5/7/2026
Karl's Latest In
The GOP Defeats Itself in Indiana [[link removed]] May 7, 2026
Hand it to President Trump. He got the Indiana scalps he wanted. He and his allies targeted seven incumbent Republican state senators up for re-election this year. At least five lost their primaries on Tuesday. A sixth leads by three votes.
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Polling News & Notes
Americans View Both Parties Unfavorably [[link removed]] May 7, 2026
With the Midterms about six months away, a new Pew Research poll found neither political party has an advantage, as Americans view both parties unfavorably.
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On The Air
Dems ‘HAVE NOT’ Stepped Up on Economic Messaging: Former Clinton Pollster [[link removed]] May 4, 2026
Fox News contributor Karl Rove and former Clinton pollster Mark Penn discuss how gas prices and inflation are shaping voter sentiment ahead of the 2026 midterm elections on ‘The Story.’
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This Week's Recommended Readings
Iran Needs the Strait of Hormuz More Than Anyone [[link removed]] April 12, 2026 Zineb Riboua | The Free Press
On Sunday, President Donald Trump announced a full U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and threatened to destroy “the little that is left of Iran.”
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Eakinomics: AI and the Policy Apocalypse [[link removed]] May 6, 2026 Douglas Holtz-Eakin | American Action Forum
AI is coming! AI is coming! Ok, ok. Eakinomics gets it. AI is a potentially transformative set of tools, although as yesterday’s missive indicated, businesses see a modest impact in the near term.
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Symposium on Associate Justice Clarence Thomas’s Remarks on the Declaration of Independence [[link removed]] May 1, 2026 Civitas Institute
Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, delivered an address at the University of Texas at Austin on April 15, 2026, on America’s Declaration of Independence, as our nation celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration and the nation it birthed.
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250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence
Lincoln’s Declaration and the Coherence of Democracy [[link removed]] May 2026 Greg Weiner | American Enterprise Institute
Abraham Lincoln’s “Fragment on the Constitution and the Union”1 famously compares the relation between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution to Proverbs 25:11’s reference to “apples of gold in pictures of silver.”
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This week's recommended Podcast
Ben Sasse on Cancer Research and Why the Senate is Broken [[link removed]] Ben Sasse and Paul Gigot | Wall Street Journal
On this episode of Potomac Watch, Paul Gigot sits down with former Senator Ben Sasse about his diagnosis with Stage IV pancreatic cancer and his experience with experimental drug trials to battle it.
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