that is incredibly notable because as brianna was saying, it s been this long-standing practice of strategic ambiguity. basically, that means that the white house will say, china, don t do this. we don t want to see you do this, but they wouldn t exactly spell out what would happen if china were to do that. and the president, of course, did that today, saying the u.s. military would be involved in this. so, yes, afterward, you did see some of the president s aides try to walk this back saying he wasn t articulating any kind of change in his policy, but it is a policy difference for him to come out and say explicitly they would do that. not just that they would provide arms to ukraine or arms to taiwan and weapons to taiwan like they are doing with ukraine, but saying they would go one step further, john. of course, it s a statement the president has come close to saying before. he articulated it very bluntly with no clarifications, no caveats. you can have aides walk it bac
little for thousands georgians. reporter: so, trump has called kemp the worst governor in america for not doing more to essentially cheat on his behalf in the 2020 election. and it seems like the way in which david perdue, the trump-endorsed candidate, the former senator is struggling to make contains here in georgia. it seems as though conservative voters are weary of hearing about this election lie and just have other issues on their mind. john? eva, terrific seeing you, thank you. now to the tied race in pennsylvania. cnn s melanie from harrisburg with a look here. so close, headed for a recount, it looks like. reporter: absolutely. this race is neck and neck. david mccormick is trailing by just about 1,000 votes here in pennsylvania. the ballots will continue to be counted today. but there s only a few number of votes left to be counted. fewer than 10,000.
winner until a recount is over. and the recount absolutely does seem inevitable at this point. look at georgia, look south, michael, right now. you have mike pence backing the sitting governor, brian kemp. donald trump backing his challenger, david perdue here. there seems to be a lot at stake here at least thematically from a nationwide perspective. well, governor kemp doesn t need former vice president mike pence to come in today. unless these polls are way the hell off, he doesn t need this 11th hour appearance. i think it s a layup for vice president pence to go in and lay down a marker. lay down a marker that he is not with donald trump, the former president, when it comes to this particular battle. why, for example, didn t pence come into pennsylvania and lay claim to either oz or to mccormick? maybe that was a little hot to handle. this one there s seemingly a clear victor. so, pence gets to get an iou out there with someone who will be,
it has very clear language in there about what the u.s. will do and not do. what hasn t changed is the official u.s. position. the president has said more than once, u.s. may very well get involved. officials have tried to walk that back more than once but is there a change here? he has to be pressed more. mr. president, who s right, you or your spokes people? if he s trying to make xi jinping think twice, he has three, maybe four times. jim sciutto, always great to have you on. it is the eve of the high-stakes primary race in georgia even as the senate primary race in pennsylvania remains deadlocked. mike pence will rally for mike kemp as he goes head-to-head with trump backed david perdue. and in pennsylvania oz and mckor mick for the gop nomination is still neck and neck. oz still leads by about 1,000 votes there. we have live coverage of both