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I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

One thing has become clear in recent days.

Donald Trump is extremely confident that he is going to win the presidential election.

He's openly railing about his criminal conviction and making a range of authoritarian threats

right out in the open, blithely unconcerned about whether any of it will alienate swing voters.

In one sense, this very well might backfire on him. NBC News reports that the Biden campaign

hopes to draw out this side of Trump at their upcoming debate this month. But if Trump doesn't

think these things are liabilities, he may advertise them all over again when voters are paying

attention. Today we're discussing this with Dahlia Lithwick, the great

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