primaries. let s head to louisiana. cnn projects democratic governor john bell edwards has narrowly won the election beating out a republican businessman backed by the president. diane gallagher is in baton rouge, louisiana. good morning. what is the reaction there? reporter: good morning. here is the thing. john bell edwards, democratic governor in louisiana, re-elected and i m looking at two different things here. we spoke with voters yesterday. we started to notice this split. those who were trump voters who also were john bell edwards votes. i did ask a couple of people how they were okay with the fact that the president had had two rallies in just the past ten days at that time trying to get the vote out for eddie rispone yet still voting for the democrat. they said trump was wrong with louisiana. they still plan to vote for him in 2020 but he wasn t right in this case. also it s turn out.
reporters were asked to keep quiet about the president s visit to walter reed medical center. the president decided to go to walter reed to get a head-start with some routine checkups. that s all it was. announcer: this is new day weekend with victor blackwell and christi paul. good sunday morning to you! guess what. there is a new front-runner in iowa. oh, yes for the first time mayor pete buttigieg is sitting on top of the latest democratic poll there. joe biden and bernie sanders and elizabeth warren fighting for second place in that state. john bell edwards won a second term ending republicans attempt to flip that state. back in washington. the president made an unannounced visit to walter reed medical center to to get part of his annual physical completed, we are told. white house said he took
evidence of this alleged extortion plot. yet, the message on fox news in prime time there nothing there and this is a joke and a plot to take down the president because democrats don t like him. all of of this rhetoric, sometimes contradictory is coming out every hour of every day. if you thought maybe some of the president s supporters were going to have second thoughts or were going to be moved by the evidence? having watched several days, i can tell you no crack of his support on radio or television among his loyal supporters. let s go to another taupg here. we learned we learned this week emails leaked that stephen miller at the center of the immigration fight for the white house and promoted stories from white nationalists. are we hearing anything about the white house about this reporting? the white house has mostly defended and supported stephen miller despite the new
annual exams are notoriously unreliable from presidents. presidents have a long history of hiding what is going on and not telling the public the full results. but then you add to that, president trump s tendency not to tell us what is going on and to manipulate these kinds of traditions and why there is so much suspicion and questioning about what happens. that is where this is. that s why the phases are happening. and it s all in the context of the impeachment. so every act by the president becomes a source of question. you ll remember all of the accusations that donald trump candidate made about others health. imagine what he would have made with somebody making a unscheduled phase one to a physical. you write the backlash that some democrats were concerned about that it likely won t materialize. what supports that? the private hearings and now
going to give pete momentum far ahead to what further this week, we have a big democratic debate coming up. we do. so you think that what mayor pete does in iowa will bleed in other states? well, he has done terrific in fund-raising any way, both small dollar donor and traditional big donor and bundlers. he is the only one who is able to wok both sides of that street opinion sanders and warren and joe biden has not and no one else has. a poll like this makes his fund-raising even better and more robust, which gives him the ability to get to get organized, get delegates. i want to move on real quickly to the louisiana governor s race that we just heard diane gal lettne gallaghe