Should Dems be worried about 2024?

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🗓️ 17 August 2023

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New poll numbers suggest the general election is a dead heat if the matchup is president Biden versus Trump, despite the former president facing a total of 91 criminal charges across four indictments. Plus, Trump’s impeachment lawyer joins to react to his fourth indictment, and tells Victor Blackwell why he thinks the Georgia case is “heavy-handed”. Plus, the mob lawyer who represented “Fat Tony” Salerno against RICO charges brought by Rudy Giuliani joins to react to 'America’s mayor' facing the same fate. Also, a Trump supporter is charged with threatening to kill the judge overseeing his federal election fraud case, if he does not win in 2024.

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0:00.0	Good evening, I'm Victor Blackwell, with me tonight to discuss the day's most interesting
0:10.6	stories, Donald Trump's former impeachment attorney, a lawyer for one of the mafia
0:15.3	bosses that Rudy Giuliani prosecuted, Eric Degan, scary champion, Daniel Dale, and Lynette
0:21.2	Lopez. But first, if Democrats are not worried about next year's election, new numbers
0:26.7	suggest they should be. Listen to this. In two new polls, the general election is a dead
0:33.1	heat. If the matchup is President Biden versus Donald Trump again, a dead heat, despite Trump
0:38.3	now facing his fourth indictment, 91 charges and all, and several trials next year while people
0:45.4	will be voting. Something else noteworthy, as we talk about the health of America's democracy,
0:51.0	nearly 60 percent of Republicans. Today, think that Biden was not elected legitimately.
0:57.4	Also, today, Fulton County DA, Funny Willis says that she wants Trump's Georgia trial to start
1:04.0	the day before Super Tuesday. And of course, Trump is intensifying his rhetoric against prosecutors
1:09.6	and judges in all of his cases. And one of his supporters today was charged with threatening to kill
1:15.7	the judge overseeing his federal election fraud case. Using racial slurs, she threatened to
1:20.9	kill Judge Chutkin if Trump does not win in 2024. Let's bring in now former white water
1:27.3	independent council and former federal prosecutor Robert Ray. He also defended former President Trump
1:32.2	during the first impeachment trial. Robert, good to see you. Thanks for being on. So I hear that
1:38.0	this is your first opportunity to respond publicly to this fourth indictment. You've had a little
1:43.8	time for it to resonate. What do you think? What do you see in those pages? I think my first
1:48.6	reaction is I was inclined to agree with former governor Chris Christie and a presidential candidate
1:55.7	that this fourth one was heavy-handed and in some sense unnecessary as duplicative of what Jack
2:05.2	Smith has already charged. That's not to say that the district attorney has every right
2:15.4	to proceed in the exercise of discretion as she deems appropriate. On the other hand, though,
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