Big Dropoff News Today

good tuesday morning, im erica hill. >> and im jim sciutto. some major news just in on your money. new key inflation data finds that americans overall are paying less for items. still, however, some sticker shock out there. will the fed now pause its ongoing rate hikes? were also closely watching bank crisis fears following the sudden collapse of two regional banks. markets open soon. we will look at where things stand today. plus, loyalty loss. former president trump taking his firs...

President speak, some told cnn they did like desantis, but want to give trump one more chance. >> true trump voters are going to stay with trump. hes already proven himself so we know what hes capable of doing and ron desantis he is an awesome governor, i love him as a governor, i just think its not his time. >> i think mr. desantis should wait his turn and hes a good -- good governor, you know, and i think he would make a great president as well, but hes got to wait his turn and let president t...

Buttigieg, harris and then a big dropoff. and a bunch that arent even registering. some of the key divides, number one, racial divide. weve been talking about it. they break it down in this poll, white and nonwhite. nonwhite includes black, includes his tannic, includes asian. its not broken into a lot of individual groups, but you can see biden doing better with nonwhite voters. weve seen him doing better with black voters than white voters in particular. buttigieg in particular, big dropoff fo...

This abc news/washington post poll, brutal. is that the start of a big dropoff. that is the big question heading into labor day week end. guess what, labor day recess folks dont think were going to get that for an answer. he knows its going to be closer down in the mid 30s. up next, as were saying, get ready for the ads, for the ralli rallies, for the debates. kicking in after this holiday weekend. were going to dig into how theyre trying to survive it. youre watching "hard ball."

Up being true in wisconsin and michigan. those are the states where she tried to get a recount. had her votes gone to clinton -- >> we would have won. maybe our travel schedule had been different, we could have won. but what we think accounts for the big dropoff -- im talking about a big dropoff, like five to two points in each of these states, is the comey letter. and that isnt to say that theres not things that our campaign could have done better or differently or in retrospect that we would d...

Some states, like virginia and colorado, that was okay because our cushion was bigger than that. florida, north carolina, iowa -- ex cue me. pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin, it wasnt enough. so more time in those states. we spent a ton of time in pennsylvania and we spent a lot of money in pennsylvania and we still loss. we lost that state worse than wisconsin and michigan. >> we just got the recount numbers from pennsylvania today. they showed actually with the new total from the recount, ...

But what we think accounts for the big dropoff -- im talking about a big dropoff, like five to two points in each of these states, is the comey letter. and that isnt to say that theres not things that our campaign could have done better or differently or in retrospect that we would do differently. i have dreams that i understand we have a problem, we have a week to fix them and then i wake up and its not true. so theres a lot more that we could have done but we had accounted for all of our chall...

Immigration reform to the "state of the union" address next month. bret? >> ed henry, thank you. tomorrow is gun appreciation day. tonight we have new polling on the gun issue. 71% of those surveyed say tougher laws will not prevent an act like the newtown, connecticut, school shootings. 22% disagree. 58% think there would be less violent crime if more people had guns. 28% say banning guns would lead to less crime. more polls in a bit. the t.s.a. is removing some of the full body scanners at a...

Well, were back to 200 electoral votes on each side. so good news for the president today. >> what do you base that? youre better at explaining that. why is it basically if they get their act together still a 50/50 country? >> because theres still a lot about the presidents record that if they execute can go after. as well as the president is doing, go to the electoral college, which is how this is decided. theres few states that senator mccain won that the president has a good chance to win. ar...

Sector and in fact willing to propose radical change. >> chris: i want to get into one last thing in this segment and that is the third quarter fund raising efforts are out. perry and romney lead the field by a wide margin. the first number is what they received in the first quarter. can we go back or is that going create some huge problem? there you go. wow, we were able to do it. the first number is white is how much they received and the other is how much cash on hand as of the end of the mon...