THE SHOW NOTES: Andy Beshear's Unmentionable Comment, Night 1 of DNC, & Vanishing Jobs

Welcome! Tim Walz had multiple meetings with a terrorist sympathizer.

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VIRGINIA: Gov. Glenn Younkin reached a historic favorability marker and Kamala Harris only leads Trump by three.

DNC: All Jewish side events at the DNC were so concerned about security that they kept their location a secret.

OUCH: Fed Confronts Up to a Million US Jobs Vanishing in Revision - Bloomberg

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OUTRAGE: The Kentucky Governor’s Unspeakable Moment

The Governor of Kentucky wants someone to rape JD Vance's kid so Vance can experience what it is like to consider abortion due to rape. This is ghoulish.

Night 1: DNC

Day one of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago saw thousands of anti-semitic protesters outside the event requiring extensive security measures that delayed attendees from getting into the United Center.

Inside the arena, scheduling issues forced organizers to push cut speeches and musical performances despite the event ending well after midnight. Joe Biden didn’t take the stage until well after network primetime ended and didn’t wrap up his 48-minute speech until nearly 1 AM.

Poling guru Nate Silver said on Twitter, “You've gotta be pretty naive to think the prolonged DNC tonight is for any reason other than diminishing Biden’s visibility.”

“I think these guys have a big scheduling problem,” one Biden operative told Politico. “Do they realize the universe runs on East Coast time?” Chris Cillizza added, “I thought night 1 of the DNC was, well, awkward.”

Again, Scott Jennings has the must-watch moment from CNN:

Organizational issues also reduced the availability of media outlets to have the working space that is standard at major events like this. “We are concerned that the decision to reduce dedicated and accessible workspace by hundreds compared to prior conventions will hinder journalists’ ability to cover the historic nature of this convention,” the Standing Committee of Correspondents told SEMAFOR. The comms director for Slate described the event as “wildly disorganized.”

🚨 Former Clinton advisor Mark Penn described Biden’s speech like this on Twitter, “Biden’s midnight speech so caved to the anti-Israel lobby that he did not even use the word ‘Israel’ and spoke only of ceasefires and hostages adding that there are good people on both sides…No talk of the 1200 raped and murdered on October 7th. No condemnation of Hamas or Iran. No mention of the right of Israel to defend itself from attacks on 3 fronts. This is how far this almost former president will go to bow down even in disgrace to the anti-Israel left rather than be a true leader.”

Tuesday’s speaker lineup: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, Senators Tammy Duckworth and Bernie Sanders, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, Mesa, Arizona Mayor John Giles, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, as well as Michelle and Barack Obama.

Pelosi On Forcing Biden Out

Nancy Pelosi is no longer hiding the fact that she and other Democrats tried to force Biden out.

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