Battle lines are being drawn between likely general election rivals Hillary Clinton and donald trump but it is not just battle lines between trump and clinton. There is still a war waging between trump and factions of his own party. The Presumptive Republican nominee is starting to shop for running mates and some republicans are also shopping for someone else. A plan c to run against donald trump and Hillary Clinton. One popular republican senator is now even openly calling for a lets begin with cnns phil mattingly. He is in columbus, ohio, for us to emergency. Good morning, phil. Reporter good morning, john. Even before john kasich announced just about three miles away from right here in columbus that he was no longer in the republican race, the Never Trump Movement has been pinging around questions, what do they do next . Now, this suspect a group that is completely unified, but they do have conversations and sources in multiple factions of the groups have said a thirdparty candidate
Four points. And the new quinnipiac survey in pennsylvania and florida shows its really close. Lets break it down with cnn political director david chalian. David, dad, david. Kate, kate, kate. Lets not go nuts over polls about an election thats still no, im going nuts. Im going nuts. But here is what i think is critically important about these three states. This is exactly the evidence donald trump needs at this very moment that hes trying to consolidate republicans to go to republicans to make sure they realize this is a winnable race. Listen, democrats are already questioning the makeup in this poll and what have you. These states seem a lot closer than our National Poll had the race last week, as you know. All that being said, caveats aside, these are data points that donald trump and his team now go to washington with as theyre trying to consolidate the establishment saying this is a fight worth joining, guys, and that is whats critical. Its a psychological boost for team trump he
Places, the democratic stronghold of california, and hes revealing what his general election game plan may look like. Listen. What im going to do is i want to focus on 15 or so states because we have to win, and i want my energy to be put in the states where it could go either way, and were going to play heavy as an example in california. Now, no other republican would you know, they wouldnt even go to dinner in california. They wouldnt do it. All three president ial candidates are campaigning today in california, including trump, and if you think i misspoke just a second ago, let me repeat. Hes not in battlegrounds like florida or ohio. He is in california today. Cnns dan simon is in fresno where the trump rally is going to be kicking off shortly, but first let me bring in National Correspondent Jason Carroll for more on this. So donald trump, he was in montana last night when he made this announcement, 15 states he mentioned. Its unclear unless you know better than me if its just the
Surprising, that says at a minimum secretary clinton should have surrendered all of her emails dealing with the Department Business before leaving the government services. She used this private server in her home in new york. Thats what she used exclusively for all of her business as secretary of state and that violated the state departments rules. Now the report goes on to say that when she left, she should have at least turned over those records and said that she was able to provide them when she was asked for it. She turned over 55,000 pages, 30,000 emails that she had sent while she was in the state department. But the report does also say that there was even though she turned over 55,000 pages, there was still some things missing from those from those emails, including emails to david petraeus, who is the former cia director and emails to sid blumenthal, a friend and confidant of hers looking to do business in libya. It is brought up regarding benghazi and her use of this public s
The second straight day to disparage the looks of the accusers to say they are not attractive enough for him to notice. No poapologies and admission of guilt from donald trump whos still denying he ever Sexual Assaulted women. I look at the television. I think it is a disgusting thing. And it is being pushed. They have no witnesses. There is nobody around. They just come out. Some are doing it for probably a little fame. Phony accusers come out less than a month before one of the most important elections in the history of our country. Reporter but every day it seems trump faces more accusations. The latest, Summer Zervos who appeared at a News Conference to say she was abused after she was featured on trumps hit tv show the apprentice. He came to me and started kissing me open mouthed as he was pulling me towards him. He put me in an embrace and i tried to push him away. I pushed his chest to put space between us and i said come on man, get real. Le repeated my words back to me get rea