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quarters of power and influence in America shaping our culture and our politics, which, as it happens,

this week have been playing out in primetime and technicolor as Donald Trump and his Republican Party and make no mistake the

GOP is now 100% Trump's party through and through they have staged a national convention in Milwaukee, where I am, that creating a curve

has been notably unified, optimistic, and by any standard, jubilant, energized, and upbeat.

At the center of the spectacle, as always is Donald Trump himself, who knows as well as

his beer, brought, and cheese stuffed devotees at the Pfizer Forum that he is now sitting

on the first, unambiguous lead in the summer of a presidential election year since 2004 for Republicans a lead that feels

surpassingly solid especially as the Democratic Party finds itself

barreling towards the end game of one of the most traumatic painful and

potentially damaging existential crises of the modern political era.

To chew over and chop up all of this, we have an awesome assemblage of super talented talkers on the show today starting with

Alyssa Farah Griffin, Republican Communication Strategist par excellence whose career

has taken her from the far right website World Net Daily, which amazingly her father founded to post as the

Press Secretary for Mark Meadows, the Communications Director for the House Freedom

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