code. on screen. and sanjay will join me again later in the week with some answers the news continues right here on cnn i'd find next the breaking news, the polls closing, right now in virginia, where trump is looking for payback tonight. this is the former president it makes a major and unfounded accusation against the biden just moments ago. plus north korea pulling out all the stops, kim jong un now welcoming khuza'a to the hermite patient as russian state tv zeros in on this programs coverage. and we're going to tell you why live from moscow tonight. >> and from instinct to in jail, we have new details on why justin timberlake spent the night in jail. >> let's go out front and good evening. >> i'm erin burnett outfront tonight. we begin with the breaking news. there are polls closing, right now within the past minute in a crucial 2024 primary, that could be a big tell for the presidential election. and we are they're standing by right now for results in the race for the republican nomination in virginia in the fifth congressional district. this is the most expensive house republican primary of the year and it is a race that donald trump takes very personal molly if he's reelected, bob goodwill staff virginia in the back, sort of like he did with me trump's slamming the incumbent congressman there who is bob good why you may ask? well, congressman good initially endorsed the florida governor ron desantis and the republican presidential primary now, after santos dropped out, good immediately backdrop even went so far as to be in the group of acolytes are disciples, the people who came to the criminal trial of trump in new york and rhode in trump's motorcade to the courthouse. >> he did all of this, like i said, a disciple, the ultimate let's show of loyalty for trump. but that is not enough. trump is now supporting goods challenger, a man named john maguire. and trump thinks that virginia is in play for his election in november we're going to put a very heavy play on virginia. and i think we're going to win the state of virginia were up now in the polls now, virginia is crucial. >> now, trump is not beating biden yet. a recent poll, those shows biden and trump now tied in virginia. keep in mind, biden won that state by ten points in 2020. and right now, biden is in virginia at a fundraiser with bill and hillary clinton where they say they're raising 8 million. the most ever for a democrat in virginia and a presidential election. but that neck and neck poll comes as tonight, we have a new national polls showing the same thing, showing biden and trump tied just days before the first presidential debate nationally. and that is the debate that trump is talking about at this hour. so it was just a few moments ago at this rally in wisconsin, he made an outrageous claim that biden will use cocaine at the debate joe biden doesn't have a clue. now we're going to watch is anybody going to watch the debate these going to be so pumped up, he's going to be pumped up. you know, all that stuff that was missing about a month ago from the white house what happened. somebody didn't pick up hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cocaine. i wonder who that could upend i don't know actually i. >> think it was joe maybe slightly unclear what trump is talking about specifically, but generally we all get the point meloni's the nonna is out front, live outside. congressman boots campaign headquarters in virginia which is a crucial state. melanie, as i said, neck and neck now, in polls for trump and biden biden their tonight at a fundraiser, what is the latest your learning as these polls? i have just closed in virginia yeah, the polls did just close moments ago in what has become the most bitter and expensive house republican prime race in the country. >> and the reason for that is because bob good is a very polarizing figure inside the gop. and there are a lot of republicans who are looking for payback chief among them is donald trump. as you mentioned, he has never forgiven bob good for initially endorsing ron desantis over trump back when trump was battling some legal troubles and it did not look like he might become the eventual nominee. of course, as you mentioned, good date. eventually flip his support to donald trump and ron desantis jumped out out of the race, but that was not enough for donald trump, who is endorsing john maguire, his opponent. he did a tele town hall last night for the candidate and he even sent a cease and desist letter to bob good's campaign urging him to not use campaign signs that suggests that trump is supporting bob good. and then of course, and the other camp, there's kevin mccarthy and his allies who were coming after bob good because he was one of those eight republicans who voted to remove kevin mccarthy as speaker. now bob good does have his share of allies. he has matt gaetz, the house, the house freedom caucus. he has them conservative outside groups but he was outraged by his opponents and notably speaker mike johnson has stayed on the sidelines of despite probably because he doesn't want to get on trump's bad sign. so no doubt this test is going to be of trump's strengthened an influence inside the gop tonight. >> eric wright, as we await the formal results there, melanie is unknown. i thank you very much. as you said, as she is outside congress with goods, headquarters was we await making the fall a call. harry enten, that could be crucial as we go beyond the numbers because this is about the power of trump is melanie says, he has put a lot in this. he has been nasty about bob. good. no question where he stands what is his record when it comes to endorsements? >> basically, he's won every single time that he's endorsed a candidate. this cycle, they've one there's exactly one candidate that he's endorsed that has not one look at that record. >> 888 to 188 to one. now, of course, this is a very specific race in which he's going against an incumbent and this in my mind gives you a really good indication how far that trump brand actually goes. can you actually defeat an incumbent? most of the people he backs are in fact, incumbents themselves or people in open racism. i will note that trump's record this year is the best so far in this cycle of any cycle in terms of dortmund's since he became president. >> okay. and that's crucial. >> that is though some might say. all right, but those are primaries. that's the far right of the party and that's not the same as the general so let's go there. let's go overall, if you look at republicans overall, how is he doing? is he winning over more and more republicans overall absolutely are. >> and you know, the fact is there are a lot of people said, oh, nikki haley challenged and where those nikki haley voter is going to go still pulling 20% and those primary exactly right. >> but if you look at the polling right now, what do we see? >> we see trump's margin against joe biden are against the democratic candidate climbing higher and higher and higher, you go back to 2016, you saw that hillary clinton versus donald trump. trump was leaning at this point by 79 points. you'd go to 20 hey, 20, trump was leaning over joe biden by 83 points over republic republicans. you go now, he's leading by 87 points among republican voters. she might say the republicans, there'll be backing him anyway, but they're bagging him and stronger and stronger numbers. and that's one of the reasons why i'm keeping an eye on the primary tonight because i'm interested are there any cracks at all to be seen among republican primary voters? >> all right, so that's crucial for the state of virginia. now, obviously this is in the context of the debate that is coming up in just a few days he's got the national polls as i mentioned, virginia neck and neck, but nationally neck and neck as well so what are the three states that you think, right now are the most important that you're looking. >> it's the great like battleground states. it's that blue wall, right? it's pennsylvania, it's michigan, is wisconsin. if joe biden can win these three states he very likely will be the next president of the united states. yes, there are maps you can draw where he wouldn't be. but if he wins in these three states, he can win despite all that poor polling. and if you look at the polling right now in those three states, look at it, it's neck and neck. its neck and neck in michigan, it's neck-and-neck in wisconsin, maybe a slightly for trump and pennsylvania. trump if he can win one of these states, he's probably gonna be the next president, but biden wins all three. he will probably be the next press. >> all right, harry, thank you very much. and i want to go now to shore when hughes radio host of the truth with sherwin hughes radio show based out of wisconsin and republican bruce blakeman, who is the nassau county executive here in new york state. so sure. when you hear harry and you talk about that, trump is doing well with his endorsements, but also doing better even among republicans than he has in the past. and in just a few of so states, as harry's laying out tide, neck and neck are you concerned at this point that he is coming in stronger than he did in 2020. and even in 2016 i am not because we've seen the kind of liability of the donald trump has been on other republicans that he has supported in previous cycles. but even a blue are broken clock is right twice a day. so donald trump getting some candidates across the finish line and primaries. i don't think that's any kind of harming her of the future or of what may happen come in 20 weeks from today bruce, i would imagine you see, even when you look at the blue, those crucial midwest states that are most when you see a very different picture well, let me give you a little example. >> in anthony d'esposito is district the fourth congressional. this they're joe biden, won that district by 16 points. last election donald trump is now up five points. that's a 21 point swing. and suburban nassau county, right outside of new york city. donald trump is now trailing joe biden by six points in new york state we're seeing a trend where donald trump is getting stronger and stronger because the issues favor donald trump, whether it's sanctuary cities, whether it's the invasion from south of the border whether it's crime, inflation, all the policies that people are rejecting of joe biden, they realize that when president trump was president, that they had a much better quality of life. >> well, i mean, obviously it was covid at that time, but to not relitigate all of that. sure. when i want to ask you about sometimes politics being local separate from the big issues which matter nationally and bruises, right, right. people care about immigration, to care about the economy, of course in wisconsin, no. your must-win state trump is there today. he was in racing now he's in wisconsin onstage. and he came out in milwaukee and tried to clean up his recent comments. so we had recently said behind closed doors isn't he was quoted as saying milwaukee is horrible. milwaukee has, of course, the site of the gop convention in just about a month, a democratic city and obviously in a must-win state. so he came out trying to clean it up. here he is sherwin i love milwaukee. i said you got to fix the crime. we all know that you got to make sure the elections honors but i'm the one that picked up okay. and the democrats or the radical left lunatics, as i call them what they say is just so terrible they lie, lie life i love milwaukee. sherwin, does anyone take it seriously one way or the other when you come out and say it's a horrible place, does that lose you votes well that's all. >> you want. gradually glad that he said as a horrible city, because that's folks hear me walking the north city is not horrible or a wonderful place. we are up and coming in on the rise on quite honestly, we believe that's why the republicans chose our city for their convention. so him saying that has actually galvanized more democrats in this city in fact, 80% of the people in the city of milwaukee voted for joe biden. so it's great talking point for the democrats billboards have gone up all over the city. and here's the other thing. republicans are competing for a very, very small share of votes and there are some republicans, republican voters in the city of milwaukee. but why would they consider voting for a man that calls their city that i know that they loved very much. >> horrible. so i think he didn't do himself any favors by saying that, but i think it was actually good talking points for the democrats because it got us to rally around donald trump's evil rhetoric. >> and of course, trump's in milwaukee tonight he was in racing earlier today, the exact same agenda that president biden to just weeks ago when i interviewed him in racing and then he went to milwaukee that night. the point is bruce, it's a must-win state. but but it is perhaps of the miss what midwestern states and we'll see, but perhaps the hardest for trump to get over the line for where would it be best spent? be best to spend his time? >> well, i think he's going to do very well in wisconsin. i think he's going to do very well in pennsylvania michigan is certainly in play i think he's going to do very well in georgia and north carolina. i think that he's going to upset the democrats biden in virginia i think he's going to make it erase in new york and new jersey. so i think it's gonna be a big surprise. this reminds me a lot of ronald reagan's race in 1980 when people were just fed up with a policy these are jimmy carter and ronald reagan was a guy that nobody thought could win and it won all about new york to happen. >> i mean, rhetoric aside, are you for real? >> yes. sure. when you have a congressional district that joe biden won by 16 points and now trump's up by five. the whole states and play sherwin. >> do you have fear of this? >> absolutely not. so here's the thing that we're forgetting so on july 11, donald trump is sentence for the 34 felonies that he has been convicted of. and this is something that republicans are not talking about. there's a chance that he may not even be at his own convention because he may be in some kind of confinement so that can't go unsaid that this is a president who's got 34 felony convictions, and i think decent hardworking americans no. that they can't get most jobs with any felonies, let alone someone with 34 of them. so we'll see what happens at his sentencing because what that's gonna do is that's going to consume the media universe. even fox news is going to have to cover what happens to donald trump on july 11. so some of these places where donald trump has a lead he 20 weeks out before we've seen either of the two debates, i think it's all smoke and mirrors a lot can happen between now and november 5 well, that is something i thank you both can agree 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