Hello and welcome. It's Eric Eriksson here. It is my show. You are welcome to call in if you like.

877-973-7-425. You should know at the bottom of the hour Congressman Kevin Brady. He is the ranking Republican Ways and Means Committee.

He's going to be joining me to talk about inflation. Or is he the budget. I think it's Ways and Means Committee, he's going to be joining me to talk about inflation.

Or is the budget. I think it's Ways and Means in any event.

Kevin Brady is going to join me talking about the inflation situation.

Particularly, you know, it's going to play a role in the federal debt as interest rates go up.

And I want to talk about a number of those things.

But before I do, related to housing in particular, there's some data and a story I need to get

to.

This is from Axios.

The headline is Democrats' worst Trump nightmare.

Listen to this.

There's something much worse than losing the House and possibly the Senate that's rattling top Democrats who are studying polling and election trends.

It's the possibility of a re-elected President Trump with a compliant filibuster-proof Senate majority in January 2025.

It's impossible to forecast elections, but you can look at the states with Senate elections in 2024

and see why some Democrats are beginning to sound the alarm.

Democrats are sleepwalking into a Senate disaster, Yale, Simon Bazelon wrote last week.

The 2024 map is much worse than 2022, Bazelon added. A close presidential election, he wrote,

could doom Democrats John Tester in Montana, Joe Manchin, West Virginia, Sherrod Brown and Ohio,

Bob Casey, Pennsylvania, Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin,

Kristen Cinnamon, Arizona, plus toss-ups could threaten Stabenow in Michigan and Rosen in Nevada.

All the states, hardcore liberalism is a tough sell.

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