nt of the time I normally put into this. So I don't know what you're going to get this morning. You know, it could be anything.

All right. So Representative Jasmine Crockett has decided to raise her sights, and she's going to run for Senate in Texas. What do you think? Is Jasmine Crockett the next senator from Texas? Maybe. I mean, I'd have to see the polls, but I don't know why not. I mean, if you say to yourself, "But Scott, that's crazy because she's clearly not capable or competent, and she proves it almost every day. Why would she ever become a senator?" To which I say, "Have you been paying attention to anything in the world for the last 10 years? It doesn't matter how smart you are. It doesn't matter if you have good policies. Nothing matters. You just have to be interesting. Then people like you, and then they vote for you. That's about it." And is she interesting? Yeah, she's very interesting. She's a difficult one to assess, wouldn't you say? She's a difficult one to assess because on one hand she acts dumb, but on the other hand she keeps getting good results. Have you noticed that? So how do you explain the fact that your impression of her is like, "Oh, that's so dumb." And then Trump calls her dumb, and you're like, "Yeah, I knew it. We both agreed she's dumb." And then the next thing you know, she's running for senator and has a good chance of winning. So is that dumb? Remember that people said the same thing about Trump. When Trump first ran, let's say 2015, people were calling him dumb, but why did he keep winning? So it kind of challenges your notion of what dumb is. If somebody keeps winning and it's not a coincidence, are they dumb? So I have to say she's very interesting. And I think I'll probably refrain from challenging her on IQ because she did go to law school, I think, and graduated from a decent college. So my guess is she's pretty smart. But part of her act might be acting like her voters might want her to act. Is that a good way to say it? So keep an eye on her. I suspect that she would be very competitive because remember it only matters if the Democrats like her, and I suspect they're going to like all the fight she puts into it. You know, the Democrats keep saying that what we're doing wrong is we're not fighting hard enough. We got to fight. And then she goes out and says a bunch of crazy stuff, and you say, "Yeah, that's some fighting." She's got some fighting, and then you feel like something's happening. None of it looks genuine. It looks performative, but that's politics.

Well, Trump is trying to navigate the fact that people, voters, seem to care the most about affordability lately. Of all the various things that they could care about, that's at the top of the list, I think. And it makes sense. I can see why it's at the top of the list. But he's got a tough time navigating it because it's not like there's one magnificent thing he could do to change affordability. He would have to sort of peck around the edges for a whole bunch of things. You know, there might be a thing with beef, and there might be a thing with tariffs, and it's just going to be complicated and distributed. It's going to be small gains, if any, and you'd have to add them all together to even notice any difference. So he's got quite a challenge to turn whatever he decides that he can do to turn it into something that people would understand and that they would say, "Oh yeah, Trump did that, and now I'm paying less at the gas pump or wherever." So it's going to be tough.

So I guess Trump is doing an affordability tour. So he's sort of getting ready for the 2026 midterms, and he'll be traveling around talking about affordability. Affordability. So we'll see. I would say that if you put Trump up against Jasmine Crockett, as in they're both talking about affordability but she's got a plan, he's got a plan, I feel like his plan would look like it made sense, even if it doesn't make enough difference. It would make sense at least. It wouldn't be ridiculous. Whereas I don't know what she has in mind for affordability. Do you? Are the Democrats really getting away with just saying affordability is good but we're not going to tell you what we're going to do about it? It feels like that's what's happening, right? That if they use the word the most, they can get elected, but what exactly are you doing? Trump is doing things that are well reported and covered, and he's trying to do things with Argentina on beef, and I could go down the list, but you could make a whole list of the things that Trump is doing or has done that go right to affordability. Not enough