newsroom. great to have you with us this weekend, i m ana cabrera in new york. president trump making good on his promise to hit the road full throttle for republicans this summer. in just a few hours, he ll be pumping up gop voters in ohio in a deep red district that he won easily on election day. but now, a republican win there is by no means a given. these two are fighting for a congressional seat in tuesday s special election. on the left is the democrat, can danny o connor, suddenly surging, making it a toss-up against republican troy balderson. the president s visit is last minute push to keep that seat republican. boris sanchez is on site. if this district flips, what does this mean for midterms? reporter: hey there, ana. well, it could be a signal of that blue wave that commentators have long been prognosticating for the 2018 midterm elections. this could be a referendum on
where president trump stands with midwestern voters as well. the fact is, we wouldn t be talking ab
Clinton s e-mails, although such a report was already out. in 2016, police say a man fired a rifle in a d.c. pizza place as he claimed he was investigating a widespread conspiracy theory about human trafficking. he was convicted and is now serving four years. we re not covering pizzagate enough. reporter: and alex jones, who pushed the pizzagate conspiracy on his radio show is now in court over another made-up tale. families of victims in the sandy hook school shooting say they have been hounded mercilessly since jones claimed their stories were all part of a hoax to push for gun control. he is countersuing them for legal fees. yet for all that, back in 2015, candidate donald trump praised alex jones. so perhaps it s no surprise the qanon crowd is now crowding around the president, offering their support. tom foreman, cnn, washington. qanon is the name of the group, and daily beast
He was armed. he had a weird improvised armored truck. he s a hard core qanon guy so we know he s motivated by that. at the same time, obviously, in 2016, we saw someone with pizzagate, you know, an armed person invade a pizzeria in washington. so what s happening here is the qanon people are saying, we re not violent, and admittedly, so far, no one that we know of has been hurt by this but at the same time, you know, you re telling people these sort of extravagant conspiracy theories about pedophiles and people abusing children and the fact that the idea that essentially democracy is broken, the government s out of your hands, and so then i think naturally, that s going to appeal to some fringe people and as we know, it already has. increasing emotions and passion. william, thank you very much for your reporting. it s so interesting. thanks for having me. we have this just in to cnn. first lady melania trump taking sides in her husband s feud with lebron james and you might be s