who think they might be having a good night. easy, easy. right. easy but but but. a court leaving the ballot open, diane, saying there are lines there in this race that we know is unusually competitive. it means you keep watching it. now let s come back to where we are as we wait. we still have no votes in in mississippi. we do here for another one. again, in this tough national climate for democrats, you have an incumbent democratic governor in a very red state, 56% of the vote in now. right. i told you earlier, watch down here. and a lot of them are starting to slowly fill in. right. these are the conservative counties. but daniel cameron getting only 51% of the vote there. let s just go back in time to 2019. andy beshear getting 46. so the incumbent did a little better. but here s what you look at here. go back to the presidential race. donald trump getting 74% here. and so the margins, the margins are not going daniel cameron s way. if you know that in the urban areas tha
tonight on the reidout mr. trump has repeatedly and consistently misrepresented and inflated the value of his assets. and before he takes the stand, i am certain that he will engage in name calling and taunts and race-baiting. and call this a witch hunt. but at the end of the day, the only thing that matters are the facts and the numbers. and numbers, my friends, don t lie. and attorney general tish james was right about trump, on the wednesday stand today in his civil fraud trial, trump was belligerent, showing his usual lack of respect for the rule of law and the people who administer it. also, tonight, how trump will be using this trial and his future trials as a campaign platform. plus, new reporting on what trump might do on day one if he returns to the white house, including possibly invoking the insurrection act. and the panic amongst some democrats about president biden s sagging poll numbers now that we re just one years away from election day. i m jaso
country and giving us an early read on what they re thinking as the nation is heading into an unprecedented, unprecedented presidential election year. the contest american democracy as it s never been tested before. this is cnn s coverage of america s choice 2023. i m erin burnett. and i m jake tapper. we are about to get the first results of the night possible clues about the political trends in 2024 and the potentially historic and divisive rematch between president joe biden and former president donald trump. polling places just closed in the eastern half of kentucky. the commonwealth has one of two governors races tonight. new measure of the democrats strengths and weaknesses on republican turf. popular democratic governor andy beshear is fighting to keep his job in kentucky, where president biden is in louisville, kentucky. let s go to king in columbus, ohio. she s tracking the state s abortion rights ballot measure. king has there been last minute campaigning on thi
happen with this defendant, but any other defendant would probably be facing you don t think she would put him in jail or they would decide to put him in jail ultimately? i don t think so. according to former attorney general eric holder, any other defendant would be sent to the slammer for violating a gag order. so what s stopping the federal judge in donald trump s january 6th coup case from making good on her vow to treat trump just like any other defendant? plus, senate democrats set their sights on a couple of conservative supreme court justices besties in their quest to impose some level of ethics oversight on the high court. and with abortion rights emerging as a driving force in upcoming elections, does anyone else find it weird that house republicans have chosen an anti-abortion extremist as their new speaker? and we begin tonight with the constitutional question that could determine whether donald trump appears on a state ballot next year. the house j
between president biden and benjamin netanyahu after the israeli prime minister accused the white house of withholding military aid. plus, we ll have the latest from vladimir putin s state visit to north korea and the pact that he just signed with kim jong-un. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, june 20th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. and we ll begin this morning with the race for the white house. and exactly one week before president joe biden and donald trump meet on the debate stage, we ve got new polling that shows that the sitting president has moved into the lead. for the first time since october the latest fox news survey finds biden ahead of trump, 50% to 48% among registered voters. now, to be clear, that 2-point difference is within the poll s margin of error. but this new survey marks a 3-point swing towards biden for last month and a 7-point swing for march. that number matters. the change is being driven