The former president had been found guilty on all 34 felony charges in the trial
The Secret Ingredient That Makes a Famous Person: A Quiz for NPR’s Holly Morris and the New Album, “How the Beatles Came to Be”
❓ Quiz: NPR’s Holly Morris has just one Trump question in this week’s quiz! If you survive the news that came after 5 p.m. on Thursday, you may just score 11/11 this week.
Vince was talking about what it requires to be in the public eye within limited reach of the public on the show and now he has a new album.
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The Mexican First Woman Electoral Candidate: News from the Campaign for a Responsible Future in the Light of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
Mexico is set to elect its first woman president. The two leading candidates in this race are women: Claudia Sheinbaum, the ruling party’s candidate, and opposition candidate Xóchitl Gálvez. Eyder is hearing skepticism from the people on the streets even though history could be made. Some say they expect politicians to be corrupt, no matter their gender. Others, like 92-year-old feminist Elena Poniatowska, credits hard work and feminist intention, adding that Mexico’s “triumph” of a first woman president is no surprise.
Trump’s sentencing is scheduled for July 11, just four days before the start of the Republican National Convention, where he is set to become the official presidential nominee for the Republican Party.
The charges carry a sentence of anywhere from probation to up to four years in prison, but legal experts told NPR that it’s unlikely Trump will face incarceration.
A jury of his peers in New York unanimously found Donald Trump guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in order to influence the 2016 presidential election.
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The campaigns will be trying hard to get everyone who they think should vote for them to show up, and Trump is likely to be a big part of that.
The attempts started fast and furious. Both campaigns were quick to make appeals and statements after the verdict, even though they denounced the legitimacy of it immediately afterwards.
Biden has to make a decision. And right now, he’s slightly behind in the race. So the question isn’t really whether Biden will talk about the conviction, but whether he’s capable of delivering and capitalizing on it.
The latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll suggests most voters will not be swayed either way. It showed that some, including younger voters, might be moved at the margins, but this may be a reset moment in the campaign.
It’s a historic moment in American history. Many Americans will be tuning in now to learn about the conviction. The last thing Trump wanted was a headline saying he had been deported and was guilty of a crime. And barring an overturn on appeal before the election, that’s what will be attached to him as voters weigh their choices.
The president has avoided mentioning the legal troubles of Trump. It has been hard for the Biden campaign to get their message out despite the coverage of the trials being dominated by Trump.
Trump is the Chairman of the Republican National Committee. He has installed loyalists in state parties across the country and this has made him a stronger leader in the Republican Party than he was in 2016 when he defeated a convention coup attempt.
That is not happening. Republicans are lining up behind Trump, from the speaker of the House to the cadre of Trump allies auditioning to be his vice presidential running mate.
Michael Tyler, a Biden campaign spokesman, said in the statement that there was only one way to keep Trump out of the Oval Office.
The Democratic Candidate for the Grand Unified State of West Virginia is Running for his Old Job Back – and it will have Political Consequences
Remarkably, this is taking place in an election year in which said former president is running for his old job back, and it will undoubtedly have political consequences.