“Special counsel Jack Smith filed a sealed legal brief in former President Trump’s federal Jan. 6 case Thursday, outlining legal arguments for criminally prosecuting the Republican presidential nominee over efforts to overturn the 2020 election results,” Axios reports.
“U. S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan will decide whether or not to publicly release the brief containing previously unseen evidence, or a redacted version of it, and it’s possible this could occur before November’s presidential election.”
A new USA Today/Suffolk poll in Arizona finds Donald Trump leading Kamala Harris by 6 points, 48% to 42%.
CNN: Harris heads to the US southern border, looking to close a polling gap with Trump.
“Donald Trump began his news conference on Thursday in the lobby of Trump Tower, standing in front of seven American flags. He laid a bound folder down on a lectern and declared that he was going to focus on the southern border, where his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, is headed on Friday,” the New York Times reports.
“That lasted about 10 minutes.”
“Mr.
Politico: “When Harris touches down in Arizona, she will be setting foot in the West for the first time in seven weeks. And a close read of her travel schedule and advertising across the battlegrounds suggests it isn’t the Sun Belt but the Rust Belt that her campaign is primarily banking on.”
“It’s a reality that some Democrats even in the South and West are beginning to accept.
“When Vice President Kamala Harris makes her first trip to the southern border as the Democratic nominee, it will mark a major step in her effort to cut into Donald Trump’s strength with voters on immigration,” Politico reports.
“The issue is one of her top vulnerabilities. And Harris is going on the attack.
“Conservative cable network Newsmax on Thursday settled a defamation lawsuit brought by voting-machine company Smartmatic, narrowly avoiding a high-profile trial over the airing of 2020 election falsehoods,” Axios reports.