I am katie feng and for alex. The 2020 presidential election was one of the closest races we ve ever experienced in this country although george w. Bush won the election, it was al gore who won the popular vote that your. When you start to slice and dice the electorate into different voting groups, that race starts to look weightless tight. Check this out. In 2000, george w bush dramatically outperformed his opponent among white evangelical voters, winning 68% among that group. In 2024 he increased that support by 10 points. Evangelical support for the republican presidential candidate remained relatively steady for the next two elections and then look what happened in 2016. Donald trump won the support of 81% of white evangelical voters. Trumps ability to supercharge the evangelical vote has largely been attributed to the reason he was able to win the presidency the first time he ran. Without a strong evangelical turnout, it becomes much more difficult for donald trump to chart a repe
Official who joins me in just a moment says theres no need to hyperventilate. Put down the paper bag says jen psaki. Shes here with us. First, lets get to our reporters with what the president is expected to talk about tonight and how democrats and republicans will react. Joining us now, nbc news correspondent garrett haake, and chief White House Correspondent and political analyst, peter baker. Peter, bring us into the planning from the white houses perspective. What should we expect . I think youre going to hear the president talk about a few things. First of all, hes going to talk about his accomplishments. Hes going to try to remind the country of how things were when they were in the country when he took other the period, in the middle of the covid pandemic, lockdowns, social unrest in the streets. There was of course the January 6th Attack On Congress and the economy was in free fall. I think hes going to try to remind people how things have gotten better over the years, and take
cnn close captioning is brought to you by you, cora, help maintain a healthy urinary tract with you, cora i can having ichi is for tenure at you, cora, we make uti relief products. we also make proactive urinary tract hello product. you, cora is a life stage right today at your core.com you cnn breaking news hello, i m briana killer in washington alongside boris sanchez, and we begin today waiting to hear from both president joe biden i didn t and his rival for the white house, former president donald trump both expected to speak this. our trump is here in washington. he s rallying gop lawmakers behind him in his campaign for president. and it is notably his first visit to capitol hill since the january 6 insurrection. biden is in italy for the g7 summit, and we ll speak here in minutes with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy discussing the state of the war in ukraine and a new security pact between washington and kyiv. we re going to bring you both biden and trump l
here, 6:00 p.m. eastern in the situation room until then. thanks very much. once again for y you re watching erin burnett outfront starts right down in front next trump rants behind closed doors as the gop gets in line behind him, the senate majority leader, chuck schumer, is my exclusive guest here in our studio tonight. and j.d. vance now on ump s vp shortlist, new kfile reporting tonight shows he liked tweets, calling trump a monster and a quote, douchey celebs and that s just the beginning. plus president biden breaking his silence on his son s conviction, saying for the first time he will not commute a prison sentence. let s go out front and good evening. i m erin burnett outfront tonight, trunk behind closed doors, ranting today, we are told about taylor swift and nancy pelosi. now, this was what he chose to do on his first trip to capitol hill since the insurrection. here s what he said. this was a great meeting. this tremendous unity and the republican party,