Our top two candidates wouldn't exactly be described as 'thriving.' And swinging Wisconsin and Pennsylvania show that a lot of this race will come down to the good ol' feeling in voters' pocketbooks.

Choose your own adventure take on the rural life is not the best way to write a book.

Talking with Tyler Austin Harper on The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg about White Rural Rage.

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Get behind the velvet rope and queue up the podcast:
- Presidents having, and not having, fun running.
- Laundering or just raising money?
- A little too Veblen.
- Bees!

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We've watched impeachment go from a check on power to a messaging medium. Now we're facing the same thing with the threat of retaliatory corruption prosecutions. What happens when voters stop caring about corruption at all?

Are we having fun yet? In The Dispatch:

'When Trump calls the charges against him 'banana republic indictments'...the logical conclusion would be that if Trump were returned to power, he would seek to restore higher standards.

Lolz.'

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Neither candidate is doing as well as last time, but from Pennsylvania, we see that underperformance is relative.
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'Trump is 2.8 points behind his own 2020 performance while Biden misses the mark by 3.4 points. Biden’s best state is also his least bad state. It may…

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The tragic story about aid workers is just that. And a more grown up media wouldn't reach for breathless takeaways. Let the news be the news.

Did the day of visibility pap frustrate you? Or maybe it was the pouncing? The counter-pouncing?

The news wasn't even that newsy. The response is just another episode of how a broken news business is adding gas to our political tire fire.

RFK Jr. might pass the vibe check with Trump voters, but his choice of VP?

'Young, rich, lefty, Californian, and Asian-American, Shanahan seems very much the running mate one would pick to go after disaffected Democrats, not mad-as-hell MAGA men.'

Uh oh.…

Sometimes the subhead says it all: 'A blazing sun of facileness and imbecility burns brightly at the center of our political solar system.'

In The Dispatch.

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Kennedy is a long-shot candidate, but he might also mold the race in his image. New polling suggests a good chunk of younger voters are picking up what he's putting down. Now we'll have to see whether it's enough for him to pull a Perot.

Sharing a kombucha and fancy sneakers with Eliana Johnson, also:

- McDaniel and our sacred airwaves,
- The world of right-wing influencers is not thriving,
- When you can't pounce, fixate: Afghanistan edition.

And a robust facile file.

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American fragmentation wasn't just because of the digital world. The institutions that brought people together failed spectacularly.

But good news! There's still a flock of people who head to service to fill the hole in their soul.

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Remember to be kind this Holy Week. 25 percent of believers seldom go to service - and you never know what will bring them back next time.

Both parties are mildly deluded about how negative coverage impacts their candidate. Spin will move some of the unbelievers, but the majority? They'll probably do something boring like believe what they can see and feel in their pocketbooks.

📺 Joined Chris Stirewalt on NewsNation over the weekend to discuss the #BidenBorderCrisis , government funding, and national security.

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