Welcome to the Thursday, August 3rd, 2023 edition of the Daily Article Podcast.

I'm Chris Elkins narrating today's article written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison.

Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to appear in a federal courtroom in Washington, D.C. at 4 p.m. Eastern

time today to face charges that he conspired to subvert the results of the 2020

presidential election. Tuesday's 45-page indictment included four federal charges.

He is also facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a case

brought by the Manhattan District Attorney and 40 felony counts in the Justice Department's

classified files case in Miami. In addition, he could be indicted in Georgia where a prosecutor is

investigating the effort to overturn the election there.

And yet the latest New York Times-Cienna poll of registered voters reports that Mr. Trump

is tied with President Joe Biden as candidates for the 2024 presidential election with 43% each.

In the poll, 41% of respondents have a favorable view of Mr. Trump, while

55 percent are unfavorable. These numbers are virtually unchanged from October 2022 when they stood

at 42 percent and 52 percent, respectively. This, despite the charges brought against him by the Manhattan

District Attorney on April the 4th and the Justice

Department on June 9th. In the same poll, 54% of Republicans supported Mr. Trump in the 2024 election,

followed by Rhonda Santos at 17% and other candidates at 3 or 2%. According to the New York Times,

the former president held decisive advantages across

almost every demographic group and region and in every ideological wing of the party.

Motive attribution asymmetry is a term scholars use for a fundamental bias that drives

seemingly intractable human conflict.

Research shows that in political and ethno-religious intergroup conflict,

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