charges like this often have cascading effects and as you mentioned, the president s facing at least three other potential criminal investigations into his conduct right now. whichever way these charges go and hopefully we ll be privy to all of them in the next 15 minutes or so, how might this strengthen or weaken the former president s hand in those other key cases? i think that s a great question on the politics side of things. not on the legal side of things. you know, i don t think any of these district attorneys or the special counsel are interacting saying you go first, no, you go first, or i m ready to go. that s not how it works behind the scenes. but it is the case that this went first and it may be the thinnest gruel of them all in the end. by going first does it paint others with this, you know, an aura of it s all political and the answer is yes from the former president, he s going to use it to say it fits with the entire narrative of russia russia russia, and
polls or is this going to be a distant memory? this may stretch out for some time. and jonathan and andy and others will tell you some of these cases may take a while. others will fast track. but we are looking at probably a first debate in august of this year. you know, you are looking toe polls now where the president is up 30 points in most polls over his nearest challenger, someone not yet in the race, florida governor ron desantis, others are well below that. so, there s not a sense that you know, he s seeing any detriment from these moments and these charges and we ll see, you know, what happens after what goes forward with january 6th and the trump documents case in mar-a-lago and the election interference case in georgia. but i will say that it will be an issue if it s still a big
voter rights. we re going to win this year because we re well organized and we re going toe polls in big numbers. people are ready to vote as they were in 2011. and we re going to overcome the big money. they are going after us by trying to suppress the vote. that s why people helping us out will really matter. it s about grass roots blunting that $17 million in ohio outside money coming at me. senator, good luck to you. it s a heck of a battle. ohio senator sherrod brown, thanks so much. republican groups are also pouring money into montana s senate race. tomorrow night, we ll talk to jon tester about his fight with outside interests and why he s making the gop so nervous lately. sheldon adelson says he ll spend $100 million to elect mitt romney. a new report says he could make