Thank you for watching Newsnight State of the race. Laura coates live starts right now live defying reality. Donald trump makes a campaign prediction, but not even his own supporters are buying. Plus, diddy is not getting out before his trial. A judge denying him bail again so what exactly will his life like in that Brooklyn Jail ive got a special guest who is ben there . Hes going to join us. And 48 the election. And Donald Trumps path to 270 seems to be well expanding lees according to him we are going to win New York. And thats the first time in many, many years that are republican can honestly say it. And were going to do, and we have to do it. We do it. And the election nationwide is over you heard him he thinks the state he lost by more than 20 points in 2016 and by The Way, in 2020 is in play he dedicated nearly two Hour Rally on long Island Tonight to make that very case and in the immortal words of dodgeball so bold strategy cotton, lets see if that pays off for them look, who
Sign? plus an explosive report suggests two women died under abortion restrictions. And now kamala harris is he s blaming donald trump it s immoral it s a moral also 47 days until the election. The republican nominee he demands his party shut down the government over his election lies politically beyond stupid. And melania trump, emerges to sell a book, but not necessarily her husband why do i stand proudly behind my nude modeling work? live at the table. Jonah goldberg nayyera hop, geoff duncan, and madison, jesse auto. Welcome to a special edition of newsnight date of the race i m abby phillip in new york. Let s get right to what america is talking about. Did kamala harris just get a major economic boost or didn t donald trump just get another reason? to criticize her for the first time since the pandemic in four years, the fed of cut interest rates, it s a big, big move, especially if you re trying to make a big, big purchase. And some economists say it shows a soft landing that the
This is the beat. In a moment we have The One And Only James Carville here and hes been making some news lately. But we begin right now with Breaking News. Atlanta d. A. Fani willis has scored her first conviction. A guilty plea in the Georgia Trump Coup rico case. If this sounds new to you, not just Breaking News but a first, it is the first plea deal in that case. That is significant. Were going to get into why. The individual, not that famous. And if youve ever followed any of these kind of cases, you know that you dont always start with the big fish, you work your way up. So this is the whole list of rico defendants. Well leave this on the screen for you. You remember some of them. You remember the mug shots. You see trump and giuliani up high. Some of the lawyers to the right there. Well, down on the bottom you see what this means. The first conviction there of defendant hall, now a convict. This is the first rico conviction. Hes a bail bondsman. He was a trump codefendant. The cr
and peggy noonan? how do you account for those solid conservatives and republicans, who saw through this from the beginning? you know what their answer is. their answer is everyone you just mentioned. they re a rhino. they are all right knows. they are all part of the machine. elitist d.c. muckety-mucks. they they all made their money on the system and they want to keep it closed. they don t want an insurgent like trump. i m good with all that. honestly. i think it is a debatable issue. it s an argument to have. uh-huh. um, they just picked the wrong change agent. and i think that s right. that s why it had to get worse because they were never going to be able to bank on him, as being better. so what they had to do was now argue that everything is even worse than they thought. and that s what the big lie is. well, look. they re they re devoted to him. hopelessly, devoted, as an old-song lyric wepnt. and yet, what is his level of devotion to anyone, who is not 100% l