Important to remind students that they can mess up a lot and still find their way go orange believer, jake tapper starts right now trump in the bronx, looking to challenge the status quo. He says, the lead starts right now in the empire state, which no republican president ial candidate has one and 40 years, donald trump is setting his sights on new york. Hes looking to make inroads with black and hispanic voters today in the bronx scenario, he lost by quite a bit in 2020. What todays moves says about the political moment were in chinese fighter jets and warships and circling taiwan, the Chinese Government insisted this is only a task, but there also calling these Quote Punishment Drills Plus as the Summer Concert Season kicks off, the federal lawsuit aiming to break up live nation and ticketmaster accusing the 20 ten merger of stifling competition, hurting consumers. Ill talk to one of the top prosecutors taking on the ticket behemoth everyone, welcome to lead. Im jake tapper. We start today with are 2024 lead with a short break in his hush money coverup. Proud donald trump is returning to the Campaign Trail tonight. And hes targeting to specific groups of voters who support could be key to sending him back to the white house or not . Tonights trump rally is in the bronx. One of the most democratic counties in the entire United States. The bronx, which trump lost by about 68 points to joe biden in 2020. But Trump Campaign official says, tonights trip is part of their focus on winning over minority voters, specifically black and hispanic voters. Ahead of tonights rally, the Biden Campaign launched two new ads highlighting what it calls trumps long record of failures and broken promises to black americans, President Biden, we should note is not on the Campaign Trail himself. Hes Here In Dc Rolling out the red carpet for the president of kenya as the white house looks to boost ties with the east african nation, will have more on the state visit and some of the thornier issues that the two liters are discussing in a moment, but were going to start with cnns Kristen Holmes on the Campaign Trail. Taking a closer look at both the upcoming trump rally and the former trump competitors who are now backing his bid for a return to the white house. Donald Trump Campaign tonight. And one of the bluest counties in the country the south bronx, to go around. And the former president tries to build support with black and hispanic voters. Recent polls showing him making gains with key blocks of president joe bidens Coalition Four years ago, biden, one bronx county by nearly 68 points. Im confident that the bronx is want to overwhelmingly reject donald trump based on the polling data that ive seen among likely voters in the bronx, donald trump is so unpopular as to be radioactive. Hes even less popular than arsenic in the bronx, despite new york strong democratic lean, trump he can put the empire state in play this november people understand. Im running hard and new york. I think were going to win something he claimed during his first run in 2016, i think were going to win new york. And again, in 2020, were going for new york. We going losing the state both times by more than 20 points. Thank you. And god bless you all exact. No republican nominee is carried new york work since Ronald Reagan in 1984 the bronk stop holmes is the Republican Party continues to coalesce around trump after a bitterly thought primary campaign against nikki haley, the former South Carolina governor, gave trump up boost wednesday, saying she would support him November Trump has not been perfect on these policies. Ive made that clear many, many times but biden has been a catastrophe so i will be voting for trump. Her turn about coming after closing her campaign, warning about trumps impact on the gop, how much more losing do we have to do before we realize maybe donald trump is the problem . Another trump rival, ted cruz, refusing to say if you would accept the 2024 Election Results during an interview with cnns kaitlan collins, free and fair election, will you accept the results regardless of who wins . Look, if the democrats, when i will accept the result, but im not going to ignore fraud was or what happening 20 of course, there was fraud. Its a message being put forward by several top republicans, including those vying to be trumps running mate. Will you commit to accepting the Election Results of 2024 . Bottom line . At the end of the day the 47th president United States will be president donald trump. And im excited to get back to low inflation, low unemployment. Senator, yes or no . Yes or no will you accept the Election Results of 2024, no matter who wins . That is my statement and jake, i spoke to a number of people here in the bronx about model trumps visit here and the reaction was really mixed. I had one person tell me hey, that donald fr1 should get the app out, but he doesnt belong here in the bronx. Ive also had a number of people tell me that they voted for biden last time around, but they were not necessarily sure they wanted to for him. Again, there is certainly a line of at least several hundred people outside waiting to come in into here. But the former president has to say all right, Kristen Holmes thanks so much to the white house now where the final preparations are underway for tonights state dinner with the president of kenya before the festivities, the two leaders held a joint News Conference where they were pressed about a few tough issues. Cnns mj lee is at the white house for us mj. Tell us what are the most pressing topics for the two leaders. This afternoon . Well, jake, we are certainly seeing the highest trappings of us diplomacy this week earlier today, we had a bilateral meeting between the two liters, followed by the Press Conference. And then of course to come tonight is a state dinner. No big surprises. Its from that Press Conference, jake, which was of course meant to really highlight the deep relationship between us and kenya. We saw a number of announcements from the two leaders including the designation of kenya as a major nonnato ally. This of course is really significant given that this is the first Subsaharan African Nation to receive that designation. And then just the two liters highlighting other areas because of economic and technological areas of cooperation and a 1s huge topic of discussion, of course, was ways of alleviating the debt burdens spelt by countries like kenya and other developing countries. Now, President Biden was confronted with a number of questions, including on the situation in haiti, where he really we express support for and gratefulness. He said for kenya is willingness to use and deploy its own Police Forces to try to bring some calm to the country. Tree. He also defended the decision to not have us forces be directly involved. The president also gave this blunt answer when he was asked about the iccs decision to go after an issue Arrest Warrants for israeli and hamas leaders, jake take a listen weve made our position clear the icc, we dont think we dont recognize that jurisdiction icc, the way its being exercised and im just not simple we dont think theres an equivalence between what is youre doing, what hamas weve also just gotten word that former president obama met with president ruto at blair house just across the street here. Of course, president obamas father was born in kenya and he did make a visit to kenya as president back in 2015 visit to africa is not something that President Biden has made yet. And actually, all of the things that we are seeing this week is seen in some ways making up for that broken promise the president had said that he would be visiting africa sometime this year. That is clearly not going to happen. The president saying yesterday that perhaps hell make that visit some time in february after he is reelected. Jake corrode, im mj lee at the white house for us. Thank you so much. Today, the Us Supreme Court approved a South Carolina congressional map that a lower court had ruled diluted black voting power. The Us Supreme Court justices ruled six to three along conservative, liberal leinz reject it. The argument raised by civil Rights Groups that republicans had been using race to draw the congressional districts to improve their chances instead of using party which is allowed. This is about specifically South Carolinas first congressional district, which congresswoman nancy mace currently represents my panels here to discuss jessica, What Happens Next is that at it it for right now, the congressional maps that favor these republicans in South Carolina, they will be in place for 2024 and potentially beyond you talked about at the six conservative justices, they really shut down these racial gerrymandering claims. They said that state legislature, when drawing these new maps, had acted on good faith instead of race, they relied on partisan politics, but i will note these civil Rights Groups who had challenge to the map the court did say, you can go back to the lower courts and challenge it, but on different grounds. So rather than on racial gerrymandering, they can go back and challenge on voter died elution claims, which are slightly different. So theres the potential that they could eventually get rid of these maps, but its going to take awhile, probably several years beyond likely 2026, if there even successor as well. So Justice Elana kagan in the minority wrote a dissent, a lengthy dissent. What does she arguing . I mean, she was really scathing. She warned that this decision is really going to make it difficult to challenge voting maps across the country because these lawmakers are going to be able to rely on the partisan than politics of it, saying no, we didnt consider race. So this is what she said in her dissent. She said the proper response to this case is not to throw up no novel roadblocks enabling South Carolina to continue dividing citizens along racial lines. It is to respect the plausible know the more than plausible findings of the District Court that the state gauged in racebased distracting and to tell the state that it must redraw district one. This time without targeting African American citizens so to that end, jake legal watchers are very worried about this decision. Theyre saying that it might allow mapmakers across the country to really manipulate these maps on the basis of partisan politics. Because notably, samuel alito in this opinion said that we should really defer to these legislatures the first thing we should think is that they acted in good faith. And if thats how you start off in analysis, its more likely that these maps are going to be allowed to go into effect across the country. Interesting stuff eva besides donald trump, perhaps no one is more responsible for the makeup of the court. And senator mitch mcconnell, actually, you could argue mcconnells more responsible because hes been around longer. Mcconnell got all three of trumps justices through the approval process, refused to take up the nomination. Merrick garland mcconnell howard, stepping down from leadership and a new name has jumped in to replace him. Thats right, senator rick scott of florida, who he has to get through his own Reelection Campaign first. But jake, i have been with senator scott on the Campaign Trail in his capacity leading the National Republican senatorial committee. And i could tell you hes very confident perhaps the he kind of confidence that comes with great wealth, which he has. And he really wants this job. He ran for it before i was speaking to someone close to him today and they told me, listen, there is a long time before this Leadership Race. A lot could happen over the next several months if trump gets reelected, scott is very close to trump and that he has a core group of republican senators who supported him the last time. What is for sure though, is that whoever they ultimately pick, they will steer the vision in terms of the future of republicans in the senate. And sabrina, take a listen to what senator john cornyn of texas, who is also running to replace mcconnell as Senate Republican leader said about senator rick scott entering the race my experience has been these kind of races is determined by relationships and trust. And people committed to make sure that individual senators can do their job to the best of their ability and represent their constituents. And thats what i intend to do how competitive do you think this is going to be . Isnt it . Is it, is it going to be just between those two . I know i said it a few seconds, banking republican is also seen as a front runner. And i think a lot of people expect itd be more so between serotonin senator coordinate and here is why, you know, as he rightly pointed out, what senator scott does have going for him, is that he is close to and wellliked by former president trump. And weve seen, of course what trumps influences over the Republican Party. But whats interesting, what do you listened to Senator Cornyn talking about personal relationships . Is that is one of the vulnerabilities that senator rick scott has within the senate, republican conference because there are a lot of hard feelings about how he managed the nrsc leaving it in significant amount of debt. He was accused by his colleagues of picking weak candidates are supporting week candidates. Again, a lot of trumpian candidates who didnt have a real viable path in a general election. And of course, he had challenged Leader Mcconnell and i think also burn some bridges by openly criticizing mcconnell, who is very respected and wellliked by Senate Republicans. So thats going to be some of the obstacles that i think that he has to overcome. But again, there is, of course, a lot of time between now and when we actually see this Leadership Race come to fruition and we still dont know who else might throw their hat in the ring as well. Would you give it to foun right now if the election were held today . Well, obviously as the second ranking republican, someone whos got a lot of relationships, you know, i think he definitely has a lot of advantages center coordinate has come under fire fair from some of its prompts, some conservatives for cutting some bipartisan deals around issues like gun safety, which of course ive gotten him in some trouble with the base. And of course it remains to be seen what the trump factor is as well. I mean, both dune accord and have ending mended their relationships with trump after criticizing him over january 6 in the past, but there so itd be that big unknown in terms of what actually happens in the november election and how does that then impact the course of this particular race, although it is difficult to its difficult to imagine the republicans not taking the senate back given how the map is, it looks very advantageous for republicans. Eva, youre out on the trail all the time. How often does the Supreme Court come up as an issue . Because there are possibly two retirements brewing. So not the Supreme Court per say, but the issue of abortion does come up quite a bit. I have been surprised that its not only women, not only women in terms of democratic voters who are motivated by this, but young men as well who are concerned about the women in their lives. But theyre also, it also presents a challenge for democrats in that they have to respond to frustrations from these democratic voters that there was so much inaction on this issue when democrats were really in a position of power to do something, its not all a positive issue for them. All right . Thanks. One and all appreciate it coming up next, chinas daring war games off the coast of taiwan, circling the island with warships and fighter jets. 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