Were going to bring safety back to our streets. Were going to bring success back to our schools. Were going to bring prosperity back to every neighbourhood in every borough of the greatest city in our land. Were going to reduce taxes. Were going to bring businesses and big taxpayers back to new york. A recent poll suggests that trump is beating biden in five battleground states in part due to black and latino voters drifting away from the democratic party. Young voters and non white voters appear to be losing faith in mr biden and the democrats as they grow frustrated with issues like inflation and the white houses support for israel. During President Biden s recent Commencement Address at morehouse university, a historically black college, several graduates turned their backs on the president during the ceremony in protest of his handling of the war in gaza. Lets get more on this from the panel. Kurt, those scenes at morehouse and that Commencement Speech were quite surprising. Did th
The big message from the local ballot boxes so far is that The Conservatives remain in deep electoral trouble. Hi, good evening, its friday night, and we have a top Newsnight Panel for you tonight. Polling guru professor sirjohn curtice. Our own Political Editor nick watt. Emma barr, former conservative special advisor. And stephen bush from the financial times, who is an expert on labour. Now four of the five biggest vote swings in by elections from conservatives to labour have happened in the last year under sir keir starmer including Blackpool South yesterday. However not one further conservative mp has publicly called for rishi sunak to go, despite his party being, according to the experts, in deep electoral trouble. It was a very good night for labour, but theres an acknowledgement that some voters have deserted the party over its stance on gaza. All that and more to come. First, nick, pollsters say these results are bad for The Conservatives. Where does it leave rishi sunak . fi