11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im jose diazbalart alongside my friends and colleagues ana cabrera here in new york and Andrea Mitchell live from washington. And just in the last hour, the contentious Battle For The White House came to a close. Donald trump is the partys presumptive nominee. It comes as former u. N. Ambassador nikki haley suspended her president ial bid just this morning after trump dominated on Super Tuesday. It is now up to donald trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him. And i hope he does that. At its best, politics is about bringing people into your cause, not turning them away. And our conservative cause badly needs more people. This is now his time for choosing. Haley ended her Historic Campaign as the first woman in republican primary contest in the gops history. But she only managed to win two races, vermont and washington, d. C. , after failing to bid a coalition large enough to overcome Donald Trumps massiv
welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. this hour, the white house is lamb basting members of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu s cabinet. specifically two right wing extremists who are calling for the ethnic cleansing of tony bl some are wondering if the netanyahu administration will have to choose between extremists and the biden administration. and a federal appeals court, a closer look at abortion since roe v. wade was overturned. we have a brand new court filing from donald trump. this time he s going to the u.s. supreme court to try to appeal the decision made by the colorado supreme court to remove him from its 2024 ballot for engaging in insurrection. let s get right to cnn s paula reed who is here with me. paula, i know you have a big stack of papers that you just printed out, but what can you tell us about this appeal? two weeks ago, the colorado supreme court removed trump from the ballot. that decision is on hold, because previously, the republican p
significant fraud. those voter attitudes are very real, and i hear it every time i leave washington, d.c. yeah. who is this aimed at? is it aimed at motivating the base and winning back independents? a little bit of both. this is an argument that lands with independent voters. this is an argument that it energizes democrats. to your point, it energizes republicans, too. but it really is an argument that we saw time and again in 2020 appeals to moderates, appeals to independent voters, it appeals to those suburban voters maybe not dialled into politics every day but who look up and say no, i don t want to live in a country where the winner and the loser can t agree on who won and lost and we can t have a peaceful transfer of power. so yes, it is an argument that appeals to independent and moderate voters. thanks for coming back. coming up, strong reaction from the white house on two far right extremists who are members of benjamin netanyahu s cabinet,
but then says the more they do that, the more enraged independents become. that s what happens, chris. we lost 9 million independents in 2010 that voted for house democrats in 20 on 08 and 2006. we re oning back independents, we re winning back seniors, we re winning back women, because of this excessive ideology, these wrong priorities that house republicans persist in on every single vote of every day. the more they do that, the more there s buyer s remorse. and the more it looks like this could be a wave election again. i want to mention president obama, who obviously is on the ticket, american cross roads, kind of the leading conservative outside organization out there released a web video today, playing on the kind of, for lack of a better word, cool factor of
report, others, there s a good chance that if it in the mid-eights that was bad news for the white house. the white house feels if it at 8.5% or above, it will be hard if not impossible to win back independents. the other two important pieces are money and his performance in swing states. that gallup poll about three or four days ago that looked at the swing states, the 12 states that either party could realistically win, they are up for grabs, you have mitt romney in the middle of the nasty republican party, running even or beating the president in those states, that is bad news. you couple that with other data that shows his favorable rating in 2011 was lower in those states than it was in 2010, and we would have said that obama will clean republicans clocks