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“You could zero out taxes on married parents of dependents whose household incomes are up to $200,000.00 for over ten years,” Erick wrote a month ago.
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Prediction🤔: Tonight’s debate between Abdul El-Sayed and Mike Rogers for Michigan’s Senate seat will decide who controls the Senate and what happens in 2028.
Your Michigan Debate Guide📃: Here are five things you need to be looking for during Michigan’s Senate debate tonight
Will either candidate try to appeal to Black voters?
El-Sayed barely won the primary because older Blacks, especially in Detroit, do not like him
Does Rogers tell angry forgotten white voters he feels their pain and will structurally change the economy?
Being anti-tariff isn’t enough
Will El-Sayed seek to assuage voters on his terrorist ties?
El-Sayed refuses to say why he didn’t put out a statement about October 7
El-Sayed is a true believer.
El-Sayed has challenged people to fight before — do they fight?
Trump is on the stage
What I am thinking💭: Rogers could say he will campaign with Trump if El-Sayed will campaign again with Hasan Piker.
Read more📰: I headlined on The Hill, “5 things to watch for in Thursday’s Michigan debate showdown”
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High stakes‼️: If Democrats win Michigan, they have a (good) chance to win the Senate, and if they lose, their path to retaking the Senate gets much harder!
Zoom out👀: Michigan is a microcosm of everything
The socialist and Islamist intersection in the Democratic Party
Tariffs and the return of the manufacturing economy
Hatred of Trump
War in Iran
Republicans who keep saying the economy is good
Rural voters who voted for Trump in 2016 and 2024 who are pissed
🚨This Senate race has everything in American politics —
Why it’s so important for who controls the Senate and for 2028.
AOC speaks🗣️: We don’t know if she is running for president or Senate, but AOC told The New York Times, “If Abdul can win in Michigan, anybody can win anywhere”
Raising taxes on the rich💸: The first Republican to talk about common-sense tax hikes on the rich will break out in the way Trump did.
Start with the loopholes✈️: Yachts, jets, carried interest, oil depletion allowance – eliminate them all.
Make it fair⚖️: Eliminate the cap on Social Security earnings tax, plus add capital gains as taxable for Social Security
Massive assets‼️: Require those with more than $20 million in assets to pay capital gains when they borrow cash against stocks that are either publicly or privately held.
🤷Does it fix everything — no.
Is it fair⚖️: What is unfair? Why should there be loopholes that by their very definition only benefit the ultrawealthy?
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Not in Control🚨
🗣️Trump said today he doesn’t want to restart war before midterms, but he may not get a choice
The Iranians seem to want to restart the war
Today, the Houthis (their proxies in Yemen) hit the civilian airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Success☑️: The Iranians are desperate because the blockade is working really well
Problem🚨: Gas prices will go up with more attacks
He’s damned if he restarts the war and damned if he doesn’t
Tonight📺: Vice Admiral Robert Harward joins me.
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You have a great way of touching on so much in so little time on air. All your talking points are critical issues, hard to say one is more concerning than the other. With the exception of how to remove the that from the IRGC, wherever it exists. I only watch News Nation now, and Prime is a daily must for me to get what I need to know to make my own decisions/ opinions. Erick and Chris round out my go to sources. Tonight will be Epic indeed, Debate and On Balance.
Mike Rogers holding his own