for trump. with vance earning 32% of the vote in a crowded primary, to replace retiring republican senator rob portman. two-thirds of ohio gop voters did not follow trump s lead and chose other conservative candidates. trump told friends he was relieved by the outcome, cnn has learned, in a race that shows he s still king and king maker of his party. but there are more tests of trump s influence to come, including next week in west virginia. where he s taken sides in a primary pitting two republican congressmen against one another. and nebraska, where he s weighed in on a heating three-way contest for governor. a bigger test comes may 17th in a pair of senate races. one in north carolina, and another in pennsylvania. where trump backed mehmet oz faces david mccormick in one of the most closely watched primaries, and may 24th in georgia, a state trump has been consumed with since he narrowly lost there in 2020. ever since, he s taken aim at
to put ron desantis in a long legal battle? if you remember last decade, it took four years for a map to be produced and went all the way to the supreme court. is this a battle that republicans want to fight again? as we wait for that one, steve, the governor also wants to establish a special police force with the job of monitoring elections and he s asking the legislature to allocate $6 million for that. what s the deal here? the governor first proposed this idea in november at a time when there were a lot of calls from many trump supporters to investigate so-called fraud in the elections. now, obviously we know in florida, state trump won. there was no evidence of fraud, and many democrats are wondering why this is needed at all. republicans have been noticeably quiet on whether they support this at this point. one thing worth noting is that the size of this force, 52 full-time employees, is larger than the police force for investigating homicides in many
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developing news in the ongoing insurrection investigation. the trump justice department lawyer who was at center of so much of this jeffrey clark deposed refusing to answer substantive questions. committee chair saying the committee will take strong measures to hold him accountable. politico reporting that could lead to a separate referral to doj for contempt of congress. that is, the medicine that was served up to steve bannon. clark was involved in trump s frenzied efforts to overturn the election. according to the times reporting end of the run of the trump presidency. thompson telling nbc 20 more subpoenas are ready to go out. meanwhile, reporting one of the january 6th rioters told the committee about contacts between republican officials in the key state trump lost and allies of trump in the weeks leading up to that january 6th attack. also new video of rudy giuliani
of testify and congress, he spent that time he was supposed to be in congress, instead doing a conspiracy theory podcast hosted by the guy who started the conspiracy theory that dominion voting machines were a secret antifa plot. that s where he spent his time doing instead of finding congress, because it was very, very busy with the antifa plot dominion voting guy. but this ridiculous audit thing, i laughable and as increasingly incoherent as it is to the rest of us. it is still picking up steam in the republican party, it is becoming more and more central to how they re moving for it as a party, and what they re working on. and it s in multiple states now. you ll recall are reporting recently, that the my pillow guy mike, lindell. ceo of the my pillow company, who s been a key figure in the nonsense election fraud. he told idaho, a state trump