Happy Monday. I spent way too much time scanning the press, watching the boring Sunday news shows, and gathering quotables to share with you today. The best things I can report are that the downward-spiraling Dodgers won yesterday and that today is National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day, so have at it.
Here’s more…
Trump’s base of support is gradually peeling away over the Epstein pedophile scandal, the shoot-the-messenger firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, the economic disaster caused by tariff madness, and the ICE roundups.
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As for Democrats, their numbers are worse than Trump’s. Support for Israel’s war on Gaza continues to be the albatross around the party’s neck.
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City of Refuge — Texas Democratic House members are fleeing to Chicago in protest of a Trump-backed redistricting plan designed to rig upcoming elections in MAGA’s favor. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he will begin trying to remove Democratic lawmakers from office Monday if they don’t return immediately.
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Zohran Mamdani didn’t just win the New York mayoral primary—he won more votes than any candidate in city history. And his unapologetic stance on Gaza was a central reason:
83% of new voters said his support for Palestinian rights drove them to the polls.
78% of his voters agree that Israel is committing genocide.
63% support arresting Netanyahu if he visits NYC, citing the ICC warrant.
“What we’re finding is that especially in the Democratic primary electorate, the view is so close to unanimous… that millions of dollars [from AIPAC] actually can’t overcome it.” — Hamid Bendaas, IMEU Policy Project
Weekend Quotables
Trump’s Wharton School math
“We will have reduced drug prices by 1,000% by 1,100, 1,200, 1,300, 1,400, 700, 600; not 30 or 40 or 50% but numbers the likes of which you’ve never even dreamed of before.” — Forbes
Imagine walking into CVS, picking up your prescription, and walking out with a stack of cash. That’s the world Trump’s math implies. Is this what he learned at the Wharton School?
Kamala Harris
“For now, I don’t want to go back into the system. I think it’s broken… “I believed there would be guardians of our democracy… but they just capitulated, and I didn’t see that coming.” — The Late Show with Colbert
Amanda Litman, co-founder of Run For Something
I think you look back at the last four years, all the good stuff that Biden did, he couldn’t communicate about it. So, there was no one selling the work. And the horrific stuff that happened under his presidency — the genocide in Gaza, the things he promised and couldn’t get done — those felt like either promises not kept or a betrayal of our values. — NY Magazine
Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers
Summers told ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday that McEntarfer’s firing was “way beyond anything that Richard Nixon ever did.” — Washington Post
