Bill Scher

A Public Policy Polling internal poll from Senate Majority PAC sent to PunchBowl shows Talarico in a statistical tie with Cornyn AND Paxton in Texas's Senate race. #TXSen
-Cornyn beats Talarico 44% to 43%
-Talarico beats Paxton 47-45
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The Post and Courier, which is leading the investigative work on the woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was a child, looks into the woman’s FBI interview and substantiates many details through public records

I was curious how Qatar-owned Al Jazeera was going to cover the Iran war as Iran has been attacking Qatar. Well...

“He did so before the filing deadline for non-incumbent candidates to run for office.”

I need a @atrupar.com @acyn.bsky.social -type account that clips Middle Eastern TV outlets

So he’s not signing any supplemental Iran war spending bills?

Words of wisdom from Ukraine’s former foreign minister.

RONA BARRETT: You're advocating that we should have gone in...with troops...

TRUMP: I absolutely feel that, yes...I think right now [America] would be an oil-rich nation...

BARRETT: Would you have wanted to be one of those men...

TRUMP: No...but I would have done it

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Iran’s High-Risk Strategy for a No-Limits Middle East War Tehran’s leaders crafted a plan ahead of the current conflict that would escalate the fight across the region.

"[After] war...last year, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei...determined that they needed a bold change...[I]n the event of Khamenei’s potential assassination...Tehran would escalate conflict...hitting Arab Gulf states and hampering the global economy" www.wsj.com/world/middle...

1. This is a good quote

2. As President, the way Eisenhower applied this logic led to a penchant for covert action, including the CIA’s ouster of Iran’s Prime Minister mere months after inauguration which began the chain of events that led us to today’s war

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour WATCH: Biden pays tribute to Rev. Jesse Jackson's 'abiding message of unity' at public memorial

Biden’s eulogy for Jesse Jackson was more cogent than anything coming from the current White House

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If Kiley defects, House composition will become 217-214-1

Note: 2 vacancies filled by next month (likely 1 R 1 D) and one more (likely R) in August

60 Minutes is now looking like a platform for propagandists to swat away milquetoast questions

Telling the world you are The Empire is a choice

Genuinely shocked we’re still getting accurate jobs numbers

Trump lost jobs to distract us from the higher prices

With Iran, Obama Displayed “The Art of the Deal.” Trump Didn’t. Trump’s persona depends on the perception that he’s mastered “The Art of the Deal” His war on Iran proves otherwise.

“With Iran, Obama Displayed ‘The Art of the Deal.’ Trump Didn’t.”

My @washingtonmonthly.com look at why a deeply insecure Trump couldn’t strike a deal with Iran and can’t quit lying about the president who could

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A lone battle: Why is Pedro Sánchez the only European leader to take on Trump? As the Spanish PM decries the war in Iran, other politicians are unable – or unwilling – to speak against the US president

Good look at the varied reaction to the Iran attack from European leaders

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Justice Department publishes some missing Epstein files related to Trump The Justice Department has published additional Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor after an NPR investigation found dozens of pages were withheld.

The Justice Department released *some* of the missing files, namely FBI interview notes from the woman alleging Epstein trafficked her as a young teen to Trump, Trump sexually assaulted her, and then she later endured a series of threats not to talk. Very dark reading www.npr.org/2026/03/05/n...

To be a Republican elected or appointed official in the Trump era is to never know for sure if emulating the behavior of your leader will get you fired, promoted, or pardoned.

From the new Epstein drop

Conveniently timed

Justice Department publishes missing Epstein files involving uncorroborated claim about Trump The Justice Department has released additional Jeffrey Epstein files involving uncorroborated accusations made by a woman against President Donald Trump that the department said had been mistakenly wi...

Additional Epstein files involving uncorroborated accusations made by a woman against President Trump that DoJ said had been mistakenly withheld during an earlier review have now been released. apnews.com/article/epst...

House kills effort to rein in Trump on Iran as GOP leadership says it’s not a war All but two Republicans oppose the War Powers measure in the House while four Democrats join the GOP

Ro Khanna put it straight to me after the failed vote on the War Powers Act resolution.

"“But basically, now that Republicans have become the party of regime change wars and the Democrats are the anti war party."
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Gas prices are now higher than when Trump took office.

Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base

“school building was…damaged by a precision strike that occurred at the same time as attacks on an adjacent naval base…statements that U.S. forces were attacking naval targets near the Strait of Hormuz…suggest they were most likely to have carried out the strike”

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...

Not an upgrade

But not resign

JAKE TAPPER: You're an Epstein survivor. Has President Trump been exonerated by Epstein victims?

DANIELLE BENSKY: I want to be very clear that Trump has not been exonerated.

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