Today in Politics, Bulletin 467. Midterms, midterms, midterms. Lots of updates and news on key races around the country, and everything else you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidas…
As I predicted on my podcast weeks ago, Grassley won’t run in 2028 if Rob Sand wins the governor’s race. It’s probably the only thing that will finally get him to leave.
Every single one of these people view their government appointments as an opportunity to promote themselves and make money grifting while we pay them to do it.
NEW: Iowa GOP governor candidate Zach Lahn campaigns as a “family farmer” and rails against out-of-state investors.
But records reviewed by MeidasTouch paint a very different picture: a millionaire investor and longtime Republican political consultant who has primarily lived in Kansas and Montana, spent limited time at his Iowa farm, and owns multimillion-dollar properties. meidasnews.com/news/zach-lah…
Pretty wild that the Texas Cattle Ranchers association is saying that deportations are affecting beef prices in the US because of labor shortages but Republican politicians and candidates never seem to get asked about that.
So now we get to hear from Trump that he doesn’t believe US intelligence that China is helping Iran with targeting and weapons because his good friend Xi told him they weren’t.
Republicans wrecked the free market with tariffs and another stupid war and are now looking for government intervention and bailouts to fix the problem but the Democrats are communists.
Trump during the 2024 campaign promised to bring mortgage interest rates down to 2%: “We’re going to bring it down really fast. We will drive down the rates so you will be able to pay 2% and you will be able to finance and refinance your homes at much lower cost.”
Yeah, just tell Big Oil to reduce their profit margins. I’m sure Trump and the Republican candidates who are raking in tens of millions in campaign money from Big Oil for the midterms and millions more in personal investments will get right on that.