Michael Knowles

I think the vice president has all the talent in the world and all the intellectual capacity in the world.

I think that he is actively misreading.

the nature of the American electorate if he thinks that the way to build a coalition is to find the Joe Rogan voter and then grab that Rogan voter and hold him by the hand all the way to the polls.

I think that that is not going to work out well for him.

And then you look at Rubio and you think, man, I've never seen more two dissimilar people than President Trump and Marco Rubio.

I mean, just like wildly dissimilar.

But if you look at where they are in policy, there has not been a single story that has been leaked to the entire administration, the entire administration, in which Rubio was not in lockstep with the president.

There have been stories almost every two weeks about how Vance was not in lockstep with the president, including one from Politico today about the president and the vice president with regard to Iran.

Now, I don't know whether those leaks are coming from Team VP or Team Anti-VP.

It could be either.

You know, the other thing that I think is worth mentioning here is that, again, Marco says he doesn't want to run if J.D.

is running.

So maybe a moot point, but it's a message that I think that the Vance campaign should pick up.

If there is this much roiling underneath the surface about like, well, yeah, then maybe there are some voices worth listening to on that side of the aisle as well.

If you're talking about a coalitional approach and one side of your coalition is deeply, deeply unhappy, then it may be worthwhile to, you know, maybe steer a little bit differently is all I would say.

Again, if we're talking practical, pragmatic coalition building.

I really enjoy not watching it.

For the people who are watching it, I'm just going to point out here, Kalshi is one of our sponsors.

The Kalshi market suggests that one battle after another is going to win Best Picture.

Michael B. Jordan is going to win Best Actor.