For the second straight week, ABC’s This Week opened with a stunning commentary — this one about the stakes of the 2024 election.

Right at the outset of Sunday’s show, host Jon Karl — filling in for George Stephanopoulos — pointed to a oft-repeated refrain about elections, and argued that, for once, it actually applies.

“For as long as I’ve covered politics, politicians have said this will be the most important election of our lifetimes,” Karl said. “They said that no matter how high or low the stakes actually were. Election Day 2024 is exactly six months from today, and this time the divisions in our country are so vast and the choice so stark, there’s little doubt this really is the most important election of our time.

“No more crying wolf,” Karl said. “This is it.”

The back half of Karl’s monologue focused mostly on former President Donald Trump.

“In a lengthy interview with Time magazine, the man who still refuses to accept the results of the last election refused to say whether he would accept the results of this one,” Karl said. “And the man who saw his supporters attack the Capitol three years ago said there would not be violence this time if he wins, adding, quote ‘and if we don’t win, you know, it depends.’ It always depends on the fairness of an election. To be clear, Trump says no violence if he wins. All bets are off if he loses.”

Karl’s commentary comes one work after a Stephanopolous show opener went viral in which he said “bedrock tenants of democracy are being tested in a way we haven’t seen since the Civil War.”

“It’s a test for the candidates, for those of us in the media, and for all of us as citizens,” Stephanopoulos said.

Watch above, via ABC.

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CNN’s Jake Tapper pressed President Joe Biden’s campaign co-chair about abortion — an issue on which, according to Tapper, Biden has been “all over the map.”

In an interview of State of the Union Sunday, the CNN anchor confronted former Gov. Mitch Landrieu — who is the co-chair of the Biden-Harris 2024 campaign — about the president’s past rhetoric on abortion.

Here’s how Tapper summed up Biden’s history on the subject.

“I know that the Biden campaign, the Biden-Harris campaign, sees support for abortion rights as a real asset for November. I have to note that in his 50 years in politics — and I’ve been covering him for, I don’t know, 25 of them — Joe Biden has been all over the map on abortion. In ’74, he said Roe v. Wade ‘went too far’ and that ‘a woman should not have the sole right to say what should happen to her body.’ That was a long time ago. Of course, in 2006, he said, ‘I do not view abortion as a choice and a right.’ Just this year, he said, ‘I’ve never been supportive of, you know, it’s my body. I can do what I want with it,’ By his own admission, Biden is an odd man out with his party on abortion.”

The CNN anchor went on to ask, “Do you think his own long, complicated history on this issue, do you think it muddies his message and undermines the contrast with Donald Trump?”

Landrieu started his reply with a lengthy critique of former President Donald Trump, before finally addressing Tapper’s question.

“Joe Biden obviously has evolved over time, but in the last eight years of his life and since his presidency, he has been very strong in his support of a very simple notion that he trusts women to make decisions about their reproductive health,” Landrieu said. “Donald Trump trust the states. That is kind of where it is right now, and that is where both of them say they will govern from.”

Watch above, via CNN.

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Fox News host Greg Gutfeld mocked anti-Israel college protesters as the “most hilarious” in history, saying never before have so many who contributed so little demanded so much. But he also said the “comedy” distracts from how “hateful they really are.”

On the lastest Gutfeld! on Fox News friday, the late-night host called out the demonstrators as “the most hilarious protest in history” before noting that the students, who are “physically and spiritually sick,” represent the “spores of October 7th.”

Over the last month, college protesters and local activists have begun protesting against the war between Hamas and Israel in the Gaza legion by demanding the U.S. stop supporting Israel.

The nationwide protests at prominent universities, such as UCLA and Columbia, have led to Democrats and Republicans denouncing the demonstrators as “anti-Semitic.”

They’re so used to having their demands catered to. They literally now demand catering. Never before have people who contributed so little demanded so much. And so this may be the most hilarious protest in history, but in this comedy, it’s easy to forget how hateful they really are. So let’s do some reminding. When you have an ideology that encourages the execution of gays and unmarried girls who aren’t virgins, we can say that to evil. It’s obvious because it’s brutal and it causes suffering.

But there’s something just as evil. And it’s the intent, the pleasure and the certitude driving those evil acts. Now, we aren’t seeing these acts on campus, obviously, but what you are seeing in those faces and voices are the seeds of them. The certitude, the blind dogma, the impulse for retribution, the spores of October 7th. It’s why you can’t equate Islamophobia with anti-Semitism.

And this helps answer why the protesters seem so naive yet angry, ignorant but deadly certain, passionate, but also deeply unwell. They are physically and spiritually sick, for they are operating from the manual of a punitive ideology. And I don’t mean Islam, I mean another iteration of Marxism that simply absorbs new allies. They don’t wish to progress, but to punish. So as we scan these images, you see a profound ugliness. It’s not just the appearances. It’s the souls. And that’s no laughing matter.

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Turning Point USA, the right-wing youth advocacy organization founded and run by Charlie Kirk, is operating a secret website distancing itself and Kirk from Candace Owens, the controversial former employee that TPUSA continues to associate itself with despite her recent embrace of overtly anti-Semitic rhetoric.

The website can be found at the domain https://israel.tpusa.com/ and its header reads “TPUSA Stands With Israel.”

The rest of the page is dedicated to expressing Kirk and TPUSA’s affinity for Israel and stressing the fact that Owens does not represent either the organization or its founder.

“Below we provide a list of articles and videos so that you can fully understand Charlie’s and Turning Point USA’s unapologetic support of Israel and the Jewish people. Charlie is one of the most vocal supporters of Israel in this country. I hope these videos and links help clear up any questions you may have,” it states. “As a reminder, Charlie is not Candace, and Candace is not a TPUSA employee. If you have specific questions about Candace’s comments or views, we suggest you contact her directly.”

It continues:

Charlie has been to Israel twice, and Israel and the Jewish people hold a special place in his heart. Additionally, it is worth noting that TPUSA as an organization supports Israel in a number of ways including, but not limited to: Hosting an annual Young Jewish Leadership Summit; Sending 100+ students to Israel for educational trips; Sending an Israel-specific ‘Activism Kit’ to hundreds of high school and college campuses each semester; Welcoming Dennis Prager and other Jewish thought-leaders to our national events; and Hosting pro-Israel social media trainings for TPUSA ambassadors and online influencers.

There are also several videos of Kirk expressing his support for Israel embedded on the page.

In a statement delivered to Mediaite, TPUSA spokesman Andrew Kolvet confirmed the authenticity of the page — which internet archives indicate has existed since at least April 20 — but did not expand upon its purpose. “We love Israel and Candace,” said Kolvet.

How to explain its existence then? Occam’s razor would suggest that TPUSA would like to continue to reap the benefits of its professional relationship with Owens while using the page to assure conservative donors, the vast majority of whom continue to support Israel, that it is not an anti-Israel organization.

That’s a tough argument to make, however, given the content that can be found on the organization’s main website, which uses Owens’s name, likeness, and words to secure donations, identifies her as a member of its executive team, and features her on its homepage.

 

On X, TPUSA also frequently promotes Owens, who is slated to speak at the organization’s upcoming Young Women’s Leadership Summit and appears to currently be on campus tour for the organization.

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Moreover, as tensions heated up between Owens and Daily Wire founding editor Ben Shapiro over Israel last fall, Kirk brought Owens on his show, where he characterized Shapiro’s behavior as “totally out of line” and incredulously asked what Shapiro meant when he accused her of modeling “faux sophistication” on the issue of Israel.

“I call balls and strikes where I see it and Candace, I think it’s been super unfair the way some people have been treating you — really unfair,” said Kirk.

Owens was fired by The Daily Wire in March after a number of incidents, including one in which she inveighed against “political Jews” and another in which she expressed concern over a small, “sinister” “ring” of Jews exercising power in Hollywood. Owens resigned from her position of communications director at TPUSA in 2019 after spending less than two years in the role. TPUSA still oversees BLEXIT, an initiative co-founded by Owens.

TPUSA has not yet responded to an inquiry about whether Kirk was personally aware of the secret website’s existence.

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Now that so many of us are signed up to cloud storage services, USB drives aren't as ubiquitous as they once were, but they still have their uses. One of those uses is running an entire computer system entirely on the USB stick, which you can then bring anywhere. Your files and apps are always with you rather than being left at home or at the office, and if you're at a new desk you don't have to spend time getting everything set up the way you want—just plug in the drive, and you're up and running.

How it works

Of course you can't take an entire PC around with you on a USB stick—you need a monitor, a keyboard, a motherboard, and everything else. That said, all of the software and storage can be handled on a portable USB drive: As long as you have access to a computer with a spare USB slot, you can run your portable PC.

There's no interference with the existing setup on the computer you're using either, so you can borrow one from a colleague or a friend without causing them any hassle. You reboot the PC, tell it to load up your USB stick rather than what's on the internal drive, and your operating system appears. When you're done, shut down the computer, unplug your USB drive, and you've left no trace behind.

It's great if you're always moving between locations, and want to have access to the same desktop interface wherever you go. It can also be useful if you're trying to troubleshoot problems with your hardware setup, or if you want to try out different operating systems without installing anything permanently on your computer.

You do need to bear in mind some caveats, though. A USB drive isn't as fast or as capable as a full desktop or laptop system, so you're limited to basic computing tasks. This doesn't really work on Macs either, because of their different architecture—if you need to run a separate system on macOS, the best approach is setting up a virtual machine.

Choosing an OS

When it comes to picking an operating system for your USB PC, you can use Windows if you'd like to—via a third-party tool such as WinToUSB—though you will need a paid license for it, and the user experience isn't the best. A better idea is to go for a flavor of Linux: Not only is the software free to use, it's also more lightweight, which means you're not putting as much stress on the USB drive and everything should run more smoothly.

If you're new to Linux, it's an open source desktop OS that comes in a wide variety of flavors known as distros. It doesn't offer the same kind of broad software selection or hardware support as Windows or macOS, but all the core computing apps are covered: You can browse the web, check your email, do some work, edit images, and plenty more on Linux.

When it comes to choosing the distro you want to use, it's really up to you: Just about any version of Linux can be run fairly easily from a USB stick. Make sure you look for a feature called "persistence" in the distro documentation, though—this means you're going to be able to save settings and files to the USB drive, rather than starting up fresh with a clean slate every time you boot it up.

Ideally, you want to choose a distro that's lightweight and basic, to give you the smoothest operation possible. Puppy Linux and Linux Lite are often recommended for this particular purpose, while Tails is great if security is a priority—it automatically connects to the Tor network when you go online. Ubuntu is an excellent choice too, offering a polished interface and plenty of help documentation.

Getting started

Head to the official website for your Linux distro of choice, then look for an ISO download—this is essentially the operating system in its entirety. Downloads like this can often run to several gigabytes in size, so you might have to wait a while. It's also worth checking in the distro's documentation to see if there are any notes or recommendations regarding USB installation.

Next, you need a program to put the ISO on the USB drive for you—not just to copy over the file, but to make the drive bootable. There are a few options here, including Rufus, but we've gone for Etcher for this guide: It's really simple to use, and you can run it on both Windows and macOS (and, indeed, Linux).

Fire up Etcher, and you'll see there are three stages: Pick Flash from file to pick the ISO from disk, then Select target to choose a USB drive connected to your computer, and then click Flash to complete the operation. As far as USB drives go, a capacity of at least 8GB is recommended, plus the fastest read/write speeds you can find—you might find more requirements listed on the pages of the distro you've chosen.

With all that taken care of, you can use your USB drive by putting it in a spare USB port on any computer, then restarting the computer and choosing to boot from the USB stick. How this is done varies, but it usually involves pressing a key to choose a boot device while the computer's starting up—look for a message on screen or check the documentation that came with the computer, if you're not sure.

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Other streamers, especially those with close corporate ties to major movie studios, might reel in a few more major theatrical releases than Netflix. Where Netflix outshines them, however, is in its slate of original movies produced specifically for the streaming service. At a glance, it might seem as though the streamer emphasizes quantity over quality, but they've released nine Best Picture Academy Award nominees since 2019. Oscars aren't everything, of course—but they're not nothing, either.

Here, then, are some of the best recent movies streaming on Netflix, whether wide theatrical releases you might have missed, or originals.

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Society of the Snow (2023)

The true story of the 1972 Uruguayan rugby team lost in the Andes following a place crash has been the subject of multiple documentaries and two previous dramas. For all that, this would seem to be the best of all of them: a thoughtful and tasteful take on what's sometimes been presented as a salacious drama, with director J. A. Bayona emphasizing both the physical perils faced by the team, but also the spiritual toll of survival.

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Thanksgiving (2023)

Patrick Dempsey stars in this funny but bleak satire from Eli Roth, his first horror film since 2013. When an unruly mob storms a Walmart (sorry: RightMart) on Black Friday, violence and bloodshed ensue, leaving one of the victims of the incident to seek revenge. It's wild and gory holiday fun.

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Anyone but You (2023)

A loose spin on Much Ado About Nothing, Anyone But You stars Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell as a couple who meet, hit it off—and then immediately piss each other off such that neither really wants to see each other again. Until, of course, they need wedding dates and find themselves surrounded by scheming friends. It's not wildly out there as rom-com premises go, but this one's briskly directed and boasts strong chemistry between the leads.

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Orion in the Dark (2024)

Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) wrote this DreamWorks animated adaptation of the Emma Yarlett novel. When Orion is visited by the literal incarnation of his fear of the dark, he's taken on a whirlwind journey around the world to explore the world of night and help him to face his fears.

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The Perfect Find (2023)

Numa Perrier’s film hits plenty of the traditional rom-com beats, but no matter: Lead Gabrielle Union provides the spark that ignites the whole film (based on the Tia Williams novel). She’s never been better than she is here, playing Jenna, a woman in her 40s making a clean break of a long-term relationship and taking on a high-profile, high-stakes career in beauty journalism—only to wind up in a one-night stand with Eric (Keith Powers), 15 years younger and the son of her boss.

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Damsel (2024)

Netflix's favorite action lead, Millie Bobby Brown, is back in this dark fantasy from director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 Weeks Later). Brown plays Elodie, the damsel of the title, offered into an arranged marriage by her family, only to discover that she's marked as the sacrifice to a dragon. Which turns out to be bad news for her new in-laws.

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Rebel Moon, Parts One and Two (2023/2024)

Zack Snyder, late of the entire DC cinematic universe, isn't to everyone's taste—but his Army of the Dead, also for Netflix, was a fun spin on the zombie formula, done as a heist movie. His followup is pure science fiction: a multi-part (it's unclear how many parts that will be) space opera that blends Snyder's distinctive visual style with Star Wars-style action. Sofia Boutella stars as a former soldier who rallies warriors from across the galaxy to join in a revolt against the imperial Motherworld on the title's out-of-the-way farming moon.

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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023)

This short adaptation of the Roald Dahl story finally earned Wes Anderson his first Oscar. Benedict Cumberbatch stars as the titular Henry Sugar, a man who uses his inherited fortune to fund his gambling habit. When he learns of a secret means of winning by seeing through the eyes of others, he comes to perceive more than he, perhaps, bargained for. It's cute and sweet, and among one of Anderson's most visually inventive works (which is saying quite a bit). At 39 minutes, it never has time to wear out its welcome—even if you're not a huge fan of Anderson''s twee sensibilities. Ralph Fiennes, Dev Patel, Ben Kingsley, and Richard Ayoade also star.

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American Symphony (2023)

Director Matthew Heineman's film follows a year in the lives of writer Suleika Jaouad and her husband, musician Jon Batiste, during which she confronts a recurrence of a rare form of leukemia while he constructs his first symphony. It's a moving film that goes beyond the obvious tropes to make the case that there are things that only music can say. It had a lot of Oscar buzz, while receiving just a single nomination for Best Song.

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Scoop (2024)

The great Gillian Anderson plays real-life British journalist Emily Maitlis, who lead the BBC2 team that secured the disastrous (for the Prince) interview with Prince Andrew (Rufus Sewell) that laid bare his associations with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Keeley Hawes and Billie Piper also star.

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We Have a Ghost (2023)

Christopher Landon, writer/director behind innovative comedy-horror movies like Happy Death Day and Freaky (and, briefly, of the next Scream movie), helms this similarly fun but more family-friendly entry. Anthony Mackie is in the lead as Frank Presley, who, with his family, buys a cheap fixer-upper, only for his son Kevin (Jahi Winston) to discover a ghost (played by David Harbour) unliving in the attic. So far, familiar territory, but Kevin wants to help their new ghost while dad only wants to make money—and so, their ghost goes viral.

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The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)

He may be America's least favorite Chris, but Mr. Pratt still leads the voice cast for the year's second highest-grossing movie: a colorful, goofy animated adventure pitting proudly Italian-American brothers Mario and Luigi against Bowser (Jack Black), King of the Koopas.

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May December (2023)

Todd Haynes directs this insightful and moving, but also deliberately campy, story of an actress visiting the woman whom she'll be playing in a film. The movie's deft, and unexpected, blending of tones makes it pretty consistently fascinating, and the lead performances from Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, and Charles Melton are all top-tier.

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Nyad (2023)

Annette Benning stars as the real-life Diana Nyad, who swam from Florida to Cuba in her 60s. The movie succeeds in large part because of the performances from and chemistry between lead Annette Bening and Jodie Foster, both of whom received Oscar nominations for their work here.

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The Killer (2023)

David Fincher's latest didn't seem to generate his typical buzz, perhaps because it's so thoroughly action-oriented (a far cry from his last Netflix original, the screenplay-writing drama Mank). Michael Fassbender plays the movie's nameless hitman protagonist, a fastidious and ruthless killer who makes the first mistake of his career—accidentally shooting the wrong person—and then finds his carefully managed life crumbling faster than he can keep up.

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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

The sequel to one of the very best superhero movies pretty much ever is also excellent, and even more visually innovative than the first. Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) is back, joined by Gwen (Hailee Steinfeld), herself on a secret mission that puts them both at odds with pretty much every Spider in the multiverse.

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Rustin (2023)

Colman Domingo gives a stellar performance (earning a Best Actor Oscar nomination) as the title's Bayard Rustin, the gay Civil Rights leader who planned the March on Washington. Not only is it a corrective to our very straight-centered vision of the Civil Rights Movement, it's a stylish and moving biopic in its own right.

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Nimona (2023)

Long in the making, and based on the similarly delightful graphic novel by ND Stevenson, Nimona is a heartfelt, joyful, and funny fantasy set in a futuristic world that's also thoroughly medieval in its look and feel. Ballister Boldheart, alongside his boyfriend, Ambrosius Goldenloin, is about to be knighted by the queen, and he’ll be the first commoner ever to receive the honor. All good, until he’s framed for the queen’s murder and forced to flee, becoming the criminal that the snobs already took him for. Luckily (or not) he’s joined by Nimona, a teenager who’s an outcast because of her shapeshifting powers.

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Wedding Season (2023)

Asha (Pallavi Sharda) just broke off her engagement and left her Wall Street investment firm in favor of a Jersey City startup. Her concerned mother sets her daughter up on a dating app, and Asha acquiesces to a single date with the first match: Ravi (Suraj Sharma). It doesn’t go particularly well, but they’re both under a lot of parental pressure to get married, and Asha has about a dozen weddings to go to over the course of the summer, most of them filled with busybodies who want to see her in a relationship. So, naturally (for a movie), Ahsa and Ravi decide to play at being a couple to get people off their backs—which works out fine, until it doesn’t.

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They Cloned Tyrone (2023)

This smart, funny genre mashup spins plenty of plates, and mostly manages to keep them from crashing down. John Boyega stars as Fontaine, a drug dealer in a world just off to the side of our own (there’s definitely some Blaxsploitation influence in the dress styles). Following a showdown with one-time Pimp of the Year(!) Slick Charles (Jamie Foxx), Fontaine is shot dead before waking up in his own bed with nothing, seemingly, having changed. Teaming up with Slick Charles and sex worker Yo Yo (Teyonah Parris), he leads the three of them into an unlikely web of scientific conspiracy.

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Leave the World Behind (2023)

Look at this cast: Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Myha'la Herrold (Industry), and Kevin Bacon are all on hand for this apocalyptic thriller that has that Bird Box vibe without the alien implications—the monsters here are all human. As technology begins to inexplicably fail, our protagonists find themselves in a last-days-of-America scenario, including a scene of self-driving Teslas run amok. It's occasionally a little on the nose, but still a pretty compelling thriller.

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City Hunter (2024)

The City Hunter manga, about the titular detective agency, has been adapted several times in the past, with very mixed results. This latest looks like it might be the best: a candy-colored, high-action, appropriately goofy take starring Ryohei Suzuki as lead detective Ryo Saeba and Misato Morita as the daughter of his murdered partner, with whom he teams up to avenge that death and to find a missing teenage runaway with deadly superpowers.

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Spaceman (2024)

Adam Sandler stars here in one of his occasional dramatic roles, here as a Czech astronaut coming to terms with the potential dissolution of his marriage. At the edge of the solar system. With some help from a spider-like alien creature trying to understand humanity. Carey Mulligan and Isabella Rossellini co-star.

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Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (2023)

If it's not entirely on the same level as the Aardman-animated original from way back in 2000, it's still a delightful and cheeky return from the escapees from Mr. and Mrs. Tweedy's Farm. Thandiwe Newton leads the impressive voice cast.

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Down the Rabbit Hole (2024)

The House of Flowers creator Manolo Caro directs this quirky and thoughtful drama about meticulous, fussy kid Tochtli (Miguel Valverde), living in a palatial estate somewhere in rural Mexico. He's old enough to start questioning his wildly privileged and sheltered life, slowly discovering that his father Yolcaut (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) is a major, well-connected drug lord. It's a quietly stylish drama that avoids taking any obvious routes.

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CNN data guru Harry Enten broke down the latest polling data surrounding abortion and the 2024 presidential election with anchor John Berman this week.

“Let’s take a look at states that will or may have an abortion measure on the ballot,” Enten began, adding:

In Arizona, 59% believe that abortion should be always or mostly legal. In Nevada, two-thirds, 66%. Now in Florida, where all the news is developing this morning, 57% of registered voters say that in fact, abortion should be legal up to 24 weeks. Now, why is that 57% important? Because in Florida, in order for a ballot measure to pass, you need 60% of the vote. So even though the majority here believe that abortion should be legal up to 24 weeks, the fact is that may not be enough to enshrine abortion rights in the state of Florida, because, again, you need at least 60% of the vote to do so.

“If you are the Biden campaign looking at these numbers in important states for them on the map, Arizona and Nevada, what do you see?” Berman followed up.

“Yeah, you love the fact that abortion is in the news because would Biden or Trump do a better job? This is nationally, look at abortion. Biden leads on this measure by 14 points. It’s by far his best issue,” Enten replied, adding:

The economy, Trump leads. Immigration, Trump leads, foreign conflicts, Trump leads. And even on preserving democracy, which is obviously been a focal point of the Joe Biden campaign. He only leads on issue by this issue by four points. So abortion being in the news is something that Joe Biden wants, because it’s the issue that he runs most ahead of Donald Trump on.

“What do the polls now say about how important the abortion issue could be in voting?” Berman asked.

“Yeah. So all right. You see this 14-point lead for Joe Biden. But will abortion be important for votes, for folks in their voting patterns? So in our new CNN poll, how does abortion affect your vote for major offices? Candidates must share your views? Only 23%, John. Only 23% of Americans say that candidates must share your views on abortion. So even if they agree with Joe Biden, it doesn’t necessarily mean they vote for him. And more than that, John, when we look at the top issues, the nation’s most urgent issues, look where abortion is on this list. It’s all the way down at 5%. The issues that are at the top of this list are immigration and the economy, which of course are Donald Trump’s best issues,” Enten explained, offering some bad news for Biden’s reelection hopes.

Berman concluded the segment, saying, “Democrats are convinced that abortion did help them do well in the 2022 midterm elections. It’s interesting to see if maybe something’s not showing up in the polling, but right now it’s not showing up as a driving issue.”

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