On June 1st, I hope you'll consider upgrading to a paid membership and joining me for a conversation with Claire Burlinski of the Cosmopolitan Globalist.

You can find out more of the details at Steve Schmidt at substack.com.

I hope you can join us.

Conversation will be interesting, to say the least.

Trying to be gentlemen in this world, the Democrats. You are gangsters. You are gangsters.

In this confrontation on a street in New York between one of the most famous actors of his generation and a MAGA hat wearing dipshit speaks volumes.

It speaks volumes about this moment in time.

Robert De Niro is a New Yorker.

What Robert De Niro said was true, and whether it helped the cause or not, got under Trump's skin.

And when things get under Donald Trump's skin,

Donald Trump can get knocked down. And the Biden team better start thinking more seriously

about how to knock that man down. It is May 29th. 160 days remain until the American people

vote. This is the warning. According to Politico, in an article

byline by Christopher Cadellago, Sally Goldenberg, and Elena Schneider, a pervasive sense of fear

has settled in at the highest levels of the Democratic Party over President Joe Biden's

re-election prospects, even among

office holders and strategists who had previously expressed confidence about the coming battle with

Donald Trump. All year, Democrats had been on a joyless and exhausting grind through the

2024 election.

But now, nearly five months from the election, anxiety has morphed into palpable trepidation,

according to more than a dozen party leaders and operatives.

And the gap between what Democrats will say on TV or in print

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