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Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson.

And today is Saturday, November 2nd, 2024.

This is the excerpt.

Today, how the election could shape Trump's legal fate, plus some bitter hiring news and how the candidates are doing in polls from a major battleground state ahead of Tuesday.

Next week's election results could shape Donald Trump's legal fate. I spoke with USA Today, Justice Department correspondent Bart Chanson for more.

Hi there, Bart.

Hey, thanks for having me back.

Thanks for hopping back on Bart.

So, you know, Trump pays his sentencing in his New York hush money case for late November.

Let's just start there chronologically, Bart.

What might an election win or loss mean for this case?

Well, this will be the case that affects most directly. Of course, the New York charges,

where he was convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records for his hiding, basically,

a payment to a porn actress. He paid off to remain silent before the 2016 election.

The sentencing in that case is scheduled for November 26th, and it's a local case, so it's not a

federal case that he could potentially deal with and how we'll talk about with the federal charges against him.

But in this New York case, up to now, the legal policy has been that state cases take a backseat

role to federal law. And so if he is elected president, the presumption is that the sentencing would either

be postponed until after he serves his four-year term as president or that if he is sentenced,

that whatever punishment is included, he could potentially get a jail term or perhaps also instead get a probationary

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