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donald trump will return very soon to this arena tonight. >> it's already very, very lively. >> how to get even more exciting former president. he'll be in the hall for at least two of the most anticipated speakers tonight is former republican primary opponents the former un ambassador nikki haley, who was the last bit drop out after a very bitter race, and the florida governor ron desantis, also coming up this hour, republicans will focus on their fight to retake the u.s. senate. featuring candidates from he valid drug states that will decide the presidential election, including among others, kari lake in arizona, a day before ms in pennsylvania, who's remarks are straight ahead. erin i didn those of course are going to be crucial. >> we see what they will say if mccormick running in pennsylvania was of course, at that trump rally on saturday evening, let's go to boris sanchez now, boris, you've got a prime spot for tonight's

major speeches. you are understand right near the stage so tell us more about the lineup tonight erin, it is a lineup full of republican lawmakers as well as everyday americans that republicans are holding a message to voters that they are trying to send right now. >> we are watching the crowd moving to the sounds of the cover band. but soon enough, a slate of republican lawmakers will take to the stage hitting over an hour of speakers aiming to take senate seats. we have lawmakers from ohio, michigan, wisconsin, arizona, including the former gubernatorial candidate, kari lake, the former tv she's actually set to speak here in just moments these are candidates that in their particular stage actually wouldn't behind where donald trump is in poland right now. >> he's actually leading them these battleground states nevertheless, we will hear from them they're going to make the case for trump advocates for themselves. >> as you noted, we're going to hear from david mccormick,

who was at that rally on saturday. it'll be interesting to hear what he says about the attempted assassination of donald trump, especially in light of these bipartisan calls for unity and a tone down the rhetoric. aside from that later in the evening, we're going to hear from everyday americans, these are folks who are republicans have put forward everyday citizens tonight. the theme is make america safe again, they're going to go heavy on a message about but immigration and public safety, and will hear directly from those cities, boris, thank you very much. i'm sorry to interrupt, but we do want to take kari lake, who is on stage right now, lead us listen to the obviously she's running for senate now to kari lake, a staunch trump supporter, of trump's false election claims in arizona as well. >> let's listen wow. >> hello.

>> you guys are amazing. wow, this is maga energy tonight, guys love it oh, wow. this room, america, i wish you were in this room with us. this is electric. hello, america. welcome everybody. who's watching at home and welcome everybody in this great arena tonight. we love you all actually, actually. wait a minute i don't mean that i don't welcome everybody in this, meaning you in this room. the guys up in the fake news frankly all, right. frankly, you guys up there in the fake news have worn out. you're welcome you've worn it out,

guys. >> you have spent the last eight years lying about president donald trump and his, and his amazing patriotic supporters actually guys, they lie about everything. they've lied about. joe biden's health, the economy, the laptop, the border. i could go on and on on and on. >> but the really good news is that every day more and more people are turning off the fake news. >> and there and americans are waking up to the truth about the disastrous democrat policies pushed by joe biden and his favorite congressman, my opponent, ruben gallego these guys they are full. their full of bad ideas. just last week ruben gallego voted to let

the millions of people who poured into our country illegally cast a ballot in this upcoming election guy eggo, and the democrats have handed over control of my state, arizona's border, to the drug cartels and because of them, criminals and deadly drugs are pouring in and our children are dying. our children are getting their hands on these drugs and dying i'll tell you the hardest thing i've had. i've had to do on the campaign trail is talk to moms and dads who come up to me and tell me that they're 19-year-old son has died because of fentanyl poisoning or the 22-year-old daughter took a half a pill and she's gone we are losing a generation of young people to this fentanyl crisis and has got to stop the grand canyon state has become the fentanyl state, and it's not okay with

this mom. i'm not okay with that. i don't think it's okay with that home i don't think it's okay with that long it doesn't have to be this way. the problems we face are huge. the problems caused by the democrat party but the solutions guys, they're really simple first of all, stopped the biden bayesian and build the wall and while we're building the wall, let's kick biden-nomics to the curb and bring back the maganomics next is that okay i missed the strong trump economy and because i'm a mama bear i want to replace this indoctrination.

this psychological abuse they're inflicting on our children with a real solid quality education. it's all common sense the great news is that we can solve these problems and to be honest we must solve these problems for the sake of our children because that's really what this is all about. right? the next generation the future of our country. i learned something watching the nature channel that the most dangerous place on planet earth is between a mama bear and her baby cubs right? and that's exactly where the radical left have found themselves. and it's not going to go well for them. because guess what they have a awoken to sleeping giant tens of millions of moms and dads from sea to shining sea. they're going to show up on november 5, and they're going to be hearing from us on november 5. that's right

actually i think i can think of one thing more dangerous and a grizzly bear and it's a middle age fed-up mother in washington, dc and i haven't even started my hot flashes yet, guys just wait just wait but seriously, i want every mother and father to know this that we the republican party will fight. i will fight not just for my kids and my daughters over here are you over there? ruby waved to me, waved a mom. my daughters over there. i want to fight selfishly. i want to fight for my kids, but i want to fight for your kids as well. they deserve a better future. they deserve a better future but the really good news here and the fake news won't. the fake news wants us to believe we're 50, 50 at each other's throat

they're creating division and anger americans are actually much more united than people believe right? you see it, we see it we want to make life better and we want to create an incredible future for this generation. and the next generation. and together when we joined together, we will make america safe again. and we will make america great again. god bless all of you here tonight. god bless you, america, and god bless president donald j. trump. i love you guys. thank you thank kari lake, former television anchor, of course, for a couple of decades. >> slamming the news media. let's go to daniel dale our fact checker. of course here. daniel, what did you just hear in that brief address from kari lake? >> a lot of subjective claims, a lot of opinion, but also one significant false claim. she claimed that her opponent in this senate race, democratic congressman ruben gallego,

voted to allow undocumented immigrants to vote in this upcoming election that did not happen. there was no such vote undocumented immigrants like all immigrants who do not have us citizenship or not permitted to vote in federal elections already. what happened recently, this month is that the republican controlled house, how to vote to add proof of citizenship? for voter registration. now that passed along party lines democrats set is not necessary because the, all the data shows there is a tiny smattering of instances in which an undocumented people, in other non-citizens vote. it is already punishable by prison time, by fines, by deportation, severe penalties. so it essentially does not happen on any significant scale. and they said this legislation was redundant and unnecessary. certainly did not allow anyone who has come over the border during the biden administration to go vote in 2024? >> all right. daniel dale. thank you very much. all right. maggie interesting. 20 years as a news anchor, she presents,

she knows how to do that and slamming the fake news as she called it just interesting in light of her resume, but that was a red meat maga speech. yeah. >> and it's important to bear in mind that what we have not seen play out out. so far in this convention. there's not a ton of cohesion and the speech was from last night, right? you had amber rose speaking and then you had sean o'brien, the head of the teamsters speaking and he was delivering a message that whatever people heard through their television sets, the delegates in the hallway heard him denouncing corporate america, which is i think they were pretty surprised by this reaction. i mean, that said it was smart politics for trump in terms of he will say, i had this head of labor here and that's the top line. he's looking for, but that was the reality of the speech. this is much more, i think what people were expecting, they would see out of this convention. prior to the attempt on donald trump's life on saturday, they expected there to be lots of fake news we have slashed and burned and i don't know what this means in terms of what we will hear from some other speakers. but this is authentic

to who she is. this is the race she's running. this is the red meat that she has been running on. this is also why, according to some republicans, who would like to see the senate become that seat, become a republican seat in arizona she is struggling in that race because this turns off a lot of moderates. >> she is struggling. >> you're struggling? i was just looking at the bill clear politics average and she's right now about three points down in the last yougov poll, had her seven points down. so she has been trending down, but i will tell you there are democrats in arizona who i've talked to about this, right? they're worried about the top of the ticket. they are worried that of joe biden actually is not competitive with donald trump, and he begins to slide in arizona too far low that it might be too much of a weight for ruben gallego to make up in the end so this is some of the pressures on the white house to show that they can actually be competitive in some of these it's battleground, it is a bit whiplash, jonah. okay. because last night we had marjorie taylor greene ensuring it telling the world that there's two genders, right? and then

you've got kari lake, right? you've got the maga. maga. >> but then tonight you're gonna have marco rubio and nikki haley are going to be doing something very different. it is at least we believe that they will certainly from what they stand for and foreign policy and others, they will it is whiplash it is two very different messages. >> yeah. no, it's at least two. i think it's a potpourri. it's a smorgasbord of messages and i think some of that is intentional. i think i don't think there are. i haven't looked at the ratings. i don't know, but my hunch is that a lot of people aren't watching this thing glued to their tvs for tuning in and out all that. but what, what these speeches do sort of getting to maggie's point is they provide ammo to cut up into direct to marketing materials. we will see little clips of the teamsters guy that only saying stuff that's good for micro, micro targeting micro micro-targeting or on tiktok or whatever to try to do with her viral way. and this is just basically the raw footage for what are going to be a whole bunch of diced up. thanks. on nikki and marco and all that. i should point out

that my wife used to work for nikki i'm telling you in the last hour, i'm very concerned about this. i think that some of the signals that came out last night spell the end of reaganite foreign policy and a really dangerous turn in american foreign policy. and if marco rubio and nikki haley, who both believe basically in an assertive, strong national defense and maintaining our allies. with nato. >> if they're allowed to say that, that means that people oh, who were against it, including david, including jd vance that that is the actual official voice of the republican party now, right? >> and i just i'm that's what i'm tuning. i mean, build a wall has become not just a literal thing. >> it is become the figurative reality of the party, at least for what trump stands for in terms of america's role in the world. well, that is the opposite of what nikki haley or marco rubio do you believe they're speaking shortly. >> well, the other thing that i think she talked about that is related to things like build the wall was the issue of fentanyl. so while there were a lot of different topics you touched on briefly, fentanyl is

one that i don't think actually gets a ton of coverage outside of the conservative media ecosystem. but it draws together threads of crime and lawlessness, a feeling that the the border is not secure. china, the opioid crisis, it pulls a lot of different threads altogether that are very powerful for republicans, but also where they think they have the ability to talk to voters in the middle who are not being spoken to by the media. >> other one and to that point, there is 1.5 million new independent voters in arizona as of july of last year here president biden won the state by 10,457 votes that's a very, very slim margin. so this idea, this idea of immigration, is not only an important issue nationally, but it's an important issue in a state such as arizona, or there was one famous democratic, one state immigration is not a right guaranteed by the us constitution for anyone to come into this country whenever they i so choose. that was barbara jordan, a democrat out of texas, who chairs the immigration committee so i think her point on immigration was proper. you just have to figure out a way to tone it

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trips, super beta plus find it at walmart chasing life with dr. sanjay gupta. >> listen wherever you get your podcasts rocker back, we're back with our very special coverage of the republican national convention here in milwaukee. >> night is clearly underway huge moment for the party is donald trump's onetime rival for the gop nomination rally behind him. we're standing by to hear for speeches i'm, various individuals including ron desantis, vivek ramaswamy at perhaps is fierce critic of all during the campaign for the republican nomination. nikki haley, kaitlan collins is on the floor for us getting new information. what are you learning yeah. >> wolf, i'm standing outside of the illinois delegation now as we're listening to each of

these speakers take the stage, obviously everyone will be in their seats when the prime time speakers come on, including ambassador nikki haley, and we'll just to give you some insight into how unusual it is that haley he was actually invited to deliver this primetime address and how closely everyone else we'll be watching her and what is considered to be a coveted speaking slot at the convention. i am told that nikki haley and donald trump have not spoken. it was the trump campaign that reached out to nikki haley's team and extended that invitation on saturday for her but trump himself and nikki haley have not spoken. so it'd be fascinating to watch her speak. and also his reaction we'll looking forward to it myself, our kaitlan. thank you very much as we hear from various gop senate candidates, right now in the key battleground let's take a closer look at the fight for the u.s. senate and how potentially it could figure into the 2024 map, john king is still with us. he's over at the magic wall. give us a sense, john, remembering wolf, let's go back to where we stand right now. democrats have very narrow control of the

senate, in part because the foreign dependence declared independence in the senate caucus with democrats. but as you say, it's mike rogers of michigan behind you. now a few minutes ago, it was bernie moreno of ohio. republicans believe this is a great map for them. anyway, they believed this for months and they think with trump's strength in the election right now, the senate map is improving for them even more. so, 51, 49 for the democrats. now come forward to this map here. you see mentioned state west virginia. we've already turned it red he's not running for reelection. that's a big state for donald trump. that seat is almost guaranteed to go republican and to go read. so then you see why are ohio and montana, why are they yellow? well, these are big trump states. ohio, sherrod brown, democratic incumbent, great personal brand back home. but donald trump's going to win that state or at least he has in the past by six or eight points just pick republican senator jd vance as his running mate. so democrats think they're in more trouble. you see sherrod brown raising money all the time. so what if that happened? what if this went over to read will try to click it over there you go. that would give right there. john tester again, a democrat with a

great personal brand back home donald trump won by 16 points last time in montana, if joe biden's numbers are down even more than jon tester. hang on. so this is what democrats have been thinking about for months that these would be the two surfaces. but as you see, these speakers come to the stage tonight. here's what they're worried about now, let's just come back and make those toss-up they're also worried about pennsylvania. they're worried about michigan they're worried about here in wisconsin. you just heard kari lake. she's losing in the polls right now, but they're worried about arizona. they all worried about nevada as well. you can make a scenario here are reasonable scenario. the republicans not only get 50 in a majority, but they get 515253 now democrats watching are saying, you know, you're being overly pessimistic. most of the democratic candidates i want to make this clear. most of the democratic candidates right now are leading in these races narrowly, and most of them, but they're leading in these races. the democratic senate candidates are outperforming joe biden in these states, but ticket-splitting and presidential elections, one party for president, the other party for senate has become

almost non-existent, used to be very common in american politics will it has become almost non-existent. this is mottos, day job david runs these numbers all the time. you don't if you talk to republicans now compared to six months ago fair? right. they are even more optimistic. they're not only going to get a majority, but more alright, john hold on because i want to listen to it. >> another. one of the republican senate candidate, dave mccormick from pennsylvania. he was in the front row saturday at that assassination attempt where the former president was hit with that bullet in his ear i spoke with them saturday night, but let's listen to hear what he has to say. >> president are you ready for that and who's ready to make jd vance are new vice president and who's ready to send? chuck schumer packing i'm ready i'm ready. my name is dave mccormick and i'm running to be the pennsylvania is next

united states senator, the great commonwealth of pennsylvania and i want to first acknowledge what transpired. just a few days ago in my home state where i witnessed firsthand from a front row seat in butler president trump's remarkable strength and resolve in a terrifying, terrifying, and unpredictable moment. the president roh's brilliantly to the challenge but what a sad sad, and frightening day for the families of those who were injured or lost and for our great country and we all thank god, that president trump is okay i'm a seventh generation pennsylvania from the great keystone state, born and raised a west point graduate of former

army wrestler i'm a combat veteran of the 82nd airborne division all right. >> at second and i'm a business leader who helped create hundreds of jobs in western pennsylvania but most important i'm a dad to six daughters and i'm a husband to the level of my life, dina, wherever she is now my opponent's name is bob casey but you probably don't know him because he does nothing for 18 years bob casey has been warming a chair and drawing a paycheck he is a do nothing out of touch liberal career politician and when he. boasts he votes for joe biden's tired old ideas casey has been around so long, so long that the number one song when he was first elected was the macarena, right? there may remember that macarena but

sadly, this is no joke because politics is about choices and the policies of biden and bob casey are dangerous for pennsylvania and america. they won't keep us safe drugs have poured across the biden harris kasie, wide open borders, killing 100,000 americans including 4,000 pennsylvania's last year alone illegal immigrants have victimized innocent young women who could easily be your daughter or mine and time again, kasie is voted for pro-criminal judges who have made our streets across pennsylvania more dangerous. biden in kasie's failed policies have crushed working families with sky-high prices for gas and groceries and rent and regulations to kill pennsylvania natural gas under president trump america's was future was strong and

prosperous and our adversaries feared stepping out of line my friends, the choice this november is clear it's a choice between strength and weakness a choice between america's greatness or it's sad disgraceful decline. this is my friends, the most important election of our lifetimes and we deserve a president and a senate that will go to the mat to fight for america a president and a senate that will unite america and in pennsylvania, that means voting for trump. and mccormick in november thank you all for leading the charge god bless our united states of america

all right and you saw dave mccormick, their senate candidate for pennsylvania. >> there's cutting away there to his wife, dina powell, who had served of course, in the trump administration for a period of time now as we take a brief break, here are the top house leaders will be on stage soon. we are also standing by to hear from donald trump's one onetime bitter rival, nikki haley, along with marco rubio vivek ramaswamy and others. governor ron desantis, also speaking tonight. and nikki haley specifically, can she make the case to her voters who are still skeptical of trump cnn is live from milwaukee as republicans unite behind their nominee, his vp, and their plan to take back the white house, follow cnn for complete coverage. >> bridge the republican national convention coverage continues. all we on cnn and streaming on max little thinking think thinking about her honeymoon, about africa so far hot air balloon ride swim

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you, just see us and tell you this right now. i challenge the media all the time to find something that knowingly i've told them it's not to truth and they can't do it because i'm not going to do that now i want you to listen to the u.s. and pay really close attention. the bottom line to why we're here. the bottom line to every single thing that's going on in this great country today is one thing we become totally unhinged. if donald trump is not elected in november i want to talk to you tonight about my relationship with president trump i want to talk to you about an a credible man i want to tell you the truth about him and his family he's tough be super smart. he's a business

guy but maybe they're something that you've missed. and that is he genuinely cares it cares about all of us. every last one of his loves this nation beyond good sense he has amazing kids have hunted and fished with don junior. he's an incredible outdoorsman and are really treasured friend. now imagine this eric and i have been so far back in the woods on top of a mountain and i blew the tire out on the back of my four by four. and who was under the vehicle? right then? >> eric trump eric trump changed the tire donald trump has taught his kids the very best he's talked them absolutely to respect the military he's taught them to respect our first responders

he's taught him. absolutely to treat are working men and women with love and respect all across this land let me tell you, just this i was in the green room with president trump and there was a maga hat laying there affected up. we've just had our first grand baby boy named jc jc absolutely was just just not not old at all and all of a sudden, i asked president trump if he would sign that hat for our grandbaby jc he took it. you know what he wrote on it. he wrote jc always work hard now, let's review donald j. trump my friend my close

friend he's tough. >> he's super smart. he's a business guy. he loves america. he taught his kids, the right values and he's a hard worker sure. sounds like a leader to me sure sounds like a president to be then ask yourself why does donald trump biden every day for us and continue to take this senseless persecution why and i know the answer because we're worth it baby daus got a prediction for everybody here. and here's the prediction baby dog shares will retain the

house the majority in the house we're going to flip the united states senate overwhelmingly hey, we're going to elect donald j. trump and jd vance in november and babies baby dog says what is the reason that she knows? wow, we're going to win and the. answer is one thing because we're worth it. god bless you, god bless this great country. and god bless donald j. trump. >> all right, that's the governor of west virginia running for that senate seat that joe manchin is vacating. okay. obviously political theater there and who doesn't

unlike the dog because how can you not love that? >> look, if you're going to talk to a chair next to you far better for it to have a cute dog in it than for it to be empty with all due respect to clint eastwood was adorable. i'm sorry. it makes people happy. it makes people feel uplifted. >> and the good news for republicans is that even though that was a delightful little speech, west virginia is actually in pretty safe hands for the party to. >> he did not need to bring out the dog as a great wringer to help him. west virginia is likely to be a gop seat. there are a lot of states like that. states that are going to vote for donald trump or republicans believe they're going to unseat democrats that are holding the seat right now and build their majority. >> that's what he was talking to. and then of course, but to be clear, that wasn't one point. democratic seat joe manchin. alright. delegates eagerly awaiting donald trump's return to the convention hall and what his face will look like as he watches nikki, haley, and ron desantis, his former rivals speak much more ahead on night

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to gop unity. >> the hot button issues of crime and immigration speech just by the top republicans in congress are straight ahead. a night of unity, but you will hear very different messages. this evening and let's get to kaitlan collins on the floor. kaitlan hi, erin we are standing here with dave mccormick who was ascendant candidate for pennsylvania. >> he is not ready to talk to us yet, but we are here right by the pennsylvania delegation. he just spoke on stage a few moments ago. and of course, he was at that rally on saturday night in butler, pennsylvania, which is why we are going to speak to him because he was there. he was slated to go on stage and it just speaks to the moment of what we all saw on our coverage, but also what we saw during that anymore? during that rally, mr. report, can i grab you for a few seconds? we're live on cnn right now we're live on cnn right now. this is a boris pennsylvania senator candidate. dave mccormick, who was at that rally with donald trump and i

just wonder, you just spoke on stage a few moments ago. how did that experience and seeing that attempted assassination of the former president change and to your speech that you just gave what didn't change it much. but but the the experience i think change my view a bit of how important it is that we ratchet back the rhetoric. and i want to make clear, we have huge differences in ideas and so we have to have conflict. a lot of conflict about the direction of the country. i'm running because i think the country is going in a bad direction. but we need to resolve that conflict at, at the ballot box we need to resolve it with civic discourse. when you resolve it with policy. and we need to make sure that we're not talking in ways that dehumanizes people and ultimately contributes to an environment where violence going to happen across the board well, and we've heard that that people want to take down the rhetoric here, the temperature on stage still be able to criticize your political opponents, but take down the temperature. you're running to be in the senate. what did you make of kari lake, who is also running to be in the senate who was kind of castigating the media and getting everyone to kind of boost them in a telling that was an honest answer, which is

i was only worried about myself. i wasn't watching the aos, so i can't even comment on her remarks. but as a general rule, i think we got a really focus on contrast. we got big differences and there is conflict. but we need to resolve the debate around ideas, win elections, and that's what i'm trying to do. from pennsylvania lot of questions have been raised about the security at that event. >> obviously, the secret service is facing major questions. cnn's john miller is reporting that that gunman enter the security perimeter and then left and then came back. obviously, when he carried out that shooting, what questions as someone who was there, do you have for the director of the secret service? and i don't know anything other than being someone there when i went through the security and when i saw just as as a participant it seemed tight to me. and when the secret service responded to the shot, i mean, they were on the president almost immediately. >> but the idea that a shooter could be within 130 yards of the president it seems inconceivable. >> it's such a failure beyond imagination that, you know,

we've got to get to the root cause of it. it seems unthinkable to me, honestly, i used i worked for president bush. i've been around this business for a while. i've seen security inconceivable that that could have happened. and so i'm horribly disappointed by it and we got to get to the bottom of it. >> dave mccormick, thank you very much for taking the time to speak with us erin, back to you. >> all right. thank you very much. kaitlan. and, you know, talking to dave mccormick as kaitlan just was the senate is crucial here. and this is what i know as you talk as a democrat a concern about what happens all the way down ticket that this could be right now, i know a lot of democrats are very worried that it's a full sweep of both houses of congress as well as the white house. >> people are worried about it. there are some tough senate races out there in montana as why don't we just heard from jim justice in west virginia were going to lose that one probably, maybe not, but probably. but there are some ones that are more on the bubble, pennsylvania, montana mothers. listen, i think as long as the democrats are able to keep competitive we ought to be able to hold on to the

senate at least a 50, 50 senate. but if you don't win the white house, ai 50, 50 senate gets you a minority. and that is the challenge about why president biden and kamala harris have to win? >> yeah, i trust like if the republicans are held to a majority of two or three this probably room for some of the he won't be there anymore, but like the mitt romney caucus, the people who are not going to go along with the craziest of appointments for trump's cabinet and that kind of thing. but if they get to 56 or 55, you know, if they even by the second year of a trump presidency trump can run away with a lot of stuff. >> all right, hold on for one second. i just want to jump in here because phil mattingly is with the west virginia west virginia governor, jim justice, who of course is running for that seat. go ahead. phil yeah, erin, look, i'm gonna be honest, the governor well-received speech. there's no question about that, but right here, i think you probably have the number one

star of the convention up to this point. maybe it's not looking at camera right now, but we'll try and get him over there governor, just wanted to ask how critical is this dog to your political success at this point? >> well, i don't know to tell you the honest truth, it wasn't meant to be really and truly you know, on christmas eve four years ago, or silent and both are just handed his ten week old bulldog pepe to us and i thought, oh, my gosh, she's going to grow 60 pounds brown watermelon. you say you true. and she did. and everything. but with all that being said, that she started to go with me, covid lots and lots of sadness. lots of folks, dianne and everything. and i noticed so many times she made people smile and she made absolute people laugh. and more than anything, and a bulldog and i supposed to do this, but she loves everybody and so i said, that's it how could the message be any better in so, so

she's really good. she's really good. she just loved everybody and asking those of us that cover politics have so stated you with babydog for a while now, since the covid years what do people who maybe don't recognize a politician with a really nice dog, think when they first media well, to be perfectly honest, we've done unbelievable things in the state of west virginia. >> when i took over, it was really tough. we bankrupt beyond belief. and we're really going right now and there are so many accomplishments and everything but i really really am the guy that wants to say all of us folder wrote together the legislature, all the people of west virginia, you know, i'm the guy that's was a let's be professional about what we do in life and be respectful to one another and move the ball forward. and we really hail. >> that's an important message, particularly these days. i appreciate your time. i appreciate maybe docs time erin, back. >> alright. phil, thank you very much. all right. so when

you look at the west virginia governor and we talk about that seat, right. and that seat, joe manchin, who had had was originally democrat, right? and that it is now you feel a safe republican seat for governor justice but when we talk about this and jamal is talking about the fear on the democratic side. todd, but how important the top of the ticket is down-ballot. why is this such a year that is so republican friendly the folks that are up for election this year in the senate are the folks that won six years ago in the 2018 election. >> it was very favorable to democrats. you had democrats are overperforming in some states that are red states or at least red states these days places like ohio, places like on tanna you have democrats holding these senate seats, but these are states that are likely to break for donald trump at the presidential level, possibly by double digits so if you are senator sherrod brown, if you are senator jon tester sure. you are looking at this year and you're thinking, i have to appeal to a lot of people who

are going to check a box for donald trump. but i need them to check a box for me further down their ballot and that puts them in a really tough, definitely doesn't mean i'm looking at a pennsylvania. i'm looking at michigan in particular, we have two great candidates, dave mccormick, mike rogers, and i think democrats have a real problem and both of those states you look at michigan for example, i believe in 2020, president biden received around 60% of the muslim population vote there. his approval is now, or in the teens, that's a problem. his approval a young black voters, that's a problem. again, shifting back to pennsylvania, that's now a competitive state. so i think republicans could potentially aaron good to at least 51, 52 seats. >> all right. okay. all staying with us. let's go now to jake tapper with some breaking developments. jake all right it's sorry, we obviously having some audio difficulties with jake, mike. >> so when we get that back up,

we'll go to jake in just a moment. maggie, let me just ask you when we talk about this issue of the senate, that's what we're seeing tonight because you're going to see a lot of senators, people up for election. and in the ones we've heard so far, whether it's kari lake or jim justice or dave mccormick, you're hearing about their racist, you are you're hearing about their races differently though, right? i mean, it was very struck by how different those speeches we're having kari lake was largely red meat fake news, and so forth jim justice this was really a donald trump's speech. i mean, it was, it was almost entirely, i love him. he's wonderful and i'm running for senate and dave mccormick, who is running in a swing state, is speaking a true swing state about a ground is speaking a little differently, but it all does speak to the fact that this is a good map in republicans minds for them, for the senate going into november, democrats already had challenges. this is part of why there is such anxiety among democrats about president biden remaining at the top of the ticket. it is how it impacts all of these down-ballot races, really, the house is now seen

as the main frontier by a lot of democrats. the senate is seen as as a very, very difficult terrain. but, this is why can i just say in that speech from governor desantis, what stood out to us all as we were sitting here other than babydog, but this got lost and under baby dogs, voluminous itself, sitting in the chair was that governor justice said, vote for trump because i went hunting with his son eric, and he changed a tile yeah. i mean, i think it's trying to humanize him. >> yeah it was silly fan service trying to make it sound like there's a closer connection between donald trump, the man and actual rural voters and donald trump. >> but i am very confident it's never changed to tyre erdan did not teach his sons that. >> that was the implication was all right. said it all right. >> all thank you. let's hand it over now to jake tapper thank you so much. >> erin burnett, and we do have some breaking news, right now. >> there is an op-ed that has

been published in the new york times from former new jersey republican governor chris christie, who is, has been quite critical of donald trump. in fact, one of the only people to run against donald trump the president in this last election cycle, and not turn around and endorse donald trump in that he criticizes the harsh rhetoric that is out there in the debate in america today. he says, mr. trump has the opportunity, opportunity to rein in some of the worst rhetorical impulses of the republican party had its convention this week. he can point to the party and its leadership in a new direction in the wake of an assassination attempt against him. but mr. christie rights early indications are less than promising. chris christie goes on to say that the selection of senator jd vance of ohio as mr. trump's running mate, quote, doubles down on the portion of the party already completely devoted to him rather than reaches out to the broader party and beyond mr. vance's

first reaction to the assassination attempt against mr. trump was to turn directly to the current flawed playbook demonize the other side and lay the blame at the feet of the democrats as if they had pulled the trigger themselves. clearly this is not a message of unity in the face of what could have been a national tragedy. but mr. christie goes on. mr. trump, president trump can demonstrate the will to change, not just how we speak to one another, but also how we act. and it goes on from there. dana bash quite something for chris christie on the second night of the convention to publish an op-ed criticizing the selection of the running mate for donald trump it sure is as you mentioned, unlike nikki haley for ron desantis, who are going to be speaking tonight and some of donald trump's 2016 rival, who will also be speaking tonight. >> chris christie, who was the first to endorse first former rival to endorse donald trump

in 2016 is not only not here, he is not on board at all at the fact that he wrote this not only about jd vance and criticizing jd vance as the pick as a decidedly from his perspective, uninspired choice because it doesn't expand the base and it doesn't expand the party but on the notion of violence we have heard so many republicans go after democrats for their criticism of republicans using language that perhaps now that some democrats regret using but what he's saying in here is, come on, everybody he didn't write this, but i'm trying to speak. chris christie stopped clutching her pearls everybody does it. republicans do it. democrats do it. republicans, perhaps even more. he pointed specifically to january 6 made a connection between january 6 and the violence they are and the

assassination attempt on the former president. and he is trying to get this perspective which has not been heard at all or voiced at all. not only here in the hallway, but in the discussions and the echo chambers in and around conservative media for so many republic look ends right now, which are, there are many who are wondering if they should reconsider, perhaps not supporting donald trump. there are many republicans never, never trump republicans. former chris christie voters, former nikki haley voters who are wondering what to do and they're seeing nikki haley and they're seeing ron desantis all right. come on this stage and endorsed donald trump. chris christie is saying, what happened this weekend, doesn't erase trump's role in the political climate. the language that he uses against his political opponents which is over the top to say the least. but in some cases, a points

directly to violence. and in one case actually led directly to violence so he christie seems to be very aware that this is a critical moment for all of those people. maybe it's some 25, 30% of the republican party. they're not thrilled with donald trump sending a message to those people tonight. that there is still an option to not back trump even in this moment. >> well, he's certainly sending the message that there's an option for donald trump to rise to this moment. yeah. i mean, i think that's one of the things that i'm taking away from this the donald trump can rise to this moment based on what i know, governor christie thinks about donald trump, i don't sense if there's a lot of optimism about, but he does seem to do good but as dana points out, critically, not only refused to endorse donald trump, he refused to endorse nikki haley against trump because he thought nikki haley would ultimately come speak at this convention for donald trump, which he was actually happening. the news continues right now