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The Secret Podcast with Sarah will be out shortly and it’s a pretty big show this week. Here’s your teaser:
I asked Sarah if it would be okay for me to go to Tractor Supply this weekend and spend an afternoon just wandering around, making conversation, by saying, “Man, how about those gas prices!”
My best friend was . . . not amused?
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1. Senators
I’ve given you two pieces of joy this week so let’s bring down the room. If Democrats don’t win the Senate in November, it will be bad.
Democrats are likely to come close to flipping the Senate, so if they fall short the narrative will be that Trump “held” and did better than expected.
Without control of the Senate, impeachment becomes an even more politically-fraught exercise.
If Republicans control the Senate, then chances are >90 percent that Trump will have the chance to replace both Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, creating a Trump-picked majority on the Supreme Court for a generation.
Now, there is some good news and some bad news on the Senate. The good news is that...
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