Edition of outfront. Next, the Breaking News, President Biden, about to officially clinic the nomination that is expected this hour as polls closed in georgia, the state that will put them over the top, plus the showdown over the Powerful Union Vote Biden MeetingBehind Closed Doors with the teamsters today. And one of the executives in that room makes a bold prediction. Hes our guest and rfk junior, narrowing down his list for vp once in nfl star and the other former professional wrestler in an election where kennedy could end up determining who wins the white house. Lets go outfront. America votes and a good evening to all and welcome to this Special Edition of Outfront Tonight. Erin burnett. And this evening we begin with the Breaking News because the first polls are closing right now on an historic day of primaries, we are standing by for the first results to come in from georgia for the polls are closing, this will likely, most likely be the moment the biden formally clinches the democratic nomination. And the night that trumps cements the republican nod nomination, which will set up the first president ial take to rematch in nearly 70 years. And georgia, as crucial as it is with the polls closing this moment is one of four States Holding contests today. Both candidates have so much riding on this state because trump, of course, Lost Georgia Infamously by only 11,779 votes votes. In 2020. He claims if he wins at this time around, he will win at all. And the reality is that georgia is seen as mustwin and the general election. And tonights results will tell us a whole lot about doozy asm the passion of the voters, what they care about, and our team of reporters is standing by to kick us off as these polls closed was in georgia. Kristen holmes covering the Trump Campaign, i want to begin though with mj lee, who is at the white house with President Biden, and mj obviously, this could be the moment where he clinches the nomination of these Georgia Results coming out momentarily. What are you hearing from the biden team tonight about his next move . Yeah. Erin, when President Biden officially crosses that delegates threshold, of course, it is going to be a symbolically significant moment for the campaign. And the campaign is hoping that it will be one more thing that helps voters who so far have been tuned out of the election, see the 2024 is really going to be a race between President Biden and former President Donald Trump. Of course, this evening comes just hours after that, robert hur testimony. And despite her saying that he was not exonerating President Biden, you saw the white house all day today saying case close. Basically that the president is innocent and you can definitely sense that there is a sense of relief both here at the white house and with the campaign in that this is now in the Rearview Mirror as one Campaign Official put it, they said this is definitely a turn the page moment between this evening and the testimony being over. They said the transcript is out. The hearing is over, and we can now move on we certainly expect that tonight whenever the president officially clinches the democratic nominee nomination when we are able to make a call formally on the State Of Georgia, where the polls have closed just three minutes ago, mj. Thank you. So lets go to Kristen Holmes talking to her sources inside the Trump Campaign, and kristen, obviously, a crucial night for trump as well, where he anticipates clinching the nomination formally on the republican side, whats going Behind The Scenes yeah, erin, we all of this now is looking forward to the november general election. Yes. Tonight is a big night. Donald trump expected to clinch the nomination, but hes not even doing anything to celebrate. Hes at maralago. Hes not having a pardon . They were not expected to hear from him and thats because theyve really been acting as though he is the nominee for the last several weeks now, what does this actually looked like in terms of moving for it is building out ground game, building out strategy, particularly in those key Battleground States. Im told theres about seven states they view as tier one Battleground States talking about pennsylvania, michigan, georgia, arizona, nevada among some of what does this look like . It looks like them trying to put their heads together, build this out, but it also looks like tapping into the rnc infrastructure that already exist. We saw essentially a Trump Takeover Of The Rnc this week, Ronna Mcdaniel no. Who had been at odds with donald trump, stepping down. Instead. Note michael whatley, who was trumps handpicked candidate, is elected chair and his daughterinlaw, lara trump, takes over as cochair this is a fullon trump takeover according to one source, there was a blood bath at the rnc as Staff Members were getting slashed. Ive spoken to a number of people who were over there who are worried about their jobs. They dont know whats going to happen next. There is a full loyalists infiltration at the rnc, which is common when you have a nominee actually win the nomination and they had declared him the presumptive nominee last week. Now, the other part of this, as youre talking to people freaking out, they have said they are hoping michael wattless stands up to some of this trump takeover suggested take over because it will be up to the new chairman to determine some of the stuff. However, again, remember this is a trump handpicked candidate whos in that position. Erin. All kristen, thank you very much. So lets go to david chalian, our political director. David now, its a significant night, historic and setting up this this rematch first nearly 70 years, biden and trump both poised to capture enough delegates in these next minutes and hours to secure their partys nomination. So lets start with biden as we await that the call in georgia where the polls just closed, as i said, about five minutes ago that could officially put him over the top that he has a nomination. Where does he currently stand in the delegate count . So if you look in the upper righthand corner there, 1,968 delegates is what is needed to secure the democratic nomination. Joe biden has 1,868 delegates in his column to date. So he is a shy of where he needs to be, erin, there are 108 delegates at stake on the democratic side in georgia. So as we await for that vote to come in from georgia will be able to see if hes able to put it away with that early State Closing tonight and get over the hurdle there. You see 20 delhi so it gets uncommitted, has and thats largely due to that protest vote that we saw in michigan and minnesota and hawaii. And then joe biden did lose american samoa. Take a look here. If you look at the delegates won to date by percentages, aaron 98. 8 of the delegates are joe bidens in this race. He just did not have much thats competition. Dean phillips, marianne williamson, never really materialized. You see, hes dominant there. And if you look at whats needed to win, as i said, hes only 100 away, 4. 9 of the remaining delegates is what he needs. And perhaps well get that out of Georgia Tonight. Right . Right. And obviously, mr. Palmer, that you see there, the International Man of mystery, right . Hes the only one that even got any delegates its not not williamson or dean phillips. Okay. But what about trump on the other side . Obviously you dont have a number like 98. 6 or whatever you just said for biden. But where is he in terms of securing enough delegates on the republican side tonight . Hes close to aaron and as you said, hes likely to clinch it tonight, 1,215 is the metal trick number needed on the republican side, you seen donald trump is set 1089 right now. Obviously dominant when you look at haley only at 91 desantis and ramaswamy picked up some delegates before they dropped out. Look, the way it is by percentage, if you can see you can see that 91. 4 of the delhi it gets to date have gone to donald trump compared to only seven for nikki haley. So what does donald trump need to get to 1,215 . He needs ten of the remaining delegates at stake. And clearly with the delegates at stake tonight in georgia, in Washington State in hawaii, youll be able to see that donald trump is likely to get over that hurdle and secured the nomination tonight as well. All right. David chalian, were gonna be checking back in with you and we are able to make some of these first calls. A significant to say, by the way, in a contested, heavily contested by nikki haley right. And all the way through, still, trump has 91. 4 of the delegates thus far. And we will see when we can make these first calls, lets go to john king at the magic wall. John, you know, its interesting. Trump has made it very clear if he wins georgia, he thinks he wins the election, lies that hes made it that Black And White and comments. But how closely is bidens campaign . Watching Georgia Tonight with that unforgettable 10,779 vote margin. Last time i go back and show you that in a minute, but theyre watching for this too because of the Point David Just made. These are our first votes actually coming in in the primary right now because of what we expect to happen by the end of the night, a lot of people already talking about november, right. Well get there. But the Biden Campaign is firstly think at this and right now theyre getting 95 of the vote, which means theyre going to get the bulk of those delegates, which means if i just shift over here for a second, heres where the president is tonight. And as david just noted, by the end of the night, maybe even within an hour or two when we allocate the georgia delegates, the president noted states is going to clinch the nomination and thats a big deal, right . He didnt have serious primary opposition. So how big of a deal we leave that to debate . But it does allow you to focus your time, your energy, your resources on the general election. Now, you mentioned what trump said about this. Well, this is 2024. You come back to 2016 20 im sorry about that. I just cause a lot of bad flashbacks for democrats there didnt i will come right here to georgia 2020, 11,779 votes. Right . So the president , the former president in states as if i can win this, that i win the election. Well, not so fast. If we come back and look at the race to 271, come back, lets look at where we ended the last campaign and come up here. This is where we ended the last campaign. If you make the adjustments after the census for the Electoral College as you come back here, lets just say for the sake of argument, trump took that away, right . No, it doesnt want to work for me here. Hang on. Let me do it here someone hack into your wall. Know its just having against having a little fun. Lets every now and that has fun. So there you go. Lets say trump got that. Lets say biden kept this and biden kept this and biden kept this and biden kept this and biden kept hold on one second. Thats not enough. Hold on one second. Im going to come right back to you, but i do just want everyone to know. We do now have a cnn projection and we can now project at cnn that President Biden has enough delegates to win the democrats credit nomination for the 2024 president ial election. And as weve been saying, this is a major and historic moment in the race. Biden now pushing ahead with his Reelection Bid and the state that got him Over The Edge of state that got him over the top. Well see in hindsight how significant that is, is the State Of Georgia where polls just closed at the top of the hour took us just 11 minutes here to make this formal call and we are now projecting georgia is a win for biden will get back to john king in a moment. David chalian first though, can you tell us what this means for the delegate count . Yeah. Erin, as you can erin as you can see here joe biden at 1,972 is clear above that benchmark of the 1,968 he needed to secure the nomination. Joe biden, youre Presumptive Democratic nominee. It just awaits the formality of the delegates in shock cargo this summer, the democratic convention, to make it official. But joe biden has secured enough delegates to seek reelection that he hopes will be successful. Come november. You see here weve been able to allocate 104 of the hundred and eight delegates at stake in georgia to joe biden with the vote that has already come in. Hes winning 95 of the vote that didnt so far, hes were able to put 104 of those hundred and eight delegates for delegates remain unallocated, as we will await more votes to come in. But that was clearly when he was only 100 away enough to get them over the hurdle. And as you noted, i have little doubt that his campaign will make faster business of touting that it is georgia a major battleground state. They want to campaign in to do the job to get them over the hump exactly the point. And obviously well see us as other four delegates are allocated. And as we get more information, as the numbers come in on, on turnout and enthusiasm, we can interpret from that with david, is this our continues . John king, though, they are going to make hay oh, it was georgia. It was georgia that put President Biden over the top for the nomination. But when you look at how crucial georgia is, is it this must win for him isnt a mustwin for either candidate know, but is it a nice chunk, especially if we believe what happened in 2020 kind of continue what happened in 2020. Lets come back to the map and look at the president ial race here and watch this play out. So what happened in 2020 never won a Biden Reestablish the blue wall. Hillary clinton Lost Pennsylvania and michigan, and wisconsin. Joe biden got them back, right . The blue collar campaign, trump reelection campaign. Thats how trump became president. He flipped the old blue wall. Those three democratic states, but then biden added this and added this, which hadnt voted democrat for president in quite some time. So these emerging the sun belt states, the population is growing, theyre becoming more suburban in georgia, you have a Democratic Base, the africanamerican vote, a joe biden was able to put together the combination of the existing Democratic Base with the shift of the suburbs toward the democrats and put together what was a very impressive Electoral College pledge when and a 7 million votes win in the popular vote right there. Now most of those votes came from california. So if youre looking at the map this time, theres just a brand new cbs yougov poll out of Georgia Tonight that essentially shows a dead heat. Donald trumps slightly ahead, but no clear leader. When you look at the margin of error in that poll air and you see strengths and weaknesses for both candidates. A weakness for biden is the same thing we saw in the National New York timessienna college poll last week, people doubting or his economic policies good for me, trump scores a little bit better. People think if trump were president , i do a little bit better economically, but theres also a pretty sizable chunk of voters in that new poll its as if donald trump is convicted. He wouldnt be qualified to be president , which is why as we have these conversations about november in march, its inevitable both candidates are going to clinch most likely to clinch anyway, tonight, we start having these conversations. Remember, we dont know who trumps going to pick as his Vice President. We dont know if theres going to be a trial before november. We dont know which thirdparty candidate is going to be on the ballot in which states. So right now, you have a very competitive race, just like last time between these two candidates who both have considerable strength, both have considerable weaknesses and there are so many unknowns we can game it out. But as we do so, we better be very, very careful because there are so many variables in hypotheticals that were not going to answer in some cases for weeks and months. All right. John. Thank you. And as john concludes, we do have a cnn projection and we can now project that former President Donald Trump will win the Georgia Republican primary. That means he adds more delegates to his account as we do expect him to clinch the republican nomination. Tonight, there are four states. Of course voting, but we now can project that donald trump has won the State Of Georgia, david chalian. What can you tell us about what this means for his Delegate Math . Well, donald trump is inching closer to that magic number in the upper righthand corner there, 1,215 is what he needs. Weve been an allocate some delegates from Georgia Tonight him he now has 1,144 delegates compared to haleys