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be convicted. right. those are good things in his column. do you think there would be any downside here for president biden were hunter to be convicted? of course, as the personal toll, of course. do we think there is political im impact? yeah, there are low information voters who are like, they re both in trouble with the law. i would say hunter biden is very different than donald trump and being a crack addict because you have an addiction is very different than a myriad after criminal charges, many cases which you ve been able to punt. then you have the fraud cases. i don t think they re the same at all, but i do think, you know, everything can be a problem, especially in politics. certainly, those close to president biden worry about just how he will receive this news. we know he is deeply worried about his son. also, the first lady coming back from france to go to the trial. i mean, the sister has been there. everyone in biden world, they re a close family. i t
biden campaign is betting on the debate to change the trajectory of the race, believing americans will hear trump talk about revenge, how it is justified, and be repelled by it. my question to you, donny, is their bet right? this is a static race to this point. for the most part, we can say, it s close, but trump has had narrow but consistent leads in most of the battleground states. do we think this argument here, frankly, this dangerous argument of revenge, will change their minds? i think two great things happen as a result of the trial for the biden campaign. one was the guilty verdict. two, this has put trump on a path that this is all he can talk about. you never hear the words inflation, immigration, or crime or any of the talking points he would usually use. he is consumed with this now. i think even now, we re a week or eight days out of the trial, this is all he can talk about.
last week we at cnn had our own poll. biden in that poll was at 29% and he has, as you know, led most of the recent polls out there by a significant margin. do you think that your poll in this case is an outlier? it could be an outlier, there s no question. this is the first telephone poll that has shown basically a three-way race or a tied race. there have been some online polls that have shown this dynamic. even with the cnn poll we did see a change in biden s numbers. it went up in the cnn poll. that suggests to me we are entering a period of volatility. whether what s happening in your poll or my poll is a trend, i don t know. but i think it s suggesting that the next set of polls that we see from any of these top-notch pollsters are probably going to suggest that there still is some churning going on in the electorate right now as we head into september. i think it s all because they re starting to pay more attention than they have before when we had a static race between most
in the last couple days, before the jim comey announcement, the race settled there a three or four-point hillary clinton lead. the demographics suggest to you that if her people turn out, she should win the election. doesn t mean she will win the election. doesn t mean donald trump doesn t have a closer race than some of the big, blue battleground states like pennsylvania. closer. but about the same gaps you had in the romney/obama race. a point above in some states and a point below in others. it s a static race. i never disagree with you. please do. expect in days ending in y. i don t think it makes a difference in the outcome. as a texan, the president lost texas by 16 points. hillary may lose texas but the surge of latino voters there, i m getting reports from friends and family in texas. lines around the block. one young man talking about taking an elderly woman in her 70s or 80s to the polls in a walker. she waited three and a half hours leaning on her walker to