crucial primary elections that will shape the midterms. in virginia donald trump supported corey stewart securing the gop nomination challenging incumbent sen. and former vice president candidate, congressman mark sanford loses his first race ever becoming the second house republican to lose a primary this election cycle. stanford is defeated by katie arrington to a last-minute endorsemt from dald trump. nevada sen. dean heller cruises to a primary win, the only republ ufor reelection in a state hillary clinton won in 2015. democrats hoping to harness hollood star power and of the midterms which according to politico dnc officials are holding strategy meetings with tinseltown a listers in 2016 and campaign manager for the 20/20 reelection run, the left will never learn from their mistakes. hollywood elites are not connected to the american
destroys the republican party this fall, which he s going to do most likely, then he empowers democrats who they can then run against in 2020 so while donald trump may be destroying the republican party, if the history is any guide, this play be playing right into his hands for a successful reelection run. you go back to elise s focus group. we all run around here and get very excited and our pants get on fire, at least my pants get on fire with russian collusion and is john kelly in or out and what not and to the average american it s how s my job doing. to even the higher end it s how is the stock market doing. are terrorists blowing anything up. you have to begrudgingly outside of all of the human absurdities and deplorable things, i hate to use that word, that was a very bad word for somebody, you have to give him a decent score
steel be exempted from these tariffs. connell? connell: a lot of lobbying and more still to come. molly, thanks. julie? julie: so meanwhile the president is returning from a trip to florida where he met with major g.o.p. donors to help raise money for his reelection run in 2020. the fund-raiser coming on the heels of what was a rough week for the white house. ellison barber has more from west palm beach, florida. president trump left mar-a-lago this afternoon. he was only in florida for about 24 hours last night he went to a dinner with rnc donors. he seemingly played some golf this morning and then spoke to those donors again before getting on air force one and heading back to d.c. on twitter he s been talking about trade and doubling down on his tariff plans for steel and aluminium. president trump has faced a lot of criticism in regards to that proposal from members of his own party to world leaders. in fact he s threaten more taxes on the eu if they increase taxes
say listen, my base is still with me. my base believes what i say and i can use them. i can use them politically to push back and have a successful reelection run. not that many people supported him in the general polls but he did end up winning. that is true. we haven t seen republicans abandoning him. they have much less nait what mueller is doing than do democrats. so the poll numbers that donald trump was talking about last night, we don t seem to know what they were. his approval rate is hovering excuse me. i m sorry to interrupt. manafort leaving court right now. reporters were screaming questions at him. i don t think we have the sound. that the back of his head. he is getting into his car. i don t believe he is answering
made of this. obviously one thing that is clear to me here is already they understand that their fortunes for reelection run through ohio, wisconsin, michigan understanding that s what made the difference. understanding also although he didn t mention that it was a narrow margin. wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania, not in ohio where he won big by eight points. what s your sense of how this message, the kind of prompter parts resonates in your state? the prompter parts, chris, are the reason why he won. he really tapped into some of the frustration that many ohioans are feeling and our state and other midwestern states were hit very hard by nafta and some folks have never really recovered from that. the teleprompter was right on. i started to think about the greatest show on earth and that is exactly what he gave tonight. a little bit of rally. and then a little bit of we are