i know that he is on the trail today, but what else can you tell us. reporter: former president is attempting to run a frontrunner s campaign here despite the possibility of this looming indictment. today he s in new orleans where he is have an old fashioned style campaign fundraiser at the home or hosted i should say by a wealthy donor there. friday he will be headed to iowa. and in between, he is making full use of his social media platform and his email list. he has been pumping out fundraising appeals. he just posted a video through his campaign on twitter calling for congress to get involved in the cases against him. he has been doing his best to let the pending third indictment here if indeed that is what is coming do the work of rallying his base for him. he has made it such a heavy focus of his fundraising appeals on his social media platform and email list, that is the main driver right now of clicks basically and those online
essentially saying, you are either with us, or you are with liberal prosecutors, be that in new york or the federal government. they ve used these indictments very effectively to raise money, a process that has already begun in earnest today, sending out fundraising appeals to their email and text less. and they have used it to essentially force the other candidates in the race to defend donald trump. again, that same tactic, who is side on your on, the side of former republican president, or the current guy and his liberal prosecutors out to get us. that s the framework they have used. and none of the other top tier candidates have really broken out of it. we saw very faint criticism today from nikki haley, and a passing gesture at the idea from ron desantis that trump did not do enough while the january 6th attack on the capitol was happening, to stop it. the trump campaign has used these indictments as rocket fuel in the primary election. their political impact much later on is of c
Schiff raised more than $8 million in recent months for his bid to succeed Dianne Feinstein. But Katie Porter tops him in a new poll, and Barbara Lee remains in the fight.
and run for president. it is one of the questions that not only his team is asking, but his opponents are asking in the republican nomination. kristen, thank you so much for your reporting here, and to share their reporting at the table is cnn s jeff zeleny, sunmin kim of washington post and leann caldwell. jeff, i want to start with you, and i want to say i have had the experience i m guessing all of you had with the inbox infiltrated by the trump campaign s fundraising appeals. i mean, it just came coming last night. when you arrest your political opponent we no longer have a democracy. 400 years in prison. i thought this was from the son, my father has been arraigned at the miami courthouse. i mean, these were just coming nonstop. and they are, that s obviously part of the strategy
and accomplished would be drawn into a shouting match with someone like that anyway. i think one of the things you have to realize is that you can t fight that same fight because all it does is bring you down to their level. you know what else it does, alaina? it sometimes is used in a different way. how much of this do you see when you see something like that? i certainly get the things from a whole bunch of different folks who will use that, ms. greene herself, to raise money. absolutely, absolutely. i think that s something that, to give marjorie taylor greene credit, she knows how to message on these things effectively. and she knows that it plays very well with the trump base and her base and the maga voters. and it s something i think we could likely see in some fundraising appeals. i also think that as this plays out, i mean, her jumping on this, holding a press conference today about the incident, and also distorting some of the