The race for the White House is heating up with less than six months to go. Key issues such as abortion, immigration and the economy hang over the presidential election in November. 

Meanwhile, former U.S. President Donald Trump is facing 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a payment that bought the silence of an adult film actress before the 2016 election. 

Joining the discussion:

• Adolfo Franco is an attorney and Republican strategist. 
• Shawn Parry-Giles is a political communication’s professor and director of the University of Maryland’s Center for Political Communication and Civic Development.
• John Fishwick Jr. is a former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia. 
• Douglass Sloan is a Democratic strategist and Principal with the National Capitol Strategy Group. 

Closing arguments are expected on May 28 in Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial in New York. Here is a look at what comes next: https://t.co/6LikXqrtIx pic.twitter.com/ifsoP8iTGV

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For both prosecutors and defense attorneys, the closing arguments serve to tell the jury why the evidence is believable or not, why and how the facts are linked or not and why their decision to acquit or convict is moral and just (via @ConversationUS). https://t.co/F4yHaspCPd

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