anti-trump candidate. matt dolan from up in cleveland who ran against trump, said the election was real and happened and so those voters are up for grabs. they don t want to go down this road of destroying the democracy, of undermining the precious right to vote, call into question elections. like ohioans aren t like that, they are not extremists they re pragmatic people. maybe they are a little more conservative or liberal, but they are pretty pragmatic. you distinguished yourself from barack obama, nancy pelosi and bernie sanders. right? do you feel as if you are to an extent running against some in the democratic party? i m running as an american and, as i said, i ve gotten a long record of being and fighting against democrats and
still want to have conversations with him at mar-a-lago. i think it s an open question whether or not it gets you the victory and i think it s an open question whether or not people looking at trump endorsements say this guy is unbeatable in the next election. or maybe not. right. it is an important point. a number of these candidates who do not have trump s endorsement are not poking trump. some people are saying donald trump is bad for the party, but most, listen, this is josh mandel. he did not get trump s endorsement. he didn t get it this. this is him earlier today saying that s okay. i m going to win tomorrow and work with president trump in the general election. we ve going to be working together to beat tim ryan, beat the democrats. more importantly, we re going to work together to advance the america first agenda. so for most republicans, it s a pretty fine line, even if you re mad at trump because he didn t endorse you, you don t want to poke the bear. yeah. you could
crowded field. that s good in a crowded field. you ve seen him have a little bit of search. we ll see what happens tomorrow. you see the number this. that s what happened. j.d. vance around 11% or 12 %. in a crowded five-way primary, 23% or 25% might be enough to get you in. you look at the giant question mark. that s 25 % undecided. one of the questions we do not do this on one race. by the end of the month, we might have a much better sense of the donald trump endorsement. what does it get you? does it get you to 50%? or is it depending on which race he actually endorses? and are the dynamics of individual states outweighing the trump dynamic? i think that we don t have the answer yet. and anyone who says that they clearly think that donald trump is still the rainmaker in this entire conference or republican party, i mean, they have to give this a little time to play out. i will say that folks on the hill who are running for reelection, they still want trump in their corner, and
trump and managed to succeed there. and using that model. so no matter what, republicans are going to line up behind whoever wins this primary. it s just a matter of how much trump s influence matters and when. i mean, he didn t clear the field when he came in at the end to endorse vance. right. and you mentioned the evolution, a lot of conservatives saying you shouldn t trust j.d. vance. he was in 2016, he said donald trump was horrible for the republican party. he said he was not a true conservative. this weekend we see him campaigning with marjorie taylor greene and matt gaetz. if you need any evidence where j.d. vance it s an important distinction. republicans you want to turn out for you in a primary, that picture speaks volumes in. that s right. i think one thing to keep in mind is this is rob portman s state. rob portman is not a trump enthusiast. it doesn t mean that he didn t vote or help the president when
selected in georgia to hear evidence about then president n state. the fulton county district attorney is leading this investigation. and the evidence includes phone calls from then president trump to top georgia officials urging them to help him, quote, find votes. and to reverse joe biden s win. sara is right there in fulton county live with the details. sara, tell us more. the judge and the district attorney made quick work of it whittling a pool of roughly 200 potential jurors down to 26 including three alternates. it s a diverse group as you would expect to see here in atlanta. this is the case of the district attorney working on for over a year. ever since that infamous call between donald trump and brad roethlisberger leaked. here s a portion of the call. what are we going to do here, attacks? i only need 11,000 votes. fellas, i need 11,000 votes. give me a break. we have that in spades already.