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Time now for cnn political update. cnn's senior political editor mark preston joins me now from washington. mark, donald trump is being advised to follow the john mccain model in new hampshire, i understand? >> he is. he's being advised by a very influential newspaper, the new hampshire union leader." an editorial today randi telling trump if he wants to run for president and win new hampshire he he's got do it the old-fashioned way, that's retail politics. trump was up there yesterday, we saw him all over the television. he went in this his helicopter. had he a security detail. he was holding...

>> have somebody to beat somebody. >> come on, please, it was -- >> and i could sit here right now in south carolina -- megyn: he may be getting some traction. let me just interject because however cpac felt about him, wmur did an interview that airs tonight, they're taking him seriously. manchester union leader which traditionally a lot of the conservative candidates seek their endorsement, they're putting a poll on his candidacy. more and more we're hearing his name, brad, as a potentially legitimate challenger, and you guys are both dismissing him, but sarah palin was dismissed as well. mic...

This is not exactly the people you want in your party. >> fast forward then to august of 2016. last august, just after he won the republican nomination and he was asked by wmur in boston, whether or not he wanted wight facialists voting for him. take a listen. >> do you want white supremacists to vote for you? >> no. i don't. not at all. and i will tell you, this is not about hate. this is about love. >> and now i want to do one more. fast forward again and this is to this past week -- this past tuesday when this is his response to the charlottesville mayhem. >> but we heard a lot of people in...

Has no business serving as president, either. >> amid the blow-back and despite having take an gop loyalty pledge, trump renewed the possibility of bolting the gop and running as an independent. he said he doesn't compare about complaints from republican leaders. right now one of their biggest is that trump is helping democrats and hurting the republican party. and shannon, a new poll in new hampshire today from wmur shows that donald trump is over 30% and way ahead of his nearest challenger, marco rubio. >> interesting numbers about what happens if he leaves the gop and what his followers wou...

Opposition from ted cruz, who says he took issue with the pope's call to abolish the death penalty. now, to a tragic story in one of the holiest places on earth. more than 700 muslim pilgrims were killed and at least 850 others were injured in a stampede near saudi arabia's holy city of mecca thursday. the victims were trampled to death early yesterday morning at a busy intersection in minna. three miles from mecca as they made their way to perform one of the holiest rites in islam. the disaster was the second surrounding hajj this month, after a crane collapsed two weeks ago, killing more t...