THE SHOW NOTES: Live From Texas, Trump Roasts Kamala, & The Pennsylvania Problem
THE SHOW NOTES: Live From Texas, Trump Roasts Kamala, & The Pennsylvania Problem
LIVE FROM TEXAS: I am broadcasting live from the front parlor at the Texas Governor’s Mansion today with Governors Abbott and Kemp joining me shortly. You can listen live here.
Ouch: Even Bill Maher wants to know why the media is ignoring stories about Dough Emhoff.
NEW: 12,000 North Korean fighters are joining Russia in Ukraine.
LOL: Kamala Harris tweeted edited video of pre-hurricane call to Florida mayor to remove self-praise - NY Post
IMPORTANT: Regional war in Asia would be a 'global problem' for the US, Pacific Army chief warns - Defense One
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MAJOR PROBLEM
Democratic Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey is running a new ad that breaks with Biden on fracking and ties himself to Trump on trade.
Why this matters: The move signals that Casey’s internal polling likely has Harris losing to Trump in Pennsylvania with this being an attempt to woo split-ticket voters. If Trump wins Pennsylvania, he almost certainly wins the presidency.
Al Smith
Donald Trump roasted Kamala Harris and other Democrats for nearly 30 minutes at last night’s annual charity Al Smith dinner.
ONE - "I used to think Democrats were crazy for saying that men have periods. But then I met Tim Walz.”
TWO - “Right now we have someone in the White House who can barely talk, barely put together two coherent sentences, who seems to have the mental faculties of a child... But enough about Kamala Harris.”
THREE - “Chuck Schumer is here looking very glum — But look on the bright side, Chuck, considering how woke your party has become, if Kamala loses, you still have a chance to become the first woman president”
FOUR - “Instead of attending tonight, she’s in Michigan receiving communion from Gretchen Whitmer. That’s not a pretty sight.”
FIVE - Jim Gaffigan: "The Democrats have been telling us Trump's reelection is a threat to democracy. In fact, they were so concerned of this threat, they staged a coup, ousted their democratically elected incumbent, and installed Kamala Harris.”
Yahya Sinwar
Yahya Sinwar, the notorious leader of Hamas who planned the October 7th attacks that killed 1,200 Israelis, was killed in Rafah through a chance encounter with the Israeli military.
Details: Israeli tank units were in southern Rafah looking for Hamas tunnels and military sites when they happened to stumble across three militants moving toward an empty building. The junior Israeli team who were training to be commanders fired on the building which killed Sinwar.
UN: When Sinwar’s dead bodyguard was discovered nearby, he had a badge that suggested he was an employee of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, commonly known as UNRWA.
Flashback: The death of Yahya Sinwar in Rafah is a reminder that Kamala Harris explicitly told ABC an Israeli invasion of Rafah would be a “huge mistake.”
How Popular Is Trump?
According to Harry Enten on CNN, Donald Trump is more popular than ever before.
Trending news:
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China stimulus ‘should absolutely surpass’ 10 trillion yuan, government economist says - SCMP
The Math Says It’s Getting Harder to Break Into the American Middle Class - Bloomberg (paywall)
Russia will stop war if Nato invites Ukraine to join - FT (paywall)
U.S. Wrestles With Aiding Allies and Maintaining Its Own Weapons Supply - NYT (paywall)
In Sports, American Socialism Is Beating European Capitalism - WSJ (paywall)
Ferrari Unveils First Supercar in 11 Years Costing €3.6 Million - Bloomberg (paywall)
Market snapshot:
"I used to think Democrats were crazy for saying that men have periods. But then I met Tim Walz.”
I was trying to figure out how in the world MN elected Tim Walz. Then I rembered that they also elected Jesse 'The Body' Ventura as Gov. and Al 'Stuart Smalley' Franken as Senator.
Maybe Flint, MI isn't the only area in the Great Lakes area with a lead in the drinking water problem.
The Math Says It’s Getting Harder to Break Into the American Middle Class...
Between Reagan and Omana the middle class got smaller. Democrats tried to spin it as Republicans were destroying the middle class. The problem was the poor remained relatively stable. The reality was the middle class was moving up and becoming the rich.
Obama took a baseball hat to the escalator between the economic classes. He made it more difficult to move from poor to middle, and middle to upper.
Where we are now, being middle class has its advantages, but we have to compromise on things that we didn't have to during Trump.
It's not just harder to become middle class, it's harder to feel like middle class.