Trial mostly ignored her during Campaign Stops on saturday, but couldnt resist taking some swings at his only remaining opponent i havent heard about her, so i wont even use people say, dont even talk about his, dont talk to it, but i have to when i have so i have to talk front row joes because shes bad news. I know her very well. Shes very average nikki, haley is pressing on despite the odds she has vowed to stay in the race, at least her Super Tuesday on saturday, she picked up endorsements from two influential female republican senators maines susan collins, and alaska is Lisa Murkowski shes also touting the findings of a new Poem Respondents have a New York TimesSienna College poll preferred her over President Joe Biden by ten points. That same poll showed trump leading mr. Biden by only five points cnns Steve Contorno has more from Virginia Super Tuesday state where trump rallied his supporters on saturday President Donald Trump held rallies on saturday in north carolina, and here in virginia. Two states that will vote on Super Tuesday. But even though their primaries are right around the corner, former President Trump was mostly looking ahead to a likely General Election with president biden. He spoke especially about his recent trip to the border and what he saw. Bidens conduct on our border is by any definition a conspiracy to overthrow the United States of america. You know, he talks about democracy. He is a danger to Democracy Krissy number one, he goes after his political opponent, which nobodys ever done in this country. They do it in third world countries very well. They do it but then i can to succeed with us, then i can to succeed. Its making a stronger its Making A Stronger Biden and his accomplices want to collapse the american system, nullify the will of the actual American Voters that established a new base of power that gives them control for generations. Meanwhile, former South Carolina governor nikki haley, on the Campaign Trail as well in north carolina, continuing to make the case that she would be more electable than President Trump in a General Election . Pointing to a new poll that showed her with a tenpoint lead over president biden. I think theres another New York Times called. It shows us. I think donald trump squeaks by and we went by ten points. If you look at the hispanic numbers in that, its off the charts, its double digits. We continue to make ground trump on saturday also adding to his delegate lead over nikki haleys projects that he has won all 32 delegates in the idaho caucuses all 54 delegates in the missouri caucuses. And at a Michigan Convention held on saturday, 39 more delegates were awarded to President Trump. His total now at 02 47. Well, on his way to the 1,215, he will need to secure the nomination. Of course, many of those delegates will be awarded on tuesday Steve Contorno, cnn, richmond, virginia we want to tell you more about that. New york times and Siena College poll we mentioned earlier. Its surveyed 980 registered voters during the last week of february and the results were concerning for President Joe Biden when the 18 of respondents thought that theyve personally benefited from mr. Bidens policies, 40 of respondents say they did personally benefit from trumps policies. Still, as cnn poll of polls shows the race for president right now is a tossup the most recent numbers in a General Election matchup continue to show no clear winner between the two. With trump at 48 and biden at 46 Natasha Lindstaedt is a professor of government at the University Of Essex she joins us now from colchester, england, good to have you with us thanks for having me. So we know that washington, dc holds its primary sunday and then Super Tuesday will see 15 states and one us territory hold elections. Polls show trump leading by double digits over rival nikki haley if she doesnt do well as this the end for her well, you would think it would be the end. This might be because she just might not have enough money to go forward and she spent a lot on her campaign thus far, about 100 million compared to only 60 million for trump. And it hasnt led to any victory in any of the states thus far. But she does have a strong backing amongst some moderate republicans that may want her to stay in the race simply because trump has so many issues going on, too many legal issues with 91 criminal counts. And also just due to the fact that he could as some serious gaffe that might turn off voters because of the x factor of a trump candidacy, she may have support to stay in it, but there isnt really any path to victory here for her. Shes so far behind it. We look at Super Tuesday. These states are going to use a winner all method and shes been gaining some delegates hearing and thereby coming in second place and shes not going to be able to benefit from that. And the other problem is that the primaries really bring out more extreme, more passionate voters. And shes winning not really with republicans, but with independents. So its possible she may stay in the race because shes gaining some attention. Its benefiting her where she has a National Platform and attention on her. Maybe she thinks she needs to stay in it because anything can happen. But the math really isnt on her side. Yeah we have from trumps speaking at a rally about his mug shot when he was indicted, saying that essentially the aid appeals to black but as i just want to play some of that sound the mug shot, weve all seen the mug shot and you know who embraced it more than anybody else. The black population, its incredibly do you see black people Walking Around with my mug shot . You know, they do shirts what should they sell them for 19 a piece. Its pretty amazing. Millions by the way, millions of these things have been cells. So i dont know if im proud of it or not proud of it. I mean people laugh when he said that oh, what, what did you think when you heard him say it on its just incredibly racist thing to say. Now of course, he is doing better with africanAmerican Voters today than he was doing when people look at the polls at least and he was still in 2020, biden still has a lead with africanAmerican Voters. But i think it points out something about his criminal issues if you look at the primary voters, the republican base, they dont care at all about his, his criminal liability here, that theres a problem that could be actually put in prison, that he could be a felon, that he could not even be able to vote. This almost seems to galvanize Republican Voters and excites them. And thats been drawing in a lot more campaign funds. But if we look at the General Election, how do people feel about that . And we have at least about half of americans that, according to a recent poll in february, said they do want these trials, these court cases to be finished up before the election, which is really important. If we look back at a poll that was taken in 2023, it was 62 of americans that felt that if he were convicted of a serious crime, then he should be barred from running for president while he is gaining some support from his hardcore voters due to all of his criminal issues. Hes not going to win the General Election if something serious happened and he were convicted yeah, certainly so many cases that we are continuing to fuller related to donald trump but i want to turn to the Battleground State of michigan because we sold that push to abandon joe biden over his support for israel in the war against hamas in gaza. More than 100,000 people voted uncommitted in the democratic primary people in other states are vowing to do the same how could joe biden . Board for israel in its war, hurt him in this election so it is hurting him definitely with arab American Voters and with Younger Voters. And we saw that in the state of michigan where 13 voted uncommitted this compares to back in 2012 when there was a vote of 9 for uncommitted committed when obama was running for president again. So theres definitely some inks, theres some disappointment and anger with the way that biden has handled the war in gaza. And he doesnt have a very good Approval Rating with Younger Voters, those that are say, under 35 70 disapprove with how hes handled the war in gaza so he has an Uphill Battle ahead of him because hes not going to be able to make a complete uturn with the war in gaza. And he doesnt seem to be able to resonate and connect with Arab American and young voters on other issues in these swing states, like you mentioned the state of michigan where the 300,000 air of americans, this will make the difference and biden only won michigan by 154,000 votes. And there are air American Voters in arizona and georgia. Other important swing states. And then of course, the bigger issue is how did he bring out Younger Voters hes not doing very well with them. Theres very low levels of enthusiasm for his candidacy and if we look to the recent New York Times poll, there was about half of democratic voters that dont want him to run again, that, that would prefer another candidate. That doesnt mean they wont vote for him. Come november. But he has a lot of issues bringing being back this very complex coalition of different voters that were able to help him win office in 2020 yeah. Professor Natasha Lindstaedt from the University Of Essex. Good to have you on the program as always, thanks so much thanks for having me well, a us official tells cnn that israel has basically accepted a sixweek ceasefire and hostage release proposal in gaza, were now negotiators are waiting for hamas to agree to that plan. The us is hoping to have a ceasefire in place before the start of ramadan, which is about a week away. The first us airdrop of aid is now on the ground and gaza, Three American C1 30s dropped 66 bundles of food over gaza on saturday us President Joe Biden says the amount of aid going into gaza is not nearly enough. Also in saturday, thousands of protesters arrived in jerusalem after a four day march across israel. They gathered outside Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahus house and the knesset. Theyre demanding the Israeli Government do more to get the hostages home. Cnn White House CorrespondentPriscilla Alvarez has more on the us efforts to get more aid into gaza the white house on saturday described or humanitarian aid drop in gaza as successful, but cautioned that more still needs to be done. Heres what we know about the operation that happened on saturday, included 66 bundles that were dropped in gaza. It was done with the Jordanian Air force. And in total included 38,000 meals. Was no water or medical well supplies that were part of this operation. Us Officials Say they chose the location based off assessments so that people were sheltering in that area. And were in need and after the fact, they saw that civilians did approach the assistance and that they began distributing it. But Administration Officials made clear that this is not enough that they want to flood the zone that includes humanitarian aid drops, as well as exploring other avenues like a maritime corridor. And they also noted that none of that is a substitute to the crossings into gaza and making sure that those Land Crossings are also available to surge as much aid as possible. Into a region that has been grappling with a worsening humanitarian crisis. Of course, all of this comes as those Hostage Deal Talks continue and a Senior Administration official told reporters on saturday that israel has quote, basically accepted a framework. That framework includes a sixweek ceasefire that would allow for police have hostages who are deemed vulnerable. That includes women, the elderly, and the wounded, as well as more assistance to get into gaza and over the course of those six weeks, the expectation is that officials could continue to hammer out some of the stickier points like the release of hostages, who are also idf members as well as to establish a more enduring plan. Now this comes ahead of a meeting with Vice PresidentKamala Harris and israeli war cabinet member benny gantz on monday for the two are expected to talk about all of this, as well as day after planning for gaza as the clock ticks for the hostage deal. But also to address this worsening crisis in gaza. Priscilla alvarez, cnn, washington well, the Israel Defense forces say they carried out what they call it a Precision Strike on Islamic Jihad targets and rafah on saturday. But Gazas Health Ministry says 11 people were killed, many more wounded in that attack. Saying in israeli airstrike hit a refugee camp next to a Maternity Hospital palestinian Officials Say as many as 50 people were wounded, including children the idf says it targeted quote, terrorists and terrorist infrastructure. And that the hospital itself was not damaged what Islamic Jihad militants are calling on residents of the west bank and jerusalem to attack at checkpoints and roads used by settlers during ramadan joining me now is dr. David has son a neurosurgeon at duke health. He recently returned from ralph and well be going back to gaza in a few weeks. Its good to have you with us thank you. So you have a wife and sevenyearold daughter in north carolina, yet youve traveled all the way to gaza to work as a surgeon. Just explain why lynda being a human being and a physician listening to all these news and watching some of the videos coming out from gaza via social media or the Mainstream Media you cant help it, but just feel you have to do something compelled to do something thats the least thing you could do. So i felt compelled to go help as much as they can for these innocent people in gaza. And of course, you witness what is virtually the complete collapse of the Healthcare System. How would you describe what you are able to do on the ground . Were very limited. Lynda for many, many reasons. One, theres no sustained medical supplies over there very, very few medication left. Surgical equipment in top of that number of functioning are partially functioning hospital are dwindling rapidly. Its only a handful hospitals are functioning, so we ended up many times performance surges without medications and aesthetics or pain medication, amputations. Were done with that objections happen without anesthetics sometimes lack of water, Electricity Performance at a really very, very primitive conditions. So all that together, in addition to the limited, very limited number of Hospital Beds available now, because again, the number of functions all partially functioning hospitals are j very less than five or six of this point and of course, dr. Hassan, you spoke about the fact that youre working in conditions where you had issues with electricity, clean water, basic sanitation, but also the constant threat from incoming rockets or gunfire or bombs. It just explain some of those sort of situations that you dealt with so usually about some sunset, the bombing and active bombing starts to most of these happened to be very, very close to the hospital permits, which has almost over 50,000 people using this hospital as a refugee camp. So when these Bombardment Shelling happens, the buildings that can completely shake and you really cant function without feeling that eminent bombing is happening ver