THE SHOW NOTES: Assassination 2.0, More Polling Data, & Hating Taylor Swift
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NEW: Is Donald Trump’s lead cratering in Iowa? - X
STAT: 39.8% of all US homeowners are now mortgage-free - X
DATE: Only 50 days until election day.
WEDNESDAY: The Fed will decide on a .25 or .50 rate cut.
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Andrew Walker Is Right
Some people don’t want to admit it, but Andrew Walker is right. Regardless of what you think of the film, theologically Walker is right. What’s notable are the people who think Christians should behave like everyone else in and out of politics. The whole of the Bible has a common theme - when God’s people behave like those around them, they’re doing it wrong. You can disagree, but you actually are wrong and have let your politics shape your theology instead of the other way around.
See also Exodus 20:16; Leviticus 19:11-12; Proverbs 26:24-26; Mark 7:20-23; Proverbs 6:16-19; 2 Timothy 3:12-15; Ephesians 4:25; Colossians 3:9
Assassination 2.0
Less than two months after being shot in Butler, Pennsylvania, Donald Trump was unharmed following a second assassination attempt during a round of golf at his West Palm golf course.
Details: At 1:30 PM yesterday, 58-year-old Ryan Routh was discovered when Secret Service agents noticed a rifle muzzle poking through a chain-link fence just four hundred yards away from the former President. Routh dropped an AK-47, a GoPro, two backpacks, and fled the scene as agents opened fire. Routh was able to escape in a nearby SUV but was apprehended by law enforcement in the neighboring county on I-95.
Trump: When shots rang out across the course, Donald Trump was immediately tackled by agents who remained on top of him until the all-clear was given. Trump later told Hannity, “I really wanted to finish the hole. I was even, and I had a birdie putt.”
Profile: Ryan Routh is a lifelong Democrat with nineteen individual donations to various Democrats since 2019. Routh’s social media usage displayed an obsession with the Ukraine war and repeatedly referenced Democratic talking points such as “Democracy is on the ballot.”
Stat: Donald Trump has survived as many assassination attempts as Kamala Harris has given media interviews.
Biden: Sunday’s assassination attempt has increased scrutiny on the Secret Service with two dangerously close assassination attempts in less than two months. Biden said this morning, “One thing I want to make clear is: The Service needs more help… and I think Congress should respond to their need.”
Guess what House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries tweeted two hours after Trump’s assassination attempt:
MUST READ: Democrats bet Harris will move left as president
Democratic lawmakers are giving Vice President Harris a pass on her policy flip-flops and efforts to tack toward the political center, confident that she’s still a progressive at heart and will fight hard to achieve their goals on tax policy, climate change and other priorities.
Even the Senate’s most liberal Democrats say they aren’t worried about Harris backing away from her previous support for Medicare for All or a fracking ban because they believe she will push hard to rein in insurance and pharmaceutical companies or to crack down on fossil fuel consumption.
“I’m from Massachusetts, she’s from California. On climate, on abortion, on racial, LGBTQ issues, we are absolutely in agreement on her agenda,” said Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), a leading Senate progressive who has co-sponsored Medicare for All, the Green New Deal and other ambitious liberal policy goals.
Full story at The Hill.
CNN: Harris’s National Polling Lead “Doesn’t Matter That Much”
Russia
For the fourth time in six days, Russia is flying military planes off the coast of Alaska.
Blue State Family exodus
Brad Wilcox and Lyman Stone have a must-read story at IFS on the number of families leaving Blue states. Red states on average gained 181,000 families while historically blue states lost an average of 38,000. Here are the top ten states that lost the most families.
New York (D) – 1.9% decline, net loss of 71,000
Alaska (R) – 1.2% decline, net loss of 2,000
California (D) – 1.2% decline, net loss of 92,000
Oregon (D) – 0.9% decline, net loss of 7,000
Washington (D) – 0.7% decline, net loss of 12,000
Massachusetts (D) – 0.7% decline, net loss of 10,000
Illinois (D) – 0.6% decline, net loss of 17,000
Hawaii (D) – 0.6% decline, net loss of 1,000
Louisiana (R) – 0.5% decline, net loss of 5,000
Colorado (D) – 0.5% decline, net loss of 6,000
Full list and story at Institute for Family Studies.
WSJ: The Crude System of Coded Messages Keeping Hamas’s Leader Alive
Hamas’s top leader Yahya Sinwar could well be dead today if not for a low-tech communications system honed in prison that shields him from Israel’s intelligence-gathering dragnet.
Sinwar has largely shunned phone calls, text messages and other electronic communications that Israel can track and that have led to the demise of other militants. Instead, he is using a complex system of couriers, codes and handwritten notes that allows him to direct Hamas’s operations even while hiding in underground tunnels, according to Arab cease-fire mediators.
Full story at The Wall Street Journal (paywall).
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Market snapshot:
Just love it. Democrats know that their girl is lying to the centrist voters to get their votes all the while the media covers Trump in a bad light. In the meantime Trump is helping the media by going off message and continuing to act unpresidential with personal attacks.
Of course Kamala will abandon the center once elected. I maintain she has not really officially said she is for anything like that though. Most of these supposed policy changes have been said by Anonymous staffers or in press releases. She hasn't actually "said" it. And I suspect that when she does change and starts to enact price controls, ignores the border or opens it up, and implements higher taxes she will come back and announce "I never said that.." which is technically correct.
Dems know how to play political games to win.
As for the people moving out of blue states. The biggest problem is that they move to get away from liberal policies only to go and keep voting blue.