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The Independent’s Andrew Feinberg and Eric Garcia report on how the Trump and Biden campaigns plan to respond to polling data that suggest almost 25 per cent of Black voters would back the former president — mostly Black men.

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Here’s the increasingly invaluable Jessica Tarlov arguing on Fox yesterday that Trump is too busy visting courtrooms and golfing to campaign properly.

Speaking of that network, here’s a couple of other jaw-dropping clips from the airwaves yesterday, courtesy of Sean Hannity and Jeanine Piro.

Trump’s post-Twitter tech outfit and Reddit are the first notable social media companies to begin trading publicly in the last five years.

They’re also, thanks to the rabid reception among day traders coupled with the companies’ dubious profit outlooks, the latest meme stocks.

That term refers to shares in modish companies whose underlying business fails to justify the accompanying surge in their price.

The action is often driven by small investors who pile into a trending stock for a specific reason, be it belief that a struggling company can turn itself around, a disdain for so-called short sellers — or fidelity to a former president.

Here’s more on the Truth Social floatation.

Here’s Andrew Feinberg and Eric Garcia’s report on how the Trump and Biden campaigns plan to respond to polling data that suggests almost 25 per cent of Black voters are ready to back the Republican.

A new nationwide poll of voters shows President Joe Biden leading Donald Trump in a head-to-head matchup but narrowly trailing his once-and-future opponent when third-party candidates are included on the ballot.

The survey, released on Wednesday by Quinnipiac University, shows Mr Biden leading Mr Trump by three percentage points, 48 per cent to 45 per cent, but trailing him 39 per cent to 38 per cent when independent candidate Robert Kenendy Jr and Green Party candidate Dr Jill Stein are included in the running.

John Bowden looks at the numbers:

Trump is still furious at NBC News for terminating a contract with Ronna McDaniel after just a couple of days following a furious reaction from on-air talent to the hiring of the former chair of the RNC who helped perpetuate his lies about the 2020 election.

McDaniel — whom Trump refers to as Ronna Romney (she is the niece of Trump foe Mitt Romney) — resigned from the RNC in February at the behest of the former president.

Here’s what he had to say about NBC in his latest huff post:

And here’s our reporting on the end of her short career at NBC.

On 15 March, the Committee of Unsecured Creditors – which represents individuals and entities to whom Mr Giuliani owes money or soon could — filed a motion in bankruptcy court requesting the court to force the former mayor to sell his Florida condo.

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are calling for a hearing into what they call the foreign “influence peddling” of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.

The top Democrat on the Committee, Maryland’s Jamie Raskin, and his California counterpart Robert Garcia pushed Republican chair James Comer in a letter on Tuesday to “convene a hearing regarding Jared Kushner’s apparent influence peddling and quid pro quo deals involving investments in exchange for official actions and to examine the resulting threats to our national security”.

Gustaf Kilander has the story on accusation intended as an obvious critique of Comer’s spurious persecution of the Bidens.