Marshall here. Welcome back to the realignment. Hey, everyone, welcome back to the show. It's going to be a

big week for me and the realignment. I am back on the road again in D.C. after taking time off

for paternity leave, I'm actually filling in for Sager today on breaking points because he's taking

his own paternity leave right now.

Crystal Ball and I are going to cover a bunch of news topics.

We're also going to discuss, debate, and hopefully find some form of consensus around the abundance agenda.

On Wednesday, I'm going to be at Welcome Pax, Welcome Fest event, where I'm going to interview

Derek Thompson, co-author of Abundance, and my favorite

congressman to have on the show, for rep Jake Ockin-Claas, about, once again, abundance.

I'm going to see a theme here.

Lastly, to kind of turn this into a hat trick, I wanted to have Steve Talley's on for a episode

that will prep me for the conversations today on breaking points and at Welcome Fest

tomorrow by covering a new poll put out by the organization Demand Progress, a left populist

anti-power organization hostile to a lot of the abundance agenda. They put together a poll that was

covered by Axios. You could find the link in the episode show notes that put the

abundance message next to a populist message and saw which one voters preferred. In a complete

shocker to everyone, I'm sure. It turns out that voters in this poll specifically found the

populist message more enticing. The Axios report gave this quick summary. The abundance

argument started with the sentence, quote, the big problem is bottlenecks that make it harder to

produce housing, expand energy production, or build new roads and bridges. The populist, first sentence,

was described as, quote, the big problem is that big corporations have too much power over our economy and our government.

When you framed things this way, 55.6% of all voters preferred the populist argument compared to 43.5% who said that we were more likely to vote for a candidate who offered the abundance argument.

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