Trump is retreating to friendly turf while the ground shifts under the whole rigged two-party system. Paul Rieckhoff takes you inside a Media Blitz week — a CNN hit with Erin Burnett and a News Nation sit-down with Chris Cuomo and independent Senate candidate Seth Bodnar — to lay out what the polls, the propaganda machine, and the president’s travel schedule are actually telling us one month out from the biggest election of our lifetime. GOP senators are quietly comparing 2026 to the 2006 wipeout. Internal numbers are worse than public ones. And Trump’s approval with independents has fallen into single digits, a floor almost no modern president has touched.
Episode 641
Trump runs home to Alabama. GOP internal polls worse than public. Independents below 10% on Trump — the sleeping giant stirs. Media Blitz Pod
Trump ran home to Alabama because most of America doesn’t want him anywhere near their state. GOP internal polls are reportedly worse than the public ones. And independents — now 45% of the country and climbing — are polling him below 10% approval. The sleeping giant is stirring, and this episode captures the moment it started showing up on cable news.
The Brief
→ Four things from today’s episode
01
Trump’s Iran remarks. “Let them take out Los Angeles… a very small price to pay” — and why desensitization is the real danger
02
Why a more desperate Trump is a more unpredictable Trump, an. Why a more desperate Trump is a more unpredictable Trump, and what that means for the next 90 days
03
Josh Shapiro endorses HB 280 to open Pennsylvania’s primarie. Josh Shapiro endorses HB 280 to open Pennsylvania’s primaries to unaffiliated voters after a 115-88 state house vote
04
The Let Vets Vote national campaign. veterans as the tip of the spear for all independents
Show Notes
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