We invite black voters to call in and tell us about your president ial choice. Republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. You can send us a text at 202 7488003. Post on facebook at facebook. Com cspan, and on x at cspanwj. Usa today looks at the current standing for President Biden among black voters in swing states. Mr. Bidens support from black voters is experiencing significant attrition and much of it coming from black men who trail donald trump and a handful of battleground states, including georgia. An april survey shows him eight points down in the swing state where he beat mr. Trump four years ago. The economy is their top concern. 29 say the economy is on the right track. That is usa today. Wall street journal took a recent poll amongst weak state voters. This is what they found among swing state voters. This is what they find black voters. Mr. Biden is winning 68 of black voters hispanic voters and 50 e voters under the agef. Though support l
Embarrassment. You know, we saw it again last night as i was coming to the oval office, i got the word that South Carolina a physician with his wife, two grandchildren and a person working at his house was gunned down, all five. So many people, so many of the people sitting here today know that well unfortunately. You know, they know what its like when the seconds change your life forever. Ive had the pleasure of getting to meet in awful circumstances many of you, many of you whove lost your children, your husbands, your wives. You know, they know what its like to bury a piece of their soul deep in the earth. We understand that. Mark and jackie, i want to tell you, its always good to see you but not under these circumstances. I want to say before i introduce the rest of the folks is, you know, what a lot of people have not been through what theyve been through dont understand it takes a lot of courage to come to an event like this. Theyre absolutely, absolutely determined to make chang
The white house messaging here. Thats right, jim. The white house did try to portray the president s visits to dayton and el paso as sort of a demonstration of the president s ability to act president ial in these kinds of situations. For example, his social media director, claiming that trump had been refused like a rock star at those places. And President Trump, as you mentioned, had disputed the characterizations of local officials in dayton while he was flying from dayton to el paso to visit the scene of the other mass shooting, saying that they had mischaracterized his visit, even though democratic mayor of dayton, nan whaley, ohio senator sher odd brown, both of them had been dmikplitry of the visit itself. The eight surviving victims still being treated at the University Medical center in texas did not want to meet with President Trump for the Washington Post is reporting that one of the reasons was because they didnt want to see the president himself. Other victims, jim, just d
War with china, this is probably literally exactly the last thing that they wanted or needed to hear. The reaction you can probably predict at this point. The dow sinking triple digits and even republicans say this is a bad idea. The chairman of the Senate Finance committee, republican Chuck Grassley of iowa, put out a statement saying, quote, trade policy and Border Security are separate issues. This is a misuse of president ial Tariff Authority and counter to congressional intent. All right. So Cnns Kaitlan Collins is at the white house. Padrick oppmann is in kaitlan, one thing of many things that is not clear is what is the president asking for mexico to do . Wipe out all illegal immigration by june 10th . Yeah, and the white house still hasnt given us a number theyre looking for on june 10th that would stop them from actually imposing the tariffs on everything coming in from mexico, even though we have asked multiple times, starting with last night during a briefing called that the
Pass them along to you. Days after a gunman opened fire right here in whats referred to as the popular oregon district dmaton, killing nine people in a matter of 30 seconds before police took him down. Protestersstreets. Were surrounded by many of them right now. They are grieving, frustrated and demanding that the president and our government do something to stop the threat of gun violence, john . Brooke, a very similar theme here in el paso. Signs are posted alongside the memorial, one of them reads mr. T, dont invade our city, a phrase we heard from both the president and the el paso shooter when talking about undocumented inl grants, invasions. The president put a target on the city, one tells cnn, and now he needs, in his words, to peel it off. Well have much more on that as it develops the next couple of hours. First back to you. Bringing coverage from both of these cities. I want to start in dayton. Cnn White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins is with me. Its your job to cover