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Trump promised no new wars. Now he’s dragged the country into Iran, gas prices are climbing, the USS Lincoln just broke a modern deployment record, and a 19-year-old sailor who jumped overboard is facing disciplinary charges instead of care. Meanwhile independent veterans — Osborn, Bengs, Bodnar, Keeles — are turning red-state Senate races into dead heats while Democrats scramble to catch up. This is the collision point of the midterms, and it’s happening whether Washington is ready or not.
Paul Rieckhoff joins the MSNBC table with Nikki McCann Ramirez of Rolling Stone and former Harris senior advisor Mike Nellis to break down…
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→ Four things from today’s episodeWhy the Iran war is the camel-back moment. broken “no new wars” promise, gas prices, and a president running from his own record
Trump more unpopular with true independents than Nixon at Wa. Trump more unpopular with true independents than Nixon at Watergate or Bush at the peak of Iraq — the polling nobody in D.C. wants to talk about
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Ken Paxton, “the laziest candidate we’ve ever seen”. corrupt and somehow broke
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