desperation and anguish as families are dealing with enormous emotions. 19 children at least are dead and two adults as well. good morning. dana has time off. i m bill hemmer live in new york. julie, welcome back to our program. good morning. i m julie banderas and you re watching america s newsroom. this scene a horrific scene at the robb elementary school. about 80 miles west of san antonio, officials saying the shooter barricaded himself inside a classroom. officials say the victims were all in the same fourth grade room. the rampage ending we re told after a border patrol agent rushed into the school without waiting for backup and forced entry into that classroom that killed the attacker. the massacre entering the record books as the second most deadly school shooting in u.s. history following sandy hook 10 years ago. the new york post front page echoing that horrific day in newtown, connecticut. now the focus on the latest tragedy to grip america. the victims
republican primaries for governor, and for secretary of state. two trump backed candidates are essentially running single issue campaigns, on the ex president s big lie of a stolen election. you ve got former senator david perdue, close trump ally, who lost his senate seat last year. he s challenging the incumbent republican governor, brian kemp. and you ve got far-right congressman jody hice, who s hoping to oust the current incoming secretary of state, brad raffensperger. these races are notable, not only as a referendum on trump s attempt to do, but also to set the groundwork for the next one. because out of all of trump s attempts to overturn the will of the voters and steal the election, what is the state of georgia, where he put his most effort? part of that of course has to do with how humiliated trump appears to have felt by his defeat over there, not only because the election was widely seen as repudiation to him and his movement, and it has been years since a democr
here and pima county down here. what these votes look like we re not sure. two years ago that vote, that batch was a little more republican. so blake masters has a chance here to close this gap and maybe overtake it. i did some math. if he manages to win 60% of the remaining vote, if, that s a tall order but not impossible, that would net him a total of 112,000 votes. okay. okay. which is more than 95,000. so his target is right around 58%. it s a high bar, not impossible. so this race not over. and just to remind people, if democrats take both these seats then the runoff in georgia won t matter in terms of determining control. like wise for republicans. if one party can win either of these seats georgia doesn t matter for control. i think also a question about masters is does he get all the
and applied legitimacy of the doj, to say that we re election regularity s in georgia, as well as a number of other states, and you authorized a legislature to call itself into session for, to throw biden s victory. had that plan succeeded, it would have cost a full blown constitutional crisis. i mean, it s really hard to overstate the damage that would be done to our democracy, for the attorney general, department of justice, to falsely claim there was election fraud, and say, hey, georgia you should know. you guys should call special election, because we just can t say what happened. calling for legislators to go rogue and overturn the election. now, thankfully, the folks, the highest level of the department of justice, understood this. and they threatened mass resignations, trump backed down. but that was another failed
mike pence, who is down in georgia, stumping for the incumbent republican governor, brian kemp. any other situation, this would be on remarkable. except, mike pence s old boss donald trump is backing the challenger, former senator david perdue. the thing is, governor kemp is essential to a maga republican on every issue except one. he did not given to trump when he put intense pressure on him to steal the 2020 election. that s why trump endorsed david perdue in an, al flee giant conspiracy. but with him trailing in the polls, trump could not be bothered to go to georgia for a last-minute push. instead, he held a teller rally with, purdue, a little while ago called it to hear from a disgraceful former president. and since it looks pretty unlikely trump is going to win, trump needed to pat s endorsed mint. so, this, weekend get, this he