The US Supreme Court has been composed of nine justices since 1869

but the chairman of a powerful Senate committee, Democrat Ron Wyden of Oregon, has just introduced legislation just now to expand that number to 15 justices as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee in 2021 New York Democrat Jerry Nadler also introduced legislation to expand the number of justices on the Supreme Court. Senator Wyden claims that his legislation will, end, quote, restore balance among the three branches of government. End Quote, but his court packing proposal will actually undermine the independence of the Supreme Court and give Congress the ability to pass unconstitutional legislation that will require a super majority of the circuit courts or the Supreme Court in order to block it. President Franklin Roosevelt sought to peck the court back in 1937

to unilaterally impose his new deal agenda, but his proposal was overwhelmingly rejected by the Senate, and in 1983 Senator Joe Biden called Roosevelt’s proposal a bonehead idea. It was a horrific, horrific mistake to make, is what Biden said then, and it put in question the independence of the most significant body in the country, the Supreme Court of the United States of America. That’s from Biden Well, in 2019

the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in quotes, nine seems to be a good number. It’s been that way for a long time. I think it was a bad idea when President Franklin Roosevelt tried to pack the Court in. Quote, well, in july 2024

President Biden and vice president Harris proposed term limits for the Supreme Court that would remove three justices of the court that were nominated by Republican presidents first and potentially to replace them by, of course, liberal judges like the one that Biden nominated and a Democrat Senate confirmed in 2022

whether by court packing or court purging, these Democrat proposals threatened to undermine The independence of the courts and to put fundamental rights like free speech and religious liberty at risk in 2017

Senator Kamala Harris signed a bipartisan letter to preserve the Senate’s 60 vote threshold for enacting non budgetary legislation, But she now proposes to abandon that standard for an abortion on demand bill that will override all conscious rights and religious beliefs of doctors and nurses. HARRIS also wants to rein in speech in her words that she deems misinformation, if Kamala Harris and the Democrats in Congress succeed in packing and purging the Supreme Court, our First Amendment rights of free speech and religious liberty, as well as a lot of other rights will be subject to the whims of ideological politicians. This should not happen the.

J Yes, it’s true, the fact checkers discovered. JD, Vance really did say that crazy thing about car seats and birth rates.

Snopes.com. The once respected fact checker, dragged up the video of Vance’s comments. He really did say that car seat mandates make Americans less likely to have babies. Why would he say such a thing? Well, for starters, it’s true. Second, it was relevant. Third, the baby bus is the biggest story of the next 30 years, and all policymakers should be talking about ways to make America more family friendly.

Vance was probably citing a 2020 study titled car seats as contraception. It discussed state laws mandating car seats for children and infants. These laws went into effect at different times in different states, which created a natural experiment. The researchers studied how birth rates changed in states as the car seat mandates passed, they found that birth rates dropped faster than expected after car seat mandates went into effect. This could, of course, just be a coincidence, but there’s evidence that the mandates caused birth rates to fall. The falling birth rates following car seat mandates were concentrated among married parents who already had two kids. That is, once you already have two car seats in the back row of a Toyota Camry, it’s hard, nearly impossible, to fit a third one. So unless you can afford a minivan or SUV, you can’t have a third baby.

But why was the senator from Ohio talking about infant car seats? The video in question comes from a transportation committee hearing a labor union was lobbying to ban lap infants on flights. They wanted to force parents to buy a plane ticket for newborns and put the newborn in a special airplane car seat. This is exactly the sort of family unfriendly regulation that makes raising kids so much harder than it needs to be.

Vance was right to oppose this new airplane regulation. In fact, lawmakers should reconsider their car seat mandates too.

New Jersey’s law requires three and a half year olds to be in those big, bulky car seats with five point harnesses, so parents need to dig their hands under the kid’s butts into some sort of slurry of goldfish toddler saliva and butt sweat, yank out the buckle and then get the two other straps.

Unless this regulation is proven to save lives compared to a regular buckle and booster seat, it’s a massive pointless annoyance to families, and with birth rates at record lows and falling we should be doing what we can to make America a little less family unfriendly. I.

The reports that President Trump has been briefed about Iranian attempts to assassinate him, the possibility that these first two assassination attempts may have been coordinated or encouraged by the Iranians should have a chilling effect on every American assassinations by the Iranians is not something new. They have been issuing what they call fatwas, which is a religious indication that anybody who wants to can go kill people, and they designate certain people to go after. Currently, they’re really still mad because we killed General solomini. Solomini had been the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. He had planned their terrorist activities throughout the Middle East. Our estimate is that he killed 690 Americans through projects that he had directed and he had assigned, and we felt, frankly, pretty legitimate in targeting him. However, he was so high up in the Iranian government and in their system of power that it was a huge shock to them, and so they issued a whole series of assassination threats, including my good friend, Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, who, to this day, is surrounded by security people. The former National Security Advisor has security people. There are a number of folks in addition, of course, to President Trump and Vice President Pence. And one of the questions we need to be asking is, how long do you tolerate a dictatorship that believes it has the right to try to assassinate your leaders or to kill other people? Even as I’m talking to you, we have in custody a young Pakistani who came across from Canada, who was apparently in coordination with the Iranians, and was on the way to kill a group of preferably, from his standpoint, a Jewish group in New York City. He’d been trained. He literally came all the way across Canada from Vancouver, across the border. The Canadians had alerted us he was coming. We picked him up. But this is one more example of what I’m talking about. There are a continuing series of efforts to do everything they can to kill the people they target. In Germany, for example, there is no question, according to German officials, that the Iranians have deliberately killed a number of Iranian dissidents who were trying to help organize resistance. I went in Paris several years ago to a large conference, and was told afterwards that there were two bombs that were discovered in time and taken out designed to kill a lot of Iranian dissidents, and those of us who were there visiting with them. So I think this raises a real question about international law, to what extent can you tolerate a dictatorship which believes it has the right to target and kill your leaders? And I think this is a topic the Congress is going to have to take up, and we’re going to have to adopt much tougher rules for those who want to kill us,

Judging by the crime, dirtiness and madness plaguing New York streets, Democrat Eric Adams has not done a good job as mayor. He may well be corrupt and guilty of the alleged offenses just brought against him in an indictment, but cover me skeptical that that indictment was brought on the merits rather than as a form of political payback from our brave new lawfare apparatus set aside for a moment the number of politicians who walk into Office poor and leave Rich, who suddenly become the best stock market traders you’ve ever seen, who snag incredible real estate deals, who seem to get awfully close to foreign governments and then later lobby on their behalf, and whose family members and friends land plumb jobs and contracts, yet, all of whom never get investigated, let alone prosecuted. There’s one defining feature marking the prosecutions of high profile Democrats during the Biden years. It’s that they crossed our ruling regime. New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez, prosecution was a successor to the DOJ has failed prosecution under the Obama Biden administration. Menendez has always been seen as a corrupt politician and based on the charges to which he was found guilty, compromised by foreign powers, no small thing when talking about a man who chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, but Menendez legal trials and tribulations followed his public opposition, his point by point demolition in 2015 of then President Obama’s chief foreign policy item, the Iran nuclear deal, Menendez reprised his role in opposition to the Biden Harris administration’s effort to revive the Iran nuclear deal, panning the administration in 2022 over its enforcement of a quote, sanctions regime that now leaks like a sieve and indirectly blamed it for Iran’s booming oil trade with adversaries like China and Leaving of Americans and our allies defenseless in the face of Iran’s aggression, a return to the 2015 nuclear deal was not around the corner, and it is not in the US strategic interest, he said. Then a year later, he found himself under indictment. Democrat member Henry Clare of Texas comes from a border district described in roll call as one of the most conservative House Democrats and a pro life Democrat, he says the last one in Congress in March 2021 clay are condemned Biden’s so called humane approach to immigration, which Clair said is actually feeding the narrative that the bad guys are twisting to get people over no ifs, no buts, while backing Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott’s efforts to combat illegal immigration. He defended the conduct of border patrol agents when they were under fire from the left later in 2022 he said President Biden’s border policy consisted of, quote, just letting everybody in. He also said the border is not closed and that there’s got to be repercussions, otherwise they’ll keep coming. That year, Claire at his home raided by the FBI just several weeks out from early voting in a razor thin primary race against a progressive competitor, two years later, Now, prior to the 2024 election, he’s indicted on foreign corruption charges. Claire disputes them and also believes the charges were brought to damage him politically and because he is a conservative Democrat. And then there’s Mayor Adams. The charges brought against Adams are piddling relative to say what the Biden family’s international influence peddling scheme entailed, or even the hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer dollars, Adams’ predecessor’s wife seems to have made disappear, as my colleague Mark Hemingway tweeted in response to the headline number that Adams allegedly received over ten million in matching funds, a SMT of which came from straw donors, and that he traded 10s of 1000s of dollars worth of unreported gifts from Turkish Government and greased the skids for a related permit. Quote, too bad Adams wasn’t smart enough to let his son take all the foreign bribes. The DOJ is incapable of figuring out that scheme. These seemingly trumped up charges, albeit concerning a foreign power, which is more than disturbing, were brought against Adams after he, too had been critical of the Biden administration’s immigration policy, saying back in 2023 the influx of asylum seekers the city was supporting to the tune of billions of dollars, quote, will destroy New York City. CNN, in September of that year, reported that the relationship between Biden and Adams over immigration began breaking down in private months earlier, with Adams panning the administration during a meeting with Biden aides in the Chief of Staff’s office. Beyond the sniping is a creeping fear among white house and New York officials that the failure to find solutions and tamp down concerns around immigration could blow up into a major political problem for Democrats heading into 2024 CNN reported in November 2023 the day the FBI raided the home of his former chief fundraiser. Adams was scheduled to be in Washington, DC, meeting with senior White House officials regarding the immigration crisis the administration had created and that he criticized. Adams suddenly canceled that trip. Are we supposed to believe it’s a coincidence? Adams doesn’t, or at least wants to message he doesn’t, releasing a video following the unsealing of the indictment, noting that quote, despite our pleas when the federal government did nothing as its broken immigration policies overloaded our shelter system with no relief, I put the people of New York before party and politics. Now, again, all of these figures may have. Committed, the crime is alleged, and they may deserve to go down for them, but an awful lot of Democrats alleged have engaged in equally, if not far worse, behavior, have toed the party line and never faced prosecution. The ones who step out of line seem to incur the wrath of the regime to face, perhaps selective prosecution, particularly if they’re insufficiently progressive and radical. That’s not justice, that’s politics. You.

Two women in Georgia died after receiving chemical abortion pills, and vice president Kamala Harris quickly sought to assign blame to former President Donald Trump Harris and politically allied abortion advocates falsely claim that laws in Georgia and some other states, end quote, prevent doctors from providing basic medical care. End quote, to women who experience abortion complication. Georgia’s law protects unborn children when there is a detectable human heartbeat, but provides several exceptions, including when a physician determines that a medical emergency exists or to remove a dead unborn child. In the tragic cases of these two women, Amber Thurman and candy Miller, both circumstances applied, sadly, abortion advocates are so in fear and confusion that is causing some women to delay seeking care, and some medical personnel to avoid providing care in a timely manner. No state in America penalizes women who have abortions. Yet that false claim by these abortion advocates causes some women to hesitate in seeking any type of care for complications after an abortion in cases where medical personnel are not properly trained about when they can perform procedures to remove a dead unborn child, the disinformation spread by Harris and her allies can erroneously cause them to believe they will be subject to legal penalties for performing medical procedures that are explicitly provided for in Georgia’s laws and other state laws. When the Food and Drug Administration, the FDA approved abortion drugs in 2000 under the administration of President Bill Clinton, the FDA set heightened safety standards. Women had to be seen in person by a doctor. They had to take the pills in person in a medical facility. They had to have an in person follow up to ensure that abortion was complete and the abortion pills could only be used up to seven weeks gestation. But in 2021 the Biden Harris administration weakened those safety standards by allowing abortion pills to be dispensed through the mail and providing that women don’t have to see a medical professional at any point. If either of these women in Georgia had an in person follow up appointment after taking the abortion pills, perhaps a doctor or nurse would have realized sooner that the remains of their unborn children had not been expelled and they were at risk of infection when reckless politicians saw fear and spread false information in an effort to reap Short term political gain, there can be tragic consequences. Emergency medical personnel and women should be told the truth and the care of patients should not be compromised by these false political actors and their dangerous rhetoric

In addition to the presidential race, it’s important to remember that there’s a huge, very important race coming up for control the US Senate Democrats have held a very narrow advantage 5149

they’ve already lost that advantage because Senator Manchin of West Virginia is retiring, and his seat will be taken by the Republican governor of West Virginia, who’s very, very popular. Now there are other states where we’re going to see things really move. The Democratic incumbent in Montana is now behind in every public poll, and the Republican is likely to pick up Montana. That would move it to 5149

there is a very vibrant race in Nevada. There’s a race in Arizona,

very strong Republican candidate Dave McCormick running in Pennsylvania, which will be a key state in the presidential race. There’s a little bit of a longer shot in Michigan

Governor Hogan, who’s very popular, personally, and who’s still running a race in Maryland, which is a very democratic state, but he’s personally so popular, he may win anyway. He’s certainly going to force the Democrats to spend a lot of resources trying to get to him out of the race because he is so popular.

Bernie Marino is a candidate in Ohio who’s doing a very, very good job, and Senator Brown is in trouble. Ohio is becoming more and more and more Republican, and that’s been a huge change over the last few years on the Republican side, I think you have to look at Senator Rick Scott in Florida, running for reelection, who now may have more of a race than he used to think, and that may be more of a challenge. Senator Ted Cruz in Texas may have more than a race than he expected, and that could be a challenge. On the other hand, both Texas and Florida have been moving towards the Republican Party by such huge numbers? People switching their registration, people moving in that in the end, it’s very likely that the Republicans will keep both those seats. If that happens, and as now looks, very likely they pick up Montana, then they’re in a position where any additional pickup that’ll already get them to a strong position at 5149

then if they start picking up Nevada or in Arizona or Pennsylvania,

Ohio, all of them start getting better and better. And you could see if President Trump ends up winning by a good margin. He will do so in part by carrying some of these key states. Pennsylvania is probably the best example. But he may could also carry Nevada by a good margin. And you see, you could end up having, I think, a pretty substantial opportunity here for the Republicans to actually have a four or five seed margin, and I think we’ll be watching this just as we’re going to report on the presidential race. We’re also probably at least once in October talk about what’s happening in the Senate races. So.

Last year the Biden-Harris administration’s special envoy to Iran found himself suspended and put under FBI investigation for his alleged mishandling of classified documents in an explosive scandal the administration has done everything possible to defuse.

Robert Malley, a man who had served as the lead negotiator for the Obama-Biden administration’s disastrous Iran nuclear deal that filled the coffers of Iran’s mullocracy with tens of billions of dollars used to underwrite today’s terror, and legitimized and protected the regime’s nuclear program, had been laboring to resurrect the deal as a top executor of the White House’s Iran First policy.

To boot, Malley, an arguable apologist for Hamas and Hezbollah, had developed substantial links to an apparent Iranian influence network during the Trump years – leading an NGO some congressional Republicans believe may have violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act in connection with its Iran work – and bringing one alleged member of that effort into his office at State.

She has matriculated to a highly sensitive position at the Pentagon where she still works today.

Later, we would learn that Malley may have transferred classified documents to his personal email account and downloaded them on his personal cell phone – and that this information was hacked or otherwise obtained by adversaries.

Lawmakers are concerned that the compromise of Malley’s communications devices may have led to contagion, leaving other senior government officials, sensitive information, and ultimately America’s national security at risk.

The Biden administration has withheld the truth about l’affaire Malley from the American people – refusing to answer questions about what transpired.

Now we’ve learned the State Department too engaged in scandalous conduct around l’affaire Malley. But it may well be part of the cover-up.

The revelations come in the form of a report from the State Department’s inspector general.

It details that contrary to standard operating procedures, officials delayed notifying Malley of his suspension to tip off senior officials and to spare him the embarrassment of essentially being perp-walked by delivering notification of his suspension personally at headquarters – a delay that seemingly enabled Malley to partake in a secure call with White House officials after his top secret security clearance had been suspended but before he was notified.

The report also shows that the State Department, after initially restricting Malley’s access to its classified and unclassified systems, just days later reinstated his access to its sensitive but unclassified OpenNet information network.

State officials were concerned that otherwise Malley might continue to perform work on a personal email account – which seems to be in part why he was suspended in the first place!

“[R]estoraton of his access to SBU [sensitive but unclassified information]” the IG reported, “could have placed the security of this information at risk.”

Meanwhile, Malley was allowed to continue doing some of his duties as special envoy – he worked approximately 10 weeks before being placed on leave without pay and directed to cease State Department business.

The report shows there was no one really directly overseeing Malley and determining what he could work on let alone monitoring it. Malley was ultimately answerable to Secretary of State Tony Blinken and the White House.

Blinken recused himself supposedly from the situation after Malley was suspended – insulating himself from the scandal surrounding, in Malley, a boyhood friend dating back to their time as classmates overseas.

“While Mr. Malley had little oversight prior to the suspension of his clearance,” the report indicates, “the degree of supervision actually decreased following the suspension, which significantly increased the risk that he could participate in discussions inappropriate for someone lacking a security clearance.”

Malley continued communicating with White House officials and “was kept apprised about secure telephone calls and meetings” with CIA, ODNI, the Pentagon, and the Justice and Treasury Departments.

He was intimately involved in helping craft talking points and counseling on congressional testimony.

The State Department did not make it clear to its employees what had transpired, and what work Malley was to be excluded from.

Nor did State report the allegations to the OIG, in violation of law.

Malley remains Special Envoy to Iran to this date, and has not had his security clearance revoked, only suspended.

As outrageous as this report is, still, still, one wonders if the focus on the State Department’s failures with respect to the handling of Robert Malley are meant to serve as a head-fake for Malley’s alleged crimes.

I maintain what I’ve always maintained: Rob Malley is a “made man” in the foreign policy apparatus that Barack Obama created.

The Biden-Harris administration wants to shield Malley’s alleged misconduct because it provides a window into a broader, treacherous Iran First policy that the American people would totally reject were it openly and honestly reported upon – a policy that has lead to the deaths of Americans and our allies and partners at the hands of a mortal enemy our leaders have aided, abetted, and enabled.

Throwing State under the bus is a small price to pay to hide the bigger picture.

In a joint statement, ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee James Risch, and Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Mike McCaul noted that the IG report “is disturbing and sheds light on the multiple ways the State Department grossly mismanaged Rob Malley’s case and intentionally misled Congress.”

However, they add, “Congress remains in the dark on how Mr. Malley’s infractions impacted the conduct of the administration’s disastrous approach to Iran, or affected the safety of Americans.”

Therein lies the rub.

One of the disturbing things about Trump Harris presidential debate that hasn’t gotten much news was the decision of ABC moderators to inject themselves as fact checkers and then to only fact check one candidate, Donald Trump, five times on several occasions the substance of their fact checks was wrong, so let’s fact check the fact checkers to set the record straight, when Trump said violent crime had risen during the Biden Harris administration, moderator David Muir claimed in quotes, the FBI says overall, violent crime is coming down in the Country. End quote, but a recent Justice Department survey found a significant increase in violent crime between 2020 and 2023,

violent crime went up. 37%

rape was up. 42% robbery was up. 63% and stranger violence was up. 61%

moderator, Linsey Davis, she rebuked Trump for saying that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz Harris’s vice presidential running mate has allowed abortion in the ninth month of pregnancy and the killing of a baby after it’s born in quote, There is no state in the country where it is legal to kill a baby after it’s born. The ABC moderator claimed, well, Davis’s attempted fact check has since been contradicted by her ABC News colleague Martha raddat. In fact, she said she pointed out that there are nine states and the District of Columbia that have no gestation limits on the performance of abortion. A map distributed by ABC showed that one of those states with no time limits is Tim Waltz’s state of Minnesota. Minnesota’s Department of Health has reported that three infants were born alive during abortion procedures in 2019 Walt’s first year as governor, and they perished without receiving life saving care. Five more infants were born alive in 2021 and none of them was provided life saving care in 2023 Walt signed legislation to eliminate the reporting requirement that documented the eight infant deaths during his first term as governor. Waltz also eliminated any legal obligations for doctors, nurses and medical professionals to administer life saving care to infants born alive during an abortion procedure. And as us, Senator Kamala Harris twice voted against protecting innocent, born alive babies during an abortion procedure, and she erroneously claimed in the debate that abortions are not taking place as late as nine months of pregnancy. She’d be up to the candidates to fact check one another during a debate, but if moderators must inject themselves. They should at least have their facts straight and then be fair to both candidates. Do.

What’s Kamala Harris’s secret? In mid July, she was a political liability for Joe Biden. Now she’s running neck and neck with Donald Trump. In July, Harris was less popular than either Biden or Trump. Now she’s more popular than both men. In July, Harris was an awkward but loyal soldier in a doddering administration. Now we’re told that she’s brat, whatever that means, Harris’s new status isn’t due to her policy proposals. She hardly has any. Her public speeches are fine, but she’s no Cicero, nor has she become more popular because she’s in the public eye. On the contrary, Harris has limited her campaign appearances. There’s something guarded about her, a part of herself that Harris is reluctant or unwilling to reveal. Harris has benefited from adulatory media for sure, according to the Media Research Center, Harris received 84% positive coverage in her first month as a candidate, a far cry from Trump’s 89% negative coverage during the same period. And yet worshipful press coverage doesn’t fully explain the reversal of Harris’s fortunes. A politician’s favorability usually trends in one direction, downward. Good Feelings eventually turn sour. This makes Harris unique. Her reputation has crashed and burned, not once, but twice, after her 2019 presidential campaign debacle, then after her 2021 interview with NBC Lester Holt only to rebound for reasons out of her control. My theory is Democrats and Democrat leaning independents were so happy to see Joe Biden off the ticket that they would have fallen in line behind anyone Harris was savvy and well placed to lock up the nomination before rivals entered the ring. She’s been riding a wave of positive energy that has boosted her favorability, upped her game and allused her with fundraising. The energy is psychic relief and excitement that Democrats have a chance to keep Trump from returning to the White House. The surprise, unbidden possibility of victory endowed Harris with a mystique. She’s made the most of it. The Harris Mystique depends on ignorance about her past. Since most Americans don’t know or care who the Vice President is, Harris had an opportunity to refashion herself for the 2024 electorate. She was warm, friendly and non threatening, while aides revised history. They convinced friendly reporters that no Biden hadn’t put her in charge of the border crisis in the spring of 2021 they told reporters that Harris had abandoned controversial positions such as decriminalizing illegal immigration, banning fracking and gun buybacks. Presto, the second most liberal senator in the 21st century became mamala. The Harris Mystique shields the candidate from easy definition. Her campaign appropriates GOP symbols, tropes and rhetoric to such an extent that if you ignore the blue hair in the crowd, it can be hard to distinguish Harris rallies from Romney rallies 12 years ago, listening to Harris extol the virtues of enterprise, you’d have no idea that she cast the deciding vote on the spending splurge that drove record inflation, that her administration has imposed almost $1.4 trillion in regulations that she wants to weaken right to work laws, and that she wants Congress to pass $5 trillion of new taxes over 10 years, reparations for slavery. Harris’s coy universal basic income. She’s demure, abolishing private health insurance. The Harris whisperers say she’s no longer interested, but she hasn’t quite said so herself and Dana Bash didn’t ask her about the Neo socialist Medicare for all during that CNN interview in September, the Harris Mystique was too powerful. There are signs the voting public may be developing some immunity to Harris’s obfuscations. She’s made progress, but as we speak, the race is a toss up. The polls are too close to draw firm conclusions. Trump could use the remaining days of the campaign to dispel the Harris mystique. How, by defining her as a lefty weakling unsuited to lead the United States, otherwise, Harris’s campaign of concealment, misdirection and euphemism will continue right through election day and into the White House. All right.

The presidential race is beginning to shape up in a pretty clear way. I think it’s important to watch the fundamentals you now have with Donald Trump, a team that is working very hard, particularly including the use of Robert F Kennedy Jr, and the use of former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard to reach out and try to create a bipartisan coalition, and in particular, to eat into the traditional Democratic lead among Latinos and particularly African American males. At the same time, you have vice president Kamala Harris, who has reached out to people like former Vice President Dick Cheney. She’s had some 200 former Republican staffers, including number of whom were interns, but some of whom were pretty important, people who have endorsed her over Donald Trump. The result has been so far, an amazingly close, contentious race. It’s about 4747 or 4848 literally that close. And it poses two interesting side notes, one, that if you’re a Democrat, because of the way our electoral college works, you need to be ahead by probably four or five at least four points, maybe five points, because you’re going to get huge margins of popular vote in California, New York and Illinois. Now that doesn’t particularly help you in the Electoral College. The it doesn’t matter in California whether you carry it by one vote or 3 million votes. It’s still the same number of electoral college votes. Same thing for Illinois, same thing for New York. So in a strange way, Republican votes are spread out in states to make them more competitive and at 4747 or 4848 the Republicans actually have a net advantage in carrying the swing states, the most important of which is Pennsylvania. It’s simply a mathematical fact that if vice president Harris can’t carry Pennsylvania, where she has significant problems, both because she skipped over their governor in picking a vice presidential candidate, and because fracking and developing oil and gas in western Pennsylvania is an enormous industry, and there’s a sense that she’s anti fracking and anti oil and gas, and that really is going To cost her. The key used to be for Democrats to come out of Philadelphia with a huge margin, lose in the middle of the state and small towns and rural areas, and then finish up in Pittsburgh with a pretty good sized margin. Well, you start losing western Pennsylvania and the center of the state, you have to have an enormous margin in Philadelphia for this to work, and the danger for them now is that as Trump continues to appeal to working Latinos and working African American males in particular, that they may not get the margin that they need in Philadelphia to offset the liabilities they’re going to Have everywhere else in the state. Now there are similar patterns in Michigan, in Wisconsin, in Georgia, North Carolina, in Nevada and Arizona. Those are the key swing states, and at the present time, they’re all very competitive. Trump tends to have a slight advantage in most of them. Goes back a little back and forth, a little bit every week, but that’s where to look forward to see what’s going to happen. And if you don’t see vice president Harris beginning to pull away in the popular vote, you’ll know by early October that she’s going to be in significant trouble and have a very difficult time getting the electoral college majority that she needs. So the race is developing. I think the debate turned out not to change many opinions. They were basically about 4747 when they went in, they came out, they were at 4848 so could hardly be tighter than it is right now, and I think that that’s likely to continue all the way up to election day. And remember, in the American system, our actual voting period is longer than the elections. In many countries, if you go to a place like France, for example, they had a three week election, the total campaign, and then they have one day of voting period. Well, in some of our states, we start voting in mid September. It’s a very, very different environment, but I think it’ll be exciting, and I’ll be reporting later on more about what’s happening in the presidential race.