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Don Lemon Tonight

mooney tonight. what do you take away from tonight's and last week's primary and what are we looking ahead to? >> well, like last week in ohio, don, we saw trump's support helped a candidate get over the hump in a republican primary there with j.d. vance. tonight in west virginia we're seeing the same thing with alex mooney. remember, this is the first member versus member primary that we've seen this cycle due to redistricting. west virginia lost a congressional seat, and two members went at it. and what was the difference here? well, the difference was that one member voted for the bipartisan infrastructure deal, voted to establish a commission investigating the january 6th insurrection. those things, you know, david mckinley voted for them, and donald trump clearly was irked by that, gets behind alex mooney, and alex mooney powers to a big victory here. so donald trump gets to add that to his scorecard. >> can you ask you something, david?

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Don Lemon Tonight

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project representative alex mooney has defeated representative david mckinley in the gop primary in west virginia's 2nd congressional district. representative mooney had the endorsement of former president trump. dana, what does this tell about you the fact that a trump-endorsed candidate, yet another one, has now become a primary victor? >> that is the trump endorsement matters a lot in places like west virginia, where the trump brand, the trump persona, is one of the most if not the most important aspect of the gop. you've got to remember that west virginia is the place where donald trump did the best except for wyoming. so he had an enormous, enormous lead at the end, after election day 2020, over joe biden.

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Don Lemon Tonight

candidate, republican incumbent alex mooney over another republican incumbent, david mckinley. this was a match where donald trump was against david mckinley because david mckinley voted for the biden bipartisan infrastructure bill. he was against mckinley because mckinley voted to form on independent commission to look into january 6th. you have two republican incumbents running against each other because of redistricting. west virginia lost a seat. this is an 18-point win right now. cnn has projected this race for alex mooney, an 18-point margin right now. it's just unmistakable. this is one of donald trump's best states. he won every county in west virginia against joe biden. this new district, about 60%, even a little bit more than 60% of it is in mckinley old district, but alex mooney is carrying it big tonight because of what? the power of the trump endorsement. alex mooney winning and winning big. >> what about nebraska, john?

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Don Lemon Tonight

is it that surprising considering how well donald trump did in west virginia? i mean it doesn't seem surprising that the trump-backed candidate would win since he won west virginia. >> right. listen, i don't know that donald trump's endorsement is everything, but when you're dealing with a place where he's super popular inside a republican primary and, by the way, it's not like alex mooney was sort of shying away from it. he made trump's backing of him, his endorsement central to his campaign and messaging. mckinley had the backing of the republican governor and of the democratic senator joe manchin in his race. but you're right, this is trump country, and trump's voice in this really mattered. >> yeah. dana, i have to ask you about this new audio from "new york times" reporters, revealing what senator lindsey graham told martin in an interview right after the january 6th insurrection. listen to this. >> he'll actually come out of this thing stronger. moments like this reset.

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Don Lemon Tonight

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