to be the same thing in 2024 and here, mike smith told me that the biden will be a value at he believes to democrats here they'll have to run ahead of biden in these districts that outperformance that's the senate situation in the senate and the house. yeah, that's right. i mean, that's that's interesting because going back to the midterms, just this past mid-term cycle, i remember a lot of concern for democrats that actually the sagging approval ratings up president biden would be detrimental. and some of these in some races as well. so that's what makes these
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investments even more important as well as the issues that they'll highlight. there's an overall concern. house races it's are often reflective of the top of the ticket as well. and what's going on with the presidential elections. so ads that are articulating in defending against attacks on immigration and biden's immigration status policies as well as highlighting abortion rights that's gonna be important. yeah, ticker this on the immigration point, what they told me was that they believed that the decision by the republicans have scuttled that bipartisan border security deal will be part of their ad campaign going forward to attack republicans on their handling of trying to turn the issue around. we'll see if that works, but there's also just the ongoing republican few, the paddling in the house. now speaker johnson is coming back to session. this week with having to make major decisions on how to move forward on aid to ukraine in facing the threat to his speakership. we don't know what marjorie taylor greene is going to do. she could call for a vote seeking his ouster. we don't know what democrats will do. will they tried to save them? what are
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you hearing is the land, how well whether johnson can hang on. >> yeah. there's gonna be a pivotal stretch for the speaker. he's going to try to find a way to fund ukraine that is a way that can also speak, save his speakership, which is a really difficult thing to do. the feeling right now though, is that there will be enough democrats and republicans who join hands and table or kill this motion if it does come up. but if you're johnson, you can't take anything for chance because he has a razor thin majority. green is just so unpredictable and yes, democrats say that if he does the right thing on ukraine, they'd be willing to save him, but that's really open for interpretation can and if he loads up the ukraine package with hardline border provisions or just something that's really partisan. they might not be there in the antecedent it's. >> a good >> point that's why he's got some major decisions. we'll be watching them very closely when they return to washington. all right. coming up, we hit the campaign trail in deep blue, maryland, which was once viewed as a cake walk for democrats now suddenly one of them most competitive races in the country, thanks to win former gop governor might have either
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president biden won that state by more than 30 points thanks four years ago. but then former gop governor larry hogan made it second decision to jump into that race, adding to the democrats already very difficult map in steep climb to keep control of the senate. melanie zanona, who's here with me today, hit the campaign trail and maryland were democrats are engaged in an intense primary battle in scrambling to stay stave off a major defeat >> i'm going to the nicely said to try to knock some heads together and straighten things out. and less >> surprising senate battle brewing in deep blue maryland, the national party from leader schumer on down, everybody's taking this very, very serious estate president biden carried by over 30 points. now suddenly competitive with popular former republican governor larry hogan jumping into the race and running as an anti-trump republicans. >> i still don't have any burning desire to be a senator i wasn't looking for a title i don't need a job, but i'm just so frustrated with how broken our political system is.
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>> democrats warn hogan could hand republicans the senate majority. they remain divided over from to pick in the may 14 primary congressman david trone, the founder of the beverages retailer total wine and more, is touting his business background and bipartisan record. he also has the backing of house democratic leadership, including leader hakeem jeffries, and a massive financial advantage. >> we're absolutely the front runner and i think we're going to be able to bring it home and then after that, take larry hogan down, but >> drone has come under scrutiny for what he's says was the accidental use of a racial slur during a recent congressional hearing, we're talking about republican tax cuts and use the word bugaboo drones as he accidentally mispronounced that term, resulting in one that was offensive. >> we apologized. he immediately once it went back and realize we had said that he's up against county executive angela also brooks, who is focused on turning out grassroots support, securing endorsements from most of the maryland congressional delegation to people who have endorsed me have done so because they know both of us and they have decided that i
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have the best experience and the best track record to deliver for maryland. >> she's just one of two black women who are now running to serve in the united states senate, positioning herself as a champion for change. >> i think it's important to america to have people of every gender and every race and every background. >> the race has become one of the most expensive in the country, largely fueled by trump's personal wealth he plows $23 of his own money into the race >> we're going to spend what it >> takes a prospect that could make him more competitive in november. but one who is democratic opponent has a sale. >> it goes against what we expect in terms of democracy. it's gross. and what i know is that money can by maryland, the challenge for hogan breaking with the leader of his party without alienating republican voters. >> i'm like 70% of the rest of the people on america that do not believe that joe biden or donald trump however, the best possible candidates who represented, but with abortion rights on the ballot in maryland, this ball about washing their hogan is facing
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questions about his record as governor. i'm still undecided, which includes vetoing a bill that would have expanded access to abortion in the state >> map out my shop accept it thank goodness. so it's not a huge issue. however, i don't ever want that to be thrown you know, so it does kind of way heavily. >> hogan says he would not support a federal abortion ban, but dodge, when asked whether he'd vote to codify roe v. >> wade, i'm not going to talk about speculation over specific wording of a specific bill, but we'll we'll talk about that during the election. >> all is democrats vowed to nationalize the race and tie hogan to the most extreme elements of his party. >> so larry hogan >> thinks that he can run some distance from donald trump because he's said he's not gonna vote for him in november. luck with that melanie is zero. >> that's not great report. thanks for that. it's such an interesting rates, a contentious primary and dividing the democrats, chris van hollen is supporting angela alsobrooks and hakeem jeffries supporting david trone. what
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was your biggest takeaway from this race? >> well, in talking to republicans, they thought larry hogan was the old only republican who had any chance of winning maryland. and that is why you hadn't mitch mcconnell republican leaders and even former president george w bush, working on hogan for years. they made direct sales pitches to get him to run in the race and he finally did. but look, he still views himself as the underdog. he recognizes that this is a huge challenge, needs to win pretty much all of but republicans and independents and then 30% of democrats. so he knows this is an uphill climb, especially with trump at the top of the ticket but democrats know that this could actually get very competitive for them and they do not want have to spend money here. >> they will probably have to look the question about the anti-trump vote and it's interesting in your piece how he described he's not going to vote for either biden or trump. >> that's the question that i put. to the top republican campaign committee chairman adam and some democrats about how that could play out >> he's been >> crosswise with trump. is that going to be problem for trump? look, larry >> hogan expresses so well the voice of maryland, he
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understood danns maryland. he represents maryland's so well as governor, and he'll represent maryland very woman, i say send, he'll be the voice for maryland. not for any political party. do you think that his opposition to trump, it will help them with swing voters, with democratic voters. >> i don't think it's gonna make any difference at all because i think they recognize the fact that he organized with the republicans. so he'll be another voice for the republicans and allow the extreme agenda democrats are trying to nationalize the race republicans, not so much. it's gonna be tough in an election or not to nationalize it in a presidential legend. >> absolutely. >> and democrats are going to say control of the senate could very well decide to terminate, be determined by a maryland. we'll see if that argument works with voters. sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. but this is a huge coup to get larry hogan to run in this race to act, to actually put this state on the map that could very easily determine control >> i mean, larry hogan also had a quote in your piece saying
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that he's frustrated with the current makeup of senate. >> i >> mean, you may be able to win. we'll see and maryland with an anti-trump message. but if he's frustrated now, even if he gets to senate you imagine how frustrated he's got. yeah. i mean, you do wonder, i mean, this race makes me think like the republicans sort of identity that larry hogan says that he represents that is a shrinking population, especially when it comes to congress. yeah, we look in the anti-trump republicans, there are fewer and fewer mitt romney is leaving well, there'll be anyone else coming forward. we'll see you. thanks for their important melanie. all right. next eclipse fever. fever ripping the country. how presidents have taken in the spectacular. suppose solar events over the past years if you work in spaceflight, this is just the worst possible thing that can ever happen >> my dad died doing what he space shuttle columbia, the
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