War royals on in the Middle East challenging President Biden back home and a criminal trial

rolls on in New York with former President Donald Trump at its center.

Here to analyze the events through a political lens, I'm joined by our Politics Monday duo.

That's Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith of NPR.

Great to see you both as always.

Let's pick up where Laura's peace left off there.

We know Democrats are leaning heavily into abortion rights in Michigan.

Michigan is just one of a few battleground states for keeping a close eye on.

So take a look at these maps and just let's talk about these

trends. This was back in October of last year. The New York Times-Siena poll showed that

Mr. Trump actually led in five of those six battleground states. What you're seeing now is

basically the same map, but these are numbers from May of this year that shows that

the race is largely unchanged when it comes to those six states. Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania,

Wisconsin, Tam is the only one that leans towards President Biden at this time.

How does the Biden team look at that trend? And how are they going to tackle that?

Well, I was talking to people today from the Biden universe and they say, yeah, things are

stuck that the polls really haven't moved they are not they are not

freaking out about it they believe that they have an entire campaign to run I think

that if we're looking at polls that look like that in October they

should be freaking out but right now we're six months out they insist and

based on conversations I've had with voters, this is backed up.

Although we feel like a lot has happened

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