Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Bolder balderson is better on crime and taxes and ordinary issues and the question is whether the trump base will respond to that a oppose to the more personality consult that surrounds trump as an individual. If the numbers froze right now, if the democrats even with an l in this race still have won because it went from double digit down to Single Digits as least as of todays polling. Well, they will definitely spin it as a win. And you could argue that the fact that they are narrowing the gap so dramatically on a race on the seat that has been held by a republican for decades is a big deal. There are lots of other races like that actually more favorable to democrats across the country come november, they only need 23 seats in order to flip the house. So they would probably take this feeling confident, take this game plan to some of these other races. Republican base or certain portions of republican voters, he h
Puerto ricos primary. She is now just 22 delegates short of the 2383 needed to become the first female nominee for president. It follows her blowout victory in the u. S. Virgin islands. For clinton it was business as you shall on the campaign trail. Without mentioning her when she went after donald trump. Domd trump has run a Campaign Based on insults if started with insulting mexican immigrants. Moved on insult muslims, americanmuslims, international muslims. Insulted people with disabilities. Insulted john mccain, and of course makes a habit of insulting women every chance he gets. While Hillary Clinton expected Bernie Sanders to unite behind her, sanders it seems has different plans. Sanders for the first time went after clinton for her foundations alleged con flicks of interest. If you ask me about the clinton foundation, do i have a problem when her four addition collects millions from foreign governments. Governments that are dictatorships, yeah, do i have a problem that . Yeah,
Albuquerque, new mexico. Hundreds of protesters blocked the intersections and set fire and threw rocks outside a donald trump rally. Police officers used spray to try to disperse protesters. Police say several officers are currently being treated for injuries. At least one protester has been arrested. Heres what some protesters told nbcs Hallie Jackson. Donald trump cannot come to our city after calling us rapists. Lies. He is not in the spirit of people and the spirit of democracy and the spirit of the promise. We all have certain alienable rights and he acts like it belongs to the people that support him. Anywhere from the banning the muslims, hating women and hating calling mexicans rapists. I mean, youre in new mexico. And what do you expect the Mexican Community to act like . And Hallie Jackson joins us for more. Whats the latest . Reporter hi, betty, good morning. And this morning, the streets have cleared out in downtown albuquerque after real protests last night. After that don
A partial change of heart from a company that planned to send more than 2,000 jobs to mexico. You may know candidate trump made saving the jobs at indianas carrier plant a priority. And yesterday, he and carrier announced that 1,000 of about 2,000 jobs will stay behind after all. Cnns Suzanne Malveaux joins me from the site of what is sure to be a very upbeat scene today, suzanne. Reporter about 2 00 is when it will happen, trump and pence on the very floor of the carrier plant where it was just ten months ago, the bosses, the owner of that plant, from united technologies, announced to all employees their jobs were going to mexico. At that moment, brianna, a worker pulled out his cell phone. He got all of it, put it on youtube. It became viral. Donald trump noted that video and really made it a centerpiece of his campaign to keep manufacturing jobs here at home. A lot of critics this morning saying this really is not a solution. Its not an economic policy. But a lot of people very happ
The polls are out too on the revised Health Care Bill and they paint a tenuous picture for the president. Just 20 of those surveyed believe its very likely the bill will be passed. Now more than three months into his term, President Trump admits hes surprised at how hard its been to repeal the Affordable Care act. A key promise of his campaign. Unfortunately, because of the hard time that the republicans have had getting their hands around this thing, which shouldnt be, because it you know, i once said its complicated. But its not complicated compared to other things being complicated. Its not that hard. I was disappointed that they didnt have more in line by the time i walked in. But obamacare took 17 months of brutality to get it approved. At a private event in new york on thursday, former president obama couldnt help taking a shot at his successor, reportedly telling the crowd that the aca is more popular than its ever been, an more popular even than President Trump. Trump is certai