Good morning. It's Saturday, April the 20th. This was a week that really put the 2024 presidential race into perspective.

A full panel of 12 jurors and six alternates has been chosen for the first criminal trial of a former president of the United States.

Opening statements are set to begin on Monday.

And while the former president was meeting the jury in the court for the first time,

his Democratic opponent spent three valuable days campaigning in the swing state of Pennsylvania.

On Tuesday, the president visited his childhood home in the town of Scranton, Pennsylvania, the first

stop in his tour in the crucial battleground state. The following day, Biden met with construction

workers in Pittsburgh. He also stopped by the United Steelworkers headquarters there, where he

told the crowd that he was, quote, proud to be the most pro-union president in American history, end quote.

On the last leg of his trip, he stopped by one of Pennsylvania's most important institutions,

the convenience store and sometimes gas station, Wawa, which makes a mean sandwich

and is way better than Dunkin' Donuts for all you New Englanders out there.

Sorry.

Biden then attended a campaign event in Philadelphia,

where he was endorsed by several members of the Kennedy family, despite the fact that their own

relative is running against him. Biden will continue campaigning next week. He'll hold events in

Washington, D.C., as well as Florida, where he'll deliver a speech on Tuesday focused on reproductive

rights, roughly one week before a draconian six-week

abortion ban takes effect in that state. On the other hand, the only campaign stopped that Trump

was able to make this week was at a bodega in Manhattan, which is a county where active-registered

Democrats outnumber Republicans nearly 10 to 1 and where he

continued to spread false claims about rising crime in this country. Otherwise, the former president

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