Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour 2.

Hello there. It is Eric Erickson here. Welcome. How are you? It's, well, I just told you.

The full number, sorry, I'm texting while talking. Very bad habit.

The full number is 8779773-725. I cooked a lot of stuff this weekend and I'm friends are texting me.

They've seen on Instagram the pictures and they want details. So one day maybe I guess I'll have to have a cookbook or some such.

We'll get there.

But today, this time, we've got to talk about something rather important that is going to

otherwise get overlooked.

We are at the anniversary of our surrender in Afghanistan, and we actually need to discuss this.

It is the defining moment of Joe Biden's presidency.

Biden's polling, as I've been telling you guys, this was going to happen, and it has absolutely

happened.

He's rebounded in the polling this time of year, as I've noted repeatedly in ad nauseum.

Democrats tend to do good in the polling at this time of year, and things won't really settle down and you won't really get a sense of stuff until

late September when a lot of pollster switched to likely voter models and the GOP is more engaged.

And then you'll see a surge.

I mean, some of the polling that's out there right now that was really good.

There's a Phillips Academy or a Mandover, Massachusetts or New Hampshire, wherever poll.

I don't know that it's a good poll, but it's strikingly similar to a lot of other polling,

private polling I've seen, where Republicans in Georgia are a little more confident that

Herschel Walker might be able to win.

And this Phillips Academy polling, which again, I don't know anything about them.

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