know, nobody is tracking the win-loss more closely than donald trump himself. so let me ask you, because i hear all this and you re saying wow, 55% of gop, you know, want trump to lead their party. 50%, his endorsement, extremely important to be influential in their vote. those numbers sound enormous yet months ago it was 80% of the republican party supported donald trump so do you see this as wow these numbers are big or do you see it differently? they re not insignificant, but tonight s going to be revealitory about the future of the endorsement power, i ll be looking at pennsylvania where former officials like mike pompeyo endorse against the former president, if that s successful, chips away at the power of that endorsement and one thing i note about ted budd in north carolina he had the perfect storm of endorsement with an early endorsement but also the very powerful club pro quo, so he benefitted from both sides where most candidates didn t have that.
s and start enjoying rewards like these, and so much more in the xfinity app! and don t miss jurassic world:dominion in theaters june 10th. good day, everyone. welcome to a special edition of andrea mitchell reports. we are live from philadelphia. all eyes here are on battleground pennsylvania in today s primaries. on the republican side, a major test of donald trump s endorsement power as candidates for senate and governor, even those he did not endorse, compete for who can appeal to the trump voters. the former president called into a rally for his candidate dr. oz. late surging candidate kathy barnett could pull off a major
pennsylvania. where the race are another test offer president trump s endorsement power. joe, set this all up for us. donald trump endorsed dr. oz, while one of the key opponents of dr. oz actually has a lot of trump s kind of allies there, the people who worked for trump directly, who were with him through thick or thin, but he didn t endorse that candidate. yeah, you have a mainstream republican in david mccormick, a guy who democrats fear. a guy democrats believe could actually win in november. but right now all attention is on dr. oz, a guy who has completely shape shifted over the past year or so. a guy who went from sounding like a fierce defender of dr. fauci and also a guy who, again, was the antithesis of everything that donald trump has been in
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pushing for his candidate dr. oz. he told me he is used to rough and tumble. he believes the former president knows he is the america first candidate and just quickly, we ran into dr. oz s in-laws here today. they are excited for their son-in-law. he has the trump endorsement. the question is whether barnett has a big surprise finish. dasha, thank you. former president trump s endorsement power is put to a test, his backing of dr. oz has divide the party. let s talk to vaughan hillyard about that. reporter: we 50 minutes north of you. these are the suburbs that we are going to be paying so heavily close attention to tonight. these are the areas where they were going head to head. kathy barnett is expected to do