hard virtual learning was, math and reading scores plummeting to their lowest levels in decades. welcome to the lead. i m kaitlan collins in for jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and the florida courtroom showdown unfold thing afternoon over the classified documents found at trump s mar-a-lago home. the hearing ended a little over an hour ago, with no immediate decision from the judge on whether or not to appoint a special master in the case. a special master would be a third party attorney put in charge of reviewing the evidence seized from trump s florida home, his newest lawyer in his first appearance as part of the legal team today argued a special master is needed to restore order and lower the temperature in the nation. and another trump attorney compared the battle over the classified documents to a dispute over an overdue library book. let s get straight to our reporter in florida. tell us more about what arguments these lawyers were making, but a
Howard Stormy Daniels told her tale about donald trump with a whole lot of details, his silk pajamas later replaced by a tshirt and boxers to convince the jury that the One Night Stand he denies actually happened. But while most liberal pundits hailed her account, The Adult Film Star also acknowledged lying under an nda in exchange for a 130,000 payoff shortly before the 2016 election. Quote, i could not tell my story, he could not tell his story, we had to pretend we didnt know each other. There were plenty of exchangings that undercut daniels credibility as conservative pun if admits were quick to observe and while some professed dog almost fainting over the tawdry testimony, about the most explicit phrase she used was missionary position. If. Stormy daniels took the Stand Today Serving Up Salacious testimony that the judge somehow allowed. This is when the media who gave us lewinsky, me too and the pee tape we tends to be prude. Howard daniels described briefly blacking out when the
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Ranked choice voting race. so it gave voters the opportunity to say hey, i don t really like sarah palin, i want to rank her third, a of the democrat. so a lot of people did that. so there s a lot of these unusual scenarios too that are affecting things. and i think there s a really important thing that i wrote about yesterday, is that we have seen a lot of polling errors in recent years. even in 2018 when democrats did well, a lot of the senate race polling overestimated how well democrats were going to do. that also is sort of the shadow that is lingering. it s a good word of caution. one thing we do know that s happening is the speech tonight from joe biden. it harkens back to what we heard from him very often on the campaign trail, which is the battle for the soul of america and the way the white house is describing it, there s these extremist forces, they re careful to say it s not all republicans, but the ones that style themselves after former president trump, they re a threat
But, you know, i have been thinking a lot about 2016. i do think it has created a measure of conservatism, small c, in the folks canalyzing what happened. because a lot of us who did cover that race and obviously saw the unexpected are more cautious now. if you look at the race by race polling in the house, guys, there are so many warning signing and red flags for republican candidates. look at some of their pundits, where they are in polling, some of these open seats are obviously tilting democrat. i wonder if we re being gun shy now about what s going to happen in the house because of what happened in 2016 when it is very clear where the signs are pointing in the house. that s interesting. it s clear the signs are pointing that way. let me speak up for being gun shy. we really don t know yet whether these republican house candidates and to an extent senate candidates will be able