Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Don Lemon Show. So glad you can join us. I think you're going to love my next guest coming up, but because between Gaza, Israel, the massive wave of college protests sweeping the nation, not to mention the former president's hush money trial happening here in Manhattan.

It's already shaping up to be a really big news week.

To talk through all of it, I'm joined today by political commentator, host of the David Packman show.

Of course, it would be David Packman because the show bears his name. David, good to see you.

Thank you for joining.

Thank you.

So let's start with the upcoming election, and I want to talk about President Biden and President

Trump.

They are now in a statistical tie.

It's unbelievable to me considering what's happening with the former president.

Nationally, with Trump polling ahead, and almost every single battleground, say this weekend,

CBS released a poll, shows that Trump is winning in Michigan by 1%. What do you think, what does this do to?

Is it the college protest?

Is it, what is it?

I think a couple of things are going on.

It's so boring to say it, but we still have to wait to really get a sense of where this is going to shake out.

I think after we get through the conventions and people are really paying attention.

Political strategist Rachel Bidicoffer says that Labor Day is when you're really going to start to see November reflected in the polling.

There's another aspect to this which is interesting, which is over time when you introduce the third party candidates,

Jill Stein, Cornell West, and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,

the degree to which introducing them hurts Joe Biden has been diminishing.

And you can actually find polls now where when you add the third party candidates, it's worse

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