mcswain and businessman dave white. but we do have a projection to make in the democratic governor s race. and cnn projects pennsylvania attorney general josh shapiro will be the democratic nominee for pennsylvania governor. shapiro coasts through uncontested. he will face the winner of the republican gubernatorial primary in the fall. dana bash, shapiro is counting on having a republican candidate, republican competitor whom he can easily paint as extreme. absolutely. he s already starting to do that. we should note that josh shapiro announced that he s positive for covid so i m not sure that we ll actually see him tonight. but jake is exactly right. he became a national figure during the time between november, the november election and when the inauguration happened because as the attorney general in pennsylvania, he was very aggressive about pushing back against gop efforts to overturn the election there. depending on who he has as his opponent, he might be fighting that
viewers joining us this the united states and all around the world. ahead, on cnn newsroom the gloves were off at the fourth republican presidential debate last night. who swung at who and the man who was missing from the stage. plus, a shooting on the las vegas campus of the university of nevada leaves three dead and a fourth wounded. i ll speak to a gun violence survivor about the latest mass shooting in the united states. and benjamin netanyahu says israeli forces are encircling the house of a top leader of hamas in gaza. a live report with the latest. we re following two major stories. in alabama, four presidential hopefuls met on a cage. six weeks before the contest in iowa. these clashed from electability, to the border and whether donald trump is fit to return to the white house. the former president chose to skip the debate. we re looking at the shooting on the campus of university of nevada. the gunman is a retired college professor. it s not clear what con
kathy barnette and mehmet oz, if the trump endorsement really has weight, where they could do really well. a key point. let s just move over and go back two weeks to neighboring ohio, where j.d. vance with the trump endorsement won. you see all this pink, that s trump country. rural america is trump country or trumpism country. but the forces that he unleashed from the party is that he put on steroids in the party. you see them here. when we first started counting in ohio, matt dolan was ahead and got the government establishment vote in columbus, cleveland and the suburbs around cleveland and took an early lead. but then this, rural ohio swamped him. the question is who will rural pennsylvania go for in a republican primary. small counties. when you add up all these votes, just ask donald trump, they counting. absolutely, absolutely. we re awaiting more votes in that pivotal senate primary in pennsylvania featuring former tv doctor mehmet oz. we re also keeping a close eye on a go
steve stooifer s seat. what do you see here, jeff? kate, it shows president trump still is very popular in his base. this is a big primary field, 11 candidates or so. a lot of them are splitting up the share of the republican establishment vote. mike carey, a novice, a lobbyist but got the support of the former president, you can see those numb. won by more than 20 percentage points. for anyone who thinks donald trump doesn t have juice in his base, they re wrong about that. he he s very strong in his primaries. he ll continue playing in primaries. that gives some consternation to some republican leaders. this will not affect the outcome of the broader balance of power
i think trump has more support than people realize. there are five candidates that are splitting the establishment vote. of course he is winning in double digits. once people start to fall off assuming they will fall off because everyone has see much money right now you will see the support coalescing around one or two candidates. the candidates have 50% of the vote right now and trump has 30%. at some point it s going to give. but just a matter of what happens in new hampshire and arizona. and a lot of the vote could go to cruz. if huckabee and santorum drop out, those voters probably go to ted cruz. cruz had 20 and trump is at 35 nationally in that poll. and to matt s point, if you look at trump s twitter feed there is a tweet of 20,000 people standing in a line in