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Colonial losing their annual PGAT stop would be awfully sad for Fort Worth. Have always enjoyed that tournament.
Also, the club has recently spent (and borrowed) a ton of money, making really large-scale improvements to both the course and facilities. Not sure how the tournament actually impacts them financially; I've always been told that it wasn't a major financial driver.
BC Partners was offering the players 53% ownership.
The PGA Tour originally offered 100%.
PE getting involved will wind up being an issue that the PGAT has to deal with down the road.
In the end, LIV Golf's players weren’t buying what they were selling either golfdigest.com/story/liv-gol…
This was always going to be the end result, because it was never going to make sense for all parties.
FT SCOOP: BC Partners to drop bid for LIV 2.0 as it can't get enough players to commit in time to meet deadlines set with PIF and LIV.
Court hearing set for tomorrow where more details to be shared:
ft.com/content/ea51ec55-c08d…
Distancing yourself from POTUS when you're the VP is a tricky dance to pull off.
One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.
What happened last night was decidedly NOT about candidate quality. If that were the case, it would not have been a bloodbath across the board.
Robert Pike retweeted
Trump saw how the other Republican president this century derailed his presidency and destroyed his party with an unpopular pointless war and decided that he’d go ahead and do exactly the same thing
Ooof.
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This is not opinion on the race or the candidate.
Should this be in the DMN if the author is being paid?
Seems shameful regardless of party.
I’m a Republican, but Gina Hinojosa has my vote dallasnews.com/opinion/comme…
ALT I’m a Republican, but Gina Hinojosa has my vote
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Suzanne Bellsnyder, the author, was paid $57,000 by Gina Hinojosa.
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Just so long as I don't have to share a theater with people who pretend to enjoy Wes Anderson films, I'll sit wherever you want.
Just saw You Can See Everything. Incredibly good. Going to be thinking about it for hours. Hard to explain, but a real work of art.
