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Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin have a state of the polls piece in the New York Times this morning. Their analysis shows:
Donald Trump is on the defensive in three red states he carried in 2016, narrowly trailing Joe Biden in Iowa and battling to stay ahead of him in Georgia and Texas.
Trump’s vulnerability even in conservative-leaning states underscores just how precarious his political position is. While he and Biden are competing aggressively for traditional swing states like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Florida, the poll suggests that Biden has assembled a coalition formidable enough to jeopardize Trump even in historically Republican parts of the South and Midwest.
The Taylor family attorney Benjamin Crump has been talking to Savannah Guthrie on Today this morning.
Clearly emotional, Crump said that yesterday’s events “underscores what I’ve said many times. We seem to have two justice systems in America, one for black America, and one for white America.”
They had wanton endangerment for the white neighbor’s apartment, the bullets going there. But not for the bullets going into Breonna Taylor’s body. Nor do they have wanton endangerment for the bullets that went into the black neighbor’s apartment above Breonna.
If you have wanton endangerment for somebody shooting blindly, or officers shooting recklessly, wouldn’t that rise to the occasion of wanton murder in Brianna’s case? Because she died. Then you need to make that argument to the grand jury. Breonna’s name wasn’t even listed on the indictment. So you talk about transparency, Breonna’s family would love to see the grand jury transcript to see if there was any evidence presented for Breonna Taylor’s perspective. I mean, nothing seems to say that Breonna mattered.
“We seem to have two justice systems in America, one for Black America and one for white America.” Benjamin Crump, attorney for the family of Breonna Taylor, says to @SavannahGuthrie. pic.twitter.com/iqAwqUZ3u5
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