election in 2020 in pennsylvania. the other republican pennsylvaniaens were to desperate to breakthrough. he pushed back on the labels during his victory speech last night. take a listen. they like to call people who stand on the constitution far right and extreme. i repudiate that. actually their party what the media stands for and advocates for, they ve gone extreme. this is our time. those are the retorts i guess we can expect. it gives trump another one of his coveted wins. again, it was kind of late here. he threw an entire state s worth
endorsed by donald trump, and on the other, dave mckinley, who was endorsed by some of the most powerful politicians in the state, including democrat joe manchin. mooney won quickly and easily, if we pull up the numbers here, you can see, 54.2% to mckinley s 35.6. and i will note that when we were on the ground the last couple of days, it became apparent that this was the likely outcome. trump s grip on this state is still incredibly noticeable. so that wasn t that surprising. but what was surprising was mooney s victory speech last night, when he went after joe manchin and went after him hard. take a listen. west virginians are still waiting for manchin s explanation as to why he voted to impeach donald trump twice. then he voted against confirming amy coney barrett amy coney barrett to the u.s. supreme court, but voted for biden s pick, ketanji brown jackson. how arrogant for joe manchin to think he can tell west virginians how to vote.
to comcast business internet customers. so boost your bottom line by switching today. comcast business. powering possibilities.™ welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. it is wednesday, may 11th, i m christine romans. and we are ready to go and we begin with last night s republicanrimaries and mixed success for former president trump s preferreds. cnn projects congressman alex mooney will win the gop nomination in west virginia s second congressional district. mooney credited trump in his victory speech last night. i also want to thank
and kristin holmes is live in cleveland for us. a source says that thump was relieved at vance s projected win. reporter: that s right. and he should be. this was the first in a series of primaries that is not only testing his ability as republican king maker, but also testing the strength of the hold he has over the republican party. and after last night, it is clear at least here in ohio, which is a critical state, he still has an enormous amount of power and influence. make no mistake that j.d. vance could not have gotten here without the endorsement of president trump. before that, he was trailing in the polls and he knows that. take a listen to his victory speech last night. thanks to the president for everything, for endorsing me. and i got to say, a lot of the fake news media out there and there are some good ones in the back there, some bad ones too, let s be honest, but they wanted to write a story that this campaign would be the death of
and now that the call has come, they announced a couple of hours ago that he would, in fact, be giving a victory speech in the venue where he hopes to be giving a victory speech last night. so in terms of exactly what the governor will say, i think it s safe to assume that there will at least be some kind of acknowledgment that this was a speech that he had hoped to celebrate with last night. and that it is coming later than they had expected. i also think it s important to think about sort of the big themes running through the governor s campaign. he essentially won, was asking the people of new jersey to give him another term. that he feels like he has gotten the state to a good place on things like covid, the economic recession. and that, if people were basically happy with the job that he had been doing, they should give him four more years. the other thing i think, too, is the campaign that he ran against his opponent, jack ciattarelli, essentially just tying him to donald trump.