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Welcome back to a numbers game with Ryan Grudski.

Happy Monday, everyone, Rise and Grind.

I know we're late in the day, so hopefully you've already risen and grinded.

I have new polling numbers, which is always great way to start the week.

This poll comes from Beacon and Shaw. It was published by Fox News. By the way, I'm going to start

talking about polls by who does them, not just the company that produces and releases them, right?

Because Fox News is the publisher, but they don't actually do the

poll. And people dismiss polls when they see certain media outlets have published them,

but that's not who does them. Beacon and Shaw does the poll, and they're a moderately good pollster.

They're not the best in the business, but they're certainly not the

worst. So anyway, interesting numbers worth looking at. The poll finds that Donald Trump has a 46%

favorability rating, 54% unfavorable rating. Now, this poll does not include undecided. I'm not a big

fan of polls that don't have undecided voters in them, but 46%

nonetheless is a decent number for Trump. So his best issues remain immigration, the border,

and crime. But Trump's worst issues are the cost of living, Russia-Ukraine war, tariffs,

and the economy. Now I, now remember what I told you when we had our conversation about data centers. This was last week, tariffs, and the economy. Now, I, now remember what I told you when we had our conversation

about data centers. This was last week, or maybe the week prior at this point. I talked of the

cost of living and energy bills and food prices was becoming the main issue in the Virginia

and New Jersey governor's races, and that could spread to nationally as, like, as this issue continues

to mount going into the 2026 midterms. Energy prices are only going to go up as data

centers are springing up throughout the country. I said the media has done a very good job at

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