Welcome to the three martini lunch.

Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.

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Very glad you're with us for the Thursday edition of the three martini lunch.

We've got good, bad, and crazy for you.

And all of them are pretty intense.

There's speculation now that Pete Hagueceth could potentially be leaving the Pentagon to run

for elected office. Zohan Mamdani trying to backtrack real fast about his defund the police

comments in the wake of the mass shooting in Midtown Manhattan this week. I don't think anybody's really buying it, though. Nonetheless, he's doing pretty well in the wake of the mass shooting in Midtown Manhattan this week.

I don't think anybody's really buying it, though.

Nonetheless, he's doing pretty well in the polls, unfortunately.

But also, we might not have Kamala to kick around anymore

because after her failed attempt to win the presidency last year,

she has announced that she is not going to run for governor of California next year.

So that's where we start.

And Jim, of course, last year, Biden gets forced out by his own party after the disastrous debate.

Kamala Harris is pretty much coronated thanks to Biden's endorsement.

Everybody's trying to pretend that she's perfect for the job.

In the end, she loses, of course, loses all the swing states. And then for the most part, she goes quiet. I made a couple of comments around the time of the wildfires, but hasn't said a lot. She will be on Colbert soon, though, because she's got a book to push, and of course he's very reluctant to have politicians on. But yesterday she announced that she will not, not be a candidate for governor of

California in 2026. I don't think this comes as a huge surprise. There had been some grumbling in the

party that they weren't that excited about her running. She had been looking pretty good in the polls,

I think basically due to name recognition, of course. Jim, you devote much of the morning jolt to this today,

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