"The kind of man you want to take home to mom, Kevin Walling" - hands down the best intro on Fox ever last night by fave @KennedyNation

New: Fmr VP Kamala Harris is holding a CA fundraiser for David Crowley on Monday, per invite. #wisconsinGov

We saw you across the box and like your vibe.

A very useful resource for political junkies plugged in to the 2026 election. Courtesy of @2waytvapp

The midterm elections explained in one graph from our new bipartisan @WSJ poll with @adamhgeller 60% of voters feel that President Trump's economic policies have made the economy worse. And 65% give the economy a negative rating. 61% give President Trump a negative job rating bit.ly/3TNCMCd

When are the 2026 midterm debates? We at @2waytvapp pulled together the debate calendar — from New Jersey to California, Maine to Michigan, Georgia to Texas and beyond. Mark your calendars, grab the popcorn, and keep the conversation going on @2WAYTVAPP. Here’s the calendar 📷

No one is talking about this person or this book, but she’s got one helluva press team and they deserve kudos for creating the myth

No shade but I promise whatever happy hour you’re at where they can’t stop talking about this book is a happy hour full of losers

My TMM Loser of the Week: All these anonymous 🤡 Gen Z campaign staffers complaining that their boss yelled at them when we’re trying to win back Congress 🤦🏻‍♂️ The Morning Meeting @2waytvapp @MarkHalperin @LarryOConnor

When I was 20 I used to sprint weekly to the Dirksen senate restaurant, pick up freshly made crab cakes, hop the automated train and deliver said still-warm crab cakes for my boss who happened to be a US Senator and one of the best men I’ve ever known…and I was proud to do it.

We did!

“I do not base what I tell you about the blue tsunami on public polls,” says @MarkHalperin about his reporting that “the status of the race right now is dire for Republicans.” Mark’s reporting, he says, “is based on talking to a lot of @Republicans about their private polls… What they’re now saying is, if there’s a Republican who’s within the margin of error, a little ahead or a little behind, they’re going to lose. Because the lack of Republican enthusiasm and the massive @TheDemocrats enthusiasm and the president’s alienation of voters on the economy and the war, means that Republicans are not going to win a lot of close races.” @LarryOConnor @KevinPWalling

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Maybe Susan Collins, Roger Marshall, Ashley Hinson, Mike Rogers, Dan Sullivan, John Sununu, Jon Husted, Michelle Tafoya, and even Ken Paxton will all win. I know serious people who think each of those outcomes is possible. Maybe Republican House losses will be at a minimum. Maybe James Blair & Co. will cleverly deploy the president in the closing days of the campaign to rally the base and attract independents to the Republican side using wedge issues. Maybe there are opposition research and get-out-the-vote programs that are about to swamp Democratic candidates from coast to coast. Maybe the Democratic Party’s views on socialism and trans rights are a ticking time bomb for the opposition. Maybe some or all of those things are true and, once again, the political magic and stylings of Donald John Trump are being underestimated by the estimators. Maybe. But as I sift through my inboxes and social media feeds over the most recent extended news cycle, what I see instead is the possibilities that the wheels are coming off for a political figure who is swimming against the tide of a Blue tsunami as big as Connecticut, not because Ken Martin is suddenly a genius, but because an unpopular war and high consumer prices is no way to win a midterm election. And, remember, I write this as someone who has been a leading proponent for over a decade of the view that Donald Trump is second only to Bill Clinton over the last forty years as a political athlete. So, if you are looking for support for the theory that those wheels are coming off the Trump White House bus in the context of the midterms, consider: * This new taxpayer-funded and blatantly political TV ad featuring the president is as obviously illegal as it is appalling (including to many Republicans I have heard from). * The president is considering spending one of his days on the road between now and Election Day in….Alabama???!! * Florida and Kansas are among the many Red places that have sprung a lot of electoral leaks that are going to need to be plugged and fast. * The media ban is considered stupid, ill advised, doomed, and counterproductive but way more people than just Peter Baker (including, again, by many of my pro-Trump Republican sources). * The diesel export ban morass is an own-goal failure on at least three levels, and there is now both no easy answer or route out of the political expectations and policy messes. * The rumors have started back up that MAGA Inc. will not spend down its cash pile to help Republican candidates, causing all sorts of finger pointing and teeth gnashing. * The efforts of GOP candidates to distance themselves from the president to save themselves are only just getting underway -- and while the White House is (mostly) fine with it ("they gotta do what they gotta do to win"), the defections produce a lot of negative news stories and no one thinks the president will actually be fine with it. * Mr. Trump’s approval rating are in the toilet, fueled by lost support from key groups like young men, women, Hispanics, and independents. * On the Warsh watch, there are swirling interactions between interest rates, the bond market, the size of the debt and deficit, and AI spending dangers that could lead to an economic calamity. * Efforts to get an October Surprise deal with Tehran are almost certainly an illusion and a trap for a dozen reasons, including the inconsistencies of U.S. “allies” in the region about what they want. * Unless there is some big surprise today, the Xi summit looks like a bunch of pageantry with no prospect of helping Republicans in the midterms (and maybe to the contrary). * Peggy Noonan speaks for many when she suggests the president is completely bolloxing up AI for the long term, but/and/also being so pro-AI and data center could go down in history as one of the factors that cost his party majority control of both chambers. To be continued…. This is an excerpt from today's edition of my premium daily newsletter "WWoN Concierge Coverage." To get the newsletter and become a member, go to walkingduck.com/mark

👀 👀 Looks like Senate Democrats are about to spend big in Texas to boost James Talarico. A new super PAC incorporated tonight, called Texas Forever, is affiliated with Senate Majority PAC, the Schumer-aligned big-money group. Suffice it to say, this was not done by accident.

Conversations like no other! Happy 💯episodes, @MarkHalperin and @KevinPWalling!!!

Grateful to you, Alan!

Everyone should call @MarkHalperin and say, “Mark Halperin” and then hang up