Independent voice‼️: Two of the best-rated segments we’ve had this election season are not with Republicans or Democrats — they’re with independents.
🤷Independent candidates are capturing what all of us are feeling, which is — Republicans and Democrats aren’t getting what we want to get done.
Todd Achilles (I) is up +5 in Idaho
Dan Osborn (I) is up +4 in Nebraska
Trump won both of these states by 20-plus percentage points in 2024.
Tonight📺: Independent from Nebraska, Dan Osborn, joins me.
Is he actually an independent?
These videos suggest not — we’ll ask him about it
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Drug warning⚠️: Two Ole Miss students died this week in separate incidents — both were found with packaged kratom; many call this gas station heroin
📰My sister and data scientist, Liberty Vittert Capito, recently wrote a must-read piece
Note❗: The cause of death for both students is still unknown, but authorities say to avoid kratom out of an “abundance of caution”
Really… at an abundance of caution — why would one EVER take this stuff?
This is how people feel when they take it:
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You can buy kratom at gas stations. That’s just how easy and dangerous it is for your kids to get their hands on this.
The DEA could end this tomorrow, but they won’t. These are things that are not left vs. right but right vs. wrong.
And our government is simply refusing to deal with it.
Much like the betting, aka prediction, markets.
Tonight📺: Sage Steele, who has a kid at Ole Miss, will be on with us along with my sister on the data behind it.
Chinese Two-Step‼️
🔊Let me say something you won’t hear anywhere else:
The best thing that can happen out of the Xi state visit is simple — Winnie the Pooh (Xi hates that nickname) leaves with no deals, and that enrages Trump enough to treat him like the enemy he is.
🤦For all of Trump’s foreign policy successes — and they are many — his belief in personal deal-making with two of the worst men in the world continues to elude him!
That is the most charitable thing we can say about Trump’s state dinner and visit with President Xi of China.
We should all want the president to succeed — but so far, his lavish praise of Xi has yielded little.
Be fair⚖️: Trump continues to sell arms to Taiwan — we can only hope he doesn’t stop that to curry favor with Xi.
The Chinese want to replace America as the world’s superpower
They are committing a Nazi-like genocide against the Uyghurs
They steal American business technology at an unfathomable rate
They build artificial islands to steal the South China Sea from U.S. Asian allies
I could spend an entire show reading a list of China’s bad behavior
Yet, Thomas Friedman, in his infinite wisdom, wants Trump and Xi to find agreement and detente on AI.
📰He headlines in a New York Times op-ed, “It’s Time to Cry Wolf Over A.I.,” writing
“I will stand down when I see the United States and China start to address the immediate threat by teaming up to defend critical infrastructure — water systems, power grids, the internet — in their own countries and around the world.”
What I am thinking💭: Gee, Tom — that’s a great idea — let’s give China access to all our critical infrastructure so they can help defend it.
Go deeper: Since we are into wolf analogies — let’s give a pack of wolves access to Pepperidge Farms so they can guard it.
The Chinese have exploited every bit of goodwill we have ever given them — and then stolen whatever else they could
Watch tonight📺: Amb. John Bolton joins
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41 Days To Go📅
🌀If the midterm elections were a weather report, every indication shows there is a massive blue hurricane coming.
The Georgia Senate race moved from leaning Democrat to likely Democrat
South Carolina went from solid Republican to likely Republican
A highly placed Republican source told me today to “watch South Carolina.”
I told him to read War Notes because we told you that WEEKs ago!
Kansas shifted from likely Republican to lean Republican
Texas is now leaning Democrat
North Carolina appears totally lost for Republicans.
Florida governor race now going from leaning Republican to a toss-up
These all push to a wildly different night than we predicted earlier.
‼️This all means one of two things is going to happen in November
There’s a Democrat blowout, and Republicans are going to look horribly out of touch
📰The Wall Street Journal op-ed headlines, “Republicans Are Running on Empty”
The polling industry in America is as useful as an astrologer.
🐣So somebody is going to wake up the day after Election Day with an enormous amount of egg on their face.
Watch tonight📺: 2Way trio Mark Halperin, Larry O’Connor and Kevin Walling on what is going to decide who’s right and who’s wrong in November.
Plus➕: The judge on Trump’s ban of CNN, MS NOW and Politico from White House grounds did not make a ruling but said he’s skeptical of Trump’s decision. The trio joins us
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Leland,the other night, on Mon. night you asked “ Do you understand Pres. Trump’s foreign policy? I don’t understand President Trump’s foreign policy, and I’m as confused as you are. I have seizures, and I had to go to bed early that night. I also agree with Linda said. Dawn
Keep your friends close,and your enemies closer. Talk your kids about everything. No matter how uncomfortable. Here's what I just sent to my daughter for my grandkids.
---:Hey Mija! Got a serious thing i wanna say. About the new streets drugs that are so much more deadly than what you or I had to deal with when we were in high school. I know our kids are pretty knowledgeable, but I have reason to believe that these dangerous substances are also surreptitiously added to every day over the counter consumables as well. There's something called gas station heroin that is actually a natural herbal leafy or capsule delivery. Kratom. Just as deadly as fentanyl. Just want you and Kale to be aware and to be sure you talk to Luis and Elza as well. Just to be safe and cover all bases. Love you so much. She replied she was unaware but would tell them. I replied: Oh good. The headlines are full of celebrity and college student overdoses, from regular prescription drugs laced with Fentanyl, to herbal supplements that are legal and are basically opioids. It's scary but preventable thru education. I know they are good kids with good heads on their shoulders, but you can't be too careful these days. End of conversation. -- THIS IS SO IMPORTANT, I wanted you all to see the words that came out of my mouth, via a simple text Love to All.