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Somebody's Gotta Win. There is so much noise around Donald Trump, especially around the legal cases and all of the battles.

It's hard to make sense of which cases will actually be tried before the election and which cases are strong enough to lead to a criminal conviction.

He's got four indictments, 91 charges, and I guess everyone's sort of thinking, will Trump be wearing an orange

jump suit before the election? Will he be in an ankle bracelet? Will we not be able to

attend the Republican National Convention because under House arrest? Or will he just not be on the ballot?

These are important political questions because polling shows that voters are less likely to

vote for a convicted felon.

In fact, an embassy poll from this weekend shows Trump leading

Biden by five points nationally, but if he's convicted of a felony, he trails

Biden by two points. Today, Trump's legal team faced a pretty substantial blow.

A federal appeals court ruled unanimously that Trump is not immune from crimes committed

while in office, meaning that he does not have executive immunity for trying to

subvert the results of the 2020 election. Of course,

Trump's legal team will appeal the Supreme Court. Now we'll see if the

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