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in lieu of campaign events. but now this put this is why there's so much focus on the saturday today rallies and his weekend events, because as his campaign goes from trial to the trail, this is when he's finding time to speak to his voters and he's doing so tonight in north carolina, this is a critical state. it's one what be we will be closely watching over the next six it's months because trump, only one, it's four years ago by 1.3 percentage points. and let me talk about one interesting nugget of information we got last month from primary voters in this state when they nominated dominant trump, they also said that there was a large contingency. the, i should say that said that they didn't think that he should fit for office if he was convicted 30% of republican primary voters said as much in our cnn exit polls. so that is a troubling sign. for donald trump's campaign something and they are going to be closely monitoring as these cases move along. alex yeah, that is going to be a state that both sides are fighting very hard for steve
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list as he has with all his other legal cases, but they were unsuccessful with the new york case. >> so now he is in north carolina today on a saturday and saturday rallies, weekend rallies are gonna be rob a huge part of this trial to trail presidential campaign for the former president. and as you said, fredricka north carolina is a very important state. he only wanted by about 1.3% just four years ago. and there'll be a focal point in this election, this fall as well. i want to point you to one stat that i think is really interesting about this particular moment because just a month ago, republican voters here, how the primary in our exit polls 30% of them said that they do not think trump would be fit to serve if he is convicted of a crime that is a troubling statistic for the trump campaign, especially as this trial just gets underway, fred. >> all right. again, opening arguments on monday. thank you. so much, steve contorno. they're at a rally where the former president will have tonight in north carolina. >> all right, so this pivotal
against the former president she told those in the jury box, you all bring biases and you particularly really bring biases about someone who is as publicly an outspoken as president trump. there's nobody that doesn't know him in this room in the afternoon. the court moved to a routine hearing to determine how much of trump's legal history the prosecution will be allowed to ask him about if he testifies, which he said he plans to. prosecutors argued they should be allowed to question trump about the findings in the e jean carroll defamation case, among others despite trump's attorneys strong objections, the former president shook his head as the prosecution spoke about how he defamed carroll. kara scannell, cnn, new york and very soon former president trump will be taking the stage at a campaign rally in north carolina. steve contorno is there on the scene steve trump had a lot to say on truth, social earlier today, even though the judge, in his hush hush money trial has told them not to that's right, alex. >> and he has certainly tested
campaign and the dnc in the fundraising push. and this is another effort to get some more money into their campaigns. coffers for these next five months, it'll be curious to see how this has responded to by candidates. steve contorno. thank you so much. appreciate it. >> okay. joining us now as republican strategist, we're gonna shaw and democratic strategist, chris go famous guys, let's start here. >> i mean, what do you think of this? ask of down-ballot candidates? i mean down-ballot candidates, they need all the cash they can get i mean, would you advise any of them to go along with this absolutely not. >> i would tell them to fight back. this is not just unconventional. it's not just a business deal. it is almost mafioso like, and i think of course that's just tracks with who trump fit. he treats politics just like, a mob boss would in many ways. and so if anything, this isn't like a show of, hey, you know, this could be party unity. give us a little here. this is putting a little bit too much pressure on candidates who frankly need
in tel aviv, and this is cnn new for you this morning, donald trump's team wants republican candidates to give them a cut of their fund raising cash. the campaign is telling candidates and committees that if they use the former president's name, image, and likeness to fund raise they should give at least 5% of what they get to donald trump's cnn, steve contorno is joining me now basically, you use the name you pay for it exactly. sarah, there was a letter that was sent dated april 15 from the top officials in trump's campaign saying, look, if you're going to use trump's name, likeness, and image then we should get a chunk that money that you raised using trump's image and they suggested at least 5% when i say at least 5% because there is this interesting line in the letter that they sent. and let me read it for you. now, it
that money for their own races. we all know the rnc not coming to help anymore. they haven't got as much cash. so why are you trying to steal? so from the little guy, again, trump it is i giggle a little bit, chris. it was just like talk about unconventional and the ot and pt top of unconventional. i saw on the political reporting and steve was talking about this to the trouble officials. they're insisting that the purpose of the 5% split is not to raise money for themselves but to dissuade scammers from using trump's brand without permission i mean, what do you think? maybe novel fundraising strategy or something more desperate i don't know if its desperate i mean, we could be i mean, i think there's a couple of things clearly, he's got a money problem. >> they're going to he's going to lose the money rais, i think that is already clear i think the other part to it that i think is maybe the more kind of controlling aspect of this i think the trump campaign wants to know who's using his likeness and who isn't. but for a particular reason,
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