Happy Sunday all. Traveling today so a “skinny” Hopium. Let’s start with a selection of recent polls showing our Senate candidates up by 5 points or more, outside the margin of error, in their races:
Here’s the list of polls showing the Republican candidate ahead by 5 points or more in these critical battleground states…….
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Zero.
'The number of polls showing a Republican candidate ahead by 5 points or more in a critical battleground Senate race is zero.
Some other things I am tracking today…..
Most unpopular midterm President ever:
CNN has a smart, in-depth look at the California Supreme Court ordering the return of ballots seized by a Trumpy Riverside County Sheriff:
Election officials are planners. And so, they have to consider possibilities even if they’re not going to happen — to be ready in case they do,” said David Becker, a former Justice Department voting section attorney who now advises election administrators of both parties. “They’re considering wild possibilities that they wouldn’t have had to before.”
Chief among the concerns is how handing over those materials to investigators would break the chain of custody, as state and local regulations impose strict procedures for handling ballots to maintain public confidence in election results.
The state Supreme Court wrote that “allowing law enforcement unfettered access to ballots, or the ability to handle and count them in secret based on unregulated protocols, itself creates a substantial risk to election integrity.”
In related news this happened:
It appears UK security services have foiled a potentially serious terror attack on an American airbase in southern England.
Axios is reporting that the big AI companies are investigating potentially tens of thousands of wrongful - and often illegal - actions by its models. Trump is 100% AWOL here.
In the Miami Herald our friend Fernand Amandi rips Rubio (and Trump) for inviting war criminal Putin to South Florida.
In a story that is getting a lot of attention this weekend former Trump Jr. fiance Kimberly Guilfolye, our current Ambassador to Greece, has told people in Europe that that Trump world was responsible for causing the pro-Western Romanian government to fall this past May.
The Ukrainian Secretary of Defense released this remarkable post and video over the weekend:
Here’s the video:
Joe Scarborough posted this on Twitter this morning:
That’s some of what I am tracking this morning……
For your Sunday listening and viewing pleasure you can review all the ads and videos of the week by heading to Friday’s Ad and Video Roundup and be sure to catch our new candidate interviews if you missed them: Bob Brooks (PA-7), Jamie Ager (NC-11), Christina Hines (MI-10), Jake Johnson (MN-01), Roy Cooper (NC-Sen), and Brian Poindexter (OH-07).
My weekly talk, Trump Has Been A Spectacular Failure. Voters Are Angry. The Wave Is Getting Big. Our Job Is To Make It Bigger, is a comprehensive 2026 Election overview well worth your time if you haven’t caught it yet.
Here’s what we have scheduled for the upcoming week so far, with events being added everyday:
Mon, Sept. 28, 2:30pm-**Paige Cognetti (PA-8)**Tue, Sept. 29, 1pm-Cait Conley (NY-17)
You can check our upcoming schedule on our Events page, and you can find all of our interviews and podcasts on the Hopium site under the Podcast tab and on our YouTube, Apple Podcasts and Spotify channels. too.
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