‘Why Is It So Close?’: CNN Host Presses Biden Campaign Co-Chair On Race Being Tight Despite Trump’s Legal Issues

CNN’s Manu Raju questioned President Joe Biden campaign co-chair Mitch Landrieu on Thursday about why the presidential race is tight despite former President Donald Trump’s various legal struggles.

Trump is currently beating Biden by 0.5% nationally, according to the RealClearPolling average. Raju, on “Inside 🏛️Politics,” asked Landrieu why the Biden campaign has not pulled further ahead of Trump given his legal issues, including a May felony conviction.

“Obviously this has been a neck-and-neck race. Polling shows that even though Donald Trump has been convicted on 34 felonies, been liable for sexual abuse and even after January 6, this race is still effectively tied. Some, many polls other than the Fox News one, had him ahead, former President Trump over Biden. So why is the Biden campaign unable to take advantage of any of this?” Raju asked.

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Landrieu started off by disagreeing with the “premise” of Raju’s question.

“The people of America are going to very soon have a choice between Donald Trump, who wakes up every day thinking about himself, thinking about his billionaire friends, and then thinks about how he’s going to hurt people that he thinks have hurt him. Joe Biden wakes up fighting for the American people, making sure that we’re going to protect people’s freedoms, protect democracy and lower cost.”