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Welcome back to a numbers game with Ryan Gurdowski.

Thank you guys for being here.

Happy Memorial Day, everyone, honoring those who served and died and fought for our country.

So I hope you guys are all having a wonderful day thinking about them, not just barbecuing, but barbecueing as well.

So I have a big question today. Does the Democratic

party want to moderate and does the Republican Party want a new path after Trump? That's my big

questions for today's podcast. We also have an interview with an independent candidate running for

Congress. It's going to be very interesting. That interview portion is obviously

after my monologue, but he's a very thoughtful guy, a young guy running in the House in Nebraska.

So stay tuned for that.

Sienna University conducted a poll with The New York Times that examined not only the mood of the

country and of Donald Trump and the economy and all the usual polling questions, but they asked about

the state and the future, both the Republican and the Democratic Party, and their findings were

very interesting. So let's start with the overall poll numbers. Americans are growing deeply

negative about the economy with only 22 percent of Americans saying the economy is in good

or excellent state, while 76 percent say it's fair or poor,

with almost the majority saying it's outright poor. Not a great place. The downward economy

caused by high prices for groceries, gasoline, and other goods, and obviously the war in Iran,

dragging all those prices up, has really negatively impacted both President Trump and the GOP.

Democrats hold a 10-point advantage in the midterms, which is one of the largest I think I've ever seen from the Sienna poll.

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