Nate Silver in NYT: ‘Look, in some ways, Trump was pretty lucky, in the first three years of his first term in the White House, that nothing kind of literally or figuratively blew up. It wasn’t like Biden, where Ukraine happened under Biden’s watch, and Gaza happened under Biden’s watch.
If Republicans lose the Senate, probably one of the first people who should be blamed is Pete Hegseth. I don’t think there are very many people who would serve as secretary of defense who would have thought that going to war with Iran with a very ambiguous war plan and very ambiguous goals was a smart idea.’

Also: ‘And now you have Iran, you have $4.50 gas, you have Jeffrey Epstein, right? You have corruption in the White House. You have a strong batch of Democratic candidates.’

But most of all, you have $4.50 gas.

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