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Hey, Kevin, come on in here. Grab your coffee. Where are the rest of you? Come on, it's time. Andy, Pat, come on in. All right. I think you may have noticed that it's sort of a slow news day so far. So far. Could get more interesting. Let's talk about a few things that are happening that are interesting.

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You may have seen the president's tweet in which he tweeted a clip of Schumer, his nemesis, Schumer, who is his nemesis on immigration in particular, saying pretty much exactly what the president says, except it was a while ago and the president wasn't saying it as president or candidate. So Schumer was completely on his side. I'm not sure how long ago that clip was, but nothing changed. So it's sort of disgusting to see the level of awfulness.

However, however, let's look ahead a little bit. Imagine if you will that what Chuck Schumer said about immigration, whenever that clip was, must have been several years ago, was completely in agreement with what President Trump says now. So what would happen if the Democrats get control of, let's say, the House? Let's say Congress is split. Does that make the odds of a good immigration package better or worse? Because the main reason that the Democrats won't play with the Republicans is because they just don't want to give the Republicans a win. It's not because they disagree, right? I mean, they pretend they disagree, but you can tell from the video clip of Schumer that he doesn't really disagree on the main points.

So what happens when they can get a win? So if there's a mixed Congress, the president would have to work with the Democrats to get something through, which would give the Democrats some kind of a win. So we may have a situation where a mixed Congress actually helps this president, possibly on health care, possibly on immigration. It could happen. I think that I don't think you can rule out that President Trump will come out ahead if the Congress is mixed.

Now if, let's say, it goes the other way, let's say there's a red wave and the president gets even more Republicans in power, well, unless those Republicans have a dominant position where they've got enough of them that they can just force anything through, they're still going to be in this weird middle ground where the Democrats would still have enough power that they can thwart them. So we might come out ahead and even Republicans might get more of what they want with a few more Democrats in power. So you can't really predict how this will go. I'm not telling you that's what I prefer. I'm telling you it's not predictable. And if I had to, if I had to, you know, get in my head and I had to predict, I would say that a mixed Congress will get the president more power, not less. It's possible.

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But the other thing that I'd like to, somebody said Trump's black approval is at 36%. I believe that's based on a typo. I saw Candace Owens doing a video in which she said that black support was, I think, 39 percent or something, but then you look at the actual numbers and it's more like 29 percent. Yeah, so I don't think the 39 is real. I think that was actually just a typo. 36 percent, I don't k…

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