Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Two of Donald Trumps republican rivals are now hedging on whether they could ever support him as the candidates prepare for their last big chance tomorrow to derail the trump train. Meanwhile, trump pulled together his biggest name supporters Chris Christie and sarah palin, for a high wattage primary eve appearance. Five states vote tomorrow and today each Candidates Campaign stops reveal their strategies. Senator cruz looking to pick up delegates in illinois. Senator rubeio making what could be his last stand in florida and john kasich going all in in his home state, the Buckeye State, where he stands a real chance of grabbing all of the winnertakeall delegates. Trump will end his day in ohio a state even trump acknowledged he could lose to kasich. We have some breaking news just into cnn. That intense trump rally where one man has been charged for violence the Cumberland County Sheriffs Office in North Carolina says they
Listening to donald trump speaking to a very rnlg enthusi crowd in racine, wisconsin. Busy saturday. Good saturday to you. Nice to have you along. Welcome to americas news headquarters from washington. We have been watching these events. All we see them we will be bringing them to you live. We are now looking this is presumably the ted cruz event. This is Carly Fiorina. He is in north dakota at the state convention there. We anticipate him to speak at this event, then he will be onward to wisconsin where we assume he will just be hitting the pedal to the metal between now and tuesday. It is a hugely important state to win ahead of win. You say why all of a sudden is he heading to north dakota . Good question. The state convention is in north dakota, and they pick their delegates there. So who the delegates actually are out of north dakota is key and thats why ted cruz is heading over there. He brought Carly Fiorina as sort of his main surrogate now. Hes there. Then he heads to green ba
Speech later this week. Jason, its very loud where you are. What did he say to supporters tonight . Of course he hit Hillary Clinton on the email scandal, the Clinton Foundation once again saying that the Clinton Foundation was nothing more than in his words a payforplay type of foundation, once again establishing himself as the law and order candidate. Several times throughout the rally he was interrupted by protesters but he stayed on message, pretty much stuck to the script and then went on to attack Hillary Clinton on an issue that we expected here being in texas, a border state, the issue of immigration. And Hillary Clinton wants a totally open border. She wants catch and release. She wants obama care and other things for Illegal Immigrants, in many cases more than our great veterans get. She has said shes going to give massive amnesty in her first 100 days. So, don, he certainly sounded like a hardliner tonight. You heard him there addressing the issue of illegal immigration. He
He joins us now. Trump started l day with an Early Morning twitter spree alleging the system is rigged against him. Did he say more about that tonight . Reporter yes, he has, anderson. Just the last few minutes, actually, donald trump went through these allegations again saying accusations of Sexual Assault that have surfaced in the news media the last week or so have been a part of what he calls a rigged conspiracy to throw the election to Hillary Clinton. In just the last few minutes he said these accusations, he called them events that never happened and he said i do think most people believe me. At one point, he said that the media is simply trying to put up nice, sexy headlines even though nothing ever happened. So donald trump once again denying that he ever sexually assaulted anyone at this rally here in green bay. And anderson, this rally is pretty fired up. People here, you know, i dont want to use language we shouldnt use on tv, but the crowd here has chanted cnn sucks about
He promises to be restrained. Kellyanne conway also speaking tonight with a huge teaser about the chief of staff. You know, its imminent. Is reince the one do you expect . I think chairman priebus has expressed interest in the position. There are several people being considered and its mr. Trumps decision ultimately. Im imminently. I dont know if im waiting with baited breath tonight or tomorrow. The time line is potentially as early as monday. Definitely soon, deafenly at some point next week we believe, certainly we heard from her who also said its likely the next time we see him publicly is in the next couple days. That fives us a sense of what his time line is. Reince priebus is among the options, also steve ban non, donald trump likes to poll a lot of people, hear from a lot of people, trump family, paul ryan, mitch mcconnell, theyre all behind reince priebus. It is his decision althoughly. Like the vp pick, right . His family and insiders pushing him towards mike pence, he was go