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Harris-Trump showdown: Top political handicapper shifts ratings in key states
A top non-partisan political handicapper is shifting three key states toward Vice President Kamala Harris in her 2024 election showdown with former President Trump.
The Cook Political Report is moving North Carolina from leans Republican to toss up. The Tar Heel State is one of seven battlegrounds across the country that will likely determine the outcome of the presidential election.
Former President Obama was the last Democrat to carry the state in the race for the White House, in the 2008 election.
Four years ago, Trump narrowly edged President Biden in the state. However, following Biden’s disastrous debate performance against Trump in late June, the former president saw his lead in North Carolina grow to the mid single digits.
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After Biden ended his 2024 re-election bid on July 21 and Harris replaced her boss at the top of the Democrats’ national ticket, the race in North Carolina tightened to a margin-of-error contest.
“Trump hasn’t lost political ground since July; instead it’s that Harris has improved on Biden’s vote share by seven points,” Cook Political Report publisher and editor-in-chief Amy Walter wrote in explaining her ratings shift.
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“In other words, the race is tightening, not because Harris is cutting into Trump’s vote, but because Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents are coming home,” Walter added.
Trump, determined not to let North Carolina slip from his column, has campaigned in the state three times since Biden dropped out of the race five and a half weeks ago.
Additionally, the Trump campaign outspent the Harris campaign by $8.3 million to run ads in North Carolina since the president dropped out of the 2024 race, according to the national ad tracking firm AdImpact. However, the Harris campaign currently has $30 million in ad reservations in the state, compared to just $7.3 million for the Trump campaign.
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The Cook Political Report now joins another leading non-partisan political handicapper, Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, in classifying North Carolina as a toss-up.
Walter also made a shift in two competitive presidential election states that the Democrats have reliably won for decades, moving Minnesota and New Hampshire from lean Democrat to likely Democrat.
In the weeks after the Biden-Trump debate, polls indicated Trump making gains in Minnesota, where the GOP has not carried the state in a presidential election in over a half century, and New Hampshire, which the Democrats have carried in five straight White House contests.
However, Walter said that “Harris has been able to reconstitute and energize the Democratic coalition… taking states like Minnesota and New Hampshire out of reach for the Trump campaign.”
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New York
Trump Tries to Move Hush-Money Case to Federal Court Before Sentencing
Former President Donald J. Trump sought to move his Manhattan criminal case into federal court on Thursday, filing the unusual request three months after he was convicted in state court.
The long-shot bid marks Mr. Trump’s latest effort to stave off his sentencing in state court in his hush-money trial, in which he was convicted of falsifying records to cover up a sex scandal.
He is scheduled to receive his punishment on Sept. 18, just seven weeks before Election Day, when he will square off against Vice President Kamala Harris for the presidency.
“The ongoing proceedings will continue to cause direct and irreparable harm to President Trump — the leading candidate in the 2024 presidential election — and voters located far beyond Manhattan,” Mr. Trump’s lawyers, Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, wrote in the filing.
Their filing came even as the Trump legal team is awaiting the result of a separate effort to postpone the sentencing; it opened a second front that could complicate the first.
On Aug. 15, Mr. Trump asked the state court judge who presided over the trial, Juan M. Merchan, to delay the sentencing until after Election Day. Mr. Trump’s lawyers argued that they needed more time to challenge his conviction on the basis of a recent Supreme Court ruling granting presidents broad immunity for official acts.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office, which won the conviction of Mr. Trump on May 30, has argued that the Supreme Court’s ruling has “no bearing” on their case, which centers on Mr. Trump’s cover- up of a sex scandal involving a porn star. But the Manhattan prosecutors deferred to the judge on whether to delay the sentencing, leaving the door open for Justice Merchan to punt until after the election.
Justice Merchan was expected to rule on the delay request next week, and it is unclear whether Mr. Trump’s federal petition would disrupt that. In the federal filing, the former president’s lawyers asked a judge to find that Justice Merchan was barred by law from sentencing Mr. Trump while their attempt to move the case was underway.
It seemed possible that effort might backfire. If the federal judge does not grant the lawyers’ request, they will have further alienated Justice Merchan as he prepares to sentence their client. Mr. Trump faces up to four years in prison, though he could receive a shorter sentence, or merely probation.
There are signs the federal judge might be skeptical. Mr. Trump already tried — and failed — to move the case to federal court. Last year, soon after the former president was indicted, he asked the same federal judge to remove the case from Justice Merchan, arguing that it concerned official acts as president.
The judge, Alvin K. Hellerstein, rejected that argument.
“The evidence overwhelmingly suggests that the matter was a purely personal item of the president — a cover-up of an embarrassing event,” Judge Hellerstein wrote in an opinion last year. “Hush money paid to an adult film star is not related to a president’s official acts. It does not reflect in any way the color of the president’s official duties.”
It is unclear how soon Judge Hellerstein might take up Thursday’s request, or whether he will hold a hearing to entertain it. In their filing, Mr. Trump’s lawyers cast aspersions on the New York State court system, saying its procedures had “proven inadequate” to protect federal interests and, if allowed to continue, would “result in further irreparable harm to President Trump.”
The unorthodox filing suggested that Mr. Trump’s lawyers are likely to make any and every attempt they can to delay the sentencing, even if Judge Hellerstein balks.
A spokeswoman for the district attorney’s office declined to comment.
The filing on Thursday captured two of Mr. Trump’s favorite legal strategies: delay, and attacks on Justice Merchan.
The former president has on three occasions sought to oust Justice Merchan from the case, claiming he is biased, and lobbing personal attacks at the judge’s daughter, who is a Democratic political consultant. The judge has rejected each request and assailed the claims as “rife with inaccuracies and unsubstantiated claims.”
Boston, MA
Bruins 2024-25 National TV Broadcast Schedule Released | Boston Bruins
BOSTON – The National Hockey League announced today, August 29, the league’s official 2024-25 U.S. television broadcast schedule.
The Boston Bruins will have 14 nationally broadcast games this season on either ESPN, ESPN+, TNT or ABC, including their season opener on Tuesday, October 8 when they visit the Florida Panthers on ESPN/ESPN+.
On Wednesday, October 16 the Bruins will visit the Colorado Avalanche for their first nationally televised game of the season on TNT.
Following the new year, the Bruins will be featured on ABC for six Saturday games: January 11 at the Florida Panthers, February 1 vs. the New York Rangers, February 8 vs. the Vegas Golden Knights, March 1 at the Pittsburgh Penguins, March 8 at the Tampa Bay Lightning and March 29 at the Detroit Red Wings.
Please note that NESN will locally broadcast all other regular season Bruins games including the Bruins Centennial Game, presented by Dunkin’, on December 1 against the Montreal Canadiens. NESN will also provide the local broadcast for the game on March 2 vs. the Minnesota Wild, which is available to the rest of the U.S. on TNT.
Every Bruins game for the 2024-25 season can be heard on the radio at 98.5 The Sports Hub.
The national television broadcast schedule also includes updated start times for three Bruins regular season games, which are reflected below.
Individual Game Tickets for the 2024-25 season are on sale now. Fans can learn more and purchase tickets by visiting BostonBruins.com/Tickets.
BOSTON BRUINS NATIONAL TV BROADCAST SCHEDULE:
Tuesday, October 8: Boston Bruins at Florida Panthers, 7 p.m. ET (ESPN/ESPN+)
Wednesday, October 16: Boston Bruins at Colorado Avalanche, 9:30 p.m. ET (TNT)
Friday, November 29: Pittsburgh Penguins at Boston Bruins, 6:30 p.m. ET (TNT)
Tuesday, December 3: Detroit Red Wings at Boston Bruins, 7 p.m. ET (ESPN+)
Wednesday, December 4: Boston Bruins at Chicago Blackhawks, 7:30 p.m. ET (TNT)
Saturday, January 11: Boston Bruins at Florida Panthers, 1 p.m. ET (ABC/ESPN+)
Saturday, February 1: New York Rangers at Boston Bruins, 3:30 p.m. ET (ABC/ESPN+)
Wednesday, February 5: Boston Bruins at New York Rangers, 7 p.m. ET (TNT)
Saturday, February 8: Vegas Golden Knights at Boston Bruins, 3:30 p.m. ET (ABC/ESPN+)
Saturday, March 1: Boston Bruins at Pittsburgh Penguins, 3 p.m. ET (ABC/ESPN+)
Sunday, March 2: Boston Bruins at Minnesota Wild, 3:30 p.m. ET (TNT)
*National broadcast will not be available in the local market
Saturday, March 8: Boston Bruins at Tampa Bay Lightning, 3 p.m. ET (ABC/ESPN+)
Saturday, March 29: Boston Bruins at Detroit Red Wings, 8 p.m. ET (ABC/ESPN+)
Sunday, April 13: Boston Bruins at Pittsburgh Penguins, 3:30 p.m. ET (TNT)
START TIME CHANGES:
Tuesday, October 22: Boston Bruins at Nashville Predators, 8:45 p.m. ET (NESN)
Friday, November 29: Pittsburgh Penguins at Boston Bruins, 6:30 p.m. ET (TNT)
Wednesday, January 22: Boston Bruins at New Jersey Devils, 7 p.m. ET (NESN)
Pittsburg, PA
Woman's Body Found In Monongahela River Near Sandcastle
WEST HOMESTEAD, PA — Police, fire and EMS personnel were called to the shoreline near Sandcastle Water Park after a female body was found in the Monongahela River.
The cause and manner of death and the person’s identity will come from the Allegheny County Office of the Medical Examiner, according to Pittsburgh Public Safety officials.
Additional information was not immediately available.
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