Judge Hands Trump Great News Ahead of Sentencing
Published by
Editorial Staff on September 6, 2024
Former President Trump’s sentencing in his hush-money case has been postponed to November 26, following a request from his legal team.
Trump aims to prepare for an appeal based on a forthcoming ruling on presidential immunity.
Judge Juan Merchan emphasized the seriousness of this decision, acknowledging the complexities surrounding the case.
“This is not a decision this Court makes lightly but it is the decision which in this Court’s view, best advances the interests of justice,” the judge said.
“Unfortunately, we are now at a place in time that is fraught with complexities rendering the requirements of a sentencing hearing, should one be necessary, difficult to execute,” Merchan wrote.
Trump was convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records related to a hush money payment to Stormy Daniels during the 2016 campaign.
Merchan will also address Trump’s motion to vacate the verdict on November 12.
Despite his legal challenges, Trump continues to receive support from his base and many Republicans.
“There should be no sentencing in the Manhattan DA’s Election Interference Witch Hunt. As mandated by the United States Supreme Court, this case, along with all of the other Harris-Biden Hoaxes, should be dismissed,” Steven Cheung, Trump campaign spokesperson said.
Trump Gets Great News In Bombshell Poll
Published by
Editorial Staff on September 9, 2024
Nate Silver’s election model now gives Donald Trump a 63.8% chance of winning the Electoral College after a NYT-Siena College poll showed him leading Kamala Harris by 1 percentage point.
Although Harris has been ahead in several national and swing state polls, this new data suggests a shift in momentum.
“A new New York Times/Siena College poll this morning contained excellent news for Donald Trump, showing him 1 point ahead in a head-to-head matchup against Kamala Harris and 2 points up with minor candidates included. This is one of our highest-rated pollsters, so it has a fair amount of influence on the numbers, reducing Harris’s lead in our national polling average to 2.5 points, which would put her in dangerous territory in the Electoral College,” Silver wrote.
“The good news for Harris is that there’s a debate on Tuesday, and if she turns in a strong performance, nobody is going to care so much about the Times poll. We’ll have a longer narrative update on the state of the race coming later today,” he wrote.
The poll indicates that 47% of voters see Harris as “too liberal,” while only a minority view Trump as “too conservative.”
As a result, Harris’s chance of securing the Electoral College stands at 36%. Silver highlighted concerns for her performance in key swing states like Pennsylvania and Michigan, noting that a strong debate performance could mitigate the impact of the poll results.
“In PA, our polling averages had Harris +1.8 pre-DNC, but it’s now Harris +1.0. That’s before any convention bounce adjustment, which is implemented at a later stage of the model. In MI, the polling average has fallen from Harris +3.1 pre-DNC to Harris +1.9 now,” he wrote on X.
“I’m not quite sure how Harris is supposed to spin her way out of this perception,” Silver wrote.
“But Harris also blew one big opportunity to tack to the center with her selection of Tim Walz rather than Josh Shapiro: that a tiny minority of progressives objected to Shapiro was an argument in Shapiro’s favor, if anything. I think Walz was a decent enough pick on his own merits, but given an opportunity to offer a tangible signal of the direction her presidency was headed, she reverted to 2019 mode,” Silver added.