KN4YRM
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New: @RahmEmanuel, headed to NH and SC this week, is prepping a presidential campaign that’s a rolling rebuke of his own party. Can he really win in 2028? He sees a weak field. “The answer to that is: It’s a jump ball,” he told me. “Even for the frontrunner, it’s a jump ball.” politico.com/news/magazine/…
There was consensus that 2024 was the "podcast election," where Trump's interviews on non-political shows with huge audiences like Joe Rogan, Theo Von, Andrew Schulz, and Shawn Ryan moved the needle in gaining the support of non-MAGA types. Now these same voices are ardently against Trump's Iran war actions, and there are absurd efforts to attempt to diminish the influence and impact of these same shows. The reason Trump's 2024 strategy worked was not to convince MAGA hat wearers to vote for him - those obviously were in already. The reason he went on Rogan and Von and Ryan was to expand the universe of support. Trying to reach independents... and non-political types to get off their couches. Those voices clearly still have massive power, and now they are driving support against Trump and Iran with their large audiences. This focus on "MAGA Republican" support - represented by around 15% of all Americans - is a red herring. These individuals will support Trump no matter what. A key question is whether the coalition that won him 2024 is drifting from Trump over Iran, ahead of crucial 2026 midterms.
University of Florida ranked #1 college in America; Florida State ranked #7. The Manhattan Institute's City Journal has devised a new methodology to rank colleges. This includes giving credit to colleges that perform well on issues — free speech, ideological pluralism, promotion of merit, quality teaching and resistance to ideological fads — on which so many colleges have performed poorly In recent years. Congrats to the Florida schools that ranked highly!
