Things are not going well in this country. That is the subject of this evening's talking points memo.

So Rasmussen, which is a fairly reliable poll, comes out and says Joe Biden's approval

rating is up to 47% in this country.

That about half of those polls think Biden's doing a good job.

Now, that's very misleading, not because of Rasmussen, but because of events.

So you may have noticed that Biden's fortunes started to turn around after the Ma Alago

raid. It's almost the day of it. Biden started to inch up. Why? Because it illuminated Donald Trump for Democrats and

independents who hate him. So now it's a comparison kind of a thing because they fear that

Trump might come back after this M-a-Lago thing.

That's why Biden's up.

Now, the Biden people have done a very, very smart thing.

They've kept them out of sight.

So most presidents go on vacation.

You see them golfing.

You see them at restaurants or what?

Biden's just gone.

He was in South Carolina. Now he's back in Delaware,

gone. So they didn't say anything. So they're going, it is going to keep them under wraps until

after Labor Day. He signed an inflation bill and then he disappeared because Trump has dominated the news cycle. However, NBC is out with a

poll. Thousand registered voters, Democrat 39, Republican 40. Notice how all of these polling

operations have stopped now using more Democrats than Republicans after I hammered that for a year.

Now, they don't do that anymore. So this is a very instructive poll. First question,

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