That the election was illegitimate and stolen. that seemed to be and state after state in key states where they wanted to pick up seats like arizona and michigan and nevada and other states, they nominated candidate across who checked that box of the election was stolen and then ended up losing a general election. i don t quite understand it, because this appeals, that message they have appeals to around 30 or 35% of the country, the republican base and in those given states, 30 or 35% the republican base and it appeals to them, they believe it. the problem is, democrats react negatively to it and independents don t like it, so how do you win a general election only appealing to a third of the electorate. matthew dowd, sahil kapur, thank you. all right, so there is new information on the pay gap between folks in the cubicles and those in the c swee suites.
Now from jerusalem. what more do we know? well, according what more do we know? well, according to what more do we know? well, according to its what more do we know? well, according to its official - what more do we know? well, according to its official tally, . according to its official tally, israel is now saying that more than a third of the remaining 120 hostages it believes are held by hamas in gaza are dead. we had all four of these hostages who were declared dead by the israeli military yesterday, including mr popplewell, all featured alive in previous hamas propaganda videos. that all adds to domestic pressure for a new ceasefire deal that could bring the remaining hostages home and we saw these impromptu rallies in tel aviv and injerusalem last night. the israeli prime minister faces fierce opposition to a new dealfrom within his faces fierce opposition to a new deal from within his own faces fierce opposition to a new dealfrom within his own hard line governing coalition and we saw yesterday when he was speaking to a parliamentary committee that he was trying to show members of parliament
To strikes and it is true to say they have had some impact. finally, let s look at small boats crossings. rishi sunak said they were down a third. keir starmer said they were up this year. well, this is the picture. i think we can show you a graphic here. they did fall significantly last year. the 2023 figure was down from 2022, but they were still the second highest on record, and so far, at this point of 2024, they are the highest they ve been on record. nick eardley there. as the uk election campaign plays out, many different issues and policies will come to the fore. and this week, bbc launched your voice, your vote. it s asking those of you what are the issues that really matter to you? what would you like us to explain? and where would you like us to report from and why? through the campaign, bbc news analysis editor ros atkins will be looking through what you send and doing his best to provide answers.
Year by a third, and now we have a deterrent ready to go. migrants have been detained, the flights will go in july, but only if i am your prime minister we need to smash the gangs running this vile trade, making huge amounts of money and putting some of the most vulnerable people in boats across the channel. they are making a fortune. and the tension was rising. please, gentlemen, can we lower our voices? i there was a dividing line on this. if your rwanda plan i is blocked by the courts, would you remove the uk i from the european convention on human rights? - is that part of your plan? i believe all our plans are compliant with our international obligations, but if i am forced to choose between securing our borders and the security of our country or a foreign court, i choose our country security. if i am prime minister, we will not pull out of international
Pensioners will pay tax. i do not think that is right, and you should explain to everyone why you think pensioners will be paying a retirement tax under your government. the big problem with liz truss is that she made unfunded tax cuts. the prime minister is doing the same thing. next, it was stephen from warrington. politicians have broken so many promises on immigration. - why should i trust either of you? and we will need bold action to bring it down, whether that s legal immigration, where we re going to introduce a new legal cap to guarantee that it will come down every year, or the boats, which you mentioned. we got the numbers down last year by a third, and now we have a deterrent ready to go. migrants have been detained, the flights will go in july, but only if i m your prime minister. we need to smash the gangs that are running this vile trade, making a huge amount of money putting some of the most vulnerable people in boats across the channel.
Deaths rosa, thank you very much. on the border tonight and out front now, the mayor of the radio texas, victor trevino, he met with the president earlier. he was at the white house four biden s immigration announcement, america vena, i m so glad to be speaking with you again and obviously a very significant day. biden signing this order that would immediately cut southern border crossings by a third, is this a game changer as you see at mare? yes, it isn t. thank you very much for having us. it s a matter of fact, de we were invited to the white house by the president so he could discuss the executive order that he did regarding asylum seekers, basically saying that asylum seekers that cross illegal inter country we will not be eligible. and asylum seekers can actually get on the app thing, get, get their asylum appointments do. but the other thing is that if that
Whether that s legal immigration, where we re going to introduce a new legal cap to guarantee that it will come down every year, or the boats, which you mentioned. we got the numbers down last year by a third, and now we have a deterrent ready to go. migrants have been detained, the flights will go in july, but only if i m your prime minister. we need to smash the gangs that are running this vile trade, making a huge amount of money putting some of the most vulnerable people in boats across the channel. they re making a fortune. and the tension was rising. 0k. what are you going to do? just tell everybody, what are you going to do with illegal migrants who arrive? rishi sunak, please, can wejust.? - please, gentlemen, - we will lower our voices. and there was a dividing line on this specific measure. if your rwanda plan is blocked by the courts, and will this - appear in your manifesto, that you would remove i the uk from the european - convention on human rights? is that part of your plan? i m crystal clear. i believe all our plans are compliant with our international obligations, but if i am forced to choose
To address border security that donald trump and the republicans then blocked the president is doing what he can with his limited powers. the right way to have done this would have been to pass this bipartisan bill that we saw come out of the senate a few months ago. but we ve already seen border flows this year dropped significantly because the president has been working with our neighbors in latin america to slow the flow coming into mexico, which is then slowed the flows significantly into the united states this last month, we had the third, one of the best months in terms of flow into the border, low flow into the border in the biden presidency. and so i think he s gonna be taking incremental steps within the powers that he has to address a national a national challenge that is being made worse by donald trump republicans, brian, things that we, no one, border security is still a top priority of voters and has been basically second behind economy and lots of polls. and two, normally this is what republicans have run on successfully in the past three.
Really, i think nothing more than we have to respect the justice system and watch this play out. listen to what lara trump said i think anybody who s not speaking up in the face of really something that should never again have seen the light of day at trial that would never have been brought against any other person aside from the rnc support the respect does anyone respective anymore do you he doesn t deserve a detective, anyone in the republican party at this point. and quite frankly, anybody in america, if that s the way you feel, that s very upsetting to hear that she s with the rnc saying that about the republican candidate, mark, is that the way you want to take back the senate well i think it was a political mistake the way larry hogan handled this look, maryland s a deep blue state, but still 33%, about a third of the voters voted for donald trump in 2020. he needs all of those voters and 17% more to claim a senate seats. so if you alienate that
Looked after in corridors, in store cupboards, by nurses stations, without emergency equipment, without call bells. and sadly, some of our patients are having their entire hospital stay and treatment sitting in a chair, sometimes up to 72 hours. totally u na cce pta ble. the conservatives said the nhs budget had increased by a third since 2010 in england, with more community diagnostic centres opened. the snp led scottish government said health funding had also risen in scotland. the liberal democrats and labour both said they had plans to fix or reform the nhs. jim reed, bbc news. a reminder of our top headline this afternoon. the conservatives pledge to clarify the legal definition of a person s sex. and 80 years on, we hear from one of the oldest surviving veterans of d day.