A lot can happen in 99 days. The lead starts right now.

The 2024 presidential race is now under the 100 day mark.

The full-throated political attacks are almost non-stop,

as Donald Trump lays the groundwork to accuse Democrats of cheating, just as he falsely

accused them in 2016 and 2020.

Plus, a new investigation into the assassination

attempt on Donald Trump, this time by a bipartisan House task force, Trump himself

has agreed to sit for an FBI victim interview.

Plus, President Biden just minutes away from proposing seismic and unlikely to happen changes to the U.S. Supreme Court.

But before the President made anything official, House Speaker

Mike Johnson already called the plan dead on arrival.

Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper. We start in the 2024 lead where we find a new

competitive era in the 2024 presidential race. Polls show Donald Trump still has

an edge and is in a better place than he was in 2016 and by some metrics

20. Still the race in the key battleground states has tightened between Trump and

Vice President Kamil Harris which is not where we were just over a week ago

before President Joe Biden dropped out of the race.

You might remember back then, all of eight or nine days ago, battleground states were

slipping out of Biden's reach.

Democrats were sounding the alarm that even second and third tier purplish blue states could

fall to Trump, including New Hampshire and New Mexico, Virginia, and even Minnesota.

That internal Democratic polling document we told you about two weeks ago at the Republican Convention

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