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It's hard to predict how Trump's conviction will affect the vote, says David Axelrod, but "The thing to watch is how the two candidates deal with it. Does Trump continued to fulminate in the kind of irrational way he did? He won't be a very good candidate if that's the case.
Because of how the Trump hush-money jury was instructed, says Elie Honig, "There's a lot of uncertainty in what the jury actually decided." But, he adds, when it comes to sentencing, "the fact that he's violated the contempt order, the fact that his conduct, according to prosecutors and the jury, impact in an election," means its "a razor's edge 50-50 call about whether Judge Merchan sentences him to some prison time."
Radio host Charlamagne tha God discounts claims that Black voters will sympathize with Trump being found guilty. "Donald Trump is not a political prisoner. He's not someone who died unjustly at the hands of the police. He is a privileged former President who broke the law and he got held accountable for it." But, he adds, Black votes should not be taken for granted.
As President Joe Biden started walking out of the press room on Friday afternoon, after finishing a speech outlining a cease-fire plan for the Israel-Hamas war, a journalist called out, questioning him on former President Donald Trump’s historic hush-money trial conviction.
“Donald Trump refers to himself as a ‘political prisoner’ and blames you [Biden] directly.
Millions of people in the United States are facing the high likelihood of extreme heat in the coming weeks, with northern states that frequently have relatively temperate summers among those where higher-than-average temperatures are expected this summer, according to federal data.
As The Guardian reported Monday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) new predictions for the summer months state that most of New Mexico and Utah have a 60%-70% chance of hotter-than-normal weather, along with parts of Arizona, Texas, and Colorado.
Houston and the surrounding area has already experienced spiking temperatures that were tied to a heat dome that was positioned over Mexico for several weeks.