New york. Nine weeks to go until election day, folks. Nine weeks until today and one Week Today to what may be the only President Ial debate to transpire between donald Trump And Vice president Kamala Harris. And then, of course, the start of the socalled final sprint to election day, which finds two President Ial diameter rickly opposed, polar opposite camps. She wants to turn the page on a dark and dysfunctional past decade in politics, her campaign has been met with obama levels of enthusiasm among voters, her rallies drawing massive recordbreaking crowds, her campaign enlisting an army of volunteers, racking up endorsements from all across the political spectrum, as politico reports today, quote, the Vice President has flipped the enthusiasm gap, the Money Gap and the Polling Gap in her favor in the six weeks since she replaced president Joe Biden as the democratic nominee. Now, the other person on the menu behind Door Number two, a candidate who is unable to land on an effective l
in 2019, roja ag wuilar a said e brakes failed and led to a pile up on i-270 in denver that left four people dead. he was convicted of vehicular homicide. the judge said he was bound by the sentencing laws. the family rallied to ask the governor to reduce his sentence. it created a system where a judge at their own discretion who doesn t want to issue a sentence has had to issue that sentence. what we hope to achieve is reforms. that s really what this is all about. we have to reform the system that is creating a situation where we are creating more victims of our justice system. we have to do that now. governor s office told cnn they are reviewing the clemency application. the d.a. is asking for a expedited hearing in the matter
department store dressing room. the male suspect targeted by police was also shot and killed. no weapon was found at the scene. and in colorado today a hearing for a truck driver sentenced to 110 years prison for a deadly crash back in 2019. a judge is set to review rojo aguilera medera s clemency application to the governor s office. findings that brake failure contributed to the crash have sparked a national outcry. it frustrated the judge who originally sentenced him. cnn s lucy cavanaugh has that story. reporter: laura, paula, good morning. the district attorney is now asking the court to reconsider that lengthy 110 year prison sentence for him potentially reducing it to 20 or 30 years. just to remind our viewers, the truck driver was 23 years old at the time of the incident. he was going at about 85 miles an hour when his brakes failed.
it should say, the only reason that we, on this show, know anything about kevin strickland s story. and the reason there has been this much movement, at least, in his case. is because of really incredible reporting from the newspaper side of the kansas city star. and in particular, the paper s criminal-justice reporter, luke. joining us now is luke, criminal justice reporter at the kansas city star who has shined a light on this story, in a way that is almost incredible, almost unbelievable tale to this day. thank you for joining us tonight and thank you for your reporting, thus far. yeah. thank you for having me. is there any, substantive reason, that you are aware of, why governor parson doesn t want to act here? um, you know, i can t speak for governor parson. like you said, he indicated that mr. strickland s clemency application is not a priority. he has said that there are 3,000 other people seeking clemency today. mr. strickland applied for
what do you think is the most likely outcome and what sort of timeline do you see on this because again your client remains behind bars at this current time? if he were granted clemency, yesterday wouldn t be soon enough. i pushed the court to hold a hearing as soon as possible and i ve implored the governor s office to hear this clemency application as soon as humanly possible. this is a man that does not deserve to be removed from the community. he is a credit to his community. he is a valuable member of society and i want to bring him home to his wife and children as fast as possible. jenna: all right, patrick, nice to have you on the program. thank you. jenna: we had a statement from the attorney general s office there. we look forward to talking to them and perhaps continuing to follow the case. thank you for your time. we appreciate it. have a nice day. jenna: this is interesting case, what do you think about this, our viewers? do you think this is fair that he was convicte