Count. There were seven swing states in the 2020 president ial election. Arizona, georgia, nevada, michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania and North Carolinasix of them won byjoe biden six of them won byjoe biden all of them crucial this time around, in the race to 270 Electoral College votes. In the popular Votejoe Biden won the 2020 election by Seven Million votes. But look how narrow it was in some of these swing states in arizona, joe biden won by 10,167 votes. In georgia, which biden also won, the difference was 11,779 votes. And in nevada, biden won the state by 33,596 votes. Three states which could decide this election, the two candidates separated byjust 55,832. But for democrats the polls spell trouble. In all these states right now. Trump is winning. Across all seven states, 48 of voters said they would back trump, 43 would back biden. We saw just the we sawjust the other week we saw just the other week that the issue of israel becomes very important. If that were beat to be repea
From the outside and you say its all inside, his supporters are saying, these people in the political establishment have been screwing us over for decades. Political establishment have been screwing us overfor decades. And this is the one guy who is going after the media, the one guy establishment cant stand, the one guy that even people like mitt romney and the Republican Party go against, he is part of the deep state and if truly, you have a large part of the american electorate that is mobilised and motivated by the absence of grievance that is utterly court to Donald Trumps campaign, it should not suppression at all that is Approval Ratings are only going north among the gop base since all his indictments are being levied against them. These levees are proof of the power of the deep state to take out donald trump who they love. The question of course is always what happens to the independence the middle and which way they go in a general election, not in the primary. Lots of people
mad noted that kamala was the first black woman on a major party s ticket. that was all true. but what nearly no outlet wrote is that in selecting kamala harris, joe biden was choosing s the worst viceng president in presidential year histor worsty. now, that s no longer justou our opinion. it s what the american people fully believe. a ne fully w nbc poll found that kamala harris has now hit a record low four net favorability among vicety. president. 49% of voters have a negative view of her. 49 pjust a third have a positivh view of harris. it s not hard to see why non ina person in american politics has beenme celebrated more for doin so little. lookg back, it s amazing that biden even chose kamala. she was the first to drop out of the democratic primary. she didn t even makerimary. ite iowa caucus. in a way, the choice was part of biden s genius, though. choosing kamala basically made biden impeachment approve on day one. as bad as joe biden wouldon prove to be, no one
global where we will be bringing you the top stories from around the world. we start with donald trump because charges against him have been unsealed in the last few minutes, by a us federal court. there are 37 criminal counts that include conspiracy to obstructjustice counts that include conspiracy to obstruct justice and counts that include conspiracy to obstructjustice and retaining a classified government documents. documents include information on foreign states to make defence capabilities and weaknesses, as well as the us nuclear programme. if found guilty, donald trump potentially faces years in prison, and mr trump, who potentially faces years in prison, and mrtrump, who is potentially faces years in prison, and mr trump, who is a frontrunner for the 2024 republican presidential nomination says he is innocent. we go straight to our correspondent jessica parker in washington for us. they have just been released, and expecting that you are still looking at the document
hello, i m lewis vaughanjones. you re watching the context on bbc news. the influential uk business lobby group, the cbi, wins a vote of confidence over its future after a series of scandals. let s start with the race for the white house, which has become a little bit more crowded today with chris christie announcing his bid for the republican nomination. you may remember him from his time as the governor of newjersey and also his unsuccessful run for the presidency in 2016. and that ultimately ended up with him endorsing donald trump who, of course, won and is running again this time round. mr trump isn t noted for being nice about any of his rivals, so we ll see what he has to say against his one time backer. back to our panel gillian tett, editor at large for the us financial times, who joins us from silicon valley in california. and nathalie tocci, from the institute of international affairs, is in rome. let s start with chris christie, what do you make of that? is in l