State of the Union Reaction. Trump Makes His Iran War Pitch.
Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff
Righteous Media | Bleav
4.6 • 907 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | His numbers are plummeting with pretty much everybody. |
| 0:02.8 | So even folks who were watching last night who supported him were probably concerned. |
| 0:07.9 | 61% of respondents in the latest poll said they would describe Trump as, quote, having become erratic with age. Welcome to Independent Americans. |
| 0:31.8 | Welcome to episode 449. |
| 0:34.6 | I'm your host, Paul Reichoff, and I am still coming to you from Tampa Bay, Florida. Yep, |
| 0:40.6 | still here. Flights are still not getting out. I'm hoping to get out, maybe tomorrow night, |
| 0:45.8 | maybe Friday. But at least the weather here is pretty damn nice, so I'm not going to complain |
| 0:50.8 | about that. It is 80 and sunny, which is a whole lot better than most of the Northeast right now, |
| 0:56.1 | so I am grateful at least for that. |
| 0:58.0 | But our politics are no less chilly. |
| 1:00.4 | It is Wednesday, February 25th, and today's artist is Dochi. |
| 1:05.7 | I tried to find an artist from Tampa, and there aren't too many. |
| 1:08.9 | There's lots of death metal, apparently, and Ray Charles reported here for a bit. But I found Dochi, the rising hip-hop and rap star, who has |
| 1:18.1 | some great album, great songs. I checked him out. Anxiety, alter ego, extra L, a girl get up with Ziza, |
| 1:24.3 | because I'm going to try to bring you some new ideas, try to bring you some |
| 1:28.4 | inspiration, try to bring you some energy and bring you the five eyes, I bring you in every show, |
| 1:32.9 | independence, integrity, information, inspiration, and impact and help you, especially on this |
| 1:38.1 | February hump day. Stay vigilant. |
| 1:57.6 | All right, a lot happening today, especially, and the top topic has to be the State of the Union reaction. |
| 1:59.0 | All right, here's what you need to know. |
| 2:02.1 | Going into this, most Americans probably didn't even watch it. And six in ten Americans, including a significant slice of |
| 2:08.4 | Republicans, think Donald Trump has become erratic as he ages, according to Reuters' Ipsos poll. |
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