abby phillip starts right now to president s two speeches to alternate realities. that s tonight on newsnight good evening. i m abby philip in new york tonight to stories with very different tones from the men who were vying for the same job. first, the sobering president s biden s of appeal to end the violence in gaza hamas is hobbled biden says, and the time to end this war is now. biden announcing a path forward for tomorrow. and the day after, in hopes of a lasting peace. now, to the response from donald trump to his conviction on 34 counts in his home state of new york trump pulled out some of his best words, rigged, scammed, et cetera to describe how the hush money case mostly papering over the fact that this jury of his own peers found him guilty of breaking the law that trump s words today also clash with the trump in all of our memories once upon a time, he claimed that hillary clinton couldn t run, shouldn t run for president because of the specter of a trial that
so january 20 or or maybe election day, i mean that s when you ll lose your mind. i we could lose a lot more than my mind you know, chris, i don t know if no, if at the end there it was a little bit of ambivalence that you heard in bill mars boyce and in what he had to say, but it made me think perhaps he s reflecting what a lot of america i can feel as they approach this next election. another rematch between trump and biden know he s, he s clearly not thrilled by the troy s, but he obviously thinks trump is a much greater threat to the country then biden is. and, you know, i would say that that s kind of the conventional wisdom right now among most people in the chattering class, that if you had to bet right down, well, maybe before 5:00 yesterday afternoon, you would have bet that trump was the favorite and more likely than not to be elected president. what s going