surged in georgia. early voting. ahead of tuesday s primaries in the state. more than 850,000 residents already have cast their votes, despite some of the most restrictive voting laws in the country. yet, the core of it all, a most visible reminder of donald trump s unpredictable but enduring pull on the gop. in a state that trump brazenly tried to bend to his will two years ago. is endorsed candidate in the state governors race. david perdue is limping behind incumbent brian kemp. trump announcing last minute a televised rally for purdue tomorrow night. on the other side, democratic former state representative stacey abrams is running unopposed in her race to become the nation s first black woman governor. tonight, we are all about with the primaries will mean for the rest of the country. that s politicsnation this evening. plus, a new washington poll revealing the depth of our racial divide two years after george floyd s murder. now in the aftermath of the tragedy in buff
here because he s recovering from a stroke. that s his wife gisele. earlier, they laid out the stake of the race on morning joe. i don t think it s night and day, it s going to make a difference between codifying roe v. wade or looking to raise the minimum wage and addressing climate issues. it s really two different sides of the coin. in the governor s race, republican leadership is reeling, worrying about the general election now that state senator doug mastriano won the gop nomination for governor. he rose to prominence by denying the 2020 election results, big ally of donald trump. and was in washington on january 6th. some are probably worried because of all of that he s unelectable in a general against the dem-nominee ad josh shapiro. and in a blow, madison cawthorn will not be returning to congress, losing a race that many said was his to lose. steve kornacki has that on the big board. and sweden and finland just jointly submitted their applications to join n
his skin. on his son s 3rd birthday. ten people were killed saturday at tops friendly market in a racially motivated attack allegedly by an 18-year-old white man who is now in custody. wasn t even the only mass shooting this weekend. we have learned a lot about the alleged killer already. his background, prior red flags, the racist poison he apparently drew on and how widespread it sadly is, and we ll talk about all of it tonight, but we re not going to use his name or show his photo. he livestreamed the killings. he wants fame. we don t want to be part of giving him that. instead, we begin tonight by telling you what we know about those whose lives were stolen on saturday, like andre mackneil. by the way, he went everywhere, we re told, with his son. his fiancee said his little boy would follow his dad like a shadow. saturday she said today my baby was born, but today my soul mate was taken. how do i tell my son his daddy s not coming home? how do i as a mother make it okay?
white supremacy. president biden and the first lady are headed to buffalo tomorrow and the tributes are already pouring in for the victims who were killed, all black americans, ranging in age from 32 to 86. the former buffalo fire commissioner and son of one of the murder victims, ruth whitfield, speaking out against the hate and racism that investigators say motivated this shooter. what are we supposed to do with all of this anger, all of this pain? i can tell you, this was an easy decision for us to go public. we re a private family. this was not easy for us. but how else could we honor our mother, how else can we uphold the things she put in us, the things she believed in? how else can we do that? what else are we supposed to do, he says, with all of this pain. and i know you re learning more about what the shooter had planned. yeah, we learned this from the buffalo police commissioner. he told me this morning there s some documentation that the shooter had plans t
it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell in buffalo, new york. police here say the suspect in that racist rampage that ended with the death of 10 people plan to keep killing beyond the toms market if he had not been stopped. authorities say the suspect, an 18-year-old white man drove more than 200 miles to this neighborhood to kill, to kill black people. many in the community here and across the country are outraged that there is another mass shooting, apparently driven by white supremacy. and of course the tributes are already pouring in for the victims who were killed, they re all black americans ranging in age from 32 to 86. the family of one victim, ruth whitfield speaking out and a loved one collapsing during the news conference, over welhelmedy grief. for those people who do not see us, how dare you not see us as american. we stand here on the blood, sweat and tears of our ancestors, and taught us to be proud of that fac