Programming alertđ¨: With exactly three weeks from election night, Chris Cuomo is hosting âDecision Desk 2026 Have Your Say: A NewsNation Town Hallâ tonight from 8 to 10 p.m. ET â breaking down all the issues and concerns voters have heading into the polls.
âOn Balanceâ will have the town hallâs postgame starting at 10 p.m. See you tonight.
â ď¸If you read one thing today, have it be this â âWhat Abdul El-Sayed Is Hidingâ from Erick Ericksonâs Show Notes
Erickson breaks down who the Muslim Brotherhood really is â and itâs important you understand.
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Why it mattersâźď¸: Abdul El-Sayed wonât be clear to America if he or his family has any ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
If Michigan voters knew what that meant, they would probably run from El-Sayed.
đ¨The Muslim Brotherhood are the OGs of the jihads.
They were founded in 1928 and linked with major events in the Middle East â
The founding of Hamas in 1987
The Egyptian Revolution in 2011
I was in Cairo when the Brotherhood said not to worry; then they took over and started to implement sharia law
Brotherhood member Mohamed Morsi was elected president in 2012 and began a crackdown on all the civil liberties liberals in America say are important.
El-Sayed wrote a letter supporting the crackdown.
Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have banned the Brotherhood
There are a lot of reasons to be scared of the Muslim Brotherhood
đ¤ŚYet Americaâs Left calls you racist for talking about it.
Watch tonightđş: Dr. Zuhdi Jasser and former FBI Special Agent Chris Swecker
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Barnstorm Strategyâď¸
âď¸Never before has a second-term president traveled more for the midterms
Conventional wisdom says itâs the sign of a desperate and narcissistic president who just wants an ego boost and cares little about Republicans winningâŚ
There is another explanation for Trumpâs travels:
As of October 13, heâs been to nine rallies in 13 days â traveling about 15,375 miles
October 1:
Washington, D.C., to Denton, Texas, by air is approximately 1,160 miles
The driving distance from Denton, Texas, to Durant, Oklahoma, is approximately 75 to 85 miles
The distance from Durant, Oklahoma, to Washington, D.C., by air is approximately 1,100 miles
October 2:
The round-trip flying distance from Washington, D.C., to Mobile, Alabama, and back is approximately 1,500 miles
October 3:
Round-trip distance from D.C. to Vandalia, Ohio â approximately 800 miles
October 5:
Trumpâs Nebraska rally involved an estimated 2,275 miles of round-trip air travel
October 7:
Trumpâs San Antonio rally involved an estimated 2,800 miles of round-trip flying
October 9
Syracuse rally involved approximately 580 miles of round-trip flying
October 10
The Clarksville rally involved approximately 1,120 miles of round-trip flying
October 12:
The Youngstown rally involved approximately 500 miles of round-trip flying
Today:
Trump travels to Alaska 3,400 miles, then from Alaska to Las Vegas â 2,300 miles
Be smartđ§ : Many Trump supporters only support Trump â this is his only chance to turn them out for Republican candidates.
Be smarterđ¤: If Trumpâs theory is correct, these voters either arenât showing up or would be wildly undercounted in the current polls.
Tonightđş: Pollster and communications strategist Frank Luntz
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Blame the Botsđ¤
Great newsđ: We as Americans may not be as divided as we think we are.
đąIf youâve noticed our politics somehow got a lot more sane across the country â that may be because Ukraine blew up a massive data center with Russian bots that were dividing us.
Zelenskyy: âWhen our strikes reached Yandexâs data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations. Because there were fewer bots. And itâs pretty clear where those bots were coming from â if they disappeared when Yandex went offline. This proves, again and again, that Europe is not the source of the problems. Europe is not the one making everything more difficult.â
Tonightđş: Host of MITâs Data Science Podcast âData Nation,â and who just happens to be my sister, Liberty Vittert Capito, joins on whether Russian bots really are dividing us!
What the Markets Knowđ
Reviews are inđ: Today was Katie Zachariaâs first day as Trumpâs new White House press secretary.
đ°Based on all the reviews in the media, she should be out today
âKatie Zachariaâs first White House press briefing was a disaster of her own makingâ
âKatie Zacharia Stepped to the Lectern for the First Time. It Was a Bumpy Rideâ
Were these the same media orgs that celebrated Karine Jean-Pierre for her bravery as the first lesbian Black press secretary?
đBut Polymarket shows a different story.
Only 8% say she will be out by October 31; that means a 92% chance all the headlines are WRONG.
29% say she will be out by December 31.
What does Polymarket know that the media doesnât?
What Iâm thinkingđ: Trump knows the more people talking about his press secretary, the less they are talking about gas pricesâŚ
Saw a piece of it. Cuomo back to campaigning for democrats and liberal causes. Tuned out and will wait for your show.
Looking forward to the town hall, and your post game show! I read Erick everyday too, and I encourage you all to subscribe to Erick, if you don't already!
- I love that the President of the United States is visiting any of the States. And Voting is the final Poll. Go out and vote!!
._ Ukraine hitting that Russian Data Center was brilliant, so no bots and real people get the real picture, priceless...
._ Muslim Bros-Erick is so on point in his post this morning. Very eye-opening on them, and their connection to Hamas and El- Sayed and El-Sayed family. Omar raid is on overdue. No proof her father was naturalized, very important!
._ Press Secretary drama? Didn't get a chance to see any of it, so can't speak on it. I wish her well tho, Leavitt is a very tough act to follow.
-Sounds like a fascinating and informative evening.