By his wife heidi and his mother as well as Carly Fiorina. In the meantime, all eyes are on the trump event after his Campaign Manager is now facing a Battery Charge for man handling a reporter at an event earlier this month. Trump is standing by his man, though, and all of it is happening as all of the republican candidates are backing away from a pledge to support the partys eventual nominee. We have reporters at both events covering this. Wild turns in this race right now, especially after last nights cnns town hall. Lets go to Phil Mattingly who is live at the trump event. What are we expecting this morning . Reporter kate, if you had any expectation that the Trump Campaign was going to reverse course or not be on offense or even apologize in the wake of what happened to Corey Lewandowski, the trump Campaign Manager, you were wrong. You had to watch the town hall last night. Take a listen. I stick up for people when people are unjustly accused and, in my opinion, unjustly accused.
Albany. Both clinton, sanders, and trump are also nearby. Why ted cruz gets a jump on california, part of his strategy to kick off delegates anywhere he can. In colorado, his organization managed to sweep that states 13 unpledged delegates but trump isnt buying it calling the delegate system, quote, rigged and corrupt. Im up millions of votes on ted cruz. Millions. Not like two votes. Im up millions and millions of votes. Weve got a corrupt system. Its not right. Were supposed to be a democr y democracy. Were supposed to be, you vote and the vote means something. Which republican candidate is benefitting the most from the current delegate system . Weve got exclusive nbc analyses in a few moments. Meanwhile, the battle between sanders and clinton gone from qualification to judgment with sanders blasting the former secretary of state for what he says is a lack of it. She may have the experience to be president of the united states, no one can argue that. But in terms of her judgment are
Rules and delegates. Here you see donald trump. This was today leaving that meeting with rnc leaders. Just a wave to the press. Thats it. A conciliatory tone on twitter minutes later where he tweeted just had a nice meeting with Reince Priebus. Looking forward to bringing the Republican Party together and it will happen. Jim acosta is outfront tonight. Everyone seems to back off the pledge of supporting the nominee. Donald trump saying again not being treated fairly by the gop. What happened in that meeting, though . Reporter well, erin, youre right. Donald trump was uncharacteristically quiet after that meeting at the rnc today. Donald trumps comments on abortion in the last 24 hours were very damaging to his campaign. John kasich went further today saying that the real estate tycoon is not ready to be president of the United States. Thats very Strong Language coming from john kasich. An rnc official told me the chairman and donald trump had a productive meeting about the state of the
Battleground states of pe pennsylvania, beginning in philadelphia and then ohio. Republican rivals are also stumping but separately. Republican nominee donald trump is set for an event in the key state of colorado. His vp, mike pence, will be in ohio later today. Both sides know there is no time to waste. Polls show a virtual dead heat between trump and clinton. What is the most immediate question right now will Hillary Clinton get that same sort of postconvention bounce that mr. Trump experienced. After she became the first woman ever to accept the democratic president ial nomination, it was a Convention Finale custom made for clinton, even with its own original theme song. Were united when tith the sp there will be better days to come if you reach out you can feel it because its there for everyone dont you know that we are stronger together that stronger together song. We talked to baby face yesterday. He cowrote and coproduced it. Jeff zeleny is with us, he was at that clintonkaine
Plans to tap for his running mate. Lets speak to john rogers standing by live in spokane. Great to see you. What is the latest . Reporter uma, good afternoon to you. A near capacity crowd. Not quite full but close enough and as far as protesters go outside, fewer than 100 at this point and they seem to be behaving themselves quite well. As donald trump comes to washington, a couple of big questions. First of all, can he unify the Republican Party before the convention and certainly before november and does he have an effective counterattack against Hillary Clinton on the former point. Donald trump very critical today about jeb bush and Lindsey Graham for earlier in the campaign, allegedipledging they support the nominee and now saying they will not support donald trump. Remember when the two failed president ial candidates Lindsey Graham and jeb bush signed the binding plechblg, they broke the deal. No honor. Trump mildly critical of paul ryan he is going to meet with on capitol hill t