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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg filed a motion indicating that he would not oppose a request from attorneys representing former President Donald Trump to delay sentencing in his hush-money case, though some suspect it might be for political reasons.

In a filing submitted to the court, Bragg announced that his office would not oppose Trump’s attorneys’ motion to delay the scheduled sentencing hearing on September 18th.

His filing follows a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling granting presidents absolute immunity from official acts performed in office, which Trump’s legal team argues might include the hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels.

In June, Trump was convicted of felony charges for orchestrating these payments to aid his 2016 presidential campaign and for misclassifying the payments in business records. Prosecutors now inform Judge Juan Merchan that their office will not offer a sentencing recommendation, which could include jail time.

“The People defer to the Court on the appropriate post-trial schedule that allows for adequate time to adjudicate defendant’s [presidential immunity] motion while also pronouncing sentence ‘without unreasonable delay,’” prosecutors wrote, according to the Examiner.

“The Supreme Court’s recent decision did not consider whether a trial court’s ruling on that distinct evidentiary question is immediately appealable, and there are strong reasons why it should not be. Nonetheless, given the defense’s newly-stated position, we defer to the Court on whether an adjournment is warranted to allow for orderly appellate litigation of that question, or to reduce the risk of a disruptive stay from an appellate court pending consideration of that question,” the filing — the second in as many months from Bragg in not opposing a sentencing delay — added.

RedState contributor Bonchie labeled the letter from Bragg’s office as an “incredibly transparent” attempt to keep Trump out of jail, aiming to avoid increasing public sympathy for the Republican, who narrowly escaped an assassination attempt just a month ago.

Since then, President Joe Biden has ended his re-election campaign and Vice President Kamala Harris has secured the Democratic nomination.

Harris’ ascension to the top of the Democratic ticket has led to an increase in the party’s polling numbers, but some experts remain skeptical of her newfound lead.

“If the polling errors are anywhere close to what they were in 2016 and 2020, then Trump is in the lead right now,” Democrat strategist Julian Epstein told Fox News this week.

The comments come as the RealClearPolitics polling average shows Harris with a narrow 1.5-point lead over former President Trump nationally. This represents a notable shift from the three-point lead Trump held over Biden the day before the president exited the race, Fox noted.

However, Harris’s lead is much narrower compared to the gaps Trump faced at similar points in 2016 and 2020. In those years, Trump trailed Hillary Clinton by 6 points and Joe Biden by 7.1 points at the same stage. Despite these deficits, Trump outperformed his polling numbers in both elections, a fact that Democrats are keenly aware of as they approach the final stretch of the 2024 campaign.

A Politico report from last week highlights that while recent polls from Democratic firms show Harris with a lead, there are notable warning signs. These polls reveal that Trump is leading in key characteristics that could influence voters. Additionally, Harris is nearly tied with Trump in battleground states, indicating she is underperforming compared to her national numbers in the states that will be critical to the election outcome, Fox added.

“It’s still a very tough race, and that feels consistent with everything we know,” Margie Omero, a partner at the Democratic polling firm GBAO Strategies, told Politico.

Democrat pollsters are also reportedly concerned about the same kind of errors that occurred over the past two election cycles, though the party’s leading firms met following the 2020 election in an attempt to diagnose the problem and fix it.

“I spent a ton of time and analysis trying to dig into those problems. And I feel much better educated about those problems,” Nick Gourevitch, a partner at Global Strategy Group who participated in the Democratic “polling autopsy,” told Politico. “I don’t think there’s any pollster in America who can sit here and say… that they’re 100% sure that they fixed any issues in polling. I think that would be silly.”

Democratic pollsters, aware of reality, have urged caution despite Harris’ quick rise in recent weeks.

“Every year, we’ve had different curveballs. This is a difficult industry,” John Anzalone, the lead pollster on Biden’s 2020 campaign, told Politico. “Something’s gonna happen in 2024. You and I, right now, don’t know what that is.”

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