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  • Legal expert Norm Eisen, pollster Celinda Lake and campaign researcher Anat Shenker-Osorio explained in TheNew York Times that there is one key detail that is being ignored in all of the polls. Most polls are asking whether voters would still support Trump if he is convicted by a jury of his peers — and the polls consistently show that a conviction would damage him.
  • “Likely to be completed before Election Day remains Special Counsel Jack Smith’s federal prosecution of Mr. Trump for his alleged scheme to overturn the 2020 election, which had been set for trial on March 4, 2024,” they wrote. “That date has been put on hold pending appellate review of the trial court’s rejection of Mr. Trump‘s presidential immunity.”
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  • While the Supreme Court declined to hear Smith’s appeal until the federal appeals court makes its decision, the case is being expedited to the normally slow court for Jan. 9. The Supreme Court will likely hear it on its rocket docket.

Source: redstate.com