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Go to Economist.com and get your first month free. So this week I'd like to share with you my thoughts on a number of recent developments

especially as it relates to the presidential race.

I'm doing this in the middle of also releasing my new book, Truths,

the Future of America First.

And I do appreciate everybody, taking an opportunity to read through that book.

I think that if you liked what I said during the presidential campaign there's a very good

chance you're going to find this book incredibly interesting. I think there's a good chance

that's my most interesting and most important book that I've written so far.

But even if you disagree with a lot of what I said during the campaign, I tried to write this book in a way that reaches people who

disagree with us as well, but try to bring them along with the best arguments for the

other side and so with that being said that book relates to exactly the themes

we're going to discuss which relate to some of the themes even heading into

this election.

But I'd like to start off by telling you where I see the current state of the race.

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