rob portman is not a trump enthusiast. it doesn't mean that he didn't vote or help the president when he was in office. but he's not going out there campaigning, saying donald trump or the highway. and i think that that is such a strong point of remembering where the republican party has evolved. this is rob portman's seat. >> they are all trumpers. they might not get trump's endorsement, but they have certainly most of the folks in this field, fully endorsed trumpism. >> right, and you also see, we'll show you the pictures, ted cruz who ran against trump in 2016. that did not go well. he's campaigning for mn mandel over the weekend. are the primaries settled or do we have fractures in the republican party that will play out and carry over to 2024? >> yeah. i certainly think everybody is watching. you could even say the white house is watching as they're trying to set up this as a contrast between republicans and the biden administration instead of this being a referendum on the biden administration. we heard the president

that somebody like a rob portman could win. he ran seven points ahead of donald trump in 2016 in the general election. those folks no longer exist in ohio. judy: we will see what happens in ohio. people are saying, will this happen in every republican primary? no way to know that right now, but donald trump is still a factor. annie: jd vance was lagging behind in this campaign until donald trumpent in and endorsed him. you saw a fox news pollhat came out shortly after the endorsement. it was practically doubled, and incredible jump. none of us have a crystal ball, we don't know what will happen. the polling has been difficult to follo but you saw that trump had an impact and really pushed jd vance, at least into a poll position where he could win. judy: we are also watching pennsylvania and others, georgia. i want to quickly turn both of you to a story in politico today, inside reporting that the ite house is looking at structuring their midterm strategy around going against, who else, donald trump, and his wing of the republic

retiring senator rob portman not running for reelection. jd vance with a 62,540 lead. it was close. jd vance stretching out how? look at the color. he's a lighter red shade here. he's everywhere in rural ohio. josh mandel running second. very protrump candidate. these rural counties if you go back to the presidential race and look, joe biden won seven counties in ohio and donald trump carried the state by eight points. look at this. right? look at this in 2020. fast forward to tonight. j.d. vance gets the trump up eve endorsement winning in ohio and holding his own here hamilton county, cincinnati where vance is at headquarters. a more narrow margin but holding his own there, as well. it's impressive. in a crowded race you might say well, he's got 32% of the vote. the trump endorsement without a doubt helping j.d. vance win this nomination tonight in the key state republicans need to hold this seat, ohio. >> john king at the magic wall beginning coverage. thank you. >>> the state and local races will have more import now that we're following what is happening with the supreme court.

seven republican candidates are vying to replace retiring rob portman, and jd vance, the author of "hillbilly elegy" did get the support of former president trump, and he is up against the tim dolan whose family owns the guardians, and also seven other gop candidates vying to replace retiring senator rob portman. john king is at the magic wall. >> yes, no doubt as we count the walls, will this endorsement help him. he has 10,000 votes over josh mandel, and also matt dolan who is the least trumpian. and matt dolan distinguished himself among the other candidates mike given and also jane timken, because he says to put the big lie behind them, and the party has to stop talking about it. and so, trump won by winning all of the small counties, but at the moment, you can see josh mandel winning in those small rural counties and jd vance is winning the others. we are counting the votes as we go, and here is 20% of the vote. so a long way to go in the count. if matt dolan can pull it off, it is going to be interesting, because this is what we will watch. franklin county is the largest population-wise

[applause] senator brown: rob portman, thank you. rob is concluding is to successful terms in the senate, his 12 years. thank you. [applause] we have been working hard on russia-ukraine, and especially on economic issues, leveling the playing field, infrastructure, issues that matter to all of us. for generations, ohio was a global leader in manufacturing and innovation, the life of our communities. but beginning in the 1970's, essentially we stopped making things in america the way we did. corporate america wanted cheap labor wherever they could find it. they lobbied successfully for tax breaks and bad trade deals so they could hopscotch the globe in search of lower and lower wages. ohio has paid the price for years in the form of lost jobs and opportunity. now, the whole country pays the price -- higher prices, supply chain disruptions and delays, losing high-tech industries to competitors like china. ohio invented the light bulb. today, 99% of led light bulbs are made in china. america invented the semiconductor, today, 75% are ma

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this is the race to replace retiring senator rob portman. he was running against a field of five other major candidates and emerged as the winner at the end thanks to the endorsement from former president trump. this has been viewed as a test of the former president's strength inside the republican party and one of the first people vance thanked tonight. was mr. trump. >> i have got to thank the 45th the president of the united states. donald j. trump. ladies and gentlemen -- one for giving us an example of what could be in the country. remember 2019 when wages were going up and not down. 2019 when workers were doing well in the country. not struggling terribly. thanks to the president for everything for endorsing me. >> jd vance of course best known for the the best selling book hill billy elegy has never run for public office before. he defeated several seasoned republican candidates, he introduced himself to ohio voters. now for the next six months he'll be running against democratic congressman tim ryan. who vance accuse ds of trying it

portman. his wife clerked for justice kavanaugh. in another closely watched race, democratic congressmember shontel brown has defeated challenger nina turner, the former co-chair of bernie sanders' 2020 presidential campaign. it was a rematch of last or special election that brought brown to congress. we will have more on the ohio election later in the program. a former philadelphia police officer has been charged with murder and is being held without bail for fatally shooting a 12-year-old boy named thomas siderio in march. philadelphia district attorney larry krasner accused the officer edsaul mendoza of shooting the 12-year-old while the boy was face down on the sidewalk after a foot pursuit. prosecutors say the 12-year-old had fired a gun at one point but had discarded it about 40 feet away from where he was shot. a former new york city police officer has been convicted of assaulting a d.c. police officer during the deadly january 6 insurrection. thomas webster was found guilty on six coun

i think that rob portman for example, he was in a safe senate seat there in ohio. it wasn't really that threatened by a right-wing culture,, so this idea that he had to stick with trump on everything in order to stay in the center, never made sense to me. i think there's a way for people to zag that is not liz cheney, and we just haven't seen people try it. >> that's a great point,, tim miller,, trip gabriel,, appreciate that. still to come, the january six committee wants to hear from's three more republican congress members and its investigation, an alleged effort to get a pardon from the president for oath keepers threatening to protect ronny jackson, while the events were unfolding, we're gonna go over the new information we got for those letters, just ahead. on january 6th 2021, the u. s. marine corps veteran and retired and ypg out of sir thomas webster showed up to storm the capitol. he was wearing a red and white jacket carried a metal flagpole, and your post officers at the metropolitan police department who are behind the barricades yearling at them using

. >> reporter: the hotly contested seat being vacated by republican senator rob portman was seen as a crucial contest, a litmus test on the power former president trump's support could have on the fall midterms. >> now, this campaign i really think was a referendum on what kind of a republican party we want and what kind of a country we want. >> reporter: and trump's support seemed to give vance's campaign a much needed jolt of momentum. >> he is a fearless maga fighter, he fights like crazy and i want to pick somebody that's going to win and this man is going to win. >> reporter: vance thanking trump tuesday night during his victory speech. >> and i have to say a lot of the fake news media out there and there are some good ones in the back there, there are some bad ones, too, let's be honest, but they wanted to write a story that this campaign would be the death of donald trump's america first agenda. ladies and gentlemen, it ain't the death of the america first agenda. >> reporter: trump watched the returns from his home at mar-a-lago with friends and aides, one of them describing h

the race garnering the most attention, replacing cnn rob portman. suggesting jd vance won the gop nomination after a late boost from an endorsement from trump. kristen holmes live in cleveland this morning. do we know from the numbers how much that endorsement moved this race? >> reporter: well, jim, if you look at vance's trajectory, it indicates that the endorsement really played an enormous role here in this race. remember, vance was trailing in the polls until donald trump endorsed him which not only gave him a boost, as you mentioned, but propelled him to the top of the pack where he clearly remained until victory last night. this is something vance himself seemed to acknowledge in his victory speech. take a listen. >> i have absolutely got to thank the 45th, the president of the united states, donald j. trump, ladies and gentlemen. they wanted to write a story that this campaign would be the death of donald trump's america first agenda. ladies and gentlemen, it ain't the death of the america first agenda. >> reporter: it's important to note, j

rob portman not running. and trump has weighed in after just about -- just at all of the candidates, you see on the screen here, really strongly quartered his endorsement. he went with j.d. vance. we have three polls that have come out in the last week. you're looking at the average of all of the polls. it is jumbled. there's a couple things we can say. number one, j.d. vance in the average, has a slight lead coming into election day. it's only three polls. it can take that for what it's worth. but j.d. vance for the last year, year and a half, this race was polled, was not running in first place. in the average coming into the primary day, he's in first place. this is a test of trump's clout with republican voters, he weighed in and he let his presence be known. he was courted by the other candidates. if he's able to lift j.d. vance to a victory, you mentioned the other races that are coming up in the next couple weeks in pennsylvania. trump has made his preference known there. mehmet oz in the senate race.

portman. >>> and now to the latest in the war in ukraine. russian forces began storming a steel plant in mariupol just as dozens of civilians evacuated from the bombed out facility reached safety more than 100 miles away. the u.n. says 101 people were evacuated from bunkers under the plant. they were trapped there for weeks as russia's bombs rained down. several hundred civilians and an estimated 2,000 ukrainian fighters are still holed up in the plant. >>> yesterday, president biden visited an alabama factory producing the javelin anti-tank missiles that are helping ukraine's battle against russia. >> making it possible for the ukrainian people to defend themselves without us having to risk getting in a third world war by sending in american soldiers fighting russian soldiers. >> the biden administration now says wnba star brittney griner is being wrongfully detained in russia, and that means the u.s. will ramp up efforts to secure her release. she was arrested at a moscow airport in february after russian authorities said that they found c

ohio senator rob portman: >> and they were going to choose to come across the mexican border because that was the easier way to get access to our country. we've got to deal with this issue. >> reporter: and the court ecords allege an iraqi general who supported u.s. operations was the suspect's second target. separately, a spokesman for president bush says he has all the confidence in the world in the secret service, law enforcement, and intelligence communities. john. >> dickerson: catherine herridge, great reporting. thank you. now to the election and primary day as voters in five states head to the polls. today's races are not just about the candidates but also about how much sway former president donald trump still holds over the republican party. that's especially true in georgia, where cbs' ed o'keefe is watching the results. >> reporter: voters turned out today across the state of georgia. the most high-profile race, the republican primary for governor, painting the current officeholder, brian kemp, against former senator david perdue, who is backed by former president donald

portman of ohio. >> and seven months from now, the people of ohio are going to vote to fire the radical left democrats. >> the ohio primary is a test of trumpism. former president trump decided to endorse j.d. vance but he almost didn't have to choose from a wide variety of folks this we competing for his attention. the fact that former president trump chose one put him and his judgment and his movement on the line. >> reporter: trump choosing to back author and venture capitalist j.d. vance, known for writing "hillbilly elgy" later picked up by netflix. the adaptation focusing on vance's modest beginnings growing up in middletown ohio, reflecting his family's appalachian roots. the highly coveted and late endorsement from the former president upending one of the most heated and expensive republican primaries in the nation. >> we're going to send j.d. vance to the united states senate. >> reporter: despite vance once calling trump reprehensible and an idiot, he still received the former president's stamp of approval. >> he's a guy that said some bad [ bleep ] about me. in fact, if i wen

ohio senator rob portman: >> and they were going to choose to come across the mexican border because that was the easier way to get access to our country. we've got to deal with this issue. >> reporter: and the court records allege an iraqi general who supported u.s. operations was the suspect's second target. separately, a spokesman for president bush says he has all the confidence in the world in the secret service, law enforcement, and intelligence communities. john. >> dickerson: catherine herridge, great reporting. thank you. now to the ongoing baby formula shortage. a second air force cargo plane loaded with formula from germany is expected to arrive in virginia tomorrow and will be greeted by first lady jill biden and the surgeon general. here's cbs' meg oliver. >> reporter: all eyes are on this nestle distribution center near allentown, pennsylvania, where the second emergency shipment of baby formula will be sent after arriving at washington dulles airport. 114 pallets of hypoallergenic formula for infants will be sorted for delivery to hospitals, families in need, and retai

portman. he endorsed jane a former chair of the gop. who also fought hard for the trump endorsement. >> it created confusion and as many voters know that he was a never trumper. hillary clinton would have been president. >> he apologized for that. >> but the question is, who is the real jd? >> they also have a line aligned themselves with trump. but didn't gain support. >> obviously i would have loved to earn it. it doesn't change the fact i believe strongly in the trump america first agenda. >> it's senator cruz backs him and said this about trump seal of approval. >> every candidate says i love donald trump. i love him more, no, no, i have him tattooed on my rear end. it's okay. we get it. >> the only gop rival who didn't seek the endorsement said it's time for republicans to move on. >> i hope this election when i win is about that people begin to understand that you can run on ideas. >> many republicans are keeping a close eye on matt dolen. the establishment candidate who didn't seek the

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senator rob portman is here. senator, i tried to figure it out. maybe you can help me, maybe you can't, it doesn't make any sense. pedevesa, the terribly run state oil company in venezuela, used to make 2 1/2 million barrels a day. now it makes 700,000 barrels a day. it is so badly-run. it does so in a very dirty fashion, we're going there making a deal for a million barrels a day. they only make 700,000 a day, most of that is used for domestic production. how will we get a million barrels out of that? >> you couldn't make it up, david. here we have an administration that has had a war against fossil fuels, particularly stifling the production of oil and gas production in the united states and yet they seem to be interested in increasing production from countries that are in the case of venezuela, very aligned with russia right now at a time when we're trying to put sanctions on russia and here we have maduro, one ever russia's great allies, as you said, it is going to be dirtier. by the way russian oil was also dirtier. it never made sense for to

bring in rob portman, ranking member of the homeland security committee. even some democrats have been reluctant, obviously, to throw their support behind lifting title 42 because of the estimates of the surge at the border. even government estimates say that number will rise to 18,000 migrants over the southern border a day, senator. have you received any further explanation or plan as to how the administration plans to handle that surge? >> no, just the opposite. we are very concerned because we already have an unprecedented situation at the border, it is a crisis about to become a catastrophe. roughly half the people are now being turned away under title 42, which is the public health authority. so, just by logic, you say that means twice as many people are going to come. however, it's likely worse than that because the traffickers all over the world are telling people you can come into the united states, that's why we have seen higher levels already. so instead of 8,000 people a day, some predict as many as 18,000. this will totally overwhelm the borde

portman. vance's wife clerked for justice kavanaugh. in another closely watched race in ohio, democratic commerce member shontel brown defeated progressive challenger nina turner from the former cochair of bernie presidential campaign. turner teased a 2024 presidential bid in her concession speech last night. >> let me say this simply, nina turner is going nowhere. i resolved tonight is attacked. this is what i do know. [indiscernible] that is why that money came in here because they know i was going to shake that sucker. on behalf of the poor, the working poor, and the barely middle-class. this black girl magic. what i'm going to do is i'm going to take this magic all of this country and shake it that way. 2024 is coming. the great state of california got something to say. the great state of iowa got something to say about what nina turner can do. the great state of nevada has something to say. we ain't going nowhere. and because this comes as the intercept reports nina turner had faced oppos

ohio senator rob portman. >> and they were going to choose to come across the mexican border, because that was the easier way to get access to our country. we've got to deal with this issue. >> reporter: and the court records allege an iraqi general who supported u.s. operations was the suspect's second target. simply, a spokesman for president bush said he has all the confidence in the world in the secret, law enforcement, and intelligence communities. john? >> catherine herridge, thank you. >>> now to the election and primary day as voters in five states head to the polls. today's races are not just about the candidates, but also about how much sway former president donald trump still holds over the republican party. that's especially true in georgia, where cbs' ed o'keefe is watching the results. >> reporter: voters turned out today across the state of georgia, the most high profile race the republican primary for governor pitted the current office older brian kemp against david perdue. kemp's victory may have come in support for mike pensce who openly defied president trump and pu

portman, the republican in the senate. jd vance is neck and neck in a heated republican primary. politico editor sam stein is with us. the gop's future could be redefined in ohio in tomorrow's election. how important is this test for donald trump and his political power? >> reporter: it appears it could be very important. not just about trump as a candidate, but trump as an idea and his politician positions. i asked one of his top surrogates, representative matt gaetz of florida, what happens if jd vance loses tomorrow. >> so president trump's brand is on the line. the maga brand is on the line and we couldn't be prouder that jd vance is a standard bearer for our movement. >> reporter: senator josh hawley is walking behind me right now. he is on the trail with jd vance. we'll be hearing from him a short time from now. the candidate versus the idea, so donald trump may have endorsed jd vance but the other candidate in this race josh mandel does not have the president's endorsement but continues to style himself pro-trump. i

this is the replace to replace rob portman, he was running against a field of five other major candidates. and emanagered as the winner at the end thanks to the endorsement from former president donald trump, it has been viewed as the former president's strength inside the republican party and one of the first people j.d. vance thanked tonight was donald trump. >> i have to absolutely thank the 45th, the president of the united states, donald trump, ladies and gentlemen, one for giving us an example could be. remember 2019 when wages were going up and not down. remember, 2019, when workers were doing well in the country and not struggling terribly. thanks to the president for everything. for endorsing me. >> j.d. vance known for the best selling book, hillbilly elligy, he has never run for campaign. he has introduced himself to ohio voters and for the next six months, he will be running against democratic congressman tim ryan who vance accused trying act like a trump democrat, it will be an important race in the campaign and it's a big test to the former president's strength going forward

it is an open seat with a retiring senator rob portman in ohio. the result from 2020 donald trump won ohio easily by 8 points. it is very much a trump republican state. come back through the democrats one more time. there is tim ryan. why did j.d. vance do what he has done in the polling? this is the candidate who would appear to have the momentum. up 12 points in 60 days. why was that? back on the 15th of april donald trump endorsed vance and gave him a head of steam. you see the others down the line. crowded field now and we'll see who knows in the buckeye state prefer. as for the travel the final day of full-out campaigning. j.d. vance in the pink will hit three cities, the main ones, cincinnati, columbus and cleveland. mandel will stick to the east side of cleveland up here and what his strategy and how it plays out. matt dolan thinks he has a good shot and that is the lay of the land on the intriguing republican side. more now with dana on that. >> dana: joining us is one of the republicans running for that seat, ohio -- senate seat for the r

gop voters in the buckeye state are choosing their nominee to replace rob portman today. matt dolan joins us live. there are reports that your campaign is surging. what does that mean and what do you base that on? >> well, hi, dana. yes. i base it on what we've been feeling across the state for the last few months. i realize it is manifesting itself in the polls. i have known that ohio republicans have been responding to my message it's about ohio. it's about ending biden's inflation, getting energy independence and ohio workers back to work and being america strong. that has been resonating for months over the campaign trail. i think people as they begin to pay attention to this race and there are seven of us to choose from they realize there is one candidate, me, talking all about ohio, going to washington to fight for ohioans and momentum is great. we saw it in pouring rain. the response was great. >> dana: a question then. president trump went ahead and endorsed j.d. vance, a hard fought competition between josh mandel and j.d. vance to get the enforcement. since the

it wasn't that long ago, you all, that rob portman won in ohio. he won in 2016, outperforming trump by seven points in that race. it wasn't that long ago, 2016, that john kasich easily won the primary in ohio pop those kinds of candidates they're no longer there anymore. donald trump's party is now the party until ohio and the party across the country. >> and you know, we looked so much in states like florida, michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania, ohio, there's been such a sea change in ohio. you look at the results coming in last night, boy, in the rural areas, trump's word in ohio still gold. i mean it made all the difference in the world for j.d. vance. trump still has a massive way so far perhaps it's a small base of support in the republican party, but whatever it is, the more rural, the better j.d. vance did because of that trump endorsement. now, j.d. vance, the venture capitalist turned midwest was once again extremely against trump. and then he was for him, tweeted things about how much he loved mitt romney taking down donald trump, he'd go

rob portman of ohio so is montana. the senate is leading yes. they think that russian oligarchs somehow will pay the 40 billion. he wants to make russia cover the costs and he wants use to seize assets to cover the cost. right okay. a few senators dodged. they all refused to give us a direct answer. we want to invite any republican senators who plan on voting to this to come on the show and its plain white. please tell us what you talk as much as you want. rock and a sandbag you we want to know why this is an americans interestwise is more important than the pressing crisis all around us so tell us. you're always welcome. were joined by stephen miller are happy to have them. stephen miller think so much for coming on. i can think think of a clearer middle finger to republican voters then what happened last night. >> sadly what you're seeing and what i learned from many years in washington is that the tears of american families do not move the hearts of washington politicians and all too many cases. you talked about some of the senior monologue t

this is obviously to fill rob portman's seat. ohio is a reliably red state and when it's all said and done irrespective of who wins it'll be a seat held by the republicans. mike: mike, a lot of republicans looking at veteran, how do you see the race? >> i couldn't find a more distasteful candidate than jd vance. the trump endorsement gives tim ryan a fighting chance. i think if it was just left to the primary voters they'd probably would again pick a republican in the state of ohio but i think the fact that trump is putting himself on the ballot that may help this gentleman and i use the term loosely with jd vance, it may help them in the primary but i think he opens the door to the democrat actually picking up the seat in ohio. mike: all right, we will see where it goes after primary seat on tuesday. to the border health and human services used to serve under president trump, matt plays a big role, what's the potential impact if title 42 is eventually lefted? left lifted? >> well, mike, the only thing immune is illegal immigrant

i hope someone leak rob portman and senator toomey. i hope those republicans will come toke. because it's not that it shocks the conscience that it's 19 little children that were thyroid to such a point to identify them. it shocks the conscience that we were still burying the victims of buffalo, just ten days before when this happened. it's not only the actual act. it's the frequency and the fact that this is a uniquely american problem and only happens in america. so legislators, voters. donors, we all have to come together and demand that congress acts. when that shooter shows up, he's not going to ask what your voter registration is. he's not going to ask if are you a card-carrying member of the nra. he's going to shoot. there is no question that will be asked. so none of us are immune to this. no matter who we are, where we live, the color of our skin our our creed. none of us in america today are itch mun. republicans and democrats come together on common sense gun reform. 90% of america spoertsz background checks. you know who doesn't support it? the nra. it's dam time

senator rob portman. we will talk live with tim ryan in just a few minutes. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says he thinks it's very important that pine come to

think it's important to know when you look at the retiring club of republicans, it's richard burr, rob portman, roy blunt over in missouri, all of these republican senators voted to certify the 2020 election while serving in the u.s. senate in 2021. when you look at their replacement, including here in alabama, you're talking about a contingency of trump loyalists who outwardly said they would have objected to the certification. here's an exchange with mo brooks. he was the first to object, but you will hear in this conversation back and forth, this is an individual who could serve for the next six years. you did tell me he wanted to rescind the election. >> he did use the word rescind and did talk about reinstated. if you had had an election stolen from you, you would want to be reinstated. he's the right to have his view. his view is he ought to be reelected, because his election was stolen from him in 2020. >> reporter: it was just two months ago that trump dropped his endorsement of that man, because he was plummeting in the polls, but you have seen him rise back up. there's a real

in ohio a crowded republican primary to replace rob portman. voters are heading to the polls with the news that the u.s. supreme court could soon strike down roe v. wade. joining me now is david chalian. let's talk about the impact of this decision, possibly coming as soon as next month, and how this will impact today's vote in ohio. >> it's a good question. the impact is likely going to be felt much more in a general election context come november with the midterms happening all across the country. when you have democrats and republicans running against each other inside the these primaries. inside the republican primary, there's near unanimity in a position here. so it's hard to see what the immediate impact today for these voters will be. as you noted, one of the things we are watching starting today in this marquee race in the ohio republican senate primary and continuing throughout the month of may are the series of tests donald trump has sort of set up for himself to position himself as the king maker. the one witof the midas touch. a que

portman two of the frontrunners came close to a first fight during a debate weal are see you in about half an hour. >> thank you >>> still ahead, if you thought supply chain woes were over, think again. why the supply chain could be snarl aed for years to come and what needs to be done to get 'rba itwcourse wee ckn o. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >>> welcome back we're 48 hours from the fed's decision wednesday and the fed hfs also embarking on an afwreszive shrinking of the balance sheet. they're doing quantitative tightening at twice the pace of any previous drawdown and the fear is aggressive rate hikes could be messy for markets and the economy. joining me is the chief economics commentator at the "wall street journal." what would you say, ahead of this meeting though, to a pretty concerned investor base? >> i don't think i have much that's very comforting, kelly. as you and i have been talk about, the fed's got a real problem. all they were trying to do prevent inflation from going up. and i think that's one of the reasons they're in this rush to start run offs on the balance shee

portman. j.d. vance has surged to the front of a crowded field. tuesday results expected to be extremely tight. we'll have it for you. the biden administration pushing back against fierce criticism of its decision to establish what some lawmakers have likened to an orwellian ministry of truth to weigh in on what's true or false. now it's being called a working group and we are told it won't target americans. a bit of a walk back. chief breaking news correspondent trace gallagher is on the case tonight. good evening kate speak of the white house really is working overtime to convince people that this new disinformation governance board will be nonpartisan and apolitical. it's a tough sell considering that the executive director has a history of supporting information that favors democrats, like knocking down hunter biden's laptop or lifting up christopher steele, the author of the debunked steele dossier. janco it's not only supports liberal information. she supports liberals like hillary clint

portman. he endorsed jane timmcon, a former chair of ohio's gop. >> he created a lot of confusion, as many voters know that jd vance was a never trumper. if he had his way, hillary clinton would have been president. >> but he's apologized for that. >> he's apologized, but the question is who is the real jd vance? >> josh mandell and gibbons also have aligned themselves with trump but didn't gain his support. >> i would have loved to earn it, but it doesn't change the fact i believe in the trump america first agenda. >> ted cruz backs mandell and had this to say about trump's seal of approval. >> every candidate says i love donald trump. no, no, i love donald trump more. no, no, i have donald trump tattooed on my rear end. okay, we get it. >> matt dolan, the only gop rival who did not seek the endorsement said it's time for republicans to move on. >> i hope this election when i win is about that people begin to understand that you can run on ideas. >> and many republicans here tell me they are

you see the establishment folks, rob portman call us behind j.d. vance, even though portman endorsed another candidate. we'll see what happens, particularly in pennsylvania and certainly a victory for the former president. >> david, let's stay in ohio. a 50-50 senate. very precarious. not a horrible map state-by-state, given the election year climate, when it's 50-50. the democrats are desperate, can we pick up any seats by the republican surface that seat is held by j.d. vance is the favorite. the congressman one-time presidential candidate tim ryan. listen to him this morning. number one he says j.d. vance is a carpet bagger, didn't stay in ohio. now he's coming back to get the seat, backed by a pro-trump billionaire. he tries to make this about the economy. >> i'm representing the exhausted majority here. the exhausted majority wants to stop the washington, d.c. food fight. they want us to start working together. this is what ohio ans want, bilt build a group of people that care about ohio and the country and put this behind us. the age of stupi

admired some of the stuff with the trump administration to combat disinformation including senator rob portman and his bills against deepfakes and funding the global engagement center in the state department. to say that i am just a partisan actor wildly out of context, find that it wasn't just these mischaracterizations of my work, it was death threats to get my family over the last three weeks i have had maybe one or two days, a violent threat like we're coming for you in my family when your family should be sent to russia to be killed, encouragement of me to commit suicide, all of those have been forwarded to the department of homeland security services and that's not something that is american, that's not how we should be acting when we have disagreements about policy in this country, we need to learn how to be adults in the room, i don't have time for that childish initial, not a light silence in the, i'm gonna go forward and continue building awareness about this threat in the future. evening. >> good evening, chris. thank you very much, and thanks to you at home for the joining

portman is giving up? >> guest: it's looking like least a two-man race for the top spot, potentially a three-man race. j.d. vance, the venture capitalist and memoirist, obviously securing that trump endorsement was a bug boose -- big boost to his campaign. he has been polling first for the first time throughout the entire campaign. josh mandel, the former state treasurer who's run for senate before, is a well known figure in the state, continues to be one of the temperature polling candidates in that -- top polling candidates. and then perhaps the most interesting developmentek is mat dolan who's part owner of the cleveland guardians' baseball team who is the only candidate running as a perhaps post-trump candidate rather than a pro-trump candidate who has spent many millions on campaign ads. he has started to see a bump in the polls as well. >> host: "the wall street journal" told talking aboutl l e month of primaries. may primaries test trump's sway mt. gop -- in the gop, is the headline. and therehe you

vance is going to be taking over for rob portman, who is retiring. walked away with 6 percentage points of the entire republican electorate here. two weeks from now, we're looking at pennsylvania, pat toomey who voted to convict donald trump will be out of office come the end of 2022. even if donald trump's candidate doesn't walk away with it. mccormack will be in the molded mind set of trump. those are the realities here. it's a big first win for him. >> it was interesting to me that j.d. vance he was a goodwiner, if you will. he was magnanimous to everybody including matt dolan. what do you make of that? i guess it meant like guys like portman rallied around vance. >> reporter: he put out a statement and said he's behind vance. in the republican electorate, he walks away with about 22%. he was the only candidate who said he would not have objected to certifying joe biden as the winner in 2020. that is where there is a reality here within the republican party. even look at the likes of mike dewine and the secretary of state who, you know, had been s

five republicans are facing off today in the primary to succeed rob portman, trump endorsed author j.d. vans and businessman mike gibbons are trying to stake their climbs as the lone conservative in the race. meanwhile, state senator matt dolan, whose family owns clinton guardians is trying to hold the voters as a mild republican. congressman tim ryan will likely win his party's nomination. he is expected to be an underdog in november's general election. it will be an exciting one. that u.s. the it for us this hour. we'll be back tomorrow with more "meet the press daily." wr snbc coverage begins with katy tur after a quick break. >>> snbc coverage begins with k tur after a quick break. m snbc coverage begins with katy tur after a quick break. snbc coverage begins with katy tur after a quick break. >>> tur after a quick break. >> doesn't your family deserve the best? eggland's best eggs. classic, cage free, and organic. more delicious, farm-fresh taste. plus, superior nutrition. because the way we care is anything but ordinary. ♪♪ ben isn't worried about retirement his personalized

with vance earning 32% of the vote in a crowded primary, to replace retiring republican senator rob portman. two-thirds of ohio gop voters did not follow trump's lead and chose other conservative candidates. trump told friends he was relieved by the outcome, cnn has learned, in a race that shows he's still king and king maker of his party. but there are more tests of trump's influence to come, including next week in west virginia. where he's taken sides in a primary pitting two republican congressmen against one another. and nebraska, where he's weighed in on a heating three-way contest for governor. a bigger test comes may 17th in a pair of senate races. one in north carolina, and another in pennsylvania. where trump backed mehmet oz faces david mccormick in one of the most closely watched primaries, and may 24th in georgia, a state trump has been consumed with since he narrowly lost there in 2020. ever since, he's taken aim at governor brian kemp and persuaded former senator david perdue to mount a challenge against him. the endorsements have become the sound track of republican campaigns