I was sure I had COVID all week and I didn't test positive until Friday and seeing that

it was positive was almost a relief because I was at the point where I was like,

am I manufacturing the world's worst sore throat and exhaustion because I don't know,

I felt like it could have been, but the tests are gaslighting you.

Hello and welcome to the 538 Politics Podcast. I'm Galen Druke.

When we gathered last week, it was just two days after Hamas' attack on Israel and we didn't

have a lot of information about how Americans were processing it. Now we do. Across numerous

polls, American support for Israel has markedly increased, most significantly amongst Democrats

and Independents. Republican support for Israel was high and remains high. In Washington,

on college campuses, and in American streets, we've seen some tense disagreement about who's

to blame and who deserves sympathy. We're going to talk about those divides and see how they

compare with the data we have so far. And I'm also going to repeat myself from last week here,

the images that we've all seen over the past week are tough stuff. And while our angle here

is data and politics, that's by no means where the story begins or ends. And I just want to say

that our colleagues at ABC and elsewhere in the media have been working really hard to illustrate

the human toll of terrorism and war. So I commend them. And you know, of course, if this is a part

of the story that you want to hear, stick with us. You want to focus on the other part for now.

I also totally understand that. We are also going to, in this podcast, turn our attention to

efforts within the Republican Party to stop Trump from winning the nomination. The conservative

political action committee win it back circulated a memo describing basically a polling and focus

group experiment that they conducted. They tried to figure out what kinds of attacks against Trump

could actually stick in a Republican primary. So what did they find and was it a good or bad

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